The 2026 winner of the Excellence in Early Learning Digital Media Award, given to a digital media producer that has created ...

Libraries have been buffeted by a string of policies and executive orders in the first year of Donald Trump's second ...

"A Guardian and a Thief" and "Things in Nature Merely Grow" have won the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction ...

Librarians are accustomed to dealing with all manner of patron queries. The drive to help patrons find useful information and understand its applications is deeply rooted in the profession; if we know ...

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 winners: A Guardian and a Thief and Things in Nature Merely Grow ...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services' empty booth at the 2025 ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition in Philadelphia. Terra Dankowski/American Libraries ...

The Public Library Association Board writes: “PLA is heartbroken by recent events and has been coordinating closely with city and venue partners to support them and to foster a safe and welcoming ...

Welcome to the 2025 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Today’s libraries are places where people from diverse ...

A woman using the card catalog at the main reading room of the Library of Congress, circa 1940. Photo: Library of Congress OCLC printed its last library catalog cards on October 1, 2015, ending an era ...

Librarians interviewed for this story, clockwise from bottom left: Graham Tedesco-Blair, adult services librarian, Newark (N.Y.) Public Library; Fobazi Ettarh, undergraduate success librarian, Rutgers ...