ALA has announced a series of difficult but necessary workforce changes as part of its ongoing ALA Forward initiative.

In this new online column, ALA Senior Endowment Trustee Brett Bonfield will update members about the ALA Endowment Fund ...

Updates from around the world, including Singapore's pop-up Star Wars Library and the reopening of Johannesburg City Library ...

October 14, 2025 150 × 100 ALSC and AASL offer Pokémon Club kitsPokemon Club logo ...

October 14, 2025 150 × 100 New York’s largest ICE detention center bans book deliveries ...

Despite measures to continue operations and preserve pending contracts with libraries, the book distributor Baker & Taylor (B&T), a longtime fixture in the library technology industry, will shutter.

In 2023—as book challenges, relocations, and removals in the state’s public and school libraries were reaching unprecedented levels—16-year-old Iris Mogul started the all-ages Banned Books Club in ...

The removal was done in transgression of the library board’s book reconsideration policy. The book’s catalog record also vanished. Local media outlets reported that the book was removed by our ...

Students explore the tables at the Freedom Walk program at Clark High School. Three years ago, after a difficult state legislative session in Texas that aimed to restrict access to books and disparage ...

The federal government shutdown, which begins today, will have cascading effects across the nation and our economy. For one, it will pause federal programs and slow support for services that many ...