The 2025 Library Design Showcase features libraries that serve as true third spaces while honoring local histories and ...

Sustainability is a promise we make to future generations that libraries will continue to be cornerstones of community life and prosperity.

August 25, 2025 150 × 100 Using consumer AI tools for audio collection metadata ...

American Libraries travels through time to outline our country’s history of censorship—and those who have defended the right to read.

American Libraries spoke with five leading African-American librarians about their careers, the changes they have witnessed over the decades, and the current issues in librarianship.

As technology changes library cataloging, we look back at its history and forward into its future.

ALA announced the recipients of its 2024 Youth Media Awards at its LibLearnX conference in Baltimore on January 22.

CIPA-Compliant Filtering That’s First Amendment–Friendly What constitutes First Amendment–friendly filtering under CIPA? It is filtering (or a filtering policy) that incorporates and emphasizes the ...

2025 Youth Media Award winners announced—including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, and Printz awards.

Roughly 150 librarians have competed on Jeopardy! since 2005. Here, 11 of them share stories of competing in one of the nation’s most popular game shows.

Author Ryan J. Dowd, executive director of Hesed House in Aurora, Illinois, gives libraries expert advice on serving homeless patrons with "practical compassion" in this ALA Editions excerpt.