Lisa Varga became associate executive director of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Public Policy and Advocacy Office in Washington, D.C., on April 21. Before joining ALA, she spent 15 years as ...

Connie Chung speaks at the American Library Association's 2024 Annual Conference and Exhibition in San Diego on June 29. Photo: EPANC Connie Chung has been bringing you the headlines since the late ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing entire industries, including libraries. Although this technology offers immense potential to enhance services, library workers and others must consider ...

Jennifer Pate, director of OpenEd at Texas A&M University in College Station, shares tips for team trivia nights. Photo: Carrie Smith, American Libraries It was a trivia night so good, the university ...

The rise and resilience of our nation’s libraries is a unique phenomenon. Today, we so often take for granted the existence of free public libraries that their extraordinary history and significance ...

Sonya Knisley, head of children’s services at Clark County (Ohio) Public Library (CCPL), has seen it happen over and over again. Someone walks into her location and applies for a library card—with one ...

In summer 2020, during the national outcry that followed the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, the concept of antiracism—or actively opposing racism and promoting tolerance ...

In 2023, the American Library Association’s Public Programs Office launched the largest grant initiative in the Association’s history—the Libraries Transforming Communities (LTC): Accessible Small and ...

Around the globe, networked technology is amplifying deadly misinformation, monetizing surveillance, fueling hatred, and facilitating antidemocratic violence. Digital literacy education has never been ...

On the evening of March 14, President Trump launched an assault on libraries by signing the executive order titled Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy. This order, which targets the ...