No matter the physical size or budget, every library can play a role in supporting small businesses and promoting local economic vitality.

Children’s librarian and author Mychal Threets talks about falling in love with library service and his road to Reading Rainbow.

The Chapter Advocacy Workshop provided training to help state library association leaders become library ambassadors.

Welcome to the 2020 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries. These shining examples of architectural innovation—completed before the COVID-19 ...

Prior to 2023, each chapter onboarded incoming chapter leaders individually, supplemented by ALA advocacy training focused on topics, not roles. But in response to rising attacks on ...

Carrie Webster writes: “The user experience (UX) industry is facing its most significant shift yet. We are moving past the era of ‘design at any cost’ into the era of sustainable UX. For years, we ...

After the Central Intelligence Agency discontinued The World Factbook, a new community-maintained successor has launched. Phillip Paik writes: “OpenFactBook provides free, comprehensive, and accurate ...

Courtney Fuson, incoming president of the Tennessee Library Association, and Max Prime, New York Library Association director of government relations and advocacy, speaking at the 2025 Chapter ...

I have watched the growth of critical librarianship into a mainstream movement with excitement. Critical librarianship supports the belief that, in our work as librarians, we should examine and fight ...

Four police officers confront a Black man at a library computer and tell him that because he’s been disturbing other patrons, he must leave the premises. The man refuses. The confrontation ends when ...

After the Central Intelligence Agency discontinued The World Factbook, a new community-maintained successor has launched. Phillip Paik writes: “OpenFactBook provides free, comprehensive, and accurate ...