Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle discusses the music industry copyright lawsuit against the Archive and why he feels ...

ALA returns to Philadelphia for its 2025 Annual Conference (June 26–30), featuring authors, education programs, and ...

Amid headline-grabbing chaos in the federal government, behind-the-scenes work progresses in Congress to secure funding for ...

The “start, stop, change” approach to thinking about the future can show us what we might be missing and where ALA can have ...

Meet Teresa "Teri" Anderson, the new executive director of ALA's Association of College and Research Libraries.

Welcome to your gateway to International Monetary Fund’s global economic data. Our new data portal provides streamlined access to timely, reliable, and easy-to-understand macroeconomic and financial ...

The year 2023 was another record-breaker for book bans. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) documented 1,247 attempts to censor library books and other ...

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 the past several years, virtual reality (VR) technology has finally begun to fulfill what had long been promised. Traditional VR, which creates environments that allow people to be “present” in an ...

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 ...

Welcome to the 2019 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries. These shining examples of innovative architectural feats address user needs in ...