August 19, 2025 150 × 100 How education laws are made and how to make your voice heard ...

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

Library Learning Center at Texas Southern University in Houston. Photo: Kayla Hartzog Welcome to the 2020 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries ...

Library weeding gets a bad reputation, thanks in part to weeding horror stories. Transparency and communication can help ease weeding woes.

The 2021 Library Design Showcase is American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries that address user needs in unique, interesting, and effective ways.

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

This year's Library Design Showcase features projects completed during the ongoing pandemic, noting continued challenges and shifting trends.

Critical librarianship supports the belief that, in our work as librarians, we should examine and fight attempts at social oppression instead of being neutral.

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.

Instead of just games and entertainment, virtual reality content is exploding with news, information, and educational content. Libraries and librarians are showing how they can innovate with this ...

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

Librarians are being asked to be social workers, EMTs, therapists, legal consultants, and more. Anne Ford interviews seven front-line librarians about this mission creep, the directions their ...