ALA has announced a series of difficult but necessary workforce changes as part of its ongoing ALA Forward initiative.

In this new online column, ALA Senior Endowment Trustee Brett Bonfield will update members about the ALA Endowment Fund ...

Updates from around the world, including Singapore's pop-up Star Wars Library and the reopening of Johannesburg City Library ...

Here's how a few notable figures American Libraries covered have reflected on advocacy, diverse stories, and censorship-free ...

October 16, 2025 465 × 310 An Introduction to the EndowmentFrom the Trustees by Brett Bonfield ...

Conversations about censorship and book bans tend to exclude the voices of the very population they claim to protect: young people. Now a rising generation is bristling at these restrictions, seeking ...

Across the board, the work of federal agencies, many of which directly or indirectly support libraries, has either been discontinued or altered. Although it is too soon to determine the overall impact ...

The removal was done in transgression of the library board’s book reconsideration policy. The book’s catalog record also vanished. Local media outlets reported that the book was removed by our ...

Welcome to the 2025 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Today’s libraries are places where people from diverse ...

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 ...