The Storytelling Resource Place holds books, recordings, costumes, and other items related to the storytelling performance ...

Former librarian of Congress Carla Hayden at the American Library Association's 2025 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Philadelphia on June 28 Photo: EPNAC “I’m a little nervous, because I haven’t ...

Benjamin Charles Germain Lee and Kyle Deeds write: “We are excited to share GovScape, a public search system for 10+ million government PDFs. GovScape is built upon the End of T ...

December 2, 2025 150 × 100 The 12 days of librarianship (first-year edition)Light bulb plugging itself in ...

Students in the English for Older Beginners class at Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts, build their language skills through activities like field trips. Photo: Lynne Weintraub It’s not unusual ...

December 2, 2025 150 × 100 An AI literacy curriculum for young studentsA robot writing and young detectives investigating ...

2025 Platy Hall of Fame Inductees ...

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 ...

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 ...

A woman using the card catalog at the main reading room of the Library of Congress, circa 1940. Photo: Library of Congress OCLC printed its last library catalog cards on October 1, 2015, ending an era ...

When Jessie Carney Smith arrived at Fisk University in Nashville in 1965, she says many people there did not know about black literature. Smith, the dean of the library, says, “Many scholars were told ...

Martha Hickson, a recently retired media specialist who fought censorship at North Hunterdon High School in Annandale, New Jersey, shakes hands with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (seated) after he ...