A look back at the speakers and educational programs at ALA's 2026 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago.

No one in this room will see the end of racism, but what if we fight as if it’s around the corner?” Bettina Love, education professor and author of We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist ...

Within the research projects of doctoral students in library and information science lie ways to mitigate the challenges of an inequitable world. Too often, these valuable findings go underused.

Alice Walker is a remarkably prolific and versatile writer of conscience. She will always be remembered for her indelible and life-changing masterpiece, The Color Purple, for which she won the ...

Film programming is a natural fit for libraries. It’s another tool in our arsenal of storytimes, book groups, and lectures to create educational, emotional, and silly programs for every age and ...

2026 Annual Conference Preview By Sallyann Price The tone and content of this year’s slate of speakers, programs, and gatherings strike a balance between the retrospective and the speculative, as ...

Folk-music collector, ethnographer, and archivist Alan Lomax, who died in 2002, was born 100 years ago in 1915. From 1937 to 1942, he was assistant in charge of the Archive of Folk Culture at the ...

If you follow the National Football League (NFL), you know that Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck is back. The star QB has returned to the field after undergoing shoulder surgery and missing ...

With more than 600 vendors and a variety of live stages and pavilions, the Library Marketplace showcased products for libraries facing intense new challenges. Services and solutions that focused on ...

Delivering the opening remarks, ALA President Sari Feldman highlighted information policy as a key component of ALA’s Strategic Directions. She noted that the first step in expanding and strengthening ...

Many libraries don’t screen films. Many just “play and walk away.” Here’s how to make your screening a quality cultural event equal to your book discussions. Your library’s films are some of the ...