Author and poet Maya Angelou died May 28 at age 86. An activist and library champion, she remains one of the most frequently challenged authors (and authors of color) of the 20th and 21st centuries, ...

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

In my column in the January/February issue (“Your Library’s Story,” p. 64), I encouraged librarians to take control of the narrative when telling the story of their impact. The ability to demonstrate ...

OverDrive, the largest commercial provider of ebooks and other digital content to libraries, issued a surprise announcement on December 24 about a pending change in its ownership. The company’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first Newbery Medal is awarded to The Story of Mankind, written and illustrated by Dutch American historian and journalist Hendrik Willem van Loon. Dhan Gopal Mukerji becomes the first person of ...

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.