ALA and PLA have long led national advocacy efforts to advance balanced copyright policy and prevent unfair and anti-competitive practices that limit libraries’ ability to meet their users’ reading ...

CHICAGO- The American Association of School Librarians released the following statement in response to the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals vacating the lower court’s injunctions of portions of ...

Organizations representing the vast majority of North American public libraries today released a joint statement calling for change in licensing for digital content.

International Relations Round Table (IRRT) is pleased to announce that the BRIDGE: Building Relationship through International Dialogue & Global Exchange” project has been selected as the recipient of ...

CHICAGO – The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has released its annual list of Best Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning. The Best Digital Tools provide opportunities for school ...

The Association for Library Service to Children has awarded the 2026 Penguin Random House Young Readers Group Award to Sam ...

The Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table announced María Emerson, assistant professor and student success librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as the ...

Celebrate Your Friends Group Oct. 18-24, 2026, during the 21st annual National Friends of Libraries Week!

CHICAGO - Due to a dramatic uptick in book challenges and outright removal of books from libraries, ALA's Executive Board and the Boards of Directors for all of ALA's eight divisions have released the ...

During the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, 103 librarians (90 men and 13 women) responded to a call for a "Convention of Librarians" to be held October 4-6 at the Historical Society of ...

Office for Accreditation Home Page The ALA Office for Accreditation (OA) serves the general public, students, employers, and library and information studies Master's programs through the promotion and ...

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