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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

ALA’s Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., June 24-29, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (WWCC) and surrounding hotels offers a full program agenda and an array of guest speakers ...