ALA Trustees balance the long-term growth of the endowment with the opportunity to fund critical services today.

Thanks to the work of advocates, FY2026 appropriations bills signed by President Trump increased federal library funding.

On January 26, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the top books, digital media, video, and audiobooks for children and young adults—including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, ...

"A Guardian and a Thief" and "Things in Nature Merely Grow" have won the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction ...

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 winners: A Guardian and a Thief and Things in Nature Merely Grow ...

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 winners: A Guardian and a Thief and Things in Nature Merely Grow ...

Libraries have been buffeted by a string of policies and executive orders in the first year of Donald Trump's second presidency.

I have watched the growth of critical librarianship into a mainstream movement with excitement. Critical librarianship supports the belief that, in our work as librarians, we should examine and fight ...

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 ...

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 ...