The American Library Association (ALA) announced on November 6 the candidates running for ALA president for the 2027–2028 ...

Despite measures to continue operations and preserve pending contracts with libraries, the book distributor Baker & Taylor (B&T), a longtime fixture in the library technology industry, will shutter.

You don’t have to be a game designer to run a game jam at your library, said Rebecca Strang, outreach and engagement librarian at North Central College’s Oesterle Library in Naperville, Illinois. You ...

Games—whether of the board, video, or trivia variety—help people connect, escape, and learn. Information professionals see the transformative power of games firsthand in their libraries through ...

Award-winning chef Sean Sherman's second cookbook, Turtle Island, highlights the diversity of Indigenous food.

During my time as a chapter leader in Iowa, I witnessed firsthand how swiftly state and regional chapters can mobilize. When a bill that threatened codified funding for public libraries was proposed ...

On January 22, 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, ...

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 ...

A woman using the card catalog at the main reading room of the Library of Congress, circa 1940. Photo: Library of Congress OCLC printed its last library catalog cards on October 1, 2015, ending an era ...