CHICAGO — How does librarianship help people to be free? How is library capacity and expertise used to increase freedom, justice, and community? “Liberatory Librarianship: Stories of Communit...
https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2024/03/liberatory-librarianship
CHICAGO — The American Library Association (ALA) announced today that ALA President Emily Drabinski will host the ALA President’s Program, featuring an esteemed panel of library practitioner...
CHICAGO —The American Library Association- Reference and User Services Division (RUSA), offers an outstanding combination of repeat and new courses/webinars. Check out our list of upcoming prog...
https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2024/03/april-2024-online-learning-rusa
CHICAGO — What determines the information that shows up in online search results? How do cookies work? What exactly is an algorithm? The new free guide from the American Library Association ...
CHICAGO- Register today for the upcoming Six-week asynchronous course Reference Interview 101 starting on April 1, 2024
https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2024/03/reference-interview-course-rusa
Library workers have been under attack on many fronts. Yet library staff continue to play an invaluable role in supporting their communities. In both good times and times of challenge or crisis, ...
https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2024/03/nation-celebrate-library-workers-contributions-april-9
CHICAGO - On Friday, June 28, 2024, the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) will present a half-day preconference, "Bilingual Storytime Academy," during the 2024 ALA Annual Confere...
CHICAGO—Join Core during the 2024 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition in San Diego, CA for the full-day preconference event "AvramCamp: An Unconference for Women and Non-binary Technology Librar...
PUBLIC LIBRARIES SAW 92 PERCENT INCREASE IN NUMBER OF TITLES TARGETED FOR CENSORSHIP OVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR CHICAGO — The number of titles targeted for censorship surged 65 percent in 2023 com...
Majority of funding aims to support small and rural libraries across the United States