Due to communist hysteria before and after World War II, many organizations and publications were under suspicion of being affiliated with or promoting the Communist party. One curious suspect of...
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Starting early this fall, as the ALA Archives Graduate Assistant, I had the privilege of transcribing the oral history of Eldon Ray James, retired librarian, formerly incarcerated person, and adv...
https://wordpress.library.illinois.edu/ala/2024/01/12/eldon-ray-james-oral-history/
Fifty years ago on this day, ALA announced the transfer of its archives to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The genesis of the ALA Archives can be arguably traced back to 1910 with...
https://wordpress.library.illinois.edu/ala/2023/10/31/50-years-of-the-ala-archives/
The Rabbits’ Wedding, by Garth Williams, is a children’s book about two rabbits getting married in a forest. While there doesn’t seem to be much to object about the book, in 1959, Alabama S...
https://wordpress.library.illinois.edu/ala/2023/09/29/emily-w-reed/
Out of the Vault is the newsletter of the University Archives, which covers the activities and staff of the archives and its programs, including the American Library Association Archives! The Su...
https://wordpress.library.illinois.edu/ala/2023/07/06/out-of-the-vault-summer-2023/
The ALA Archives is excited to display materials on intellectual freedom at the ALA Annual Conference this year! This exhibit will run from Friday afternoon through Sunday morning by the ALA memb...
https://wordpress.library.illinois.edu/ala/2023/06/20/exhibit-intellectual-freedom/
In 2001, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) and the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) partnered to host the first and only National Conference on Asian/Pacific...
https://wordpress.library.illinois.edu/ala/2023/05/24/shared-visions/
Out of the Vault is the newsletter of the University Archives, which covers the activities and staff of the archives and its programs, including the American Library Association Archives! The fir...
https://wordpress.library.illinois.edu/ala/2023/04/20/out-of-the-vault-spring-2023/
During the summer of 1918, Charles Green, a librarian from the Massachusetts Agriculture College, served as the Acting Librarian for Camp Johnston in Jacksonville, Florida. While his tenure was b...
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One fixture of ALA’s Midwinter Meeting, and now the LibLearnX conference, is the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Observation and Sunrise Celebration. The event celebrates the life and legac...
https://wordpress.library.illinois.edu/ala/2023/01/31/the-spiritual-high-point/