HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, ANOTHER LAWSUIT AGAINST THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FILED ON MONDAY OF THIS WEEK. THIS TIME, IT’S THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION SUING THE ALA, SAYS THE DEPARTMENT OF ...

Icelandic-Chinese composer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Laufey has been named honorary chair of Library Card ...

“Decent, but not too highbrow.” That’s how one volunteer described the kind of fiction he and his colleagues solicited from their Hibbing, Minnesota, neighbors for the second of three book collection ...

The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at U.S. libraries — the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color.

A new rule that prohibits "grant activities" with the American Library Association makes Florida the latest state to cut ties with the oldest and largest library organization in the world. The move is ...

On October 4, 1876, much of Philadelphia still sported the red, white, and blue bunting that seemed to wrap the city when the nation’s Centennial Exhibition opened the previous May. The hum of ...

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