The Association for Library Service to Children has awarded the 2026 Penguin Random House Young Readers Group Award to Sam ...

CHICAGO – The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has released its annual list of Best Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning. The Best Digital Tools provide opportunities for school ...

The Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table announced María Emerson, assistant professor and student success librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as the ...

The Council of the American Library Association (ALA) bestows upon Robert Newlen, Honorary Membership. Honorary membership is the highest honor given by the Association. It is conferred upon a living ...

In June of 1954, ALSC presented a special award to Laura Ingalls Wilder for her lasting and substantial contribution to literature for children. Thereafter, the ALSC Board established an ongoing award ...

To find out about more great digital media for children, visit the page for ALSC's Excellence in Early Learning Digital Media Award. This list represents the titles selected by the 2024 committee.

CHICAGO - Due to a dramatic uptick in book challenges and outright removal of books from libraries, ALA's Executive Board and the Boards of Directors for all of ALA's eight divisions have released the ...

Below is a list of select programs ACRL has offered in recent years. Browse conference programs and proceedings from the biennial ACRL Conference and descriptions of ACRL programs at past ALA Annual ...

Details on upcoming ALA Annual conference, and archives of previous ALA conferences.

During the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, 103 librarians (90 men and 13 women) responded to a call for a "Convention of Librarians" to be held October 4-6 at the Historical Society of ...

Since June of 2014, Immigrant Heritage Month has given people across the United States an opportunity to annually explore their own heritage and celebrate the shared diversity that forms the unique ...

A complete list of past winners of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (1954-2017) and the Children's Literature Legacy Award (2018 and beyond), administered by the Association for Library Service to ...