Carnegie Medal winners will each receive $5,000. A celebration honoring all six finalists will take place at ALA’s 2026 ...

Kathryn Heaviside, librarian and gallery coordinator at Northport–East Northport (N.Y.) Public Library, doesn’t do anything by halves. So when she got obsessed with tracking down different library ...

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Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Congratulations to the 2026 Finalists. Winners announced January 27!

On December 16, the American Library Association (ALA) announced 10 recipients of the 2025 I Love My Librarian Award, nominated by library users for their expertise, dedication, and impact in their ...

Looking for clever and thoughtful gift ideas for the book lover in your life? Find ideas in this eclectic list of ...

The year 2023 was another record-breaker for book bans. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) documented 1,247 attempts to censor library books and other ...

In the past several years, virtual reality (VR) technology has finally begun to fulfill what had long been promised. Traditional VR, which creates environments that allow people to be “present” in an ...

Martha Hickson, a recently retired media specialist who fought censorship at North Hunterdon High School in Annandale, New Jersey, shakes hands with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (seated) after he ...

Late last year, the city of Colorado Springs shut down the Quarry, its largest homeless encampment, forcing its residents to disperse. As a result, says John Spears, executive director of Pikes Peak ...

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 ...