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Cafes, bars, souvenir vendors, and street artists line the narrow and densely populated promenades in the old colonial center of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where hawkers lure customers with promises [...]

The American military formally ended its mission in Iraq on December 15, 2011. It was the inauspicious end of an invasion launched by the United States ostensibly to rid Iraq [...]

Because ALA's 2006 Annual Conference was the first' major convention in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, many librarians feel an affinity for the city and a strong concern for its [...]

Librarians and their supporters spoke loudly and clearly about the value of libraries during the American Library Association's 2010 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., June 24-29. On Library Advocacy Day, [...]

Judith Krug believed that no one has the right to tell other people what they can or cannot read. When asked where libraries should draw the line when it comes [...]

Award-winning authors and books, a basketball superstar, and an FBI whistleblower were among the top attractions at the January 11-16 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia. Sports legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivered [...]

Mary Dempsey, Chicago Public Library Commissioner, talks about leading a project, which requires cleaning somebody else's mess in city hall as a 'part of a commitment' to an ever-better quality of life in her beloved city. She talks about other effective programs such as 'One Book, One Chicago' and 'Pride and Prejudice'.

Listening is an act of love,' says Dave Isay. 'It tells people that they matter and that their time on earth meant something, their names won't be forgotten. I think [...]

I was reporting for American Libraries in 1992 when I learned that the Association's Gay and Lesbian Task Force [now the Rainbow Round Table] would be marching in the San [...]

It's not just all the leaves that are brown, according to keynote speaker Richard Rodriguez, it's most of America, which can no longer be racially reduced to black and white. [...]

Five years after the wealthiest man in the world hopped on a bookmobile and began showering America's libraries with computers and highspeed Internet connections, stars are still falling on Alabama, [...]

More than 500 people from across the country heard about the new wave of library budget woes in a rally that kicked off ALA President Maurice Freedman's Campaign to Save [...]

Tackling some of the most potentially divisive political issues that have come before the ALA Council in years, members moved swiftly through three Midwinter Meeting sessions, January 27-29 in Philadelphia. [...]

In the 1947 movie Copacdbana, Carmen Miranda plays a singer whom Groucho Marx books at the famous nightclub under two different names: the Brazilian Bombshell Carmen and Mademoiselle Fifi. She [...]

At the Midwinter Meeting in New Orleans, ALA's governing Council approved bylaws for a separate allied professional association to offer postgraduate specialty certification, to advocate for pay equity, and to [...]

In a move fraught with risks and unknowns, the American Library Association's governing Council cleared the way for splitting the organization into two separate parts during the ALA Midwinter Meeting [...]

The September 11 terrorist attacks have spawned an epidemic of fear that bioterrorism will be the next assault on Americans. After the House of Representatives shut down and more than [...]

In New York City, Washington, and across the nation, neighborhood public libraries are helping a population traumatized, saddened, and angered by the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade [...]

WHAT THE DISPUTE OVER GRADUATE EDUCATION MEANS FOR LIBRARIANSHIP Last year, in an interesting contrast, the editors of the two most influential magazines for librarians expressed concerns on the transformation [...]

THE DEATH OF A COLLEAGUE SOLEMNIFIES ALA'S MIDWINTER CELEBRATION OF ITS MOST ENDURING VALUES At their 1999 Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia January 29-February 2, ALA members celebrated one of the [...]

Principles of free access to information and freedom of expression resonated through the 63rd Council and General Conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in Copenhagen, [...]

AS SHE LEAVES ALA FOR NEW CHALLENGES, THE FOUNDING EDITOR OF BOOK LINKS DISCUSSES THE TRIUMPHS AND TRAVAILS OF STARTING A MAGAZINE When Barbara Elleman left ALA last summer after [...]

FEATURING OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES BY SPEAKERS, EXHIBITORS, AND TAXI DRIVERS, ALA IN NEW YORK ALSO SAW AN UNEXPECTED CASTING CHANGE AFTER THE FINAL CURTAIN The show is over, and reviewers are [...]

Perhaps it was finally being united in pursuit of a collective purpose, ALA Goal 2000. Perhaps it was having a common threat to rally against in the face of attacks [...]

'My strength is that I am not alone in this big world,' wrote Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet. 'The world and its people are no secret in my heart, no mystery [...]

Like the 200 runners and walkers who raced along the Chicago lakefront during the Fun Run, a record crowd of almost 25,000 librarians, trustees, exhibitors, and other ALAers picked their [...]

A LA's Midwinter Meeting, held Feb. 3-9 in Philadelphia, drew a record 8,560 participants, including 5,752 paid registrants and some 2,808 exhibitors and guests. The Pennsylvania Convention Center venue also […]

Given the choice between technology and books, the 3,126 participants who attended "Shape the Vision," the American Association of School Librarians' seventh national conference, Nov. 9-13 in Indianapolis, made their […]

The first round of recommendations from the special ALA Organizational Self-Study Committee (OSSC) made its way through the second and third sessions of Council at ALA's 1994 Annual Conference in [...]

ALA's 1994 Annual conference, held June 23-30 in Miami Beach, may well be remembered as its unlucky 113th. Long distances between hotels and meetings, expensive cab rides, heat and humidity, [...]

Part one of Midwinter coverage appeared in the March issue, p. 222-223. 'What is wrong with ALA,' said consultant Dadie Perlov during a Council discussion of ALA's self-study in progress, [...]

Individual programs are the ingredients that gave the Big Easy conference gumbo its texture and spice. 'I come for the programs,' one ALA Annual Conference-goer told an AL editor on [...]

It wasn't the biggest Annual Conference ever. Some attendees might argue that it wasn't even the hottest. But ALA's 112th Annual Conference, held in New Orleans June 24-July 1, may [...]

A handful of numbers are useful tags for some of the important issues and ideas that came to light at ALA's Midwinter Meeting, and those tags range from two to [...]

Neither a real quake nor a political one could shake a successful meeting in San Francisco, June 25-July 2. 'Well, at least it wasn't the Big One,' say resilient Californians [...]

The 'silent recommendations' implicit in the rejection of certain resolutions at WHCLIS were as important as the recommendations that delegates endorsed, said ALA President Patricia Glass Schuman during the fall [...]

Cheered by thousands of determined librarians, Jesse Jackson, authors Michael Blake and Judy Blume, football star Derrick Thomas, U.S. Rep. Newt Gingrich, and other guest speakers kicked off a spectacular [...]