ALT Fall 2026 issue of American Libraries, featuring the 2026 Library Design Showcase

ALT Cover of the Summer 2026 issue of American Libraries featuring an image of downtown Chicago and the cover text Annual Conference Preview.

ALT Celebrity READ poster featuring LeVar Burton holding the book "The Tin Forest"

ALT Cover of the May 2026 issue of American Libraries featuring a historic drawing of a library with modern users overlaid.

ALT Mychal Threets spreading library joy

ALT Cover of the March/April 2026 issue of American Libraries featuring Mychal Threets.

ALT Library Design Showcase submissions open

ALT A team of women, with a sign identifying them as "The Monkeypuzzlers," work together assembling a jigsaw puzzle.

ALT From the Executive Director by Dan Montgomery

ALT Zora Neale Hurston

ALT Brian Selznick

ALT Librarian's Library by Reanna Esmail

ALT Illustration by Antonio Rodriguez of a person reading a book to others in the library

ALT Illustration of a woman watering a tree growing out of a person's head

ALT Adriana Harmeyer with Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings

ALT Digital clocks that display literary quotes

ALT From the Trustees by Brett Bonfield

ALT Car driving in an early Indy 500 race.

ALT For Our Libraries fundraising challenge

ALT Patrons at the Star Wars pop-up library at Changi Airport in Singapore.

ALT Car Wars

ALT David Sleasman, librarian of the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play, in front of pinball machines and next to several items from the library's collections.

ALT Sean Sherman with his new cookbook Turtle Island

ALT Danielle Costello explains game jams for creating tabletop roleplaying games at the American Library Association’s 2023 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago.

ALT Cover of the November/December issue of American Libraries, with the coverlines State of Play, Game and Toy Archive, Ransomware Attacks, and Newsmaker: Sean Sherman

ALT For Our Libraries fundraising challenge

ALT From the Trustees by Brett Bonfield

ALT Patrons exploring the books and displays at the pop-up Star Wars library at Changi Airport in Singapore.

ALT Wednesday, October 1, 2025. Addressing Research and Writing Challenges with the APA Style Manual. 2:00 p.m. ET/11:00 a.m. PT

ALT Wednesday, October 1, 2025. Addressing Research and Writing Challenges with the APA Style Manual. 2:00 p.m. ET/11:00 a.m. PT

ALT Wednesday, October 1, 2025. Addressing Research and Writing Challenges with the APA Style Manual. 2:00 p.m. ET/11:00 a.m. PT.

ALT Cover of the September/October 2025 issue of American Libraries featuring a colorful new library interior and the coverline Library Design Showcase

ALT Melisa Yang, recent graduate of University of South Carolina in Columbia, shows off a button she made in support of library funding at the Busy Beaver Button Company booth.

ALT Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer at the ALA Annual Conference, with former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and actor George Takei inset

ALT Tiwanna Nevels, assistant state librarian at State Library of North Carolina in Raleigh, holds some of her favorite challenged books in the Big Chair at the 2025 ALA Annual Conference.

ALT Tara Cooper speaking at the 2025 ALA Annual Conference about self-censorship in libraries.

ALT Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer speaking at the ALA Annual Conference, with inset photos of former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and actor George Takei.

ALT June cover, featuring the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, and headlines "Annual Preview and Philadelphia Dining Guide," "Banning Book Bans," and "Misinformation Escape Rooms."

ALT Under the title 'The Sustainability Issue,' in an illustrated scene, a person rides a book-bicycle along a grass-lined path toward a library building

ALT Book covers of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal Winners for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction: James by Percival Everett and A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko.

ALT Cover of the January/February issue, featuring a desert landscape and the Phoenix skyline