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Magazine of the American Library Association.

Save 20% thru July 3. T-shirt and tote bag featuring Banned Books Week 2026 theme, "Let Books Be."
Cover of the Summer 2026 issue of American Libraries featuring a photo of downtown Chicago and the cover text Annual Conference Preview.
Celebrity READ poster featuring LeVar Burton holding the book "The Tin Forest"
Mychal Threets spreading library joy
Library Design Showcase submissions open
A team of women, with a sign identifying them as "The Monkeypuzzlers," work together assembling a jigsaw puzzle.
From the Executive Director by Dan Montgomery
Zora Neale Hurston
Brian Selznick
Librarian's Library by Reanna Esmail
Illustration by Antonio Rodriguez of a person reading a book to others in the library
Illustration of a woman watering a tree growing out of a person's head
Adriana Harmeyer with Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings
Digital clocks that display literary quotes
Car driving in an early Indy 500 race.
Patrons at the Star Wars pop-up library at Changi Airport in Singapore.
Car Wars
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.
Sean Sherman with his new cookbook Turtle Island
Danielle Costello explains game jams for creating tabletop roleplaying games at the American Library Association’s 2023 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago.
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
For Our Libraries fundraising challenge
From the Trustees by Brett Bonfield
Patrons exploring the books and displays at the pop-up Star Wars library at Changi Airport in Singapore.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025. Addressing Research and Writing Challenges with the APA Style Manual. 2:00 p.m. ET/11:00 a.m. PT
Wednesday, October 1, 2025. Addressing Research and Writing Challenges with the APA Style Manual. 2:00 p.m. ET/11:00 a.m. PT
Wednesday, October 1, 2025. Addressing Research and Writing Challenges with the APA Style Manual. 2:00 p.m. ET/11:00 a.m. PT.
Cover of the September/October 2025 issue of American Libraries, featuring a colorful new library interior and the coverline 2025 Library Design Showcase.
Tiwanna Nevels, assistant state librarian at State Library of North Carolina, with some of her favorite challenged books in the Big Chair
Tara Cooper speaking at the 2025 ALA Annual Conference about self-censorship in libraries.
June cover, featuring the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, and headlines "Annual Preview and Philadelphia Dining Guide," "Banning Book Bans," and "Misinformation Escape Rooms."
May 2025 cover: illustrated computer- and other digital-related icons with the text, "Marshall Breeding's Library Systems Report"
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
Logos for American Libraries Live and sponsor Gale
Desert landscape and skyline of Phoenix
Meredith Evans stands in a replica of the Oval Office at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. She holds the letter she mailed to Jimmy Carter when she was 4.
Magazine cover featuring an illustration of an open backpack with books spilling out and the title, "Stolen Pages: Looking back on a rare-book robbery," page 18.