Please take these questions as those from someone who loves academic libraries and has the ultimate respect and admiration or the academic librarians that make these institutions so indispensable for ...

Advance Registration Rates for the 2026 ALA Annual Conference, coming up June 25–29 in Chicago, end on June 19! Make sure to join us for this is a milestone year as American Library Association marks ...

Academic libraries, experiencing a wave of retirements, are finding they have more job openings than qualified candidates to fill them. The seller’s market for academic librarians is a result of a few ...

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the discussion Friday about the academic library and the cloud. I learned a ton. Going forward, I'm hoping to build on this dialogue and find more ...

For over a century librarians and others in academe have debated the issue of faculty status for librarians. Do librarians play the same role as teaching or research faculty members? Is academic ...

Registration for ACRL’s annual Fostering Change for Academic Library Leaders cohort, a nine-week, virtual program that aims to build a community of inclusive leaders and change agents in academic ...

To mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day—and recognize the American Library Association adding sustainability as a core value—American Libraries returns with its ongoing sustainability series. In ...

University of California librarians and their allies marched across campus Wednesday with their mouths taped shut in support of academic freedom for librarians. University Council-American Federation ...

How did two academic librarians with no archival background become researchers into the history of World War II internment camps in Louisiana? For Hayley Johnson and Sarah Simms, speakers at “The ...

Jeremy Barney, who is assistant librarian for metadata and digital collections with the Van Wylen Library at Hope College, has been named the 2022 Academic Librarian of the Year by the Michigan ...