#PLA2024 Day 2 recap is out now, starting with a Big Ideas session with @BLoveSoulPower americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoo…

Missing #PLA2024 already? Check out our recap of Day 3, with closing speaker Dulcé Sloan & sessions covering best practices for combating censorship/protecting privacy americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoo… Public Library Association ALA OIF

Read up on the highlights from my interview with Dulcé Sloan 👇

My latest for AL 🤘

American Libraries Managing Editor Terra Dankowski pays a visit to the Sulzer Regional branch of Chicago Public Library, which hosts a repair café every month. There volunteers with toolkits fix the items, sparing them from the landfill. americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoo…

Places I never considered had librarians? Zoos ✅ My latest for AL

Check out our Top 10 Posts from Opening Day at #ALAAC24 americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoo…

At only 4' 8" tall, Simone Biles' jump clears more than 7 ft of air. Or, in library terms, she could jump over roughly 65 James Patterson books. 🤸‍♀️ 📚 😆 #SimoneBiles #ParisOlympics #Olympics #JamesPatterson #LibraryHumor

This current wave of censorship in libraries is scary, but not new. In our latest issue of American Libraries, we break down a centuries-long history of book banning in the US. Check it out 👇 americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/09/03/cen…

Did you know the library at Harvard’s Harvard Kennedy School has a political button archive? Learn more about their collection representing campaigns/causes from the 19th century to today americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/11/01/boo…

In our year-end Call Number Podcast hear these authors on the role of libraries, librarians, and books in their lives: 🎙️ Hanif Abdurraqib 🎙️ @KwameAlexander 🎙️ Connie Chung 🎙️ Kate DiCamillo 🎙️ Max Greenfield 🎙️ Vashti Harrison 🎙️ MAGGIE NICHOLS 🎙️ Jesus Trejo americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoo…

“If you just literally decide that other people’s opinions of you don’t matter… it is one great way to poke a hole in the dam of the obstacles in your way.” Check out my conversation with Neko Case for American Libraries. Her memoir comes out this month americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/01/02/new…

“The Palisades and Eaton fires, among others, have killed 28 people and destroyed or damaged more than 16,000 structures—including destruction of the Los Angeles Public Library’s Palisades branch. Several more libraries in evacuation or evacuation warning zones remain closed.”

Despite a cure, 1.3M people died of tuberculosis in 2023. 🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢's new book shares the history of TB & the story of Henry, a young patient he met in Sierra Leone. "We know how to live in a world w/o TB. We just need to choose to live in that world" americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/03/03/new…

My latest for ⁦American Libraries⁩: Broadway Star!!!!⁩ discusses their first book, a novel about Harriet Tubman coming back to life and creating a hip-hop album “I like to write the kind of art and do the kind of art that I would like to see myself” americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/03/31/new…

"I like to write the kind of art and do the kind of art that I would like to see myself," says Bob the Drag Queen, who has released his debut novel, "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert." americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/03/31/new…

For more than a century, Canadians & Americans have used Vermont's Haskell Free Library and Opera House. A line of black tape on the library’s floor demarcates the US-Canada border. Recently, DHS announced plans to limit access to the library from the Canadian side.