The City of Brotherly Love is also a city of firsts: The Library Company of Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731, is considered the country’s first public library. Philadelphia was the ...

Philadelphia is an apt location for the American Library Association’s 2025 Annual Conference, which will bring upwards of 10,000 library professionals to the Pennsylvania Convention Center later this ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Thousands of librarians from around the country are in Portland for a convention, where the Public Library Association is focusing on a lot more than just how to get more ...

Teen Services Development Day is a one-day, stand-alone event devoted exclusively to teen services for library staff. The day will include two keynotes and eleven education programs focused ...

From left: Sandra Solache, library assistant at Murrieta (Calif.) Public Library; Monica Chapa Domercq, advisor for the Pacific Library Partnership and trustee at Oceanside (Calif.) Public Library; ...

In the midst of a wearying, years-long assault on the freedom to read, librarians and library supporters unofficially kicked off the 2023 American Library Association Annual Conference with a shot of ...