Public Libraries

The nonprofit organization offers comprehensive resources on creating community advocacy organizations to fight censorship, and monitor and speak out against legislative efforts.

The 2023 Youth Media Awards and librarian opinions about the Newbery dominated reader attention.

Greater representation serves young library users and the profession. But more effort is needed to bring in—and retain—Black librarians.

From Virginia Florence, the first Black woman in the U.S. to receive a library science degree, to Clara Stanton Jones, the first Black president of the American Library Association, pioneers of the profession.