More than 2,300 attendees listened to speakers at the opening event of ALA’s American Association of School Librarians 16th National Conference and Exhibition in Hartford, Connecticut, on November 14.

The American Association of School Librarians 16th national conference will be held from November 14–17 in Hartford, Conn., and this year’s theme is “Rising to the Challenge.” The focused information ...

danah boyd, called the "high priestess" of networked social media and an internationally recognized authority on online social networking sites, said school librarians can play a crucial role in ...

During the recently concluded American Association of School Librarians National Conference ALA executive director Tracy Hall made a simple yet hopeful observation: “This AASL conference is the first ...

Jessie Commerce, assistant librarian at Salem Church Middle School in Richmond, Virginia, is the recipient of the 2026 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Frances Henne Award. Sponsored ...