Beloved Librarian Mychal Threets to Host Reboot of ‘Reading Rainbow’
“Reading Rainbow” has a new host—and it’s I Love My Librarian Award recipient Mychal Threets!
Ready, Set, Story! PBS News Offers Opportunities for Student Journalists This School Year
Are you a high-school student or parent/guardian of a teen who wants to get hands-on journalism experience this school year? PBS News Student Reporting Labs is for you then. Join them for a three-part intro virtual series beginning August 26 to learn more.
The Library As a Business Model
Libraries remind us that value isn’t always immediate or measurable in quarterly reports, but it’s real. The impact accumulates over time, quietly compounding. And any organization willing to think more expansively, invest in culture, make room for imagination, and support its people and community can experience it.
Ohio Man Leaves Behind the Reading List of a Lifetime
When Dan Pelzer died last month at the age of 92, he left his family and friends an incredible gift: a 109-page handwritten list of all the books he’d read since 1962. And now it can be viewed by the world.
Creating Accessible Spaces
With a grant from the American Library Association, a small library in rural New Hampshire created accessible and inclusive spaces for its youngest patrons.
Discussing Death at the Library
In the almost 15 years since the first Death Café was held in the UK, they have sprouted all over the world. And libraries are often the gathering spots.
Help Protect Libraries—and Win!
Help protect libraries and win your way to the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2026 Annual Conference in Chicago!
Native Representation
Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Libraries in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, created a program to encourage Native individuals living in the region to consider running for non-Tribal elected offices themselves to help ensure that diverse perspectives are part of community conversations and policy decisions. They used resources provided by the American Library Association’s 2024 Peggy Barber Tribute Grant to facilitate the initiative.
Librarian Named to Time’s List of 100 Most Influential Creators
Congratulations to librarian Mychal Threets for being named to the Time100 Creators: Most Influential Digital Voices list for 2025, Time’s inaugural celebration of the digital creators who have emerged to shape our culture. “They are changing what we watch, how we spend our time, what we buy, and how we vote,” says the magazine.
Court Allows Trump Admin to Proceed with Efforts to Destroy IMLS as Case Continues
The library world—and Americans in general—received bad news late today when a federal judge declined to block the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The ruling, issued in ALA v. Sonderling, will allow the administration’s cuts at the independent agency while the case proceeds.
