The Stacks on Screen

Libraries are having a Hollywood moment, as several documentarians have recently turned their lenses towards libraries, librarians, and intellectual freedom issues. Some of these films made their mark at the recent American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference and Exhibition Read more

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Why We Show Up

As the United States prepares for its 250th anniversary and the American Library Association nears its 150th next year, more than 14,000 library workers, advocates, and allies gathered in Philadelphia this summer—the birthplace of the First Amendment—to affirm that Read more

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2025 Annual Conference Wrap-Up

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech,” wrote Benjamin Franklin in 1722. As Philadelphia’s most famous son, Franklin—and his belief in personal expression as the cornerstone of democracy—made the city Read more

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Solidarity amid Uncertainty

Although libraries are currently facing a climate of political and financial upheaval, that didn’t stop information professionals from showing up in force to the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2025 Annual Conference and Exhibition (June 26–30). The conference brought 14,292 Read more

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Newsmaker: Geena Davis

Hollywood has no shortage of polymaths, but Geena Davis might be in a category of her own. She has won Academy Awards for both acting and advocacy, founded the groundbreaking nonprofit Geena Davis Institute, written the memoir Dying of Read more

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Bookend: Speaking Out

Attendees expressed their views on a range of topics—and each in their unique way—at the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2025 Annual Conference and Exhibition, held June 26–30 in Philadelphia.

Clockwise from top left: Tiwanna Nevels, assistant state librarian at Read more

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Gender Differences in Acknowledgement Patterns of Information Science Master’s Final-Year Dissertations

This study analysed 944 acknowledgements sections of information science students’ master’s final-year dissertations at Nigeria’s premier university from 1992 to 2021. Quantitative analyses of the dissertation acknowledgements (DAs) involved descriptives, while qualitative analysis involved content analysis and extraction of Read more

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