Andrew Richard Albanese

Daniel J. Montgomery, currently President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers, will take the helm at ALA this fall.

Some five years after it was chartered, the Palace Project will now be solely owned and operated by Lyrasis.

As the library world prepares to converge on Philadelphia for the 2025 American Library Association Annual Conference, challenges abound. But this week, librarians got a little backup from the Government Accounting Office, which released a report concluding that, yes, the Trump Administration's withholding of IMLS funding is illegal.

Among the week's headlines: Escambia County votes to allow book bans without review; a chilling report on the freedom to read in Utah; two more 'Freedom to Read' bills advance; and BookCon returns!

In a filing this week, Trump administration lawyers said they would move to have the ALA's lawsuit to save the IMLS dismissed.

The Constitution grants the President "no unilateral authority to withhold funds from obligation," concludes the independent, nonpartisan watchdog.