Rebekkah Smith Aldrich

1 month ago | americanlibrariesmagazine.org | Rebekkah Smith Aldrich |Paula Mauro

At nearly every talk I’ve given on climate change and libraries over roughly a decade, someone in the audience asks how I remain hopeful in the face of climate scientists’ predictions. I am not, I clarify, hopeful that we will turn the tide on the impacts of climate change—at least not in my lifetime. But I am hopeful that, given the reality of climate change, people will help one another to adapt, restore, and rethink the future.

1 month ago | americanlibrariesmagazine.org | David Alvarado |Megan Bennett |Emily Udell |Rebekkah Smith Aldrich

The ALA Nominating Committee has selected three nominees to run for ALA president in the upcoming election. The candidates running for the 2026–27 term are Lindsay Cronk, dean of libraries at Tulane University in New Orleans; Andrea Jamison, assistant professor of school librarianship at Illinois State University; and Maria McCauley, director of libraries at Cambridge (Mass.) Public Library.