Inside ALA

Senior Associate Executive Mary Ghikas talks with Jenny Levine about how the divisions relate to the association as a whole, and why members have to join the ALA in order to join a division as well.

Jenny Levine tests ALA Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels' on ALA's motto, and what it means today.

Jenny Levine and ALA Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels talk about how ideas, from both members and staff members, turn into actions on an association level.

Jenny Levine interviews ALA Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels about ALA’s mission and three ways that the mission statement guides ALA’s activities.

This short preview highlights the new and renovated library buildings in American Libraries' 2011 Library Design Showcase, which will be posted at americanlibrariesmagazine.org/librarydesign11 starting March 18. Excerpts will appear in the March-April 2011 issue of American Libraries and the Spring Digital Supplement.

Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernández and First Lady Margarita Cedeño de Fernández visited ALA October 1 in hopes of starting a relationship between the libraries and librarians of the two countries.

Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez and First Lady Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez visited ALA October 1 in hopes of starting a relationship between the libraries and librarians of the two countries.

American Libraries Associate Editor Pamela A. Goodes interviews new ALA President Roberta Stevens about advocacy, the challenges that libraries are facing, the Spectrum scholarship program, and how the ALA needs to be supporting libraries. See also americanlibrariesmagazine.org/al_focus/roberta-stevens-introduces-our-authors-our-advocates, in which Stevens introduces her “Our Authors, Our Advocates” presidential initiative.