American Library Association

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The American Library Association (ALA) is an organization founded in the United States that promotes libraries internationally.

With approximately 64,600 members it is the oldest and largest library association in the world. It was founded in Philadelphia in 1876 and is now headquartered in Chicago. Keith Michael Fiels has been the managing director since 2002 .

The organization awards numerous awards, including the Caldecott Medal (picture books), the Newbery Medal (children's books), the Stonewall Book Award , the Michael L. Printz Award (youth literature), the Children's Literature Legacy Award , the WY Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction , the ALA Best Books for Young Adults Award, the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Young Adult Author, and the annual Award for an Outstanding Academic Title .

The ALA is co-editor of the world's most popular library set of rules, the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules .

The organization strongly opposes the censorship of libraries. It annually publishes a list of successful and attempted removals of books from libraries and is the main sponsor of the annual Banned Books Week .

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