Anne Ford writes: “Like many ALA staffers, librarian and archivist Colleen Barbus remembers the Association’s previous headquarters. ‘The stacks led you into a couple of little rabbit warrens,’ she says. The rabbit-warren days are over. Since ALA headquarters moved in 2020 to its present location at Chicago’s 225 North Michigan Avenue, Barbus has presided over a completely reimagined in-house library. Visitors step off the elevator to find a large, open, bright area that’s home to not only the office’s main reception desk but also row upon row of low book-filled shelves.”
