Children and Libraries Debuted in 2003

Where were you in the Spring of 2003? Were you working at a library, or attending story time? If you were working at a library, you might have also spent time that Spring reading the INAUGURAL issue of ALSC’s journal, Children and Libraries. Our acclaimed, peer-reviewed journal debuted in 2003, and has continued to shape research and practices of ALSC members and children’s libraries for over two decades since. Let’s hop into our time machines and go back to that very first issue ahead of the next one hitting your inbox soon. Why CAL? In her note inside the inaugural issue, ALSC Executive Director Malore I. Brown wrote, “Our new journal will embody the essence of library service to children and serve as a professional tool and a source of information to those in the field of librarianship…Children and Libraries will serve as your sounding board and trusted resource. This…
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