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2018 ALA Annual Conference

Custom Digital Literacy Training

Every Child Ready to Read

Responsible Jail & Prison Library Service

Initiatives

Our groundbreaking initiatives do more than develop new skills—they move our profession to ever more innovative places.

We help keep public library professionals a step ahead through in-person and online education opportunities.

Our member opportunities bring public library people together, so they can strengthen what makes their library unique and invent what comes next...

PLA seeks volunteers for committees, task forces, advisory groups, and award juries 5 days ago

Public Library Association members elect Salazar as 2019-20 president; Fesemyer and Watson to board 1 week ago

Final Reminder: Polls close April 4 in 2018 PLA Election 2 weeks ago

PLA 2018 draws thousands of library professionals, supporters to Philadelphia 3 weeks ago

Public Library Association honors eleven individuals and public libraries with awards and grants 3 weeks ago

A Prescription for Graphic Medicine 6 days ago

Health and Wellness at the Library 6 days ago

San Diego’s Craft Brewing Archive 1 week ago

Anti-Slavery Collection at Boston Public Library Gets a Digital Makeover 1 week ago

Barbara Lipska on Deciphering and Destigmatizing Mental Illness 1 week ago

ALA spotlights broadband in Tribal and rural libraries for National Library Week 1 hour ago

Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Marrakesh Treaty 1 hour ago

Library makerspaces come to Capitol Hill with Digital Fab! 15 hours ago

Ready to Code school library brings music, coding to students with learning disabilities 2 days ago

2018 WHCLIST award winner announced 2 days ago