Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services

The presentation will focus on the lived experience of a librarian who recently moved into a large middle management role at a sizable R1 institution, while adjusting to a new discovery of their neurodiversity.

Don’t wait! Celebrate the PLA 2026 Conference early with a conversation between four amazing authors.

The Core Competencies for Cataloging & Metadata Professional Librarians provides an important framework to assess professional-level cataloging and metadata skills, knowledge, and behavior.

Library consultant Toby Greenwalt demonstrates the capabilities of Super Searchers and Meet LEO and showcases potential applications in the library workspace.

This 4 week course Fundamentals of Management is designed for new managers to build the skill set they need to successfully lead their department or organization, as well as support existing managers looking to

Learn about pathways to leadership in PLA and the public library profession.

This 90 minute webinar will cover the similarities and the differences in Canada and the US's approach to copyright.

Learn how a library created a classification system that people bought into, was collaborative, and was scalable.

Discovery products providing a single search interface to library collections have become industry standard in large academic libraries since their emergence in the late 2000's. This presentation begins to fill

Learn about and apply backward design, a model for effectively determining what you want to accomplish in workshops, library instruction and training sessions.