Conferences & Events

This session will explore concrete examples, including the implementation of multilingual signage; the creation of accessible restrooms with adult changing tables; the design and use of inclusive furniture; and the provision of lactation rooms, sensory and quiet spaces. Learn how new access to spaces created opportunities for policy and practice change as well.

This 6-week online course introduces students to the breadth of considerations, standards, and skills needed to successfully launch and manage a digital library program.

This six-week course is an introduction to fundamental concepts of metadata.

Reference Interview is a comprehensive six-week asynchronous course focusing on the methods of evaluating reference services, behaviorial aspects of reference service.

Join us for a special virtual event celebrating the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King and the future of children’s literature. This program will feature 2026 John Steptoe New Talent Author Award recipient Arriel Vinson, whose work represents the powerful voices emerging in the field today.

This session focuses on building library staff confidence in assisting patrons with their digital lives. The webinar emphasizes ways to explain digital preservation concepts in plain language, identify common risks to digital memory, and suggest appropriate next steps during reference work, technology help sessions, or public programs.

Please join us for a conversation with Honorary Chair of Preservation Week, Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty in conversation with Sherry Williams

Learn about best practices delivering sensory storytimes and marketing to ensure autistic children and families feel invited.

This webinar will introduce the Memory Lab model, highlight California Revealed’s pilot program to build new community-based archives through their public library partnerships, and offer resources to reinforce the national network, including a new California Memory Lab Handbook, as well as digitization kits. We will highlight the work of the South Pasadena Public Library, who are exploring options to make their Memory Lab more ADA-friendly.

This six-week online course is a basic primer for library acquisitions concepts common to all library material formats.