Conferences & Events Calendar

The American Library Association, its 8 divisions, 21 round tables, and offices host many conferences, meetings, forums, institutes, and other events. Use the filters to explore our many available options. Toggle between list and month views using the buttons below.
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Core Classroom: Your Supported Job Search

August 04, 2025

This 4-week online course introduces participants to the principles, policies and practices of preservation in libraries and archives. It is designed to inform all staff, across divisions and departments and at all levels of responsibility and provides tools to begin extending the useful life of library collections.

Administration & Leadership
Programs & Services
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
eLearning
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Super Searchers and Meet LEO

August 05, 2025

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

Information Literacy & Library Instruction
Programs & Services
eLearning
Webinar
Online
Free
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The Library of the Future: Health, Wellbeing, & Sustainability

August 19, 2025

Come and learn the best practices that are having an impact on the lives of so many community members across the nation through the healthy and sustainable libraries they have built and how they are contributing to diminish climate change through the 2030 challenge and COTE Top Ten Principles. This session will provide information from case studies and current methods that are being successfully used and implemented along with ways to fund these needed methodologies such as how to access federal funds from the Inflation Reduction Act.

Cataloging
Collection Management
eLearning
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Super Searchers and Meet LEO

August 20, 2025

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

Information Literacy & Library Instruction
Programs & Services
eLearning
Webinar
Online
Free
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Fundamentals of Cataloging 2025 - Session 5.0

August 25, 2025

This 6-week online course is a basic primer for library cataloging concepts and practices. It covers: principles underlying cataloging practice; examples illustrating the principles in practice; tools used in cataloging practice such as AACR2, RDA, Library of Congress Subject Headings, Library of Congress Classification, MARC, OCLC, BIBFRAME; processes used by catalogers in creating bibliographic records.

Collection Management
Archives & Records Management
Cataloging
eLearning
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Fundamentals of Cataloging 2025 - Session 5.1

August 25, 2025

This 6-week online course is a basic primer for library cataloging concepts and practices. It covers: principles underlying cataloging practice; examples illustrating the principles in practice; tools used in cataloging practice such as AACR2, RDA, Library of Congress Subject Headings, Library of Congress Classification, MARC, OCLC, BIBFRAME; processes used by catalogers in creating bibliographic records.

Collection Management
Archives & Records Management
Cataloging
eLearning
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Library Card Sign-up Month

September 01, 2025

Library Card Sign-Up Month is a national public awareness campaign started in 1987 to emphasize the importance of a library card to a child’s education.

Celebration
Online
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