Free Webinars

In this webinar, we share the new Libraries Advancing Accessibility Toolkit, which helps staff and patrons increase access to and awareness of settings, apps, and resources available on the iPad and iPhone.

Learn how Benchmark can support your library in everyday decision-making, and get a behind-the-scenes look at Benchmark’s interactive and user-friendly data dashboards and reporting tools.

A facilitated review of the results from the Public Library Association’s (PLA) 2025 Public Library Services for Strong Communities survey.

Explore a new, research-based outcomes framework you can use to strengthen your libraries’ offerings by providing responsive, inclusive, maker-centered services for adults in your community.

Available free to PLA individual members! Captain Nia Gilliam shares her journey of fulfilling a lifelong dream to fly—how she rediscovered her passion in the face of tragedy and adversity.

Available free to PLA individual members! Trisha Ping covers BookPage editors' top adult picks for summer—from bestsellers to midlist to hidden gems—in a diverse range of authors, genres and topics.

Available free to PLA individual members! Bestselling children’s author Mac Barnett champions the profound joys of literature and the importance of reading for pleasure.

Available free to ALA individual members! Learn how different communities are approaching staff training and handling interactions when ICE enters a public library.

A broad-ranging conversation about the current state and future of public libraries and community engagement with artificial intelligence (AI).

Hear insights and innovations from a new report about public libraries at the forefront of adult learning in the United States.

Learn how to use the results from the 2024 Public Library Staff Survey to improve your library’s performance, demonstrate value, and increase impact in your community.

Hear from past grantees about how they leveraged an ALA award to increase or improve service to their communities, grow partnerships, attract new funding, and sustain key work.

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

Learn how to measure meaningful learning outcomes to improve programs and services and better advocate for your library.

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

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

Learn why computational thinking skills are important for young children, how to access free multimedia resources, and how they have been used to run fun and engaging programs in libraries.

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

Learn best practices, tips, and advice on how to successfully host lawmakers at your library to show, them the many unique ways libraries positively impact communities.

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

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

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

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

Learn about PLA publication opportunities, including writing for Public Libraries magazine and PLA’s podcast.

ALA and Sustainable Libraries Initiative provide guidance and tools to help expedite climate action work in libraries.

Learn about PLA Committees and Advisory Groups and how to increase your chances of being selected.

Learn how you can be a part of PLA’s renowned conference programming.

Discover your pathway within PLA from members of the PLA Membership Advisory Group.

Learn how Benchmark, PLA’s interactive data visualization and peer comparison tool, can support your library in everyday decision-making.

Get essential information, examples, and practical tips to apply for once-in-a-generation opportunities to advance the digital equity work your library is already doing.

Learn to integrate joyful yoga and mindfulness into the programs you already do, or start to create a complete yoga and mindfulness program at your library.

Learn how your library can use the 2023 Public Library Technology Survey report and PLA’s data tools to understand and improve your library's performance, demonstrate value, and increase impact in your community.

Learn how to help overcome barriers and consistently provide resources and support to African American writers.

Learn how to partner with National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled to provide free reading materials in alternate formats.

Learn how Benchmark can support your library in everyday decision-making.

A facilitated conversation that explored effective policies and practices to improve safety and security for library staff and patrons, and invited questions and resources to be shared among all attendees.

Highlights how the data suggests both opportunities and challenges for the future of public libraries.

Learn from members of the Fresh Start @ Your Library team, including social workers, and understand the steps they took to reach formerly incarcerated individuals and provide services to six communities through the public library.

Learn how Benchmark can support your library in everyday decision making, such as establishing baselines and identifying opportunities to improve.

Learn about programs happening in both formal and informal learning environments that are helping youth develop essential skills and experiences to be successful in pursuit of their interests and skills, including work-based learning opportunities, apprenticeships, and more.

Hear from national, state, and local leaders developing strategies and implementing programs to begin closing the digital skills divide, specifically focused on employability outcomes and workforce development.

Hear from a panel of experts who have made sense of the maze of available learning opportunities to connect workers to high-quality NDCs that lead to in-demand jobs and career pathways. Learn about nationally recognized, “stackable,” and portable credentials, and how library staff are supporting patrons to secure them to boost their employability and career mobility.

Highlights labor market information (LMI) resources and use cases and demonstrates how this information can inform and improve workforce service development, outreach, and partnerships to connect residents with in-demand jobs, gain in-demand skills, and improve economic mobility.

Introduces and showcases national workforce partners and local collaborative program examples. Panelists answer the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, and, most importantly, HOW to collaborate to improve library services and visibility—no matter your starting point—as well as enhance patron and community impacts.