On-Demand Webinars
Recent On-Demand Webinars
Responding to ICE at the Library: Real World Approaches (Nonmember)
Available for purchase to nonmembers. Learn how different communities are approaching staff training and handling interactions when ICE enters a public library.
Responding to ICE at the Library: Real World Approaches
Available free to ALA individual members! Learn how different communities are approaching staff training and handling interactions when ICE enters a public library.
Career Connections at Your Library
Get program guidance and ways to expand career resources so your library can empower patrons to achieve their career goals.
PLA Town Hall: Exploring an AI-assisted Future in Public Libraries
A broad-ranging conversation about the current state and future of public libraries and community engagement with artificial intelligence (AI).
How It Feels to Be Me: Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder
Learn terminology and characteristics of autism, and challenges and joys experienced by members of the autistic community.
Minimizing Social Media to Maximize Library Values
Learn how a medium-sized public library minimized its social media use while still engaging with its community.
On-Demand Webinars by Topic
You can also search the ALA eLearning catalog to find live and on-demand webinars by division, topic, and library type.
Cost
PLA offers both free and paid on-demand webinars. Unless otherwise indicated, a 60-minute paid on-demand webinar is $57.85 for PLA individual members, $80.10 for ALA individual members, $89.00 for nonmembers, and $44.50 for student members. On-demand webinars are intended for the sole use of the purchaser. Redistribution or rebroadcast to another individual or group other than the purchaser is prohibited. Thank you for your cooperation.
Accommodations
All PLA on-demand webinars in the ALA eLearning catalog, and most on-demand webinars listed here on the PLA website, are closed captioned in English (United States). If you find an on-demand webinar that's not captioned, please contact us so we can have it captioned.
If you have a physical or communication need that may affect your use of an on-demand webinar, please contact us prior to purchasing. Without prior notification of need, we cannot attempt to provide appropriate accommodations.
Credits
A certificate of completion is available only for those PLA on-demand webinars in the ALA eLearning catalog.
Retired Recordings
The archived recordings of some webinars no longer available on-demand may be found in the online ALA Institutional Repository at https://alair.ala.org/handle/11213/375.
Contact
If you have questions or problems accessing a recording, send a message to plawebinars@ala.org, or call 800-545-2433 ext. 5PLA.
Want to be part of PLA's successful online continuing education program?
If you have an idea for a webinar you'd like PLA to present, we encourage you to submit a proposal. PLA opens a call for webinar proposals twice per year, with deadlines of April 30 and October 31 of each year. Please contact plawebinars@ala.org with any questions or concerns about the webinar proposal process.
