On-Demand Webinars: Administration & Leadership
Supporting Neurodiverse and Atypical Leadership in Libraries
Atypical managers share their strategies for success, tools for immediate action, and techniques for self-acceptance.
Embracing a Public Service Mindset to Better Demonstrate Your Library’s Value
Shift to a public service focus to demonstrate value and change how the public perceives and talks about your library.
IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Solutions) in the Library
Learn about universal design in communication, programming, services, and marketing to enhance access and accessibility.
Empowering Future Managers through Cohort Mentoring
Learn how cohort mentoring addresses skills that are hard to gain on the job and is an investment in staff growth.
Data Tools for Library Groups and States
ACRL and PLA staff discuss the data and assessment products, Project Outcome and Benchmark, and how they can help your group, consortia, or state library administrative agency.
The Mentor Monitor Program as a Supplement to Security and Resource to Staff
Learn about mentor monitors, a resource to support staff members and help keep the peace in a busy library.
Benchmark 101: Become a Data-Informed Library
Learn how Benchmark can support your library in everyday decision-making.
PLA 2023 Technology Survey: Free Information Session
Provides an overview of PLA’s 2023 Technology Survey and covers why your library’s response matters.
Let’s Talk About It: Developing Training Programs for Difficult Topics
Learn about developing a training model, implementing training with ongoing assessment, and maintaining training tools.
Public Library Services for Strong Communities: Results from PLA’s 2022 Survey
Provides an overview of results from the Public Library Association's (PLA) 2022 Public Library Services for Strong Communities Survey.
Capturing Library Contributions to Sustainable Development Goals with Project Outcome
Learn about the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and how your library can leverage Project Outcome to capture and share your library’s impact in its community and the impact of libraries worldwide.
Public Library Staff and Diversity: Results from PLA’s 2021 Survey
Highlights how the data suggests both opportunities and challenges for the future of public libraries.
Supporting Formerly Incarcerated Individuals with a Fresh Start @ Your Library
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.
Introducing Benchmark: Library Metrics and Trends
Learn how Benchmark can support your library in everyday decision making, such as establishing baselines and identifying opportunities to improve.
Boosting Youth Workforce Readiness
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.
Bridging Workers’ Digital Skills Gaps through Libraries
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.
Supporting Patrons to Obtain In-Demand Credentials That Boost Employability and Career Mobility
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.
Strengthen Patron Workforce Opportunities with Labor Market Information
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.
Partnering to Meet Community Workforce Needs
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.
Re-Weaving the Culture through Inclusive Norms in the Public Library
This panel discussion provides background on white cultural norms in librarianship, illustrated by examples from the lived experience of the panelists, so you can develop a deeper understanding of the way that these norms marginalize, silence, and harm BIPOC library staff members.
Affecting Change in a Middle Management Role
Hear from public librarians representing libraries of varying sizes, geographic regions, and diverse populations who have affected change from their positions in middle management through effective communications, advocacy, and storytelling.
Understanding the Role of Public Library Directors
If you are interested in becoming a director, are already a director looking for some tips, or simply want to learn more about the role, this is the panel discussion for you.
Data that Counts: An Introduction to Census Data for Public Libraries
This on-demand webinar introduces you to the important role that public libraries can play in assisting individuals, groups, and organizations with finding, accessing, and using census data for planning and decision making.
Public Libraries Respond to COVID-19: National Survey Results
More than 2,500 public libraries responded to the broadest national survey of public library responses to the COVID-19 pandemic March 24–April 1.
Public Libraries Respond to COVID-19: Innovative Solutions in Times of Crisis
Hear examples from library staff who have responded to this time of crisis with innovative solutions to services and programs.
Public Libraries Respond to COVID-19: Managing Stress and Anxiety
Hear from members of the PLA Social Worker Task Force on ways to approach self-care, prioritize well-being, and manage stress and anxiety.
Public Libraries Respond to COVID-19: Successful Ways to Work Remotely
Learn about software and technology options and gain best practices for being a successful remote employee or manager.
Public Libraries Respond to COVID-19: The Current Landscape
Learn about the current public library landscape amidst COVID-19 and hear from library leaders about what they’ve done.
Public Libraries Respond to COVID-19: Strategies for Advancing Digital Equity Now
Speakers share strategies ranging from amplifying WiFi signals to deploying mobile hotspots to mapping and publicizing public WiFi access.
Conflict as Opportunity: Library Restorative Practices for Youth
Explore the praxis behind the Pima County (AZ) Public Library's culture shift to using restorative justice practices to facilitate more mindful approaches to incidents involving youth.
Understanding Power, Identity, and Oppression in the Public Library
Provides an introductory understanding of the concepts of power, identity, and oppression, and how they impact public libraries’ staff, services, programs, collections, and spaces.
Putting the Consumer Health Information Specialization to Work in Public Libraries
Provides an overview of educational programs available via the National Network of Libraries of Medicine about consumer health and specific health topics.
A New Approach to Building Family Engagement Pathways: The 5Rs Framework
Explores how the five important processes that build successful family engagement pathways are being implemented in early childhood programs and libraries, and offers practical ideas that you can use to build family engagement pathways in the learning setting you work in.
