Membership Monday: Contribute Your Voice to Public Libraries

This four-week online course addresses the basic components of collection development and management (CDM) in libraries.

This 4-week online course introduces participants to the principles, policies and practices of preservation in libraries and archives.

Service work or professional service, whether through professional associations, conference planning, editorial boards, or task forces, offers librarians a pathway to developing leadership skills outside their

May 2026 Learning Live

Leading a library in today’s complex landscape presents unique challenges, including political dynamics, budget constraints, and the lingering effects of the pandemic on mental health. In their efforts to

This course introduces the fundamental aspects of collection assessment in libraries. It is designed for those who are responsible for or interested in collection assessment in all types and sizes of libraries.

A four week asynchronous course on project management.

Is your current project management system a collection of post-it notes? Do you have to be reminded of a project that was due six months ago? Is there no accountability across the system? Turn your scattered

This webinar focuses on scalable, application-driven strategies for designing and delivering transformational learning that supports complex organizational change.

Public libraries are hubs of community engagement, innovation, and learning—and increasingly, they are called upon to lead large-scale events and initiatives that reach diverse audiences and deliver measurable

This session will explore how the library and design team embraced universal design principles, community input, and adaptive problem-solving to reimagine a prominent library space. Attendees will gain insight

Teams are an increasingly important workplace construct, allowing libraries to tap into staff potential to tackle complex work in our current, dynamic library environment.

The Dyslexic Positive Libraries Initiative shows how to transform your library into a literacy hub where kids learn to read.

This course is an introduction to fundamental concepts of institutional repositories (IR), including IR platforms, promoting the IR, faculty publications in the IR, IR metadata, and accessibility of IR content.

Join PLA at the ALA 2026 Annual Conference & Exhibition, June 25–June 29 in Chicago.

More information coming soon.