Join 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.

Anti-transgender rhetoric has been spreading for many years, but the inauguration on January 20, 2025 marked a sea-change in the sociopolitical situation and information ecosystem around trans Americans. This session will offer a comprehensive rundown of our new federal paradigm and discuss its impacts on trans people as well as on libraries, library workers, patrons, services, and librarianship as a profession.

A lack of access, confidence, and skills keeps many older adults from connecting digitally. This webinar focuses on how public libraries—while offering approaches that are also adaptable to academic and other institutional settings—can strengthen community impact and library operations with digital literacy programs using a combination of instruction, outreach, and volunteer engagement. The session highlights how these programs can also serve as a vehicle for developing staff leadership and management skills through program design, coordination, and evaluation.

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

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

A three-week Core Classroom, each weekly Zoom session lasting 60 minutes (recommended but not mandatory) combined with 3 - 4 hours coursework each week. Tired of “one-and-done” trainings that fizzle out the moment everyone logs off? You know the scene: staff leave a workshop buzzing with great ideas…and then nothing changes back at the desk.

This webinar focuses on how public libraries—while offering approaches that are also adaptable to academic and other institutional settings—can strengthen community impact and library operations with digital literacy programs using a combination of instruction, outreach, and volunteer engagement. The session highlights how these programs can also serve as a vehicle for developing staff leadership and management skills through program design, coordination, and evaluation.

Celebrate Your Friends Group Oct. 18-24, 2026, during the 21st annual National Friends of Libraries Week!

Learn about best practices delivering sensory storytimes and marketing to ensure autistic children and families feel invited.

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

Flexible registration options including individual full conference, individual single day or multiple days, and group viewing single day or multiple days. FREE registration for those in MA, MI, NE, OR, SC, VA.

Explore why boundaries matter in public service and how they contribute to a safer, more sustainable work environment.

In this four-week asynchronous eCourse, participants will explore how a well-developed marketing plan drives the creation of promotional plans, allowing librarians to better serve their patrons, community, and professional colleagues.

Learn how to implement in-depth, equitable community engagement to inform capital bond-funded work.

Explore the process of developing DeKalb County Public Library's SPARK program for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals.

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.

Learn to identify and combat misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation in today’s complex digital landscape.

Hear about the success story of Jefferson County Public Library's Gender and Sexuality Alliance Teen Advisory Board!

Learn how you can take practical steps to establish a community archives program at their library.