Practical ways to support your staff from the beginning and what to do when someone is harassed in person or online via your library’s accounts.

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.

This panel takes attendees through the steps taken by the cross-disciplinary staff team to listen to communities.

Highlights librarian's experiences and strategies used to enhance inclusivity of youth with disabilities in makerspace programming.

Discover how ending Joliet’s beloved Star Wars Day became a political and media storm that jeopardized the library.

Create a discussion-driven intellectual freedom program to support public library staff in navigating book bans.

Registration is now open for the highly anticipated PLA 2026 Conference, April 1–3, in Minneapolis Minnesota!

Join us for an engaging and practical conversation about building powerful, aligned relationships between Library Trustees, the Library Foundation, Friends of the Library, and Library Administration.

Learn to build inclusive lending systems with tools for home, education, science, and more, to reflect your communities.

May 2026 Learning Live

April 2026 Learning Live

This webinar will introduce the Memory Lab model, highlight California Revealed’s pilot program to build new community-based archives through their public library partnerships, and offer resources to reinforce the national network, including a new California Memory Lab Handbook, as well as digitization kits. We will highlight the work of the South Pasadena Public Library, who are exploring options to make their Memory Lab more ADA-friendly.

Please join us for a conversation with Honorary Chair of Preservation Week, Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty in conversation with Sherry Williams

This session focuses on building library staff confidence in assisting patrons with their digital lives. The webinar emphasizes ways to explain digital preservation concepts in plain language, identify common risks to digital memory, and suggest appropriate next steps during reference work, technology help sessions, or public programs.

This webinar will look at how all libraries (with a special focus on school libraries) can create inclusive collections representative of all students and people, even when the institutions themselves might not be the most inclusive. It will highlight ways to create policies, teach challenging topics or books, create displays, and handle questions.

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 into the power of collaboration and the importance of designing by the people, for the people.

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 impact. This session will provide library professionals with practical strategies for designing, managing, and evaluating large events and initiatives that align with organizational goals and community needs.

Available for purchase to nonmembers. Learn how different communities are approaching staff training and handling interactions when ICE enters a public library.

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

Get program guidance and ways to expand career resources so your library can empower patrons to achieve their career goals.