Tribal Library
PLA 2026 Conference
Registration is now open for the highly anticipated PLA 2026 Conference, April 1–3, in Minneapolis Minnesota!
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.
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.
Going Straight to the Source with Senior Advisory Boards (SABs)
Learn about forming your own senior advisory board to help shape library programs and services for seniors in your 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.
Best of Core Forum: Neurodiversity in the Academic Library
With higher rates of neurodivergent students approaching traditional college-age, it is more important than ever to embrace neurodivergence within the academic library.
Build Your Brand, Build Your Community
Learn how you can build your library’s brand to increase loyalty and connection with your customers through simple yet impactful ways, like eye-catching displays, short surveys, and a simple style guide.
Transforming LibGuides: A Case Study (February 2026)
Join a group of university professionals as they explore the technical and political processes of overhauling and streamlining their LibGuides and the A-Z database list.
Expanding Possibilities: Public Libraries and Adult Learning – Insights from the Field
Hear insights and innovations from a new report about public libraries at the forefront of adult learning in the United States.
Challenges for Collecting Digital Games
This webinar addresses emerging challenges for both academic and public libraries interested in collecting, preserving, and providing access to digitally distributed video games.
Ten Tips to Upgrade Your Thinking About AI Technologies
Learn practical tips and techniques to help you understand rapidly-evolving AI technology with a common-sense approach.
First Amendment Rights Unite Friends and Stakeholders for Everyday Practice
Presented by United for Libraries and the Freedom to Read Foundation
Community Partnership Fundamentals
Learn how to develop successful community partnerships to attract new patrons and create new programming opportunities.
Let's Debrief: Library Incident Support Tools for Frontline Staff
Learn from real-life debriefing protocols to provide leaders in libraries with tools and skills to debrief with staff.
Adaptive Arcade at the Library
Learn why gaming accessibility is so important and how partnerships with public libraries can help bridge the divide.
From Thin to Thick Library Description
This talk explores how libraries can apply Appiah's "thick translation" theory to enhance library description practices.
Critical Data Storytelling
November 2025 Learning Live
Helping Neurodivergent Library Workers Succeed
A neurodivergent librarian will discuss neurodivergence, what it is and isn't, and how to be a better coworker and ally. This also provides recommendations for supervisors on ways to provide accommodations.
7 Secrets to Getting Staff to Work Together
This session will explore the concept of creating a workplace culture where staff value being a part of something bigger than themselves.
Evolving Staff Roles, Policies, and Practices: Results from PLA's 2024 Annual Survey
Learn how to use the results from the 2024 Public Library Staff Survey to improve your library’s performance, demonstrate value, and increase impact in your community.