This online youth services course brings together experts to discuss the most pressing issues for school and youth services librarians today.

Experience dynamic and informative content in this day-long virtual conference brought to you by SLJ & LJ in partnership with NCTE. You’ll hear from the rockstars of reading and literacy from authors and teachers to librarians and other education and industry leaders. All of this talent and expertise is coming together to raise up the love of reading. 

Create safer libraries while centering equity, relationships, and accountability.

On April 25th, join Penguin Random House, Library Journal, and School Library Journal for our Spring 2024 virtual book and author festival, a free day-long event celebrating reading, authors, and librarians everywhere! Enjoy a day packed with author panels and interviews, book buzzes, virtual shelf browsing, and adding to your TBR pile.

Learn tangible ways to handle censorship, find allies, and ensure your library policies are up to date. 

Drive greater impact in your community, and realize greater efficiency and confidence in your work, by becoming proficient in project management skills. 

Unlock the transformative power of trauma-informed librarianship to create psychologically and emotionally safer and more inclusive spaces for patrons, students, and staff. 

Join Blackstone Publishing, Dreamscape Media, and Hachette Audio as they unveil a captivating lineup of new audiobooks, with titles for every patron, featuring diverse characters and themes, and offering immersive experiences in every genre.

Join us for the second installment of our Spring Graphic Novels series, where leading publishers will converge to unveil an exciting array of graphic novels that will captivate patrons of every age and reading level this spring and summer.

Your website is essential to your library. Join us to learn about best practices in industry design standards and hear a case study from Haliburton County Public Library on progressive UX design implementations. We'll cover the tools and practices that can help you understand how your patrons use your site, and how that data can best be used to inform future design choices.