Join us for a practical webinar where we’ll identify the data that can make the biggest difference in strategic budgeting. Learn how to prioritize metrics, make critical decisions with confidence, and transform your data into compelling stories that advocate for your library’s budget, resources, and impact.

Learn tangible ways to handle censorship, find allies, and ensure your library policies are up to date.
Recommended for all levels and types of library personnel.

Learn essential data literacy skills to make informed decisions and tell compelling stories about your library. 

Recommended for data beginners; open to all levels and types of personnel.

Hosted by Library Journal in partnership with the Winter Park Library, FL, this installment of our library building and design event will bring you the latest trends in library design. Dig deep with architects, librarians, and vendors to explore building/renovating/retrofitting spaces both large and small that will redefine the relationship with your users and engage your community. This full-day think tank provides expert panel discussions with architects and librarians, as well as hands-on, architect-led breakout sessions dealing with real-life design challenges submitted in advance by you and your fellow attendees.   

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

Recommended for youth services and grades 8-12 school librarians and staff.

On May 8th, join Penguin Random House, Library Journal, and School Library Journal for our Spring 2025 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.  

Libraries are finding new ways to use AI to improve their work. This webcast will highlight two projects from the Alma community that show how AI can help libraries manage their records more effectively. Join us to learn directly from teams building custom solutions and putting these tools into practice!

Create a safer, warmer, and more inclusive library by learning how to approach and resolve conflict with confidence.

Recommended for all levels and types of library personnel. 

Join us for this free preview of a popular session from one of our professional development courses, led by Dr. Beth Wahler, an expert in trauma-informed leadership. You’ll walk away with actionable insights to help reduce staff stress before it escalates and respond effectively when high-stress situations do occur.

Learn new developments and practical ways to help library users engage with AI tools. Check out the companion course Foundations of Integrating AI in Libraries to continue your learning.

Recommended for public-facing personnel who use AI with and for library users.