Create library collections that are inclusive and reflect a diverse range of people, stories, and experiences by learning how to conduct a diversity audit, ensure representation, and defend your collections against censorship challenges.
In libraries large and small, a strong approach to youth services fuels a first, fundamental relationship that can be lifelong. A strong strategy prioritizes early development around multiple literacies, connections that support and complement school curricula, and programming and collections that inspire independent reading, thinking, and creation.
On April 4th, join Penguin Random House, Library Journal, and School Library Journal for our Spring 2023 virtual book and author festival, a free day-long event celebrating reading, authors, and librarians everywhere!
Join us to hear directly from libraries who are championing unique local content initiatives like bringing local history to life, celebrating homegrown music, supporting burgeoning artists, and more.
With countless new titles in every genre, read by A-list voice talent and recorded with top notch production, today's audiobooks are more popular and more compelling than ever. Join Library Journal and publishing insiders for this showcase of some of the best new audiobook titles coming your way this spring.
Learn new methods for advocating for LGBTQIA+ people and critical thinking in your library and classroom.
Extend your EDI practices from building your collections to implementing equity-centered cataloging systems.
Drive greater impact in your community, and realize greater efficiency and confidence in your work, by becoming proficient in project management skills.
Library Journal invites you and your safety and facilities heads to join other directors and safety and facilities leaders from major North American library systems, to learn about best practices from within and outside the library field. We’ll explore and workshop effective approaches and real-life examples, as well as address legal, technical, policy, staffing and training challenges.
For more than two decades, Library Journal’s Day of Dialog has been the most anticipated librarian-only gathering of the year. Now it’s gone digital and is free to attend! The next all-day event is scheduled for May 4, 2023 and will feature a close-up look at the biggest forthcoming books for summer/fall 2023.
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