Conferences & Events

In this webinar, we share the new Libraries Advancing Accessibility Toolkit, which helps staff and patrons increase access to and awareness of settings, apps, and resources available on the iPad and iPhone.

Executive Board meetings are open to ALA members as observers, except when the Board convenes in closed session.

This 6-week online course is a basic primer for library cataloging concepts and practices.

This 6-week online course is a basic primer for library cataloging concepts and practices.

This webinar focuses on how public libraries—while offering approaches that are also adaptable to academic and other institutional settings—can strengthen community impact and library operations with digital literacy programs using a combination of instruction, outreach, and volunteer engagement. The session highlights how these programs can also serve as a vehicle for developing staff leadership and management skills through program design, coordination, and evaluation.

A lack of access, confidence, and skills keeps many older adults from connecting digitally. This webinar focuses on how public libraries—while offering approaches that are also adaptable to academic and other institutional settings—can strengthen community impact and library operations with digital literacy programs using a combination of instruction, outreach, and volunteer engagement. The session highlights how these programs can also serve as a vehicle for developing staff leadership and management skills through program design, coordination, and evaluation.

Anti-transgender rhetoric has been spreading for many years, but the inauguration on January 20, 2025 marked a sea-change in the sociopolitical situation and information ecosystem around trans Americans. This session will offer a comprehensive rundown of our new federal paradigm and discuss its impacts on trans people as well as on libraries, library workers, patrons, services, and librarianship as a profession.

Learn how to get started with a Youth Poet Laureate program and why you should consider implementing one in your library.

This 4 week course Fundamentals of Management is designed for new managers to build the skill set they need to successfully lead their department or organization, as well as support existing managers looking to improve their skills.

In this four-week asynchronous eCourse, participants will explore how a well-developed marketing plan drives the creation of promotional plans, allowing librarians to better serve their patrons, community, and professional colleagues.