Conferences & Events

Is your current project management system a collection of post-it notes? Do you have to be reminded of a project that was due six months ago? Is there no accountability across the system? Turn your scattered thoughts and wistful dreams into a smooth operation with assembly line project management.

This webinar focuses on scalable, application-driven strategies for designing and delivering transformational learning that supports complex organizational change.

Public libraries are hubs of community engagement, innovation, and learning—and increasingly, they are called upon to lead large-scale events and initiatives that reach diverse audiences and deliver measurable impact. This session will provide library professionals with practical strategies for designing, managing, and evaluating large events and initiatives that align with organizational goals and community needs.

This session will explore how the library and design team embraced universal design principles, community input, and adaptive problem-solving to reimagine a prominent library space. Attendees will gain insight into the power of collaboration and the importance of designing by the people, for the people.

Teams are an increasingly important workplace construct, allowing libraries to tap into staff potential to tackle complex work in our current, dynamic library environment.

The Dyslexic Positive Libraries Initiative shows how to transform your library into a literacy hub where kids learn to read.

This course is an introduction to fundamental concepts of institutional repositories (IR), including IR platforms, promoting the IR, faculty publications in the IR, IR metadata, and accessibility of IR content.

Join PLA at the ALA 2026 Annual Conference & Exhibition, June 25–June 29 in Chicago.

More information coming soon.

More information coming soon.