Join Library Journal for an evening of cocktails, light refreshments, and great conversation with notable authors! Hosted by Melissa DeWild, LJ’s expert in genre fiction and selector of Prepub Alert titles, we'll chat with authors about their books, writing process, and more. Meet and greet authors and gather up advance reading copies for signing. This is a free event for library professionals, with space available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Registration is now open for the 2023 annual LJ Directors' Summit! This year’s event will take place over the course of two days on November 9 & 10, 2023, at the Julia Ideson Building, Houston, TX.

This one-day convening for library directors will precede Library Journal’s Directors’ Summit and will build on the learnings from our April 23 Library Safety Summit and Fall online library safety courses.  

Hosted by Library Journal in partnership with the Hayward Public Library, 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.

Hosted by Library Journal  in partnership with the Durham Co. Library -- 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.

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.

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.

The past few years have brought unprecedented challenges to libraries and librarians, and the end seems nowhere in sight. From COVID to book bans and politically fueled personal attacks on librarians, creating and fostering a resilient workplace in the library is a daunting objective. This high-level, two-day Summit will seek to address successful and actionable approaches to addressing many of the largest challenges facing libraries today and in the foreseeable future.

Whether you're in the dreaming and planning stages or further along the design road, you'll find ideas, information, and inspiration, no matter your budget! Library Journal and School Library Journal are thrilled to once again be hosting our long-running library building and design event in person! And we’re especially excited to be hosting it in partnership with Missoula Public Library. 

Library Journal and School Library Journal are thrilled to once again be hosting our long-running library building and design event in-person! And we’re especially excited to be hosting it in partnership with New York Public Library at its newly renovated central circulating branch, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library.