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.

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.   

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.  

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. 

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.

Library Journal and School Library Journal are thrilled to announce that we will be hosting our annual, in-person Public Library Youth Services Leadership Summit on May 29 (full-day) and 30 (half-day) at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library in Plainview, NY (Nassau County).  We invite you to join current and aspiring youth services innovators and other public library leaders from across the country to delve into the important and impactful work shaping library services. Learn about cutting-edge, effective, and actionable best practices; gain inspiration for your own leadership path; and explore the potential of youth services as we move our communities and profession forward, through whatever comes next, with commitment, care, and creativity.

Learn how to increase learner engagement through industry-leading instructional practices. 

Recommended for instructional librarians and staff in academic, public, and grades 6-12 school libraries. 

Learn what they didn’t teach you in library school: how to be a library manager. 

Recommended for new and aspiring library managers.

Learn to support early literacy by integrating the science of reading into your elementary library.

Recommended for preK-3rd grade school librarians.

Learn engaging and effective teaching methods to help students develop critical information literacy skills.

Recommended for grades 8-12 school librarians and academic librarians.