Enhance your professional skills, gain a new perspective on your profession, and explore new horizons in school librarianship.

We’ve assembled a team of 4 collection development experts for this crash course webinar series, and they’ll take you through everything you need to get started.

Explore simple strategies for increasing diversity and inclusivity in the collection and making these materials easily accessible to students.

Learn best practices for developing, maintaining, and weeding the adult nonfiction collection.

Best of Core at ALA Annual Conference: Libraries, Campus Partners, and Student Success

60 minute webinar on Learning about AI: Level Up Your Skills Without Overwhelming Your Mind

Trailblazing Pathways Across the Digital Divide

Try a proven-strategy for streamlining your planning to produce better results and take less time.

In this workshop, weeding expert Karen Toonen will cover the challenges inherent to weeding and share tips, tricks, and tools for collection evaluation.

In this energizing webinar, you will learn methods for workflow management.

Learn how to provide access to a menu of streaming app optons so patrons are able to stream movies and television episodes.

In this webinar, learn a simple and widely tested approach to interacting with your employees that takes some of the stress out of the process.

This art-based workshop offers practical strategies for engaging and supporting a child in their own exploration of a tough topic or experience from a place of integrity, compassion, and with healthy boundaries.

This webinar is your gateway to integrating generative AI into your library’s offerings, improving efficiency, and engaging your community.

In this 90-minute session, you’ll gain proficiency in reference interviews.

In this three-part series, reference expert Francisca Goldsmith will provide a practical overview to give you the essential knowledge you need in order to become an effective reference service provider.

Safety by Design

In this 90-minute session, you’ll learn guidelines for conducting yourself on the reference desk.

In this 90-minute session, you’ll learn the basics of evaluating a resource’s purpose and authority.

Learn how your programming can promote empathy and compassion among all teenage library users.

In this webinar, Rakisha Kearns-White will demonstrate how libraries can support menstrual literacy and advocacy and underscore the importance of providing unbiased and accurate access to sexuality education to tweens and teens.

Whether you have just become a director, want to be a director someday, or have been a director for a number of years, this workshop will answer the questions you might not have known to ask while increasing your understanding of the key topics needed to run a library.

Transforming LibGuides: A Case Study

This workshop covers innovations and best practices for library senior services that are emerging in the face of the pandemic.

This webinar will help library staff who work with children's collections become familiar with this new type of literature so that they can better serve their young patrons.

In this webinar, learn how you can put makerspaces and STEM programming to work in a practical way.