After two years of fighting for intellectual freedom, what can we do going forward? Join two of the FReadom Fighters for an update on the impact of what's happening around the country and tips on moving forward. To support students' intellectual freedom, learn effective and targeted messages for your unique situation, build strategies for communicating clearly and consistently, find other partners in the fight, and share what you are doing in your own environments to support #FReadom
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Learn practical tips and techniques to help you understand rapidly-evolving AI technology with a common-sense approach.
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Learn how the AASL Standards-Based Learning Series helps support teaching and learning.
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Participants will view examples of successful large and small collaborations, model collaboration through hands-on activities, and develop strategies for collaborative work in their own school.
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Join these authors who write about the things boys love. Giant animals attacking each other, mountain climbing, jungles, deserts, knights on horseback, mountains, spies, knights on foot, and wars among a host of other subjects.
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This session looks at Fair Use and common problems when it comes to Copyright.
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How do we reimagine library spaces and services to meet evolving community needs?
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The Library Ecosystem: ONE VOICE for Advocacy
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Adopting healthy life habits and skills is a constant work in progress, but imagine how different the world would be if we started this learning process earlier in life.
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Learn about mentor monitors, a resource to support staff members and help keep the peace in a busy library.
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Dive into various aspects of manga and anime - from basic definitions and genres to collection development and readers’ advisory to working with learners to start your own manga/anime club.
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Participants will not only learn about the power of these genres but they will also be exposed to the language of the AASL Shared Foundations.
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Learn about the Gross National Happiness Policy and how libraries contribute to community wellbeing.
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In 2009 Kelly Gallagher defined readicide as follows: Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools. Add on to this dilemma the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down our schools and limited our students access to books. Reading has become just another chore for our students to plow through. It is time to bring back reading joy to our school community. That challenge was accepted and it was successful!
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Discover how school librarians can become the “head coach” while serving a diverse community of learners and cultivating a team of teacher leaders.
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Explore how Lower School Librarian, Soline Holmes, and Division Head, Shara Hammet, collaborate to assist students to investigate the world with intellectual curiosity, recognize and value diverse perspectives, communicate with agility, engage in respectful dialogue, and take responsible action to promote peace and justice. Through the intentional integration of mission and goals, we have been able to scaffold and build a global pedagogy into our curriculum and extracurricular activities.
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Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr are partners in creativity and life, collaborating to make books and advocate for Title I schools. They’ll share the secrets of successful collaboration, talk about their creative process, and recap their epic, 50-state literacy tour.
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Four panelists explore ways in which a school’s library program can empower all young people to recognize their own strengths and grow cognitively, emotionally, and socially.
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Bring your library to life with Primary Sources! When students and library patrons work with digitized materials, they can become "detectives" as stories and historical figures come to life. Interaction with primary sources helps develop critical thinking, observation, and visual and information literacy skills as well as build empathy. The Library of Congress' Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Teachers' Network is a free resource and community focused on primary sources.
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Connection, belonging and inclusion are the driving forces of the initiatives that will be discussed in this webinar.
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Please join Dr. Lewis Brooks, Superintendent for Shelby County Schools, Alabama and school librarians from his district as they facilitate timely conversations centered on the current social and political climate impacting school libraries. Participants will engage in a dialogue around what are our professional responsibilities in these times and complete a related document.
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Learn about staff training and techniques to serve patrons experiencing homelessness that apply to libraries of all sizes.
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Hear the basics about Guided Inquiry Design and see how it transformed a collaborative unit into one where the students took total ownership of their learning.
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Transforming LibGuides: A Case Study (February 2026)
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Explore research, then informally collect and examine data to define recent pivots to varied reading platforms.
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Identify current barriers and possible solutions to transgender inclusion at your library.
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Learn to train staff to present virtually, integrate community partners, and strategies to transition programs to online.
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This webinar provides a brief overview of publishing practices, a review of the criteria changes, a look at Batchelder winners, and how to spotlight can be shone on these special titles.
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In Part 1 of this webinar series, participants will be able to define trauma and its causes, and identify principles of trauma-informed care in the library service field.
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In this webinar, participants will be able to self-assess where opportunities lie to provide trauma-informed supervision, and explore practical strategies to mitigate compassion fatigue and professional burnout among staff through trauma-informed supervision.
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It is not uncommon for library workers to be exposed to primary or vicarious trauma over the course of their career. According to the recent Urban Library Trauma Study, nearly 70% of respondents shared that they had experienced violent or aggressive beha
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Learn how two libraries are building staff and community understanding of how to build kinship with Indigenous communities.
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This session will focus on integrating the AASL School Library Standards and the Teaching Tolerance Social Justice Standards in the school library.
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Learn about common strategies used by political groups in their efforts to censor youth materials, how to identify and name these behaviors, and how doing so can empower library staff to develop proactive strategies for responding in ways that protect their safety and integrity.
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Understand Your Library’s Community Better with Census Data
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Members of the PLA Social Work Task Force introduce you to the use of trauma-informed approaches in public libraries.
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Panelists discuss challenge-based learning, maker service projects and other exciting developments in the field of school library makerspaces and how they can engage your learners.
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With public libraries eliminating fines as a means of reducing barriers to access, why don’t people return their books?
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Library podcasts can be an effective marketing tool and can humanize staff and services to your community.
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Learn how Queens and Brooklyn Libraries found ways to provide a new collection of services to system-impacted individuals.
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As schools embrace technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a promising tool for enhancing instructional practices. However, using AI responsibly and ethically in instructional spaces is a challenge, and it's the responsibility of school librarians. This session will empower participants to navigate the complexities of AI, help students benefit from this technology, and ensure their safety.
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Learn to develop “people-first” marketing and strategies to reach historically marginalized segments of your community.
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This session will demonstrate to participants how school librarian use of 3D printing can help teachers augment their lessons, develop higher order thinking and research, and give students exposure to 21st century technology.
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Learn the art of a well-curated book display and booklist that are both diverse and inclusive.
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The presenters explore the possibilities for engaging learners of all ages in authentic, meaningful work that sparks curiosity and builds real world skills.
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Align your superpowers as a librarian with the new standards and the needs of your school community.
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Learn how to navigate the Edelweiss portal
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Virtual Field Trips for the 21st Century Learner
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Students need responsive, timely book recommendations, but as a busy school librarian that can prove difficult if not impossible! Learn how to develop your own highly visual book lists on almost any topic using Canva templates. Special attention will be paid to basic Canva techniques, including layout, design, and sharing of templates. Methods for collection analysis will be shared with an emphasis on identifying diverse categories of books.
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What better way to market your library program than empowering users to virtually experience all it has to offer 24/7? Increase patron confidence and comfort when browsing your library through an interactive 3-D virtual tour, embedding audio, video, helpful links, and even surveys and online chats so that all readers - avid, occasional, struggling, reluctant - can be fully immersed in the library experience.
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Learn the priorities of school administrators in staffing school libraries based on confidential interviews conducted in the IMLS-funded SLIDE School Librarian Investigation-Decline or Evolution? project. That school librarians are declining nationally is not new but SLIDE uncovered data that spotlights the inequities to marginalized student groups and revealed staffing decisions to add, reduce, or eliminate librarians that goes beyond funding. Interactive data tools will also be shared.
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Participants will understand student voice and the positive impact it has on students and school communities, see examples of student voice in action, and will create a plan to encourage student voice in their own school libraries.
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An autistic librarian shares strategies and book recommendations to build collections and programming that represents children with mental, behavioral, or developmental conditions.
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Learn to mobilize staff and leverage tools to develop technology skills in the reference department and beyond.
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Learn how to make any weeding project a public relations dream!
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How do we create library policies that are more inclusive and consider their impact on marginalized populations?
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