Courses

Facilitating Learning Groups

Learn how to organize, manage and facilitate an online or in-person group of people learning together with a self-paced course.

An Introduction to Bridgebuilding: Creating a Library Where Everyone Belongs

Learn how to bring different kinds of people together with respect and understanding.

LiFT: Community Engagement Series

Learn the concept, practice, and importance of community engagement in libraries, and how it improves a wide range of library programs and services.

A Community-Centered Approach to Digital Collections

Build collections that center the voices of many different communities via respectful collaboration.

Webinars

Middle Management Strategies for Success in Public Libraries

Learn from Brooklyn Public Library staff about their successful middle management strategies. 

How to Host a Job Fair at Your Library

Public libraries are uniquely positioned to support workforce development and connect job seekers with meaningful employment opportunities. 

How Gen Z Use (and Don’t Use) Public Libraries: New Data and Analysis

Professors Kathi Inman Berens and Rachel Noorda, media researchers at Portland State University, present 2025 data and insights about how Gen Z use libraries. 

Intentional AI Conversations at Your Library

AI is affecting everyone - including your patrons. Join us for a presentation on the role public libraries can play in ensuring communities nationwide can decide for themselves what a good AI future looks like. 

Libraries count: Expanding access to early math learning through public libraries

03 December 2026

How to practice boldness in complex times

01 January 2027

Creating inclusive services: Lessons from Plano Public Library's Adapted Library Programming

21 January 2027