PLA 2024 Program Listings

3 Must Have Activities for New Employee Training
A New Start: Entrepreneurship Initiatives for the Justice-Involved Community
A Staff-Centered Approach to Developing Comprehensive Teen Services
A year of hands-on program observations & outcomes with our IMLS digital toolkit 
Access Denied: The Journey to Making Your Library More Accessible
Accessible Arts Programming: Empowering Blind and Low-Vision Patrons
Activating Al Education and Algorithmic Literacy at Toronto Public Library
Addressing Social Determinants of Health through Community Wellness Hubs
African American Isn’t a Genre: Collecting and Promoting Black Books
After the Audit: Sustainable Steps to Maintaining a Diverse Collection 
Amplifying Programming around Culture, Faith, and Diversity
Anti-Black Racism Working Group – Placing Lived Experiences at the Centre of Redesigning
Anti-Racist Reader Services: Beyond the Basics 
Baby Time Boredom: Building Culturally Responsive Programming for Ages 0-3
Beyond the Binary: Understanding LGBTQIA+ Health   
Beyond the numbers: Building a Culture of Data-Informed Decision Making
Black Men in Public Libraries
Book Buzz: Presented by Booklist
Breaking Barriers: Engaging Immigrants and Building More Inclusive Communities
Bring Diversity to Your Library with Sydney Taylor Book Awards
Bringing Free eResources into Jail: SFPL and hoopla’s New Model
Bringing the Library of Congress to Local History Research
Building a Gender-Inclusive Library for Youth 
Building a Learning Organization within an Evolving Library Landscape 
Building Engagement and Changing Futures with Restorative Practices for Teens
Building leadership and equity with staff mentorship
Building Pathways to Diverse Librarianship & Leadership
Challenging Fatphobia in Your Library
Challenging Post-COVID Impacts on School Readiness through Storytime Standards
Challenging Times: Unite Against Book Bans and ALA's Policy Corp
Changing Subject Headings for a More Inclusive Library
Choose Your Own Adventure: Intellectual Freedom Edition 
Choosing the Best Dementia Programs and Resources for Your Library
Communicating During Controversy: How to Lead With What You Believe 
Community Librari-aid: Providing Wraparound Social Service Support Through Partnerships
Conducting Diversity Audits of Fairy Tale Collections and Beyond
Cornerstones in a Culture War: The Role of Urban Libraries in Defending Democracy
Create a Playful Window into the World
Creating a Sensory Accessible Experience at YOUR Library
Creating a Teen Artist-in-Residence Program at Your Library
Creating Cultural Change: Bringing DEI to Life
Creating Youth Opportunities: Libraries Serve Youth at Risk of Incarceration
Curating Diverse Community Collections: Best Practices for Patron Engagement and Collection Development
Data Analysis for Equity and Opportunity - Analytical Frameworks in Action
Data Literacy for Public Library Staff
Debunking Misinformation about Trans Identities & People
Dedicated Sustainable Funding: A $30 million Advocacy Success Story
Digital Navigators: Digital Inclusion in Action in Libraries 
DigitalLearn.org - Your Answer to the Computer Class Conundrum
Diversifying Your Displays and Book Lists 
Don’t Sweat the Difficult Conversations
Dynamic Dads: Turning Incarcerated Men into Storytellers and Library Lovers
Embrace Flexibility – Create a Radically Welcoming Work Environment  
Employee Resource Groups and why they matter.
Empowered: The Unspoken Work of EDI & Take Away Strategies 
Engaging Beyond Our Walls: Making Neighborhood Games and Outdoor Storytelling
Engaging with Teens Beyond Your Teen Library Staff 
Equitable Collections Use: Is Floating the Answer or a Hindrance?
Film Production and Storytelling as a form of Community Dialogue, Engagement, and Advocacy
Food is a Right: Libraries and Food Justice
Fostering Inclusive Organizational Culture: Effectively Design Your Staff Training Day
Genrefying your Public Library
Growing Readers Together: Serving Community, Caregiver, and Child
Have Wagon, Will Travel: How Social Work Outreach Changes Lives
Highlighting Diverse Voices: Ethical Metadata for Equity-Deserving Groups
Holistic Teaching in Your Computer Training
Hot Ones: Burning Issues in Library Operations
How a value-based prioritization system created demonstrable equity work for Multnomah County Library’s projects and initiatives. 
How To Say the Hard Things: Lessons Learned in Years of Crisis
How to weather the turbulence of a video auditor 
Implementing a Flexible Digital Equity Model
In the Trenches: The Battle Against Censorship in Louisiana Libraries
Inclusive Programming for Families to Expand Library Access
Increase Religious Equity by Reclassifying Dewey 200s
Indigenizing the Library: How Idaho Created a Statewide Training for Indigenous Inclusion
Is a Bigger Collection Better?: The Surprising Relationship Between Collection Size and Access Equity
Leading with Compassion: how to build and maintain a Library Culture of Teamwork, Respect and Trust
Let the Quest Begin! Connecting Libraries & Engaging Teens Virtually
Library Resilience from Coast to Coast: Lessons from Disaster Research to Engage Your Community and Empower Your Staff
Make the Most of Banned Books Week and Intellectual Freedom Programming
Mamas Matter - Creating Restorative Spaces in Public Libraries for all Mothers
MeckTech: Lessons Learned Through Digital Equity Initiatives
More than Just Books: How the Philosophy of Fred Rogers Supports the Mission of Public Libraries to be a Place for All 
Multilingual Library Services and Program in CPL & KCL 
Mutual Impact: Engaging Part-Time Staff in Meaningful Community Work
Older Adults Need Jobs! Empowering Seniors to Rejoin the Workforce
One in a Million: Innovative Health Programs with the All of Us Research Program
Path to Belonging: Creating EDISJ Small, Rural Libraries
Pay the Teens: Develop and Sustain Paid Teen Library Internships
Pivoting to Meet New Censorship Tactics
Plaza Conversation Maps: Transforming ESL Learning with Empowering Discussions
Por mi gente: cultural competencies in collection development, programming, outreach, and partnerships for Spanish-Speaking Communities  
Possibilities and Potholes: Lessons Learned from an EDI IMLS Grant 
Programming Holistically: Building social-emotional learning into library programs
Programming with Purpose: Making Your Library Programs Count!
Protecting patron privacy in public libraries: practices and challenges
Public Library Leaders share perspectives, lessons learned and key takeaways
Publisher-Sponsored Author Panel HOLD 
Publisher-Sponsored Author Panel HOLD #2
Putting Our Words Into Action: A Toolkit for Customer Service
RA meets AI: Building and Launching a Reader’s Advisory Kiosk
Radical Supervision: Applying the Teachings of Black Liberation Leaders to Management
Reaching Underserved Families with TALK: Text and Learn for Kindergarten
Read Romance/Fight Patriarchy
Reading for Accessibility and Inclusion
Reimagining Branch Libraries for Community Authenticity
Reimagining Public Service and Staffing Models with Flexibility Top of Mind
Rethinking Dewey (Dewey or Don't We?)
Safety by Design
Seeding Your Library with a Trauma-Informed Approach to Service
Seniors Digital Literacy Community Librarians at Toronto Public Library
Serving the Stonewall Generation:  LGBTIQ+ Older Adults
Social Stories in Libraries: Enhancing Accessibility and Fostering Inclusivity
Spanish for Library Staff: Bridging the Language Barrier
State and Public Library Partnerships for the Print Disabled
Storytimes as social spaces: Encouraging community cultivation and social-emotional learning
Stronger Together: Trauma Informed Methods and Models to Support Library Staff
Super Searchers: Tackling misinformation with information literacy  
Take Your Child to the Library Day: Family-Centric Advocacy
Technology Programming Evolution/Revolution: From Tech Help to Tech Training
Teen 2 Teen: Increasing Young Adult Engagement through Civic Participation
Telling Meaningful Stories: Sharing the Impact of Library Business Services
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Toolbox
The Future’s So Bright: Supporting the Next Generation of Librarians
The Handbook of Black Librarianship: An Empowering Resource
The Library as Studio: Why original content is important for libraries today and tomorrow 
The next BIG THING: Emerging Crises and how to prepare
The Promise of Public Spaces: Building Community with our Neighbors
The role of libraries in workforce development systems 
The Science of Reading in Public Libraries: Supporting Struggling Elementary-Age Readers
To freely share in the sum of all knowledge: Public libraries, DPLA, and Wikimedia
Too Big to Flail: Community Engagement Across 41 Libraries
Trans Staff and Patrons: Where to Begin, Next Steps
Transforming Community: A Rural Library's Story
Transforming libraries into community-health hubs for families during early childhood
Turning the Page on Period Poverty: Period Supplies for Everyone
Unbannable: How Libraries Are Ensuring Access to Banned Books
We See You: Programming for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Working Together: Developing Neurodivergent and IDD Inclusive Volunteer Opportunities
You Are Not Alone: Interpersonal Violence and Public Libraries
Your State Library: A Resource for All!