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Submissions for Conference and Institute Call for Papers

All continuing education program submissions are assessed by volunteer ALSC committees to ensure quality, timely and relevant presentations from accomplished scholars and practitioners in the field of library service to children; in addition to event- or online-learning-specific rubrics, these committees use the ALSC Core Competencies for Librarians Serving Children, which is the foundational professional document for librarians serving children and families in their community, to guide their review process. For information on how to write a quality program proposal, please see this from a former Program Coordinating Committee chair!

Topics of current interest to ALSC members include:

• Age-specific programming
• Early Literacy (research and best practices)
• Emerging Literacy (research and best practices)
• Advocacy (both advocacy within the profession and community-focused work)
• Intellectual Freedom
• Working in Children's Services as a new librarian
• DEI work, including best practices in accessibility and cultural inclusion
• Grants
• SEL-based collection development
• Partnerships (school, community, organization, etc.)
  

91´«Ã½ and ALSC Conference Call for Proposals

2025 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference proposals are closed. Notifications for accepted programs will go out in late 2024. The 2026 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference & Exhibition will take place in Chicago, IL; the call for 2026 programs will open late summer of 2025.

The 2026 ALSC National Institute will take place in Buffalo, NY; the call for programs will open in fall of 2025.

Proposals for Online Courses and Webinars

ALSC Education Committee is continually adding to ALSC’s online course and webinar offerings. If you are interested in teaching a course or webinar through ALSC, please fill out the form below. The ALSC Education Committee meets monthly and selects proposals on a rolling basis. Please contact the ALSC Education Committee chairs Meagan Albright and Arika Dickens with questions.

• To suggest a future presenter for ALSC programming (yourself, a colleague, a recent speaker you found compelling), please complete the .
• To submit a complete program proposal for an ALSC eCourse or webinar, please complete the .

Instructor Compensation

Online course instructors are compensated a flat fee for course development and percentage of registration fees for their first course offering; subsequent course offerings are compensated at a larger percentage of student registration fees with no course creation fee.

Webinar instructors are compensated a flat rate for webinar development and presentation.

For further questions regarding instructor compensation, please reach Sarah Polen, ALSC Deputy Director.