Rural Library

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Gearing up for Kindergarten: How to Start a School Readiness Program

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Learn how to host a 10-session early learning program using the San Diego County Library’s Kindergarten Gear Up toolkit.

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Embracing a Public Service Mindset to Better Demonstrate Your Library’s Value

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Shift to a public service focus to demonstrate value and change how the public perceives and talks about your library.

Young BIPOC male assisting a young female, who is in a wheelchair and holding books, in a library.

IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Solutions) in the Library

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Learn about universal design in communication, programming, services, and marketing to enhance access and accessibility.

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Centering Teens in the Fight against Censorship

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Public libraries empowering and educating teens and young adults to fight for their right to read freely.

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Empowering Future Managers through Cohort Mentoring

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Learn how cohort mentoring addresses skills that are hard to gain on the job and is an investment in staff growth.

Data Tools for Library Groups and States

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ACRL and PLA staff discuss the data and assessment products, Project Outcome and Benchmark, and how they can help your group, consortia, or state library administrative agency.

Adult male of color wearing a dark tshirt that says "staff" and presenting a badge on a lanyard around his neck, smiling and giving a thumbs up.

The Mentor Monitor Program as a Supplement to Security and Resource to Staff

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Learn about mentor monitors, a resource to support staff members and help keep the peace in a busy library.

Cover slide of free PLA webinar with title Benchmark 101: Become a Data-Informed Library, originally presented November 13, 2023

Benchmark 101: Become a Data-Informed Library

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Learn how Benchmark can support your library in everyday decision-making.

Asian child in a wheelchair looking a shelves of many books.

Disability Inclusion in Library Services

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Learn how to best serve patrons with disabilities by understanding their community, culture, and needs.

PLA 2023 Technology Survey: Free Information Session

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Provides an overview of PLA’s 2023 Technology Survey and covers why your library’s response matters.

Young African American male in glasses and white button-front shirt and with straps of a brown backpack visible around his shoulders, holding an open book in front of shelves and a table display of multiple books.

Using Passive Readers’ Advisory to Market Your Collection

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Learn the art of a well-curated book display and booklist that are both diverse and inclusive.

Illustration of a giant man's hand removing a newspaper with the front page headline "Fake News" from the open silhouetted head of a smaller person.

Addressing Emotion and Culture in the Fight Against Fake News

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Learn about a library-led research project that is designing new digital literacy approaches for combating misinformation.

Male adult in black tshirt and pants and female adult in black and white striped shirt and black pants sitting next to each other and viewing large strips of sonogram images.

Working with Community Partners to Offer Library Programming to Expectant Parents and Parents of Newborns

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Learn to reach expectant/new parents from underserved populations about the key role they play in their babies’ development.

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Let’s Talk About It: Developing Training Programs for Difficult Topics

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Learn about developing a training model, implementing training with ongoing assessment, and maintaining training tools.

Public Library Services for Strong Communities: Results from PLA’s 2022 Survey

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Provides an overview of results from the Public Library Association's (PLA) 2022 Public Library Services for Strong Communities Survey.

Image of cover slide for Public Library Association's Project Outcome webinar with title "Capturing Library Contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals with Project Outcome" and date of April 5, 2023.

Capturing Library Contributions to Sustainable Development Goals with Project Outcome

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Learn about the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and how your library can leverage Project Outcome to capture and share your library’s impact in its community and the impact of libraries worldwide.

Public Library Staff and Diversity: Results from PLA’s 2021 Survey webinar cover slide dated October 4, 2022

Public Library Staff and Diversity: Results from PLA’s 2021 Survey

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Highlights how the data suggests both opportunities and challenges for the future of public libraries.

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Supporting Formerly Incarcerated Individuals with a Fresh Start @ Your Library

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Learn from members of the Fresh Start @ Your Library team, including social workers, and understand the steps they took to reach formerly incarcerated individuals and provide services to six communities through the public library.

Introducing Benchmark: Library Metrics and Trends on-demand webinar cover slide with title and date of November 8, 2021

Introducing Benchmark: Library Metrics and Trends

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Learn how Benchmark can support your library in everyday decision making, such as establishing baselines and identifying opportunities to improve.

Digging Deeper into Local and Family History with Census Data

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Discover public library programming and strategies to engage your community in a deeper understanding of local and family history. Census sources important to local history research and family genealogy will be discussed.

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