In How to Build Inclusive Collections starting October 24, you’ll learn how to create library collections that reflect diverse stories and experiences. Over three weeks, expert guest speakers will cover key concepts essential to cultivating and promoting inclusive collections. In the asynchronous workshop, you’ll learn how to conduct an inclusion audit of your collections and get feedback from a facilitator. 

Course Program

Week 1: Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Establishing goals and priorities: Defining inclusive collections and learning how to build and maintain them

• Creating Inclusive Library Collections
• Conducting a Diversity Audit of Your Collections and Ordering: Where to Start
• Metrics for Inclusive Collections: Goals, Benchmarks, and Evaluation

Week 2: Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Preparing for your collection assessment: Identifying harmful – and amplifying authentic – stories in our library materials

• From Margin to Center: A Collection Development Deep Dive
• Black Stories in Library Collections
• Muslim Stories in Library Collections
• Queer Stories in Library Collections
• Inclusive Publishers

Week 3: Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Beginning your audit and defending inclusive collections

• Native American Stories in Library Collections
• Disability Stories in Library Collections
• Assessing and Revising Your Collection Management Policies to Protect Your Collections and Yourself
• Sustaining Collection Assessment Momentum

Adapt and Thrive: Leadership Methods for a Resilient Library

Half-Day Online Course + 3-Week Workshop

Thursday, Sept. 26

Have you seen our new online course Adapt and Thrive: Leadership Methods for a Resilient Library? Starting September 26, learn foundational principles of adaptive leadership to enhance organizational flexibility, collaboration, and innovation. 

Why take this course: Participants will gain experience with Agile techniques like huddles, retrospectives, and kaizen, and learn how to embrace an experimental mindset that encourages continuous improvement. This course will equip attendees with techniques from agile methodologies in a library perspective, empowering them to respond effectively to evolving challenges and opportunities, prioritize tasks, foster creativity, embrace change, and empower team members to take ownership of their work.

Who should take this course: This course is geared toward library leaders, administrators, and experienced managers.

Join as a Group 

Group Rates

Request a discount for groups of 3 or more and work with your colleagues on a project for your library.

Credit Packages

Dedicate a portion of your annual PD budget, towards seats in our courses, and receive 25% off our lowest price for each seat. 

Allocate seats to staff as needs arise over a 12-month period of your choosing. 

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