Do you want to become a more equity- and people-centered leader? Regardless of your current leadership role, we’ve got a new course you can’t miss.

Make sure to join us for our new course, Equity-Centered Library Leadership, starting Sept. 29, and learn how to infuse equity into every part of your library leadership and management to ensure a culture of inclusion and care in your library. This course is simultaneously a deep dive and far reaching, offering highly tailored special sessions for aspiring leaders, middle managers, and directors alike. Join us and transform your leadership practices, regardless of your current role. 

Can’t make a live session? All sessions are available on-demand!

Want to understand what to expect in our online courses? Check out this preview!

Our courses are perfect for your team!

Group rates available now!

Request a discount for groups of 3 or more 

and work with your colleagues on a project for your library.

Purchase 15 or more registrations and apply them across multiple courses.

Buy One, Get One:

• Buy one fall course and get one fully on-demand course* FREE.

Here are just a few of the powerful sessions you and your team will experience in this course:

Radical Imagination, Strategic Planning, and Leading Organizational Change

This session will push you to think big when it comes to how you imagine equity-centered leadership in your organization. You’ll learn about radical imagination and how to think beyond the typical confines that limit the progress you want to make. From there, you’ll learn how to craft your ideas into a strategic plan that maps out

Speaker:

Dr. Cerise Hunt, (she, her) PhD, MSW Director, Center for Public Health Practice, University of Colorado

Radical Empathy and Servant Leadership: Strategies for Healing-Centered People Management 

So you’ve implemented equity-centered recruiting and hiring practices, but how do you keep that same energy with your hired staff? This session will lay the foundation for healing-centered and servant leadership practices to help you support your direct reports holistically. You’ll learn how to have difficult feedback conversations, manage conflict, ensure staff success without micromanaging, how to differentiate staff support and encourage wellness, and more. 

Speaker:

Christina Fuller-Gregory, (she, her)  Assistant Director of Libraries at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities.

Highly targeted for middle managers: Middle Management: How to Lead Up, Down, and Sideways

Learn how to navigate challenging power dynamics when you feel stuck in the middle. This session will discuss how to use your position of power for good in a variety of contexts as well as best practices for middle managers.

Speaker:

Nichelle  M. Hayes, (she, her) MPA, MLS, Interim CEO at The Indianapolis Public Library

And much more! See full program here.

Want to get started learning right away? Register now for any fall course and get immediate on-demand access to bonus content from past courses.

New Fall Course Features to Enhance Group Learning:

• Channels for community building and ongoing networking after the course ends
• Live, peer working groups with expert facilitators to immediately apply and practice skills
• Companion courses with bundled pricing to extend learning
• A mix of 1-day intensive workshops and 3-week workshops to fit your schedule
• Optional drop-in sessions highly tailored to specific library roles and functions

Our transformative online courses have given thousands of librarians the tools and vision for meaningful change. Here are just a few of the features and benefits you receive when you take part in any of our immersive online workshops:

• Programming designed and led by library leaders
• Live sessions (also available on-demand)
• Asynchronous, facilitated classrooms
• Project-based courses with individualized, expert feedback
• Comprehensive supporting materials and resources
• Certificate of Completion + 15 hours of PD Credit
• Early-bird rates and group discounts available

Here’s what one past participant said about their learning experience:

"This was a fabulous learning experience, and the information was timely and relevant. The speakers provided so much depth to course. Completing an audit of our collection was eye-opening. We were able to identify with real numbers what areas of our collection could use more focus to add diversity. I highly recommend this course!"

-Amanda DeKnight, Library Director, South Park Township Library

Want even more options for fall? Check out our entire fall lineup:

**Not available for Book Bans Crash Course. Available on-demand bonus courses include Serving Vulnerable Populations and Equity in Action: Solidarity in Social Justice. Choose from an extensive list of our fall courses and get one of these bonus courses free. Register today and double your learning!