Join us for a lively conversation featuring the finalists of the 2025 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award! Moderated by Albany High School Librarian Alicia Abdul, the authors will share insights into the inspiration behind their nominated titles, along with details about their research and storytelling processes.

On December 10, join Penguin Random House, Library Journal, and School Library Journal for our Winter 2024 virtual book and author festival, a free day-long event celebrating reading, authors, and librarians everywhere! Enjoy a day packed with author panels and interviews, book buzzes, virtual shelf browsing, and adding to your TBR pile.

In its 20th year, the SLJ Summit will assemble school library leaders and community stakeholders to consider the challenges and opportunities surrounding major topics in the profession, from applying AI in library services and mentoring the current generation of school librarians, to the finer points of collection development in divisive times.

Learn how to reach and engage with your community more effectively to build the programs and services they need.  

Recommended for marketing, outreach, and engagement personnel.

Learn holistic strategies for reducing stress and trauma in your team. 

Recommended for anyone who supervises staff.

How does a book make it onto SLJ's Best Books of the year list? Get the inside scoop from reviews editors and an SLJ reviewer. We'll reveal some of the 193 titles that were selected for this year's list and give attendees a sneak peek at the Best Books magazine cover for the December 2024 issue.

Communicate more effectively with the public and other audiences by learning crucial media and public relations skills.  

Recommended for leaders, administrators, and managers.

Join Library Journal and School Library Journal on November 14 for our eighth annual LibraryCon Live! We're excited to present a day-long celebration of fandom, spotlighting genre fiction for adults and teens with panels devoted to comics and graphic novels, horror, sf/fantasy, and more. In addition to panels and keynotes, we're also offering fast-track learning sessions hosted by librarians and studio spotlights focusing on visual artists.

Enhance your work life and relationships by learning how to approach conflict and  challenging conversations with confidence.

Recommended for frontline librarians and staff.

Join acclaimed authors Neal Shusterman, Lois Lowry, Soman Chainani, Erin Entrada Kelly, and Gordon Korman with SLJ contributor and teen librarian Rachel Strolle as they discuss their their newest books and what it's like writing for middle grade.