Create safer libraries while centering equity, relationships, and accountability.

Join us to hear from Bloomsbury’s editorial and marketing teams, as well as the authors themselves as they introduce their new fall titles. You'll discover books from critically acclaimed and award winning authors, as well as some exciting debuts, from picture books and middle grade to teen and nonfiction – there’s something for everyone! 

Multiple-award–winning authors of fiction and nonfiction will discuss how they spotlight historical topics and themes through tales of AAPI women and girls and what matters most to them when portraying female characters in their fiction.

On April 25th, join Penguin Random House, Library Journal, and School Library Journal for our Spring 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.

Learn tangible ways to handle censorship, find allies, and ensure your library policies are up to date. 

Drive greater impact in your community, and realize greater efficiency and confidence in your work, by becoming proficient in project management skills. 

Unlock the transformative power of trauma-informed librarianship to create psychologically and emotionally safer and more inclusive spaces for patrons, students, and staff. 

Join us as publishers showcase a selection of engaging and informative titles focused on STEM/STEAM and climate science topics for young readers, empowering them to develop interest in science and better understand the critical environmental challenges of our time.

Join us as top publishers unveil their latest teen and YA releases for spring and summer, offering a tantalizing glimpse into captivating stories, diverse characters, and thought-provoking themes that will resonate with today's youth. 

Join School Library Journal for an "Evening of Dialog" on April 4 from 5:30pm to 8pm. Hosted by Shauntee Burns, Director, Youth & Family Services at DC Public Libraries will chat with authors about their books, writing process, and more. Signings will follow, with plenty of opportunities for attendees to meet and greet the authors and grab their latest advanced reading copies/galleys. This is a free event for library professionals with space available on a first-come, first-served basis.