Learn from leading guest speakers in sessions created specifically for librarian professionals. The online lectures and workshops outline concrete actions that library leaders are taking to make their libraries more equitable today and in the future.

You will also complete assignments to help build your own diversity initiative in an interactive online classroom environment with personal coaching from an expert in the field. In addition, you’ll have access to our essential diversity curriculum—a series of video-lessons from Library Journal and School Library Journal editors along with targeted supporting materials—to explore at your own pace.

This three-week course features a talented group of experts who will share key concepts essential to cultivating and promoting diverse, inclusive, and equitable collections. Topics such as cultural diversity, intersectionality, implicit bias, and privilege are relevant to any librarian involved in collection development/management, merchandising and displays, library marketing & outreach, and more.

Our outstanding speaker panel includes:

• Anastasia Collins, Liaison Librarian, Simmons College Beatley Library (MA)

• Andrea Blackman, Division Manager, Special Collections & Director, Civil Rights Room, Nashville Public Library (TN)

• Angel Jewel Tucker, Youth Services Manager, Johnson County Public Library (KS)

• Deborah Anderson, Youth Services Administrator, Los Angeles County Library

• Debbie Reese, Ph.D., Founder of American Indians in Children's Literature

• Heidi Schroeder, Accessibility Coordinator, Michigan State University Libraries

• Jennifer Baker, Writer, Editor, Advocate, and Founder, Minorities in Publishing Podcast

• Josie Watanabe, Student Success Program Manager, The Seattle Public Library

• Karen Jensen, MLS, Creator and Administrator, Teen Librarian Toolbox

• Sarah Park Dahlen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Master of Library and Information Science Program, St. Catherine University (MN)

If you’ve attended our onsite workshop or completed the foundational course, this new course will give you a refresher and advance your competency in diversity and inclusion. Many of your colleagues have benefited from this course and have already reserved their places.