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  • Thursday, June 26, 2025
  • 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    PLA Board of Directors Meeting
  • Friday, June 27, 2025
  • 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
    PLA 2026 Conference Program Subcommittee Meeting
  • Saturday, June 28, 2025
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EDT
    PLA Past Presidents Breakfast
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM EDT
    Is Your Library Ready? Strengthening Community Resiliency with Inclusive Public Library Disaster Planning
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT
    Ethical AI Use in Public Libraries: Idea Exchange Discussion Groups
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT
    PLA EDISJ Committee - Listening Session
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
    Book Joy for Neurodivergent Readers: Connecting with those who experience books differently!
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
    Evolving Staff Roles, Policies and Practices: Results from PLA's 2024 Annual Survey
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
    Teaching an Old Library New Tricks: Developing Inclusive and Engaging Library Anniversaries
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
    Bringing a Multicultural Community Together through Food: How Culinary Programming Transformed a Public Library
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
    Navigating Information Literacy in the Age of AI
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
    PLA EDISJ Committee Listening Session
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM EDT
    Bridging the Divide: Enhancing Family Ties in Correctional Settings
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM EDT
    Findings and Implications from the National Survey on Black History Month Programming in Public Libraries
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Diversity Audits: The Inside Scoop from “Checklists” to “Next Steps” (and everything in-between)
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Don’t just shake it off: using debriefing tools to support front-line library staff
  • Sunday, June 29, 2025
  • 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT
    Measurement, Evaluation and Assessment Advisory Group Meeting
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM EDT
    Rewriting Your Story: How Self-Storytelling Shapes Success & Well-Being
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT
    Public Libraries Advisory Committee Meeting (PLA)
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
    Adaptive Arcade at the Library : Video Games are for Everyone
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
    PLA Legal Issues in Public Libraries Forum
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
    Unlocking Potential in Opportunity Youth
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM EDT
    Community Book Gardens: Helping the Underrepresented Write and Publish Their Own Stories
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM EDT
    Disrupting Silences: Public Libraries as Leaders in Community Archiving
  • Monday, June 30, 2025
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM EDT
    It’s a Process!: Becoming a Trauma-Informed Certified Public Library
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM EDT
    Work It Out @ Your Library! A Computational Thinking Program for Families with Young Children
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT
    Food for Thought: A Model for Food Justice in Public Libraries
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT
    Innovative Library Capital Funding and Revenue
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
    Lights, Camera, Community: Empowering Voices Through Video Storytelling
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
    Navigating Difficult Situations in Public Libraries: Trauma-Informed Strategies for De-Escalation
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
    T.E.C.H. for Reentry: Digital Literacy and Public Library Programming for Formerly Incarcerated Community Members
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM EDT
    It’s Not Bragging! (if it’s true): Interviewing tips to help you and your staff
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM EDT
    Working Together: Collaborative Response to Support Immigrant Communities