The Public Library Association (PLA) is pleased to announce that Ruha Benjamin, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab and award-winning author, will deliver the Big Ideas keynote at the ...

The Public Library Association (PLA) will set the stage for the largest public library conference in the world with Hot Takes and a Conference 101 session to orient and connect more than 5,000 ...

As the Public Library Association Conference (PLA) gets underway this week, I’m just a little jealous to be missing all the fun. Not that I don’t want to be hanging out with my mom during her spring ...

When the library community last met for the biennial Public Library Association Conference, in February 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee, an uncertain future was very much on the minds of its members. The ...

At the PLA National Conference in Portland Oregon, PLA President Sari Feldman speaks to American Libraries Editor Leonard Kniffel about the new Gates Foundation study, “Opportunity for All: How the ...