Author Events
ALA Editions | ALA Neal-Schuman authors offer their expertise in a series of Virtual and In-Person Professional Development Programs. Join us!
Monday, August 4, 2025 | 2 pm ET / 1 pm CT
Edi and Neal’s Book Club: August 2025
Collection Development Tips for All Librarians
Get timely collection development tips specific to a variety of library environments over the course of a one-hour program, before our expert presenters take questions from the audience and one another. Presenters include:
Mona Kerby, author of An Introduction to Collection Development Tips for School Librarians, Second Edition. Kerby will share tips on collection development in school libraries and teaching school library collection development at the graduate level.
Mary Beth Weber, co-author of Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management. Weber will share tips on collection development for academic libraries, public libraries, LIS instructors broadly, and special libraries such as those in the law, medical, finance and other corporate spheres.
July 16, 2025 | 2 pm ET / 1 pm CT
Edi and Neal’s Book Club: July 2025
Information Literacy Mailbag
Information literacy experts answer commonly asked and new questions about information literacy, which can be submitted by e-mail to Ramon Robinson at rrobinson@ala.org.
Author-experts scheduled to participate in this 1-hour max event include: Julie Hornick and Lauren Kehoe (Critical Information Literacy Applications for All Libraries), Lauren A. Millar (A Matter of Facts: The Value of Evidence in an Information Age), Amanda Nichols Hess (Information Literacy and Critical Thinking: Using Perspective Transformation to Break Information Bubbles), and Natalie Greene Taylor and Paul T. Jaeger (Foundations of Information Literacy).
Be the Light: Summer 2025 ALA Editions Book Buzz
In Be the Light: A Spring/Summer 2025 ALA Editions Book Buzz, Editions staff share a little about themselves and their passions that brought them to ALA before telling the audience about 25 new and noteworthy ALA Editions | ALA Neal-Schuman titles that personally excite them. All of those titles are available for purchase or preorder through alastore.ala.org, and they appear in the Editions Spring/Summer 2025 catalog at alastore.ala.org/SS25catalog.
June 9, 2025 | 10:30 am ET / 9:30 am CT
Edi and Neal’s Book Club: June 2025
Wellness and Stress Reduction Tips
Presenting author-experts include Rebecca Hass (101 Seeds for Library Joy), Jenn Carson (Get Your Community Moving: Physical Literacy Programs for All Ages), Margaret Ann Paauw (Navigating Difficult Situations in Public Libraries: The PLA Guide to Trauma-Informed De-Escalation), Catherine Hakala-Ausperk (Renew Yourself: A Six-Step Plan for More Meaningful Work), Helen Rimmer (The Kind Librarian: Cultivating a Culture of Kindness and Wellbeing in Libraries) and Elaina Norlin (The Six-Step Guide to Library Worker Engagement).
Thursday, May 22, 2025 | 2pm ET / 1pm CT
If We Could Have Ten Minutes of Your Time . . .
All Library Workers!
Authors in the program’s lineup of five 10-minute presentations, with open discussion and audience Q&A following the last presentation, include:
• Bobbi L. Newman, author of Well-Being in the Library Workplace: A Handbook for Managers
• Cathryn M. Copper, author of The Experimental Library: A Guide to Taking Risks, Failing Forward, and Creating Change
• Bess G. de Farber, author of Creating Fundable Grant Proposals: Profiles of Innovative Partnerships
• Amanda Moss Struckmeyer, author of Inspiring Teens, Tweens, and Families to Make a Difference in the World: Programming to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals
• Stephanie K. Gerding, author of Winning Grants, Third Edition
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 | 2pm ET / 1pm CT
If We Could Have Ten Minutes of Your Time . . .
Academic Library Workers and LIS Instructors!
Authors in the program’s lineup of six 10-minute presentations, with open discussion and audience Q&A following the last presentation, include:
• Amanda Nichols Hess, author of Information Literacy and Critical Thinking: Using Perspective Transformation to Break Information Bubbles
• Eric Johnson, Vanessa Rodriguez and Emily Thompson, three of the co-authors of A Complete Guide to Creative Technology Spaces in Academic Libraries: Media Labs, Makerspaces, and More
• Alexander J. Carroll and Joshua Borycz, co-authors of Essentials of STEM Librarianship
• Patricia Franks, author of Records and Information Management, Third Edition
• Angelo Moreno, Meredith Kahn, Kelly McElroy and Emily Drabinski, co-authors of Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers (Critical Cultural Information Studies series)
• Aisha Johnson, a contributor to The Legacy of Black Women in Librarianship: When They Dared to Be Powerful.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 | 2pm ET / 1pm CT
If We Could Have Ten Minutes of Your Time . . .
Public Library Workers!
Authors in the program’s lineup of five 10-minute presentations, with open discussion and audience Q&A following the last presentation, include:
• Margaret Ann Paauw, author of Navigating Difficult Situations in Public Libraries: The PLA Guide to Trauma-Informed De-Escalation
• Angelo Moreno, Meredith Kahn, Kelly McElroy and Emily Drabinski, authors of Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers (Critical Cultural Information Series)
• Audrey Barbakoff, co-author of The 12 Steps to a Community-Led Library
• Kodi Laskin, author of Serving Patrons with Disabilities: Perspectives and Insights from People with Disabilities
• Micah Bateman, co-author of Mapping the Imaginary: Supporting Creative Writers through Programming, Prompts, and Research.
April 16, 2025 | 1pm CT
Edi and Neal’s Book Club: April 2025
School Libraries and Youth Services Roundtable
Join the authors of Manga Goes to School, Using Literature to Support Children’s Mental Health, Growing Teen Engagement, Student Leadership in the Library, Leveraging AI in School Libraries, and the Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror 3e for a lively discussion of solutions to contemporary problems facing school and youth services librarians.
March 19, 2025 | 1pm – 4pm CT
Edi and Neal’s Book Club: March 2025
ALA Tech Lists
In our first technology and technical services mini-conference, ALA author-experts will present on:
- Tips for Keeping Up with the Latest Technology (12:30 to 1:00 PM CT)
- Topics in Cataloging (1:00 to 1:50 PM CT)
- Artificial Intelligence Tips (1:50 to 2:40 PM)
- Digital Libraries and Creative Technology (2:40 to 3:30 PM)
- Top Tips for Digital Accessibility Now (3:30 to 4:00 PM)
Each presentation will allow time for audience Q&A, with a few minutes of break time built into each segment. By registering for the full event, you reserve your spot to access any and all sessions throughout the mini-conference using the same link.
Edi and Neal’s Book Club:
February 2025
Narratives of (Dis)Enfranchisement
by Tracey Overbey and Amanda L. Folk
Edi and Neal’s Book Club:
January 2025
Your Passport to International Librarianship
by Cate Carlyle and Dee Winn
60 Tips for School and Youth Services in 60 Minutes
The talk of the town at #ALAAC24, author-experts Hilda K. Weisburg, Becky Calzada, Val Edwards, Maegan Coffin Heindel, Betsy Diamant-Cohen and Dorothy Stoltz presented their hit program 60 Tips for School and Youth Services in 60 Minutes virtually at 1 PM CT on Thursday, January 9, 2025.
This empowering info extravaganza featured mini-presentations on leadership techniques, navigating intellectual freedom challenges, supporting early childhood development, and dreaming up inspired, executable ideas for your library.
Edi and Neal’s Book Club:
December 2024
Digital Literacy, Inclusivity and Sustainable Development in Africa
edited by Helena Asamoah–Hassan
Edi and Neal’s Book Club:
November 2024
The Librarian’s Guide to Homelessness
by Ryan J. Dowd
72 Tips for Academic Libraries in 72 Minutes
You’ll learn more than a few dozen ways to have fun, spark joy and otherwise make life easier for yourself, your students and your other patrons with 72 Tips for Academic Librarians in 72 Minutes – presented via Zoom on November 19, 2024. This virtual iteration of our #ALAAC24 program features six mini-presentations on an assortment of topics including creativity, programming, and engagement; fostering collaboration, self-regulation, and motivation in learners; diversifying archival collections; media creation support; copyright management; and planning and assessment. Post-event Q&A featured presenting author-experts Megan Lotts, Ann Medaille, Zoë Maughan, Scott Spicer, Sara R. Benson and Rachel Fleming-May.
Edi and Neal’s Book Club:
October 2024
Impactful Community-Based Literacy Projects
by Lesley S. J. Farmer
Edi and Neal’s Book Club:
September 2024
The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror
by Becky Siegel Spratford
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