OCLC’s WebJunction offers free, on-demand professional development and continuing education resources to build library staff's knowledge, skills, and confidence to deliver transformational services to their communities. Find out what’s new and coming soon.
Library Foundational Training (LiFT) is a reimagined series of on-demand courses designed to equip library staff with essential skills for success. Building on the legacy of the Alternative Basic Library Education (ABLE) courses, LiFT updates and enhances content to reflect current best practices.
Developed in partnership with the Idaho Commission for Libraries (ICfL), the initial courses focus on collection management and public library fundamentals, offering practical and accessible training for staff at all levels.
These courses respond to training needs and increased demands identified by the field, including pressures from a fast-changing environment, potential and experienced conflict, constraints to resources, and challenges in the workplace such as burnout. Each course includes perspectives and real-life approaches from people who have actively worked through similar challenges in their work.
In partnership with Washington State University’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, WebJunction developed a series of on-demand courses on the digital stewardship lifecycle, designed for staff at small public libraries and tribal archives, libraries, and museums.
A new project is underway to create a course on diversifying digital collections and will also work with five state libraries to develop and test a facilitated peer-learning group training model for the courses.
WebJunction has developed a support kit to help public libraries seeking to address opioid use disorder in their communities. This IMLS-funded initiative builds on a previous OCLC Research project that produced the 2020 report, Call to Action: Public Libraries and the Opioid Crisis.
You already provide great storytimes. Supercharge your practice to make them even better! Supercharged Storytimes is a self-paced course on how to intentionally apply research-based practices to boost early literacy in young children attending library storytime. The course materials were recently updated to increase accessibility and provide resources on inclusive collections.
This set of learning resources provides videos, articles, and tools on a range of topics such as powerful storytelling for advocacy, designing student-centered spaces, supporting inquiry-driven learning, offering compassionate makerspaces, and implementing innovative teaching and learning practices.
Dive into our foundational Creating Pathways to Civil Legal Justice course series and learn how to identify civil legal issues and help close the justice gap in your community. Sharpen your essential reference skills with WebJunction's courses and learn more about topics such as navigating civil legal issues of natural disasters, and how to set up an expungement clinic.
Our Course Catalog offers free, library-specific self-paced courses, webinar recordings, and other great learning materials. Certificates of completion are available to help library staff meet CE and LEU credit requirements. Create a free account and start learning today.
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02 December 2025
Learn how two innovative libraries have become supportive environments to build entrepreneurial skills.
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09 December 2025
Public library building and renovation projects are often once-in-a-generation events. Staff and leaders may never have done a similar project and may never do one again, making it imperative for libraries to learn from one another. Come learn from one library’s successful experience.
This semi-monthly newsletter covers WebJunction news and opportunities for public library professional development and learning.