Neurodiversity recognizes that people experience and interact with the world in many ways. While there are many dimensions to neurodiversity, it is often used in the context of the autism spectrum as well as other neurological or developmental conditions. By developing a better understanding of neurodiversity, library staff can create more inclusive library environments through interactions, spaces, services, and programs that welcome and respect neurodiverse patrons.

A vibrant and relevant library collection doesn’t just happen – there are strategies and techniques behind this work. Taking in the evolving landscape of digital acquisitions, open-access materials, and subscription models, this course will review the principles and methods for collection acquisition and selection with careful consideration of resource allocation and budgets. Balancing the information needs of library users with the diversity of formats and acquisition models, libraries can build collections that work for their communities.

A collection development policy is the heart of every great collection. Based on a library's mission and values, it explains the library's process and guides budgeting, acquisitions, weeding, gifts, and challenges to equitably serve all patrons. Understand the importance of a collection development policy, what a policy should address, and how to use it to guide library services.

While offering expert guidance and support across complex information landscapes, library staff also navigate their own legal and ethical responsibilities in the provision of reference services. Detailing the most pressing legal and ethical considerations for reference services - digital literacy, equity of access, patron confidentiality, intellectual freedom, and copyright - library staff can balance their professional responsibilities at the reference desk.

While most people are familiar with a dictionary or encyclopedia, knowing when to use the right resource for the right question may still be a mystery – and that doesn’t even cover the more specific uses of handbooks, serials, and databases. With an overview of the most popular reference formats and their uses, this session will help staff connect the right resource to the right questions at the reference desk.

Whether print or digital, users expect a library's reference collection to be ready to address their questions, whether simple or complex. Acquiring and maintaining a reference collection is essential in offering reference services to library users. Learn how to appraise reference resources, develop a sustainable reference collection development policy, and organize and make accessible print and digital resources for users.

Whether subject experts, novice researchers, or curious learners, library users present staff with a range of information needs. With an overview of skills to address face-to-face and virtual interactions, this session addresses today's library reference transactions. By highlighting common barriers to productive reference interactions and practicing techniques to overcome them, staff will have the confidence to engage in the reference interview.

Websites are accessible only when all visitors can access the presented information regardless of abilities or impairments. By understanding the fundamentals of web accessibility and the regulations, laws, and standards surrounding accessibility design, libraries can move toward more equitable services for all patrons. With an overview of the tools and technologies for better design and best practices for content development libraries can make their content open to all.

Videos and online tutorials are where many people turn to quickly learn and develop new skills. As libraries develop their own online tutorials and videos, they can become important information literacy tools. With guidance for applying instructional design fundamentals, interactivity, accessibility principles, and assessment elements to measure learner comprehension, transform your design and creation process for online tutorials.

All libraries can provide a trans-inclusive respite for transgender community members and their own staff. Move toward a trans-inclusive environment for patrons and staff by learning to create and maintain safe and welcoming spaces, collections, and programs. Develop a feeling for helpful inclusive language and gain confidence with practical tips that can be applied to sometimes difficult real-world scenarios.