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The Lifelong Access Libraries Initiative offers professional development training on three levels, each designed to reinforce the other and to contribute to the overall goal of transforming public libraries into centers for lifelong learning and civic engagement.

Lifelong Access Libraries Leadership Institute

Three annual Lifelong Access Libraries Institutes will be offered through the Lifelong Access Libraries Initiative from 2006-2008. These week-long training programs will lead to a special certificate in Lifelong Access Librarianship. Participants will be selected from across the United States and will include representatives from each Lifelong Access Center of Excellence. More...

One-Day Lifelong Access Libraries Workshops

The Lifelong Access Libraries team offers one-day workshops that provide librarians and potential community partners with an overview of the principles that inform the Lifelong Access Libraries Initiative and an introduction to key practices necessary for implementing the initiative. The workshops offer a combination of expert presentations and exercises. Co-sponsors include state libraries, community agencies, library systems, and community collaboratives.

View videos of presentations from our most recent one-day training in Albany, New York.

Lifelong Access Libraries Training as part of EqualAccess Libraries

Since 2003, Libraries for the Future has offered Lifelong Access training as part of the national EqualAccess Professional Development Program.

With an emphasis on the training of practicing librarians, EqualAccess offers three distinct programs: Health Access, Lifelong Access, and Youth Access. Training consists of four one-day workshops—two focused on Access Skills and two on programming. The EqualAccess Libraries Professional Development Program currently provides training in Arizona and Pennsylvania and, in 2006, begins training in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York.