Librarians are innovators.

Founded in 2014, The Library Collective is all about learning, networking, and kickstarting new ideas among next-generation librarians, library workers, and library stakeholders.

We pride ourselves on creating inclusive and supportive spaces for fantastically fun, affordable, and useful professional development.

We started by hosting an annual gathering (called The Collective) and have grown to offer other initiatives and programs to serve curious librarians from around the globe.

We are an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to education and innovation for better librarianship and the recipients of the following awards and recognition:

• 2017 ProQuest Coutts Award for Innovation

• 2018 ACRL Outstanding Professional Development Award

More about our approach can be found in these open-access articles:

Halaychik, Corey and Maynor, Ashley. ”What Collaboration Means to Me: How We Do & Don’t Collaborate at The Library Collective.” Collaborative Librarianship (2018): Vol. 10 : Iss. 3 , Article 2. <https://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship/vol10/iss3/2>

Maynor, Ashley R., and Corey S. Halaychik. “The Collective Approach: Reinventing Affordable, Useful, and Fun Professional Development." In the Library with the Lead Pipe (2016): 23 Sept. 2016. <http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2016/the-collective/>