2024 Library Training Sessions and Conferences

Training Courses:

Training and Staff development Programmes

The National Library and Information Services (NLIS Bahamas) encourages all staff to fulfil their educational goals and aspirations and Lifelong Learning

It is empowering and a personal initiative of every staff to know his or her organization well and its patron/customer/client/user that he or she serves. In addition, each staff should be familiar with the Library system’s mission/vision/values website www.nlis.bs library rules and regulations/General Orders and Employment Acts, library associations locally and abroad. Basic and advanced library Courses with free or non-fee and fee-based programmes and degrees online and those that are in physical locations at universities and colleges. For e.g. Idaho Commissions that offer free online courses in library fundamentals ABLE – Idaho Commission for Libraries https://libraries.idaho.gov/continuing-education/able/ and degree in Librarianship DLIS | (uwi.edu) UWI-DLIS (Mona Jamaica)

Library Conferences:
Attending Library Conferences
Please be advised of the dates and countries of the following library conferences 2024:

Annual Association of Caribbean University and Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) 12-16th May 2024 Guyana- South America

American Library Association (ALA) Annual 27th June to 2nd July 2024 San Diego, California, USA
Public Library Conference (PLA)- Biennial, 3rd-5th April 2024 Greater Columbus Convention Centre
(Early Bird discount ends 12th January 2024)

International Federation of Libraries Association (IFLA)- Cancelled formerly planned for Dubai.