2025 Annual CSLA Conference

2025 Annual Conference

January 30 - February 2, 2025

San Jose Signia Hotel, San Jose, CA

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Picture of John Schu smiling

Featuring John Schu on Friday, January 31!

 

John Schu has made a career out of advocating for the people and things he cares about most: kids, books, and the people who connect them. He is the children’s librarian for Bookelicious and the New York Times best-selling author of Louder Than Hunger; This Is a School, illustrated by Veronica Miller Jamison; This Is a Story, illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Lauren Castillo; Ruthie Rose’s Big Idea, illustrated by Holly Hatam (publishing in March 2025); and The Gift of Story: Exploring the Affective Side of the Reading Life. John Schu lives in Naperville, Illinois.

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Featuring Mychal Threets on Sunday, Febuary 2!

 

Mychal Threets is a librarian, literary ambassador, and the library’s number one fan (according to himself, admittedly). He got his first library job as a library shelver at the library he grew up in and worked his way up to become Supervising Librarian of that very same library. He talks about mental health in hopes that it’ll help others in their mental health journey. He is a recipient of the 2024 “I Love My Librarian” award from the American Library Association, is one of School Library Journal’s 2024 Movers and Shakers, and one of TIME Magazine’s 2024 Next Generation Leaders.

Registration Information

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Cancellations by December 31 will receive a 50% refund. No refunds beginning January 1, 2024.

Accommodations

Signia by Hilton San Jose

170 S Market St

San Jose, CA 95113

Conference Schedule

Coming soon!

Exhibitors

Thank you to our 2025 conference sponsors!

Are you interested in exhibiting at the 2025 CSLA Conference? Visit Conference Exhibitors for details and application information.

Level 1 Sponsors

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Level 2 Sponsors

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Level 3 Sponsors

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Other Exhibitors

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Conference Program

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Tips for Justifying your Attendance

Saves school money in times of challenging budgets.

  • Provides time saving, money saving, and innovative ideas for librarians, library staff, teachers, and students to use.
  • Learn from experienced teacher librarians and classified library personnel.
  • Exhibits offer the chance to review products that would fit the needs of your school. Offers the chance to network with vendors.
  • See demonstrations of new products and new product lines.
  • Conference provides an opportunity to hear experts in Young Adult and Children's literature.

Become a more effective teacher librarian or classified library staff member:

  • Provides ideas, strategies, and technology to serve your users.
  • Learn many of the cloud-based tools and social networks that students enjoy and teachers need to know.
  • Grow your personal learning network by meeting people from around the state.
  • Increase your value to the school by having the tools to teach Digital Literacy, Internet Safety, Cyber Safety for students, the Common Core State Standards, Model California School Library Standards, Copyright & Creativity, and more. 

Learn how to advocate for your library program:

  • Hear from our advocates in Sacramento as they share legislation that affects school library programs.
  • Learn about strategies to showcase your unique skills, becoming indispensable to your school and district.
  • Gain confidence in your ability to advocate for your student's library programs.

Finally, when you return to your school, share with your principal and staff what you learned from sessions, workshops, vendors, informal meetings, and special events.