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Past Institutes

Each Spring or Summer, ACL holds a one-day professional development Institute to focus on a different topic with guest speakers including authors, illustrators, publishers, and experts. Institute topics are wide-ranging, from preschool books and programming, to feeding children at the library and diversity in collections, to middle schoolers’ development and their books. Each Institute committee also compiles and publishes a bibliography of books and other resources related to the topic.  Institute years and titles are below, and, where available, biographies and additional information can be found by clicking on Institute titles.

ACL Institute 2019, We Are Here: Creating Better Library Services for Immigrant Youth and Families

ACL Institute 2018, BEYOND THE BINARY: Embracing Diverse Gender Identities

ACL Institute 2017, COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: Building Library Partnerships to Improve the Lives of all Youth

ACL Institute 2016, RACE MATTERS. Practical Ways Libraries Can Celebrate All Youth

ACL Institute 2015, ALL DUE RESPECT: A Dialogue about Diversity, Equity, and Creating Safe Spaces for All Youth

ACL Institute 2014, Your Library is the Common Core: CCSS, STEM/STEAM, and How Libraries Fit in With the New Push Toward Non-fiction

ACL Institute 2013, We’re History! Finding and Sharing the Voices and Stories of our Past

ACL Institute 2012, Eat The Library

ACL Institute 2011, Comic Relief: Comics, Cartoons, and Graphic Novels for Children and Tweens

ACL Institute 2010, A Puzzling Day at the Library: Mind-bending Books for Children

ACL Institute 2009, Science is Alive

ACL Institute 2008, Baby Bounces: Books and Music for the very young

ACL Institute 2007, Mythology and Sacred Stories

ACL Institute 2006, A New Chapter: Transitional Books for Children

ACL Institute 2005, Set the Stage for Reading: Theater and Puppetry in the Library

ACL Institute 2004, Real Men Read Books: Boys, Books and the Library

ACL Institute 2003, Caught in the Middle – Serving the Middle School Reader

ACL Institute 2002, Had I but Known, I would’ve had a Clue — Mystery, Suspense, and Gothic Books for Kids

ACL Institute 2001, The Whole Story: Historical Fiction and Kids

ACL Institute 2000, A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words: The Art of Illustrating Children’s Books.  Speakers: Ted and Gloria Rand, K.T. Horning, Melissa Sweet, and Melissa Bay Mathis.

ACL Institute 1999, Carnival Freaks in Wonderland: The Use of the Gross and the Grotesque in Children’s Books

ACL Institute 1998, Finger Painting in the Garden of Good and Evil: Spirituality, Creativity, and the Journey Within in Children’s Literature and Art

ACL Institute 1997, Tickle my Funny Bone: The Anatomy of Humor in Children’s Literature.

ACL Institute 1996, Call It Courage: From Peter Rabbit to Maniac Magee – Survival themes in Literature for Children and Young Adults

ACL Institute 1995, Books on Fire: A Bibliography for Thou Shalt Not Read – Banned and Challenged Books for Children and Young Adults

ACL Institute 1994, Tracking the Dragons: Asian Americans in Children’s Literature

ACL Institute 1993, It is Still that Way: American Indians in Children’s Literature

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