Selected Conferences of Interest

2026

Book Expo of America (BEA)

  • April 18-19, 2026
  • New York City

ARLIS/NA

  • May 2-5, 2026
  • Montreal, Canada

LOEX

  • May 7-9, 2026
  • Norfolk, VA

ALIA National 2026 Conference

  • May 11-14, 2026
  • Sydney, Australia

Istanbul International Library Staff Week 2026

  • May 11-15, 2026
  • Istanbul, Turkey

Best Practices Exchange 2026

  • May 18-20, 2026
  • Indianapolis, Indiana

Medical Library Association (MLA)

  • May 19-22, 2026
  • Milwaukee, WI

Next Library Satellite

  • May 19-22, 2026
  • Seoul, Korea

Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) 48th Annual Meeting

  • May 27-29, 2026
  • Chula Vista, CA

ISIC 2026: The Information Behaviour Conference

  • June 1-4, 2026
  • MontrĂ©al, Canada

NASIG 41ST Annual Conference

  • June 2-4, 2026
  • Madison, WI

FORCE2026 Conference

  • June 3-5, 2026
  • Singapore

ASIS&T Information Science Summit

  • June 6-9, 20-26
  • Albuquerque, NM

Library Publishing Forum

  • June 17-18, 2026
  • Seattle, WA

Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS)

  • June 23-26, 2026
  • Milwaukee, WI

American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference

  • June 25-30, 2026
  • Chicago, IL

LIBER 2026

  • July 1-3, 2026
  • Trondheim, Norway

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)

  • July 7-10, 2026
  • Virtual

ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2026 (SAA)

  • July 29 – August 1, 2026
  • New Orleans, LA

2026 World Library and Information Congress (IFLA)

  • August 10-13, 2026
  • Busan, South Korea

Pacific Rim Research Libraries Alliance

  • September 14-16, 2026
  • Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Association for Rural & Small Libraries (ARSL)

  • September 16-19, 2026
  • Montgomery, AL

Babelica 2026

  • September 21-22, 2026
  • Online

IFLA Interlending and Document Supply Conference

  • September 23-25
  • Rome, Italy

ALSC National Institute

  • October 1-3, 2026
  • Buffalo, NY

Visual Resources Association, VRA

  • October 5-9, 2026
  • Virtual

The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)

  • October 7-10, 2026
  • Toronto, Canada

Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC)

  • October 7-11, 2026
  • Spokane, WA

Frankfurt Book Fair

  • October 7-11, 2026
  • Frankfurt, Germany

Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum

  • October 14-15, 2026
  • Virtual

Internet Librarian

  • October 27-29, 2026
  • Virtual

Charleston Library Conference

  • November 2-6, 2026
  • Charleston, SC

Zine Librarians unConference (ZLuC)

  • November 7-8, 2026
  • Online

Sharjah International Library Conference

  • November 7-9, 2026
  • Sharjah, UAE

Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)

  • November 16-18, 2026
  • Buffalo, NY

CORE Forum

  • November 18-20, 2026
  • Louisville, KY

Guadalajara International Book Fair

  • November 28 through December 6, 2026
  • Guadalajara, Mexico

Research Applications, Information and Library Studies (RAILS)

  • December 1-3, 2026
  • Adelaide, Australia

2027

Popular Culture Association (PCA) Annual Conference

  • March 24-27, 2027
  • Boston, MA

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)

  • April 7-10, 2027
  • Portland, OR

Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

  • June 2-4, 2027
  • Providence, RI

American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference

  • June 24-29, 2027
  • New Orleans, LA

American Association of School Librarians (AASL)

  • October 14-16, 2027
  • Portland, Oregon

International Conference of Independent Publishers

  • November 2027
  • Fez, Morocco

 

Still to be determined

Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI)

International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries (LibPMC)

Library Research Seminar

The Maintainers

Urban Librarians Conference

National REFORMA Conference

International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE)

International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS)

Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting

International Forum on Data, Information, and Knowledge for Sustainable and Ethical Societies

iSchools iConference

Computers in Libraries

Public Library Association

LILAC, the Information Literacy Conference

Popular Culture Association (PCA) Annual Conference

Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP)