Selected Conferences of Interest

2026

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

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

  • October 13-15, 2026
  • Dallas, TX

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

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

  • November 6-10, 2026
  • Bangkok, Thailand

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

Computers in Libraries

  • March 16-19, 2027
  • Arlington, VA

Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene Colloquium II

  • March 24-25, 2027
  • Davis, CA

Popular Culture Association (PCA) Annual Conference

  • March 24-27, 2027
  • Boston, MA

ARLIS/NA

  • April 4-7, 2027
  • Portland, OR

iSchools iConference

  • April 5-9, 2027
  • Wellington, New Zealand

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)

  • April 7-10, 2027
  • Portland, OR

Book Expo of America (BEA) BookCon

  • April 9-11, 2027
  • New York, NY

FORCE11 Conference

  • April 19-22, 2027
  • Mexico City

LILAC, the Information Literacy Conference

  • April 23-27, 2027
  • London, UK

Library Publishing Forum

  • May 10-13, 2027
  • Virtual

Medical Library Association (MLA)

  • May 25-28. 2-27
  • Denver, CO

Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

  • June 2-4, 2027
  • Providence, RI

NASIG Annual Conference

  • June 8-10, 2027
  • Virtual

American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference

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

LIBER

  • June 30 – July 2, 2027
  • Colchester, UK

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

  • July 7-9, 2027
  • Pretoria, South Africa

2027 World Library and Information Congress (IFLA)

  • August 9-13, 2027
  • London, UK

ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2027 (SAA)

  • August 25-28, 2027
  • Chicago, IL

Queer Bibliography

  • September 2-4, 2027
  • Manchester, UK

American Association of School Librarians (AASL)

  • October 14-16, 2027
  • Portland, Oregon

International Conference of Independent Publishers

  • November 2027
  • Fez, Morocco

2028

Public Library Association

  • March 15-18, 2028
  • San Francisco, CA

ISIC 2028: The Information Behaviour Conference

  • August 14-17, 2028
  • Uppsala, Sweden

Still to be determined

Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI)

International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries (LibPMC)

Library Research Seminar

The Maintainers

National REFORMA Conference

International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE)

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

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

Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP)

LOEX

ALIA National Conference

Next Library Satellite

Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS)

Pacific Rim Research Libraries Alliance

Association for Rural & Small Libraries (ARSL)

Urban Librarians Conference

Babelica