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A listing of conferences/workshops of interest to the Canadian library and information management community. Specifically,

  • international, national, regional, provincial, and local events in Canada;
  • international and national events in the United States; and
  • selected international events outside North America.

See also: Awareness and Promotional Events

To have your conference/workshop added, e-mail info@librarianship.ca


The Power of Branding: Create & Communicate Your Library’s Brand

The Power of Branding: Create & Communicate Your Library’s Brand

September 11, 2017

Website: http://learn.libraryjournal.com/the-power-of-branding/ The Power of Branding: Create & Communicate Your Library’s Brand is an interactive, one-day, live workshop, bringing together library directors, management, emerging leaders, librarians, marketing and PR staff and library …

The Power of Libraries

The Power of Libraries

September 8, 2017

Theme: Strong and Free

Open North

Webinar: Situating Canadian Cities in an International Smart City Ecosystem

August 30, 2017

Website: http://www.opennorth.ca/ This interactive webinar will present findings thus far from the Open Smart Cities in Canada project. This Project’s research consists of a preliminary environmental-scan (E-scan) and gap analysis of …

Ontario Library Association

Marketing Libraries Think Tank 2017

August 21, 2017

Website: http://www.accessola.org/web/OLA/Events/Signature_Events/Marketing _Libraries_Think_Tank/OLA/Events/Signature_events/Marketing_Think_Tank/ Welcome.aspx The Marketing Libraries Think Tank was created for library marketing professionals by library marketing professionals.  Whether you are a trained marketer or a library staff member responsible …

IFLA WLIC 2017

IFLA World Library and Information Congress

August 19, 2017

Theme: Libraries. Solidarity. Society.

IL Palooza Light

August 17, 2017

Website: https://ilpalooza.wordpress.com/ IL Palooza is an information literacy workshop where professional academic librarians from across Alberta will gather and share effective information literacy strategies. This friendly, casual event has been created to …

Digital Humanities 2017

Digital Humanities 2017

August 8, 2017

Theme: Access/Accès

International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries

12th International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries

July 31, 2017

Theme: Communicating value and leadership: from strategic to micro assessment

International Research Society for Children’s Literature

International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Congress

July 29, 2017

Theme: Possible & Impossible Children: Intersections of Children’s Literature & Childhood Studies

Social Media & Society

International Conference on Social Media & Society

July 28, 2017

Website: http://socialmediaandsociety.org/ Hashtag: #SMSociety The International Conference on Social Media & Society is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 8th year, the 2017 conference is …