2023

88th World Library and Information Congress, 21-25 August 2023, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Theme: Let’s Work Together to Develop Critical Thinkers in the ChatGPT Era

2022

Joint Program (Information Literacy & School Library Sections)
Theme: Information Literacy in School Librarians’ Education and in their Instructional Work

87th World Library and Information Congress, 26-29 July 2022, Dublin Ireland
Theme: Engaging library professionals in research and practice about critical pedagogy and social justice in librarianship

2021

Joint Program (Information Literacy and School Library Sections)
Theme: Information Literacy as a continuum for a successful transition to higher education

86th World Library and Information Congress, 17-19 August 2021
Theme: Retooling Refocusing Rethinking: Promoting Online Information Literacy in the New Normal for Sustainable Development – Meet the Speakers for Q&A

2020

Joint Program (Information Literacy and Library Services to People with Special Needs Sections)
Theme: Using Universal Design for Learning to Enhance Information Literacy Programs: Online and In the Library

2019

85th World Library and Information Congress, 24-30 August 2019, Athens, Greece

Joint Program (Information Literacy and Library Theory and Research Sections)
Theme: Information Literacy in Context: Research Informing Practice informing Research

2018

84th World Library and Information Congress: 24-30 August 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Joint program (Library Theory & Research and Information Literacy Sections)
Theme: Information Literacy: From Practice to Research and Back Again

2017

83rd World Library and Information Congress, 19-25 August 2017, Wroclaw, Poland

Offsite session
23 August 2015, University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, POLAND
Theme: Models for Copyright Education in Information Literacy Programs

Joint program (Audiovisual and Multimedia, Information Literacy and School Libraries)
Theme: Media is the Message: Critical Use of Video in the Digital Age

2016

Satellite meeting
82nd World Library and Information Congress,11-12 August 2015, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Theme: Information and Artifactual Literacies: Engaging Minds in Libraries and Museums

2015

Satellite meeting
13-14 August 2015, Cape Town, South Africa
Theme: School Libraries & Guided Inquiry: Taking Stock & Taking Action

81st World Library and Information Congress: August 17-23, Cape Town, South Africa
Theme: From Words to Action – how you can put the IFLA Media and Information Literacy Recommendations into practise – in your community library and country

2014

80th World Library and Information Congress: 16-22 August, Lyon, France
Theme: It’s public knowledge: understanding health literacy from an information science perspective
Information Literacy and Health and Bioscience

Satellite Meeting
Limerick, Ireland 14-15 August 2014
Theme: Facing the Future: Librarians and Information Literacy in a Changing Landscape

2013

79th World Library and Information Congress: 11-17 August, Singapore
Theme: Intergenerational Literacies: texto – techno
Literacy and Reading with Information Literacy

2012

78th World Library and Information Congress: 11-17 August, Helsinki, Finland
Theme: Information literacy meets E-learning: Let’s talk about interconnections and outcomes
Information Literacy & e-Learning Special Interest Group

Satellite meeting (with CPDWL)
8 – 9 August, Tampere, Finland
Theme: The Road to Information Literacy: Librarians as Facilitators of Learning

Satellite meeting (with ATINA)
8 – 10 August 2012, Riga, Latvia
Theme: Information for Civic Literacys

2011

77th World Library and Information Congress: 13-18 August, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Theme: The importance of information literacy for multicultural populations: needs, strategies, programs, and the role of libraries
Information Literacy Section with Library Services to Multicultural Populations and the Special Interest Group on Indigenous Matters

2010

76th World Library and Information Congress: 10-15 August, Gothenburg, Sweden
Theme: see separate webpage

2009

75th World Library and Information Congress: 23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy
Theme: Libraries promoting twenty-first century literacies
Literacy and Reading and Information Literacy> Sections

2008

75th World Library and Information Congress: August 2008, Québec, Canada
Theme: Return on investment: learners’ outcomes in information literacy. Do they really learn?
Information Literacy with Academic and Research Libraries Sections