Conferences

2021

WLIC 2021: Virtual Conference Open Programme 17-19 August 2021

2020

World Library and Information Congress: 86th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
15-21 August 2020, Dublin, Ireland. (Cancelled)

2019

World Library and Information Congress: 85^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
August, 24-30, Athens, Greece
Theme: Library Associations in Cross Border Action

2018

World Library and Information Congress: 84^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
August 24-30, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Theme: Win-Win: building strong education, training and continuing professional development together with strong library associations
Joint session with Education and Training Section and Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section

2017

World Library and Information Congress: 83^rd IFLA General Conference and Assembly
August 15-25, Wrocław, Poland
Theme: Library associations in solidarity with civil society

2016

World Library and Information Congress: 82^nd IFLA General Conference and Assembly
August 9-19, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Theme: Managing Human Resources in the library and information context: How do we want to work tomorrow?
Satellite meeting, 10-11 August 2016 at the University of Toronto, Canada

2015

World Library and Information Congress: 81^st IFLA General Conference and Assembly
August 17-23, Cape Town, South Africa
Theme: With one voice – your role in building and streamlining (inter-)national advocacy

2014

World Library and Information Congress: 80^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
16-22 August, Lyon, France
Theme: What’s next? Moving on from the IFLA Trend Report
(with Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression–FAIFE)

2013

World Library and Information Congress: 79^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
17-23 August, Singapore
Theme: Exploring an e-book future (e-book lending models, copyright and other issues)
(with Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters–CLM)

2012

• Satellite Meeting: 7-9 August, The Hague, The Netherlands
  Theme: The Future of Information and Library Associations

• World Library and Information Congress: 78^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
  11-17 August, Helsinki Finland
  Theme: Strategies for Library Associations: Include New Professionals now!
  (with New Professionals Special Interest Group)

2011

• World Library and Information Congress: 77^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
  13-18 August, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  Theme: Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as a strategy to build strong libraries and library association
  (with CPDWL)

• IFLA MLAS Workshop 2011 for library associations in the Central and South East European Region
  17-19 February 2011 : Split, Croatia
  Theme: Building Strong Library Associations and Establishing a Model for Future Cooperation 
  • Workshop programme [PDF]

2010

World Library and Information Congress: 76^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
10-15 August, Gothenburg, Sweden
Theme: Towards national library strategy: opening up access to research

2009

World Library and Information Congress: 75^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy
Theme: Librarians on the catwalk: communicating for advocacy to influence policy and practice
(with CPDWL & ALP)

2008

World Library and Information Congress: 74^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
August 2008, Québec, Canada
Theme: Leadership skills and advocacy for libraries: Best practices in library association management
(with CPDWL & ALP)