Calendar of Events

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ALA Events

Mar. 4– 10, 2012: Teen Tech Week .
Mar. 13– 17, 2012: Public Library Association National Conference , Philadelphia.
Apr. 1– 30, 2012: School Library Month .
Apr. 8– 14, 2012: National Library Week .
Apr. 10, 2012: National Library Workers Day .
Apr. 11, 2012: National Bookmobile Day .
Apr. 12, 2012: Support Teen Literature Day .
Apr. 21– 28, 2012: Money Smart Week @ your library .
Apr. 22– 28, 2012: Preservation Week .
Apr. 23– 24, 2012: National Library Legislative Day , Liaison Hotel, Washington D.C.
Apr. 30, 2012: El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day) .
May. 1– 7, 2012: Choose Privacy Week .
Jun. 21– 26, 2012: American Library Association Annual Conference , Anaheim, California.
Sep. 1– 30, 2012: Library Card Sign-Up Month .
Sep. 30– Oct. 6, 2012: Banned Books Week .
Oct. 14– 20, 2012: Teen Read Week .
Oct. 21– 27, 2012: National Friends of Libraries Week .
Nov. 2– 4, 2012: YALSA’s 2012 Young Adult Literature Symposium , St. Louis.

ALA Chapter Conferences

Feb. 23– 26, 2012: Alaska Library Association Annual Conference , Westmark Fairbanks Hotel & Conference Center. “Alaska’s Libraries: Heart of the Community.”
Mar. 21– 23, 2012: Tennessee Library Association Annual Conference , Marriott Knoxville. “Libraries Transform.”
Mar. 21– 23, 2012: Louisiana Library Association Annual Conference , Shreveport Convention Center.
Apr. 11– 13, 2012: Kansas Library Association Annual Conference , Hyatt Hotel and Conference Center, Wichita.
Apr. 11– 14, 2012: Montana Library Association Annual Conference , Huntley Lodge, Big Sky.
Apr. 11– 13, 2012: New Mexico Library Association, Annual Conference , Las Cruces Convention Center.
Apr. 17– 20, 2012: Texas Library Association Annual Conference , Houston. “Relevant, Responsive, Revolutionary, Right Now.”
Apr. 18– 20, 2012: Washington Library Association Annual Conference , Washington Library Association, Annual Conference. “One Tribe: Bringing Washington’s Libraries Together.”
Apr. 18– 20, 2012: Florida Library Association Annual Conference , Wyndham Orlando Resort. “Vibrant and Vital Florida Libraries.”
Apr. 24– 27, 2012: Alabama Library Association Annual Convention , Wynfrey Hotel, Hoover.
Apr. 25– 27, 2012: Oregon Library Association, Annual Conference , Riverhouse Convention Center, Bend.
Apr. 25– 27, 2012: Utah Library Association, Annual Conference , Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City.
May. 9– 10, 2012: Massachusetts Library Association Annual Conference , DCU Center, Worcester.
May. 9– 11, 2012: Maryland Library Association/Delaware Library Association Joint Conference , Clarion Resort, Ocean City, Maryland.
May. 19– 21, 2012: Maine Library Association/Maine Association of School Libraries Joint Conference , University of Maine at Orono.
May. 31– Jun. 1, 2012: Rhode Island Library Association Annual Conference , Bryant University, Smithfield.
Jun. 5– 6, 2012: New Jersey Library Association Annual Conference , Revel Resort, Atlantic City.

Conferences

Feb. 10, 2012: Digital Strategy , Oregon State University, Corvallis.
Feb. 10, 2012: Online Northwest , Oregon State University, CH2M Hill Alumni Center, Corvallis.
Feb. 11– 15, 2012: Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work , Bellevue, Washington.
Feb. 13– 15, 2012: O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference , New York.
Feb. 15– 19, 2012: Music Library Association Annual Meeting , Fairmont Dallas.
Feb. 16, 2012: Cloud/Gov Conference , Westin Washington, D.C. “Plan. Implement. Succeed.”
Feb. 19, 2012: Polish American Librarians Association Annual Meeting , Polish Museum of America, Chicago.
Feb. 22– 24, 2012: Intelligent Content , Hotel Zoso, Palm Springs, California.
Feb. 23– 24, 2012: Personal Digital Archiving Conference , Internet Archive, San Francisco.
Feb. 26– 28, 2012: National Federation of Advanced Information Services Annual Conference , Hyatt at the Bellevue, Philadelphia. “Born of Disruption: An Emerging New Normal for the Information Landscape.”
Feb. 29– Mar. 2, 2012: WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital Age , Baltimore.
Mar. 1– 2, 2012: University of Oklahoma Libraries Annual Conference , Oklahoma City. "Incredible Transformations for Research Libraries: Back to the Future."
Mar. 3– 4, 2012: Society of American Archivists, Indiana University Chapter, Conference for Students and Beginning Professionals , Bloomington.
Mar. 14– 15, 2012: Library Technology Conference , Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Mar. 14– 16, 2012: Information Fluency Conference , University of Central Florida, Orlando. “Information Fluency and the Digital Divides.”
Mar. 16, 2012: North Carolina Serials Conference , William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, Chapel Hill.
Mar. 19– 21, 2012: Publishing Business Conference & Expo , New York Marriott Marquis.
Mar. 20– 24, 2012: Information Architecture Summit , New Orleans.
Mar. 21– 23, 2012: Computers in Libraries Conference , Hilton Washington D.C. “Creating Innovative Libraries.”
Mar. 22– 23, 2012: Atlas Systems ILLiad International Conference , Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Mar. 25– 29, 2012: American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition , San Diego. "Chemistry of Life."
Mar. 29– Apr. 2, 2012: Art Libraries Society of North America Annual Conference , Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Ontario. “Colouring Outside the Lines.”
Apr. 11– 14, 2012: Museums and the Web , Sheraton Marina, San Diego.
Apr. 11– 14, 2012: Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Annual Conference , Boston Marriott Copley Place.
Apr. 11– 13, 2012: Catholic Library Association Annual Convention , Boston.
Apr. 18, 2012: Ninth Annual Copyright Conference , Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. “©opyright in ©asablanca: Round Up the Usual Suspects!”
Apr. 18– 20, 2012: Fifteenth Distance Library Services Conference , Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee.
Apr. 19– 21, 2012: American Society for Indexing Annual Conference , Bahia Resort, San Diego. “Index Appreciation Days: Oh, the Places You'll Go!”
May. 1– 4, 2012: Association of Research Libraries Membership Meeting , Chicago.
May. 2– 4, 2012: Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians Conference , University of Southern Indiana, Evansville. “Catching the Next Wave of Technical Services.”
May. 3– 5, 2012: 40th Annual LOEX Conference , Renaissance Hotel, Columbus, Ohio.
May. 3– 6, 2012: Association of Independent Information Professionals Annual Conference , Indianapolis. “Racing to Succeed.”
May. 3, 2012: New England Library Association, New England Technical Services Librarians Section, Annual Spring Conference , College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. “iLibrary: Digital Futures for Libraries.”
May. 15– 16, 2012: Enterprise Search Summit , Hilton New York.
May. 18– 23, 2012: Medical Library Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition , Seattle. “Growing Opportunities: Changing Our Game.”
May. 18, 2012: Association of College and Research Libraries, New England Chapter, Annual Conference , College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts.
May. 22– 25, 2012: Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists, Annual Conference , University of Nevada, Reno.
May. 30– Jun. 2, 2012: Canadian Library Association National Conference and Trade Show , Ottawa Convention Centre.
May. 30– Jun. 1, 2012: Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting , Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington, Virginia. “Social, Mobile, Agile, Global: Are You Ready?”
Jun. 7– 20, 2012: North American Serials Interest Group Annual Conference , Sheraton Music City, Nashville.
Jun. 7– 9, 2012: American Democracy Project 2nd National Meeting , Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio, Texas.
Jun. 13– 15, 2012: Digital Directions Conference , Boston, Massachusetts. “New Foundations: Creation, Curation, Use.”
Jun. 15– 16, 2012: Milwaukee Conference on the Ethics of Information Organization , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Jun. 21– 23, 2012: Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction Conference for Law School Computing , Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego. “Some Assembly Required.”
Jul. 12– 14, 2012: Wikimania International Wikimedia Conference , Washington, D.C.
Jul. 29– 31, 2012: Church and Synagogue Library Association Annual Conference , Springfield, Illinois. “Lincoln Logs On: Tradition and Innovation in Library Ministry.”
Sep. 19– 23, 2012: Joint Conference of Librarians of Color , Kansas City, Missouri. “Gathering at the Waters: Celebrating Stories, Embracing Communities.”
Sep. 19– 23, 2012: Joint Conference of Librarians of Color , Kansas City, Missouri.
Oct. 29– 31, 2012: Library Assessment Conference , Charlottesville, Virginia.

Institutes, Workshops, and Courses

Feb. 11– 12, 2012: Fifth International Workshop on Personal Information Management , Seattle.
Mar. 11– 13, 2012: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, Open Access Meeting , Kansas City Intercontinental Hotel, Missouri. “Back to the Future: Reconciling the Past, Present, and Future in Archives and Special Collections.”

Webinars and Online Courses

Feb. 8, 2012: Amigos Library Services Online Technology Conference .
Feb. 28, 2012: Big Talk from Small Libraries .

International Events

Feb. 8– 9, 2012: International Association of School Librarianship/Zimbabwe Library Association Regional School Library Semina , Masiyephambili College, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. “School Libraries in Africa in the 21st Century: Learning from Each Other.”
Feb. 9, 2012: Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers Seminar , London. "Digital Strategy."
Feb. 9– 10, 2012: Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries , University of Bari.
Feb. 19– 21, 2012: International Conference on Information Systems , Penang, Malaysia.
Feb. 23– 26, 2012: Vilnius Book Fair/Baltic Book Fair , Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre, Vilnius. “Open the World!”
Feb. 25– Mar. 4, 2012: New Delhi World Book Fair , Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India.
Mar. 1– 2, 2012: Edge2012 Conference , Macdonald Roxburghe Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland. “Pushing the Boundaries of Public Service Delivery.”
Mar. 3– 5, 2012: International Council for Scientific and Technical Information Annual Members’ Meeting and Workshop , International Council for Science, Paris, France.
Mar. 11– 13, 2012: International Association for Development of the Information Society International Conference , Berlin. “Mobile Learning 2012.” Colocated events cover Information Systems and E-society.
Mar. 12, 2012: Oxford Internet Institute , Keble College, Acland Centre, Oxford, England.
Mar. 19– 22, 2012: Bologna Children's Book Fair , Bologna Fair Center, Bologna, Italy.
Mar. 22– 24, 2012: Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book Conference , St. Anne’s College, Oxford, U.K. “How the Secularization of Religious Houses Transformed the Libraries of Europe, 16th–19th Centuries.”
Mar. 26– 27, 2012: Future Perfect Conference , Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. “Digital Preservation by Design.”
Mar. 26– 28, 2012: UK Serials Group Annual Conference , Glasgow.
Apr. 16– 18, 2012: London Book Fair , Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Warwick Road, London, England.
Apr. 24– 26, 2012: International Bielefeld Conference , Bielefeld, Germany.
May. 21– 24, 2012: International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Librarianship , Absolute Hotel, Limerick, Ireland.
Jun. 2– 10, 2012: Crimea 2012 International Conference , Sudak, Crimea, Ukraine. “Libraries and Information Resources in the Modern World of Science, Culture, Education, and Business.”
Jun. 5– 7, 2012: KohaCon 12 , Edinburgh, Scotland.
Aug. 11– 17, 2012: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions World Library and Information Congress , Helsinki, Finland.
Oct. 30– 31, 2012: Internet Librarian International Conference , Olympia Conference Centre, London, UK. “Re-imagine, Renew, Reboot: Innovating for Success.”