THE INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR

2017

SWIB17: Semantic Web in Libraries

SWIB conference (Semantic Web in Libraries) is an annual conference focusing on Linked Open Data (LOD) in libraries and related organizations. It is well established as an event where IT staff, developers, librarians, and researchers from all over the world meet and mingle and learn from each other. Keynote addresses include “Unlocking Citations from Tens of Millions of Scholarly Papers” and “Every Collection is a Snowflake.”

• December 4–6, 2017

• Hamburg, Germany

• http://swib.org/swib17/

Serbian Library Association Annual Conference

“What I Talk About When I Talk About Libraries: Advocacy, Promoting and Lobbying.” Keynote speakers include Barbara Schleihagen, Executive Director of the German Library Association, and Dr. Nenad Vasić of the Institute for International Politics and Economy.

• December 13–15, 2017

• National Library of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

• https://slaconference2017.wordpress.com/

2018

2018 AALS Annual Meeting (Association of American Law Schools)

“Access to Justice.” Programs include Opportunities and Challenges for Faculty of Color in Skills-Focused Law Teaching and Law Administration; Empirical Research Methods and the Experiential Curriculum: New Tools for Securing Justice in a Post-Fact Era?: and Visual and Popular Culture Imagery in Legal Education.

• January 3–6, 2018

• San Diego, CA, USA

• https://www.aals.org/am2018/

Legaltech East

Part of “Legalweek, The Experience.” Keynote speakers include Erwin Chemerinsky with an update on the Federal and Supreme Courts. The ILTA Emerging Technologies and Innovation for Legal track includes a program on legal technology innovation; there is also a track on e-discovery.

• January 30–February 1, 2018

• New York, NY, USA

• http://legalweekshow.com/legaltech/east/

American Bar Association (ABA) Midyear Meeting

• January 31–February 6, 2018

• Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• https://www.americanbar.org/portals/midyear-meeting.html

ALA 2018 Midwinter Meeting (American Library Association)

Featured speakers include Elizabeth Acevedo, Dave Eggers, Bill Nye, and Gregory Mone.

• February 9–13, 2018

• Denver, CO, USA

• http://2018.alamidwinter.org/

13th International Digital Curation Conference

“Beyond FAIR – from principles to practice to global join up.” The conference brings together digital curation professionals and educators with data producers and consumers to consider digital curation in a multi-disciplinary context.

• February 19–22, 2018

• Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

• http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc2018

The Collective 2018

“The Library as Test Kitchen.” “Recipes” for next-generation librarianship, with hands-on experiments and workshops featuring idea generation, prototyping, and creation of new paradigms for the things we make and do as part of our everyday in libraries. Sessions will be hands-on, skill-building, or conversation-driven.

• February 28–March 2, 2018

• Knoxville, TN, USA

• http://www.thelibrarycollective.org/

ER&L: Electronic Resources and Libraries

“Exploring trends, technologies, e-resource management, and digital services in libraries.”

• March 4–7, 2018

• University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

• http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/conference-info/

ABA TECHSHOW 2018

The ABA TECHSHOW Conference and EXPO is where lawyers, legal professionals, and technology all come together. For three days, attendees learn about the most useful and practical technologies available. Programs include “Affordable Alternatives for Legal Research,” “The Deep Dark Web Revisited,” “Alternative Uses for Your Law Degree,” and “Easily Distracted? Harness Tech to Be More Efficient and Avoid Distractions.”

• March 7–10, 2018

• Chicago, IL, USA

• http://www.techshow.com/

British Legal Technology Forum 2018

As Europe's largest technology conference and exhibition, the British Legal Technology Forum 2018 will bring together the most respected professionals from both the legal and commercial technology sectors to examine and explore the systems, strategies, processes, and platforms that will drive law firms and legal businesses into the next decade and beyond.

• March 13, 2018

• Old Billingsgate, London, UK

• https://britishlegalitforum.com/

ASIL 112th Annual Meeting (American Society of International Law)

The theme of the 2018 Meeting is “International Law in Practice.” The 2018 Annual Meeting will focus on international law in action: how and by whom international law is made, shaped, and carried out, both formally and informally; how it is taught; how and in what ways states and other actors interact; and how participants deploy international legal arguments. The meeting will consider how international legal practice has changed and is continuing to change in response to geopolitical shifts and contemporary challenges, including demands for greater transparency, accountability, legitimacy, and inclusion.

• April 4–7, 2018

• Washington, DC, USA

• https://www.asil.org/annualmeeting

Computers in Libraries 2018

“Digital Transformation: Next Gen Tools & Strategies for Community Impact.” Computers in Libraries will delve deeper into library models, strategies, transformational technologies, creative processes, and innovative programs while looking for new and exciting solutions to engage communities and have positive impacts on members.

• April 17–19, 2018

• Arlington, VA, USA

• http://computersinlibraries.infotoday.com/2018/

23rd Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL XXIII)

The theme of the conference is: “Positioning Library and Information services to achieve Sustainable development: Innovations and Partnerships.” SCECSAL is the biggest conference for Library and Information Science professionals on the African continent and its purpose is to provide a platform for learning and sharing experiences on LIS developments in the region. Best practices and innovations in fields including preservation of national literary heritage; mass literacy; and open government, human rights, democracy, and accountability will be shared and showcased.

• April 23–28, 2018

• Entebbe, Uganda

• http://www.ulia.org.ug/SCECSAL.php

2018 ALLA Conference (Australian Law Librarians’ Association)

“Global Impact//Local Footprint.” A biennial event hosted by the Australian Law Librarians’ Association (ALLA), the Conference is the major professional and business development event in the Association's 2018 calendar.

• May 2–4, 2018

• Darwin, NT, Australia

• http://allaconference.com.au/2018/

17th Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL XVII)

The theme of the CONSAL XVII is “Next Generation Libraries: Collaborate and Connect.” The Congress of Southeast Asia Librarians is the sole regional organization of the libraries, library schools, library associations, and related institutions of the ASEAN countries.

• May 2–5, 2018

• Naypyitaw, Myanmar

• http://www.consalxvii.org/

LOEX 2018 (Library Orientation Exchange)

“New Frontiers: Exploring and Innovating in Uncharted Territory.”

• May 3–5, 2018

• Houston, TX, USA

• http://www.loexconference.org/

CALL/ACBD 2018 Conference (Canadian Association of Law Libraries/l'Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit)

“Build Bridges: Broaden Our Reach.” “Jeter Des Ponts: Élargir Notre Portée.”

• May 27–30, 2018

• Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• http://www.callacbd.ca/Conference

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2018

“From Data to Wisdom: Resilient Integration Across Societies, Disciplines, and Systems.” The intended community for this conference includes those interested in such aspects of digital libraries as infrastructure; institutions; metadata; content; services; digital preservation; evaluation of usability; collection development; intellectual property; privacy; electronic publishing; document genres; multimedia; social, institutional, and policy issues; user communities; and associated theoretical topics. All domains – academics, government, industry, and others – are encouraged to participate as presenters or attendees.

• June 3–7, 2018

• Fort Worth, TX, USA

• http://2018.jcdl.org/

NASIG 2018 33rd Annual Conference

“Transforming the Information Community.”

• June 8–11, 2018

• Atlanta, GA, USA

• http://www.nasig.org/

SLA 2018 Annual Conference and INFO-EXPO

• June 11–13, 2018

• Baltimore, MD, USA

• https://www.sla.org/attend/future-conference-locations/

Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2018

“Social Justice, Community Engagement and Information Institutions: Access, Diversity, and Inclusion.”

• June 13–15, 2018

• University of Zadar, Croatia

• http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/

ALA Annual Conference (American Library Association)

• June 21–26, 2018

• New Orleans, LA, USA

• http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/ala-upcoming-annual-conferences-midwinter-meetings

Sixteenth International Conference on Books, Publishing and Libraries

2018 Special Focus is “Communicating Values – Scholarly Communication as Mediator, Agent, Actor.”

• July 7, 2018

• University of Pennsylvania, PA, Philadelphia, USA

• http://booksandpublishing.com/2018-conference

American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) 111th Annual Meeting

“From Knowledge to Action.”

• July 14–17, 2018

• Baltimore, MD, USA

• https://www.aallnet.org/conference/

Thirteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

2018 Special Focus – Autonomy in Times of Turmoil: What to Make of the Social? Program themes include Social and Community Studies, Civic and Political Studies, Global Studies, and Organizational Studies.

• July 25–27, 2018

• University of Granada, Granada, Spain

• http://thesocialsciences.com/2018-conference

Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference 2018

First joint conference between ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association), LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa), and LAS (Library Association of Singapore).

• July 30–August 2, 2018

• Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

• https://aplic.alia.org.au/

American Bar Association Annual Meeting

• August 2–7, 2018

• Chicago, IL, USA

• http://www.americanbar.org/groups/departments_offices/meetings_travel_dept.html

ILTACon 2018 (International Legal Technology Association)

ILTACON is a four-day educational conference that draws on the personal and collective strengths of professionals working in technology within law firms and legal departments. ILTACON will empower us to share what works, what doesn't, and the tools to face challenges now and in the future.

• August 19–23, 2018

• National Harbor, MD, USA

• https://www.iltanet.org/live-events/conferences

IFLA 84th World Library and Information Congress

“Transform Libraries, Transform Societies.”

• August 24–30, 2018

• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• http://2018.ifla.org/

2018 IALL Annual Course (International Association of Law Libraries)

• September 30–October 3, 2018

• Luxembourg

• http://iall.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IALL-Newsletter-August-2017-Final.pdf

IBA 2018: Annual Conference of the International Bar Association

• October 7–12, 2018

• Rome, Italy

• https://www.ibanet.org/Default.aspx

AoIR 2018: Association of Internet Researchers

• October 9–13, 2018

• Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• https://aoir.org/conferences/aoir2018/

9th Shanghai International Library Forum

“Library for All: Towards a Smarter and Inclusive Society.”

• October 17–19, 2018

• Shanghai, China

• http://www.libnet.sh.cn/silf2018/index_en.html

Association of Parliamentary Librarians of Asia and the Pacific (APLAP) Conference

• October 31–November 2, 2018

• National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan

• http://asiapacificparllibs.org/tokyo-2018/

8th International Symposium on Information Management in the Changing World

The main theme of the symposium is “Post-truth and Information Management.” Topics include records and archive management, information management training, information law, professional ethics, and information privacy.

• November 1–3, 2018

• Ankara, Turkey

• http://imcw2018.bilgiyonetimi.net/

2019

ABA Midyear Meeting (American Bar Association)

• January 23–29, 2019

• Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

• https://www.americanbar.org/groups/departments_offices/meetings_travel_dept.html

AALL Annual Meeting (American Association of Law Libraries)

• July 13–16, 2019

• Washington, DC, USA

• https://www.aallnet.org/conference/education/future-meetings/am-locations.html