2026 ILA Conference

2026 ILA Conference

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7:00am PDT

Breakfast in the Exhibitor Hall

8:00am PDT

BLAST: Bringing Libraries and Schools Together TBA Clinton High School Library has Main Character Energy TBA Fundraising Basics TBA Library Champions: Building Advocates Through Shared Learning TBA The Doctor Is In: Restorative Care for Broken Books TBA The Parallels of Censorship: The Second Red Scare and Today TBA

9:00am PDT

Activate Your Advocates: Designing marketing campaigns to transform everyday patrons into library champions TBA Easy-Peasy STEAM-Powered Programming with Picture Books TBA Present & Future of ILA: A Conversation with the Incoming & Outgoing Presidents of ILA TBA Silent Book Club®: A Novel Concept for a Library Program TBA

9:55am PDT

Exhibitor Break TBA

10:30am PDT

A Galaxy of Ideas: Tween and Teen Programs for the 2027 Summer Reading Theme and Beyond! TBA Community Pathways to Accessing Literacy TBA Creativity and Collaboration: How Student Art installations in Your Library Can Engage Your Entire Community TBA Defining Value: Leveraging Data to Make Confident Digital Collection Decisions TBA From Book List to Shared Experience: Programming with the Goldfinch and Iowa Children’s Choice TBA The Reluctant Mentor's Toolkit TBA

11:30am PDT

Lunch and Closing Keynote Speaker