Call for 2026 Entries: Library Publishing Directory and IFLA Library Publishing SIG Database

The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) and the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Library Publishing Special Interest Group (LibPub SIG) are partnering to survey the landscape of scholarly publishing in libraries across the globe. LPC is seeking submissions for the 2026 edition of the biennial Library Publishing Directory. IFLA’s Library Publishing Map of the World is a first-of-its-kind online database of global library publishing initiatives. Together, we invite you to share information about your library’s scholarly publishing activities. 

Libraries that fill out only the brief profile will be included only in the IFLA map. Libraries that wish to be included in the print, PDF, and EPUB Library Publishing Directory can go on to fill out the full questionnaire (20-30 minutes to complete). Get started at https://librarypublishing.org/lpdq-2026/. You will be able to save your in-progress submission and return to it, but you may also want to preview the questions. If your library has had an entry in a previous edition of the Directory, you should have received an email with instructions on how to access your information. Email contact@librarypublishing.org with questions. 

Responses in English are strongly preferred; we may not be able to include responses in other languages. 

The call for entries will close on Monday, February 9, 2026.

Thank you for joining in this great international collaboration. We look forward to your participation.

 

The Library Publishing Coalition Directory Committee

Briana Knox, University of North Texas (chair)

Angel Clemons, University of Louisville

Phoebe Duke-Mosier, University of Pittsburgh

Gina Genova, University of Louisville

Tracy E. MacKay-Ratliff, University of Florida

Matthew Vaughn, Indiana University

IFLA Special Interest Group on Library Publishing Subcommittee

Grace Liu (Canada)

Ann Okerson (USA)

About the Library Publishing Directory

The Library Publishing Directory is an important tool for libraries wishing to learn about this emerging field, connect with their peers, and align their practices with those of the broader community. The last edition featured over 150 libraries in eighteen nations.

 

The Directory is published openly on the web in PDF, EPUB, and as an online database. It includes contact information, descriptions, and other key facts about each library's publishing services. A print version of the Directory is also produced. The 2026 edition will be published in late 2026.

 

About the IFLA Library Publishing SIG map

The goal of the LibPub SIG map is to document more fully the publishing activities to which IFLA’s members contribute, in order to facilitate a global community of interest and support. While in its first year the focus was on scholarly/academic library publishers, now the SIG is opening submissions to all types of library publishers: academic, public, and others.

Submissions will appear in the IFLA Library Publishing Map of the World, easily accessible by IFLA members and friends, including LPC members.

CFP: Teaching and Learning with AI Conference, June 11-13, 2026 (Orlando, Florida - June 11-13, 2026)

 Share Your Ideas at the 4th Annual Teaching and Learning with AI Conference!

The call for proposals is closing soon – January 30 – for the fourth annual Teaching and Learning with AI: A Sharing Conference Between Educational Practitioners (https://digitallearning.ucf.edu/teachwithai/) conference to be held June 11-13, 2026, in Orlando, Florida. Professionals, instructors, researchers, librarians, and policymakers from all sectors of higher education are invited to participate as presenters or attendees.

Topics may include:

• Teaching models that embrace AI tools
• Academic integrity and grading
• Faculty using AI to create course content
• Faculty development and support
• Copyright, ownership, and provenance
• Ethical considerations
• Building AI applications for education
• Institutional policies
• Discipline-specific implementations of AI

Want to submit a proposal? View the proposal guidelines (https://cfp.sched.com/speaker/wjpQZ2tRIO/event).

Feel free to reach out to us at teachwithai@ucf.edu with any questions regarding the proposals or the event.

Sincerely,

The Teaching and Learning with AI Conference Committee

CFP: CORE Week - Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group (CITSIG) - Virtual Meeting March 5, 2026

CORE’s Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group (CITSIG) invites speakers to present as part of the 2026 Core Virtual Interest Group Week. The CITSIG session will take place virtually on Thursday March 5 at 11am Central Standard Time. 

 

Over the past five years, libraries have faced many challenges, some old, some new. Organizational restructuring and new economic uncertainties continue to impact library technical services, along with new book banning campaigns, the recent emergence of AI, growing DEI efforts and challenges, and a myriad of other established responsibilities. These changes are reshaping users’ needs and expectations along with the future of technical services work.

 

We are seeking proposals for presentations about how technical services librarians think about and respond to recent trends at their institutions, in librarianship, or across society.

 

Potential areas to address could include, but are not limited to:

• Artificial intelligence
• Change management in technical services
• Creative uses of vendor services
• Implementations of tools that work with your ILS, such as API-scripts or Cloud Apps
• Unique classification schemes

 

We aim to provide a session with 2-3 short presentations (20 minutes maximum each) followed by a brief Q&A. We welcome your presentation proposals by Friday January 30, 2026, with selection communicated by February 9, 2026. 

 

You do not need to be a member of ALA/Core to present or attend.

 

Please submit your proposal using this form.

 

Sincerely, 

Amy Dittman Chair & Elizabeth Szkirpan Chair-elect

 

Amy Dumouchel Dittman
Head of Electronic Resources and Serials Acquisitions; Chair CORE Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group (CITSIG)

Harvard Library ITS

amy_dittman@harvard.edu 

CFP: ELUNA 2026 Practical Applications and General Product/Tool Demonstrations Track (April 29 – May 1, 2026 - Los Angeles, California) - Ex Libris

ELUNA Call for Proposals--Practical Applications and General Product/Tool Demonstrations Track

The ELUNA 2026 Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee is excited to open the Call for Proposals for sessions in Practical Applications and General Product/Tool Demonstrations! We invite you to submit your 45-minute breakout session ideas for the 2026 Annual Meeting by January 15, 2026.

Our conference theme is “Libraries Always Changing.” Libraries and archives are some of the best organizations to address this. All of you adapt to continue to create and improve connections by integrating various technologies allowing your patrons to access and interact with information and other resources in new formats via different tools. You pioneer new programs to fulfill community needs as your visions help you champion your patrons. We look forward to seeing your unique spin on this topic.

The Practical applications & general product/tool demonstrations track encourages proposals for all topics, and here are just a few to think about!

• Workflows and projects in and across acquisitions, cataloging/metadata management, circulation, resource sharing, etc.
• Cross-departmental collaborative projects
• "Cool tools” that integrate with, or help with, Alma workflows
• Metadata management
• Data cleanup
• Managing or using COUNTER statistics 
• Cross-training/ changing jobs and applying skills from one module to another
• Documenting institutional knowledge, recording workflows, preparing for retirements and other changes 
• Changes in the ILL landscape

Submit your session proposal(s) by the January 15, 2026 deadline!  Once again, we are using the Dryfta platform to collect your proposal submissions.

• Visit our Ex Libris Knowledge Days and ELUNA Conference 2026 event page
• Log in with your credentials used last year (or create a new account if you didn't create an account previously by choosing Attendee Registration – Create Account)
• Click your name menu > My Submissions
• Click "New Submissions" on the My Submissions page
• On the Submission form, click once on the Event Name in the Submission Type field to show the Annual Meeting proposal fields - even if Annual Meeting is already displaying
• Enter your proposal information (you can save and complete the presentation proposal later if needed)

Want to review the proposal form fields for the Annual Meeting without logging into Dryfta? Or would you like some guidance filling them in? Visit the ELUNA Proposal Tips page for more information.

You'll see more reminder messages from us throughout the 2026 Annual Meeting lifecycle. And even if you are not interested in presenting at the Annual Meeting this year, we hope you plan to join us for one or more ELUNA 2026 Conference events at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, California.

• ELUNA Developers Day+: April 27 – 28, 2026

• ELUNA Analytics Afternoon: April 28, 2026

• ELUNA Annual Meeting:  April 29 – May 1, 2026

Looking for hands-on training for Ex Libris products? Ex Libris will offer Knowledge Days as a pre-conference event on April 27 - 28, 2026.

If you have any questions about the ELUNA 2026 Annual Meeting or the other ELUNA 2026 Conference events, send them to ELUNA's LibAnswers Queue for the ELUNA 2026 Planning Team to answer.

We are happy to answer questions about the Practical Applications & General Product/Tool Demonstrations sessions (our emails hyperlinked below).  Hope to see you in Los Angeles! 

Rebecca Hyams, Meghan Lenahan, and Keelan Weber

Co-chairs, Practical Applications & General Product/Tool Demonstrations Track