NEWS Foundations set for WLIC 2027
THE foundations of WLIC 2027 are starting to take shape with applications received for the National Committee. The pace and scale of planning for the London World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2027 means sig- nificant decisions and actions are already being made, with applications for volunteers to the National Committee clos- ing on 13 February. The committee will help deliver the event and its members and chair (or Co-Chairs) will be announced soon. The committee positions are tailored to specific areas of work with members skilled and experienced in those areas. These include committee members for:
l Volunteers; l sponsorship and exhibitors;
l social events – advising on the content and location of one or more ‘cultural evening’ social events; l delegate marketing;
l library visits/satellite meetings – Recruiting and liaising with libraries who may wish to host satellite meetings; l press/promotion;
l programme – Working with IFLA HQ on suggestions for speakers and sessions; l visas.
CILIP actions As the lead bid partner for the world’s biggest library and infor mation conference, CILIP will be focused on planning and programming throughout 2026. This temporary shift in focus means that CILIP’s own Conference will be taking a break in 2026 to give the events team enough time to work on the project. The CILIP Conference, which usually takes place in July, will also not run in 2027 as the WLIC confer- ence will take place that summer. Although an international event attracting over 4,000 delegates from 150 countries, over a 1000 of these are expected to come from the UK making it a significant national event as well.
However, while CILIP’s central team focuses on delivery of
WLIC, it will maintain a busy events schedule throughout the year supported by CILIP’s many networks and Special Interest Groups. This starts with the free to attend Members’ Fest in March
(see full programme on pp 46-48) and continues with mem- ber networks delivering must-attend events throughout 2026. CILIP members are eligible for a discount on all of these events as well as a significant reduction for WLIC in 2027.
Upcoming CILIP events: l Members’ Fest – an open-access week-long events pro- gramme, 2-6 March online and in-person;
l MDG Conference 2026 – #MetaFutures, organised by CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group, 11-13 March at Engineers’ House in Bristol;
l LILAC Conference, organised by CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG), 30 March –1 April at the University of Sheffield;
l Joint CILIP Ireland/Library Association of Ireland (LAI) Conference, 29-30 April at the Peace Centre in Monaghan;
l CILIP Supplier Showcase, 30 April at the Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London;
l CILIP Cymru Wales Conference, 9 May at the University of South Wales in Pontypridd;
l CILIPS Conference 1-2 June at the Apex Hotel, Dundee; l CILIP Data Protection Conference, 3 June online via Zoom; l CILIP Copyright Conference, 4 June online via Zoom;
l CILIP Health Libraries Group hosting the International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML), 14-16 July at the Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC), Glasgow;
l Libraries Rewired, online in November (date TBC);
The line-up of CILIP events will change over the year and for a full list visit our Events page.
Registration opens now for IIIF Congress and Showcase
THIS year’s International Image Inter- operability Framework (IIIF) Annual Con ference and Showcase will take place in the Netherlands, from 1-4 June and registrations are now open. Each year the IIIF Conference offers a platform for participants to learn more about the latest developments for the framework and how to use it. The first day will be a free Showcase event held in Amsterdam and aimed at anyone new to IIIF and interested in finding
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out more about what it can offer. The main conference takes place on 2 and 3 June in Leiden is aimed at a wide range of participants, including digital image repository managers, content curators, software develop- ers, scholars, and administrators at libraries, museums, cultural heritage institutions, software firms, and other organisations working with digital images and audio/visual materials.
A day of workshops will be held in The Hague on 4 June, under the banner of Birds of a Feather. Full programmed details will be online in March and registrations are open now at
https://conference2026.iiif.io.
February-March 2026
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