Need a reason to join us in Busan, South Korea this August for IFLA WLIC 2026? With almost 200 sessions planned, and even more on the way, the upcoming World Library and Information Congress will give you many!
Our preliminary WLIC programme is now available, so it’s time to start planning your week in Busan! Explore the Congress Programme, pick sessions of your choice and set up your own agenda.
You can browse through the programme on the website but also customise your itinerary and choose from different export formats, such as PDF or an iCalendar export for MS Outlook.
A wealth of innovative and thought-provoking sessions awaits you, including:
- AI for All? AI, Public Knowledge, Trust, and the Future of Libraries
- Transforming Global Health Knowledge Systems
- Cybersecurity in Libraries
- Metadata for Open Knowledge: Pushing Boundaries, Transforming Access
- Global Connections Between Young Library Users through Webtoons, Manga, and More
- Powering Sustainable Change: Rethinking Digital Research Infrastructure for Environmental Responsibility, Equity, and Innovation
- Collections Under Threat: Anticipating, Managing, and Preventing Threats to Library Collections
- Libraries in the Age of AI: Balancing Innovation, Ethics, and Human Connection
- Future-ready data: transformative approaches to cataloguing
- Cultural Memory in Motion: Capturing and Documenting Film, Music, and Emerging Media
- Operationalizing Marrakesh and Accessible Digital Resource Sharing
- Climate Literacy for Sustainable Futures: Libraries Empowering Communities to Act
- Collection Crawling
- Empowering a Global Community of Care
- A Standards Smorgasbord: Insights across new standards Metadata, ISBD, and more
- Advocacy, Collaboration, and Transformation: Libraries Shaping the Future in Times of Global Change
- Libraries Under Attack and the Global Fight for Intellectual Freedom
- Emerging Leaders Session – The Future is an Accident
Use the iPLANNER to view the entire week’s worth of sessions.
Speaker and paper/presentation details are being continually updated, so be sure to check back for the sessions of your interest.
Dive in!