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Get ready for your library to grow…
Welcome to Creating libraries of tomorrow with children and young people today!
Times are changing, which calls for fresh perspectives, innovative ideas and creative sparks.
We’re bringing all that and more to our new virtual autumn conference on Wednesday 19th November 2025.
3 ways conference can turn your aspiration into action:
- Pioneering insights from experts from around the world, ensuring you’re ahead of the curve.
- Practical interactions for real-world problem-solving and futureproofing.
- Peer connections with library and cultural sector colleagues, for shared learning and partnership building.
We're excited about the future of libraries, with good reason. Together, we’re co-creating spaces where children and young people feel understood, empowered and inspired.
You’ll come away with infinite insights and opportunities.
The programme
We're bringing you an unmissable line up of speakers, at the cutting edge of innovation in and beyond the sector to fast-track your library service to greater engagement with children and young people.
Baroness Twycross will give a Keynote speech: Libraries – vital spaces for children and young people
Mighty Creatives Youth Panel will reflect on how libraries can be more welcoming spaces for them
Kindred2 will deliver an interactive session on school readiness
Interactive workshops:
- Voice's session focuses on connecting with children and young people, and is co-created and delivered with a young person,
- Ocean Generation will be helping you to engage and support children and young people to be environmental activists.
Professor Laura Lundy will be outlining the participatory rights of the child.
Motaz Amer shares his experience as a refugee and young activist focusing on inclusion and amplifying unheard young voices.
Mychal Threets, librarian and viral influencer, will share how and why they have brought library joy to people worldwide.
This year's sponsor
We’re proud to be sponsored by Peters, a trusted partner to libraries, schools and educators across the UK, specialising for many years in children's books and more recently adding furniture, library design and adult stock to their offering. Their work helps to create a love of reading and makes sure every young person can find stories that speak to them. Don’t forget to visit them in the virtual expo area.
Let us bring fresh energy, ready for you to feel confident, able, curious and connected.
We’ll also be launching our new brand publicly for the first time - be among the first to celebrate with us!
What’s different?
Everything!
- Virtual and accessible for all – we’re going fully online this autumn for a day-long conference, meaning you can login anywhere to access inspiration and insights from wherever you’re based.
- Budget-friendly ticket prices to make attending conference easier for you and your team. Members get the best deal. There’s no dynamic pricing, just pure honest value.
- Sharing is caring - we’re opening the event to non-members too, so that everyone can experience our network’s pioneering and innovative approaches to working with children and young people.
What’s familiar?
- An unmissable line up of speakers, at the cutting edge of innovation in and beyond the sector to fast-track your library service to greater engagement with children and young people.
- Super-charged networking – think speed dating but for library professionals, throughout the day.
Ticket prices
- Member ticket: £60
- Library service group ticket: £150 (this includes our member, plus three colleagues - this could include your manager or rising stars from across your library service)
- Non-member and partner tickets: £80