The events in this calendar are among the very best offerings for library technical services professionals, but are by no means the only events of interest. ALA maintains Affiliates Conference & Event Calendar 2012–2024, a comprehensive calendar of events of interest to all library professionals.
Events marked with an asterisk (*) are hosted or sponsored by ALCTS.
May
May 30
*Archival Materials: Using RDA with DACS | ALCTS Webinar
May 31–June 1
Rhode Island Library Association Annual Conference | Smithfield, Rhode Island
May 31–June 1
Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting | Arlington, Virginia
June
June 4–6
New Jersey Library Association | Atlantic City, New Jersey
June 4–6
*Virtual Preconference: Local Collections, Collective Context: Managing Print Collections in the Age of Collaboration | online
June 7–10
North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Annual Meeting | Nashville, Tennessee
June 10–14
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012) | Washington, D.C.
June 12–14
*Virtual Preconference: The How and Why of Research: What Is the Rock in Your Shoe? | online
June 13–15
United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA) | Quincy, Massachusetts
June 21–26
ALA Annual Meeting | Anaheim, California
June 27–30
American Theological Library Association Annual Conference | Scottsdale, Arizona
July
July 9–13
Conference on Open Repositories | Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
July 15–18
Special Libraries Association Annual Meeting | Chicago, Illinois
July 18-19
ALA Virtual Conference | online
July 21–24
105th American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting & Conference | Boston, Massachusetts
July 23–August 17
*Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Acquisitions | ALCTS Web Course
July 30–August 24
*Fundamentals of Acquisitions | ALCTS Web Course
August
August 1–3
Pacific Northwest Library Association Conference | Anchorage, Alaska
August 6–11
Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting | San Diego, California
August 8–9
Cooperative Curation Symposium and Workshop | Atlanta, Georgia
August 11–17
World Library and Information Congress 2012, 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly | Helsinki, Finland
August 13–September 21
*Fundamentals of Collection Assessment | ALCTS Web Course
August 20–September 14
*Fundamentals of Collection Development/Management | ALCTS Web Course
September
September 3–7
DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications | Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
September 10–October 5
*Fundamentals of Preservation | ALCTS Web Course
September 12–14
ETD 2012: 15th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations | Lima, Peru
September 13–14
11th Annual Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference | Portland, Oregon
September 17–October 12
*Fundamentals of Acquisitions | ALCTS Web Course
September 19–22
North Dakota Library Association Annual Conference | Fargo, North Dakota
September 19–23
2nd National Joint Conference of Librarians of Color | Kansas, Missouri
September 20–22
Kentucky Library Association/Kentucky School Media Association Joint Conference | Louisville, Kentucky
September 24–October 19
Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Acquisitions | ALCTS Web Course
September 26–29
Wyoming Library Association Annual Conference | Casper, Wyoming
September 27–29
Association for Rural & Small Libraries Annual Conference | Raleigh, North Carolina
October
October 1–5
iPRES 2012 | Toronto, Canada
October 4–7
2012 LITA National Forum | Columbus, Ohio
October 18–19
NISO Forum: The E-Book Renaissance, Part II: Challenges and Opportunities | Boston, Massachusetts
October 18–21
OLAC 2012: Online Audiovisual Catalogers Conference | Albuquerque, New Mexico