Start planning now for some of the many "library celebrations" coming up in 2018! Many of these events are sponsored by the American Library Association or other organizations that provide marketing materials for the event. These can be great programming and PR opportunities in your community:  

 

Library Lovers Month : February

 

Take Your Child to the Library Day : February 3, 2018

http://www.ctlibrarians.org/?page=Take

 

Digital Learning Day : February 22, 2018

http://www.digitallearningday.org  

 

Teen Tech Week : March 4-10, 2018

http://teentechweek.ning.com/  

 

Freedom of Information Day : March 16, 2018

http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks

 

School Library Month : April

http://www.ala.org/aasl/slm  

 

National D.E.A.R. Month (Drop Everything and Read): April

http://www.dropeverythingandread.com/  

 

National Library Week : April 8-14, 2018

Theme: Libraries Lead

http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek

 

National Library Workers Day : April 10, 2018

http://ala-apa.org/nlwd  

 

Money Smart Week : April 21-28, 2018

http://moneysmartweek.org/  

 

Preservation Week : April 22-28, 2018

http://www.ala.org/alcts/preservationweek

 

Children's Day/Book Day - El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Día) : 

April 30, 2018

http://dia.ala.org/  

 

Choose Privacy Week : May 1-7, 2018

http://privacyrevolution.org  

 

Children's Book Week : April 30 - May 6, 2018

http://www.bookweekonline.com/  

 

Library Card Sign-up Month : September

http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/card  

 

Outside the Lines: September (week TBD) 

http://getoutsidethelines.org/

 

Banned Books Week : September 23-29, 2018

http://www.ala.org/bbooks/

 

Teen Read Week : October 7-13, 2018

http://teenreadweek.ning.com/  

 

National Friends of Libraries Week : October 21-27, 2018 

http://www.ala.org/united/events_conferences/folweek

 

International Games Week : (week TBD)

http://igd.ala.org/

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