Register for the ACRL 2025 Virtual Conference Today! In-Person Registration Still Available

Registration is still available for the ACRL 2025 Conference, to be held April 2-5, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and online. Themed “Democratizing Knowledge, Access, and Opportunities,” ACRL 2025 will be a platform to engage in critical conversations and explore solutions-centered approaches to the challenges facing the profession. The conference will focus on themes like embedded bias, inclusive excellence, and the role of technology. Together, we can build a future where knowledge is accessible to all.

In addition to the in-person conference, ACRL 2025 offers robust virtual options to experience the conference without traveling to Minneapolis. Student, ACRL, and ALA member discounts are still available!

Virtual registration includes live streams of the opening and closing keynotes; live stream programs, including webinars and programs with live chat; virtual-only presentations; and networking opportunities. All registrants also receive free virtual conference access for six months following the end of the conference.

Virtual sessions include:

• “How to Tenure Track?: Newbie Tenure Track Librarians Community Chat” (Thursday, April 2)
• “Artificial Intelligence in the Library: Assessing Chatbots and ChatGP” (Thursday, April 2)-
• “Continuum of Collaboration: Virtual and In-Person Partnerships Between Libraries and Writing Centers” (Thursday, April 2)
• “Librarians in Precarity: Solidarity through Uncertainty, Instability and Insecurity” (Friday, April 3)
• “Beyond DEI: Advancing Strategic Equity Work in Times of Challenge” (Friday, April 3)
• “Empowering Student Creativity and Discovery through a Communal Teaching Model” (Friday, April 3)

View all the virtual content by selecting the virtual only modality filter in the conference agenda.

Some examples of our live streamed programs are:

• “Navigating the Perseverance Plateau: An Examination of Intentional Planning for Sustainable Outcomes” (Thursday, April 3)
• “AI Competencies for Library Workers: Shaping the Future of Academic Libraries” (Thursday, April 3)
• “From grumbling to organizing: the path to unionization in your academic library” (Friday, April 4)
• “Addressing the Physical Space Needs of Neurodivergent Students” (Friday, April 4)
• “Generative AI in Learning: Democratizing and Personalizing Access to Scholarly Information” (Saturday, April 5)
• “Invited Presentation – Mapping Prejudice in Minneapolis: telling community-powered stories of racism and resistance” (Saturday, April 5)

You can check out all the live stream content by selecting the live streamed modality filter in the conference agenda.