Guided Walking Tour: Literary Prague
(Participation is free; please register via the conference registration form.)

Early Arrivals meet-up drink, place Dílna. 
Address & Map
(Informal gathering; refreshments at participants’ own expense.)

EBLIDA Executive Committee Library tour Municipal Library of Prague

National Library and Municipal Library of Prague visits
(Registration required. Participation is limited to 25 people in 2 groups, allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.)

Lunch - Executive Committee members and Representatives of Council members
(Registration required)

EBLIDA Annual Council Meeting
Reserved for EBLIDA Council Members (Registration required)

Photo Session with Council Members and Coffee break

ELAN Forum: A Group Coaching event on Network Building & Collective Impact ELAN
(Registration required - open to all participants)
Moderator: Ton van Vlimmeren (Former-President, Lifelong Member of EBLIDA)
In this session, you will be networking and coaching each other at the same time. Plan to go home with at least one (and likely more) valuable new contact.

Council Dinner
Reserved for Representatives of EBLIDA Council Members (Registration required. Participants arrange their own transport.)
The Council Dinner is generously and fully sponsored by FëBLux.

Registration desk open

Welcome Address
Tomáš Řehák, Director, Municipal Library of Prague, Czech Republic
Tomáš Foltýn, Director General, The National Library, Prague, Czech Republic
Erna Winters, EBLIDA President, Netherlands

Keynote Address
Lukáš Houdek, Journalist

Panel discussion: Why should libraries engage in issues and challenges of sustainability?
Featuring speakers experienced in sustainability and SDG initiatives in libraries.

Panellists:
Sharon Memis, IFLA Secretary General, Netherlands
Michal Broža, Head, UN Information Office, Prague, Czech Republic
Barbora Černohorská, Director, Statenice Municipal Library, Czech Republic
Alison Nolan, Chief Executive Officer, Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC), Scotland, UK

Moderator: Andrew Cranfield, EBLIDA Director

Coffee / Tea Break & networking

Workshop 1: 🌱 SDG Certification of Libraries
(Registration required - 35 participants)

More than 40 per cent of Danish public libraries have already achieved an SDG Certification.
Learn how it works as a tool for your organization to deliver on the SDG agenda and take the first steps towards a local SDG strategy which includes both an organizational and a citizen-oriented perspective.
Kristine Fjord Tolborg, Director of Chora 2030, Denmark

Workshop 2: 🌱 Join WEEK17 - how to get started
(Registration required - 35 participants)

What is WEEK17 - the national library week of sustainable change and development?
How does it work at the local library and what are the possibilities for a library association to help and kickstart this agenda.
In this workshop you will be able to take the first step to join WEEK17 in 2027 - with over 180 other libraries in 11 countries.
Eliška Bartošová, Czech Republic Libraries Association and Erasmus+ Coordinator, Czech Republic
Thomas Sture Rasmussen, SDG coordinator for the Danish Library Association and project lead on WEEK17, Denmark

Workshop 3: 🌱 Climate Action Sprint: From goals to action
(Registration required - 35 participants)

In recent years, OCLC's WebJunction and the Sustainable Libraries Initiative have collaborated on a series of resources supporting libraries as they face one of the greatest global challenges: climate change. During this workshop, we will consider what is needed for climate action planning and disaster preparedness, with participants leaving the session with a high-level plan that they can continue to develop and start to implement over the following 90 days.
Andrew Harbison, Director, WebJunction, OCLC

Workshop 4: Shared Reading: Building sense, connection, and inclusion
(Registration required - 20 participants)

In the Shared Reading method a trained Reader Leader reads a text aloud with a group, modelling fluent reading while the participants follow along, join in, and discuss the text, fostering comprehension, vocabulary, and a love for reading in a supportive, interactive way and repeated readings for deeper engagement and skill-building.

You will learn how Shared Reading can be used as a tool to engage participants on an emotional and cognitive level, and how reading together can create a sense of presence, connection, and inclusion.
Anneli Haapaharju, Chair, Finland’s Swedish Library Association, Finland
Mia Karvonen, Board member, Finland’s Swedish Library Association, Finland

Workshop 5: Live Conference Podcast
(Registration required - max 20 participants)

This workshop invites participants to engage with the conference theme through a live podcast recording shaped by shared questions and collective discussion. Each registered participant will be invited to submit one question addressing the relationship between policy ambitions and everyday library practice, the challenges of translating sustainability goals into action, or the role of libraries as long-term partners for social, cultural, environmental, and democratic sustainability.

During the session, a selection of submitted questions will be explored by the facilitators in a moderated conversation in the podcast studio. The focus is on exchange and reflection rather than on providing definitive answers. The discussion will be recorded and published as a podcast episode, creating a tangible output from the conference that captures key perspectives emerging from the session.

Andrew Cranfield, EBLIDA Director
Ania Rok, Manager, European Cultural Foundation, Netherlands
Julie Ward, Former Member of the European Parliament, United Kingdom
Camilla Donà dalle Rose, EBLIDA Project Assistant

Lunch

OCLC and Sustainability: Building community in a time of change

Libraries are at the heart of any community, providing support on a range of different areas, whether that be health and education or sustainability and innovation. Throughout this presentation, we will touch on how OCLC supports libraries in these efforts and what resources are available. We will also provide a brief recap of what was covered and what we learnt in the Climate Action Sprint workshop earlier in the day.
Andrew Harbison, Director, WebJunction, OCLC

Lightning talks on Sustainability in Libraries
Moderator: Thomas Sture Rasmussen, Danish Library Association

Sentobib: Bringing Audience Research to Every Library in Europe
Sentobib is a European-wide library user study, with over 1,200 participating libraries and more than 200,000 users surveyed.
This presentation outlines an important evolution in the study, aimed at making user research accessible to all libraries across Europe.
Francis De Bonnaire, European Coordinator, Belgium

Coffee / Tea Break

Screening of documentary “The Librarians”
Documentary (90 minutes), followed by a Q&A.
Moderator: Andrew Cranfield, EBLIDA Director
With special guest appearance via Zoom by Martha Hickson (USA), featured in the documentary.

Launch of The Green Librarian Handbook & ReceptionELAN
Erna Winters, EBLIDA President
Rosario Toril Moreno, National Center for Environmental Education, Spain

Conference Dinner
Dress code: Think sustainable, dress green (even a small splash of green counts!)
Visit to the Astronomical Tower will be available during the evening.

Planning the future of European Public Libraries
EBLIDA, PL2030 and the OMC Group present a joint workshop focusing on the OMC Report and the ELAN network, featuring report presentation, panel debate and table discussions on how library associations and institutions can help to shape the future of the sector in the coming decade.
(Registration required - open to all participants)

The Session will be hosted by:
Klaas Gommers, Netherlands Public Library Association, The Hague, Netherlands
Ilona Kish, Director, Public Libraries 2030, Brussels, Belgium
Andrew Cranfield, EBLIDA Director, Netherlands

Coffee / Tea Break & networking

Erasmus+ connections: Speed networking for library partnerships
Eliška Bartošová, Erasmus+ Coordinator for the Czech Republic Libraries Association and the Municipal Library of Prague, Czech Republic

Space for Erasmus+ Libraries to Share Experiences and Find New Partners for Mobilities and Projects

Join us for a dynamic session where we’ll exchange experiences on finding mobility partners, integrating mobility outcomes into our organizations, and monitoring impacts, all in a World Café format.
Simona Šinko and Mateja Vodiškar from Ljubljana City Library (Slovenia) will share her hands-on experience with organizing group mobilities for adult learners.
Come along if you have - or are considering - an Erasmus+ project.
See also: https://sdruk.cz/erasmus-connections/ The Czech Republic Libraries Association holds a consortium accreditation in adult education, currently involving 32 libraries of various types and sizes.

Come and meet us!
(No registration required - open to all participants)

EBLIDA Executive Committee members lunch

National Library tour
(Onsite registration will be available at the registration desk, which opens in the morning.)