Book Events: Fairs, Festivals, and Conferences (2023 and 2024)
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2 Events Found in Illinois
ALA Conference
Hosted by: American Library Association
Dates: Thursday, June 23, 2022 to Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Website: ALA Conference
Description:
Join #TheBookAwardCelebration! on June 28, 2020
ALA Annual Conference is the premier global library event each year, bringing together the newsmakers, innovators, thought leaders, and influencers in the library field, from all over the world. News is made at these events, where important announcements are made, updates are shared, relevant legislation and policy are addressed, and discussions take place that have a major impact on libraries, their role, and their ongoing transformation. This event trends nationally on Twitter and are extensively covered in the media.
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Printers Row Lit Fest
Historic Printers Row
Dates: Monday, October 10, 2022 to Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Website: Printers Row Lit Fest
Phone: 312-836-7000
Description:
The Printers Row Lit Fest was founded in 1985 by the Near South Planning Board to attract visitors to the Printers Row neighborhood (once the city's bookmaking hub). By 2002, it had grown to five city blocks (on Dearborn, from Congress to Polk), attracting more than 200 booksellers from across the country displaying new, used and antiquarian books and featuring more than 200 authors participating in panels, discussions and a variety of other programs.
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