Need a reason to join us in Astana this August for IFLA WLIC 2025?  With almost 200 sessions planned, and even more on the way, the upcoming World Library and Information Congress will give you many reasons!

Our preliminary WLIC programme is now available, so it’s time to start planning your week in Astana! Explore the Congress Programme, pick sessions of your choice and set up your own agenda.

You can browse through the programme on the website but also customise your itinerary and choose from different export formats, such as PDF or an iCalendar export for MS Outlook.

A wealth of innovative and thought-provoking sessions awaits you, including:

  • Libraries as Incubators for Civil Society: Strengthening Trust, Democracy, and the Future
  • Media behaviour and news consumption in the age of AI and digitalization
  • Building a Sustainable Future for Resource Sharing in a Changing World
  • Climate Change Climate Empowerment
  • Future-Ready Libraries: Integrating AI in Information Literacy
  • Information Integrity for a Healthy Information Environment
  • Libraries & Post Offices closing the digital divide
  • Getting Published with IFLA: Insights from the Editors
  • Libraries as Springboard in National Development: Opportunities and Challenges
  • Libraries Supporting Democracy

Use the iPLANNER to view the entire week’s worth of sessions.

Speaker and paper/presentation details are being continually updated, so be sure to check back for the sessions of your interest.

Dive in!