Calendar of Events & Celebrations

• Financial Wellness Month
• National Tea Month
• National Mentoring Month
• National Stalking Awareness Month
• National Blood Donor Month
• National Braille Literacy Month
• National Hobby Month

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

• ALA Youth Media Awards
• ALA's LibLearnX Conference
• ALA's Core Interest Group Week

• Tax Identity Theft Awareness Week

Observances

• New Years Day 
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 
• National Trivia Day 
• Religious Freedom Day
• World Braille Day
• International Holocaust Remembrance Day
• National Science Fiction Day

• Black History Month
• Low Vision Awareness Month
• Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
• American Heart Month
• National Canned Food Month
• National Bird Feeding Month
• National Library Lovers Month
• National Embroidery Month

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

• Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
• Random Acts of Kindness Week

Observances

• Groundhog Day 
• Safer Internet Day
• Valentine's Day 
• World Read Aloud Day
• Digital Learning Day
• Mardi Gras
• Lunar New Year

• National Women's History Month
• Youth Art Month
• Read Across America
• National Nutrition Month
• Irish Heritage Month
• American Red Cross Month
• Music in our Schools Month

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

• PLA Leadership Academy
• PLA National Conference (even number years)
• Tucson Festival of Books

• Teen Tech Week

Observations

• Read Across America
• Pi Day
• Freedom of Information Day
• International Transgender Day of Visibility 

• Arab American Heritage Month
• National Deaf History Month
• National Poetry Month
• Jazz Appreciation Month
• School Library Month
• Sexual Assault Awareness Month
• National Autism Awareness Month

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

• Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
• USA Science and Engineering Festival
• ACRL Conference

• Crime Victims' Rights Week
• National Library Week
• National Park Week
• National Volunteer Week
• Preservation Week
• Money Smart Week

Observances

• National D.E.A.R. Day
• National Library Workers Day
• National Bookmobile Day
• Global Youth Service Day
• Earth Day
• World Book Night
• El día de los niños/El día de los libros
• Holocaust Remembrance Day (April 18, 2023)

• Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
• Jewish American Heritage Month
• National Inventors' Month
• Mental Health Awareness Month
• National Bike Month/Bike-to-Work Day
• National Mobility Awareness Month
• National Foster Care Month
• Older Americans Month

Library Conferences and Book Festival

• Children's Book Week
• Choose Privacy Week
• Hurricane Preparedness Week
• National Travel and Tourism Week

Observances

• May Day 
• National Library Legislative Day
• Cinco de Mayo 
• Mother's Day 
• Memorial Day

• Pride Month
• Rainbow Book Month
• Black Music Month
• National Oceans Month

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

• ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Conference
• ALA Annual Conference
• New York Book Festival

• Juneteenth
• Flag Day 
• Father's Day
• National Donut Day
• National Gun Violence Awareness Day
• Wear Orange Weekend
• Autistic Pride Day

• National Ice Cream Month
• Park and Recreation Month
• Disability Pride Month

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

• Harlem Book Fair

• Independence Day
• International Friendship Day
• International Non-binary People's Day

• American Artist Appreciation Month
• National Golf Month

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

• IFLA

• Ranganathan's Birthday
• Women's Equality Day
• National Book Lovers Day (Aug. 9)

• Civic Awareness Month
• National Hispanic Heritage Month
• Library Card Sign-up Month
• National Recovery Month
• National Wilderness Month
• National Preparedness Month
• National Voter Registration Month

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

• Virtual Institute (ALSC)
• Printers Row Bookfair

• Banned Books Week
• Deaf Awareness Week

Observances

• Banned Books Awareness Day
• Banned Websites Awareness Day
• Constitution Day
• International Day of Peace
• National Coffee Day 
• National Voter Registration Day
• Labor Day
• International Dot Day 

• Diversity Awareness Month
• Information Literacy Awareness Month
• LGBT History Month
• National Arts & Humanities Month
• American Archives Month
• National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• Family History Month
• National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
• National Bullying Prevention Month
• National Cyber Security Awareness Month
• National Reading Group Month
• Filipino American History Month

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

• PLA Dynamic Planning Institute
• Texas Book Festival
• Wisconsin Book Festival

• National Friends of the Libraries Week
• World Space Week
• Teen Read Week
• International Open Access Week

Observances

• Indigenous Peoples' Day
• International Observe the Moon Night
• Day of the Girl
• Halloween 
• All Hallow's Read
• National Coming Out Day

• Native American Heritage Month
• National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
• National Entrepreneurship Month
• National Family Caregivers Month
• National Scholarship Month
• Picture Book Month
• Dinovember

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

• I Love My Librarian Award
• LITA National Forum
• Miami Bookfair International
• National Book Awards Ceremony
• Sharjah International Book Fair
• Young Adult Services Symposium

• National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week
• Media Literacy Week
• Transgender Awareness Week

Observances

• Veterans Day 
• National Philanthropy Day
• National Gaming Day @ your library
• Thanksgiving Day 
• Transgender Day of Remembrance 

• Learn a Foreign Language Month
• Bingo Month
• Write to a Friend Month

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

• Women's Leadership Institute

• Computer Science Education Week

Observances

• Christmas Day
• New Year's Eve