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Calendar of Events & Celebrations [1]

January 30, 2020
January 30, 2020
By 

ALA Public Programs Office

Listed below are events and celebrations to help with your program planning. Know of a celebration or event that is not on the list? Send it to ProgrammingLibrarian@ala.org [2].

 
January
Monthly Celebrations
  • Financial Wellness Month [3]
  • National Tea Month
  • National Mentoring Month [4]
  • National Stalking Awareness Month [5]
  • National Blood Donor Month
  • National Braille Literacy Month
  • National Hobby Month

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

  • ALCTS Midwinter Symposium [6]
  • ALA Midwinter Conference [7]
  • ALA Youth Media Awards [8]
  • Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits [7]
Weekly Celebrations
  • Tax Identity Theft Awareness Week [9]

Observances

  • New Years Day 
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 
  • National Trivia Day 
  • Religious Freedom Day
February
Monthly Celebrations
  • African American History Month [10]
  • Low Vision Awareness Month [11]
  • Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month [12]
  • American Heart Month [13]
  • National Canned Food Month
  • National Bird Feeding Month
  • National Library Lovers Month
  • National Embroidery

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

  • Havana Book Fair [14]
Weekly Celebrations
  • Children's Authors and Illustrators Week [15]
  • Random Acts of Kindness Week [16]

Observances

  • Groundhog Day 
  • Safer Internet Day [17]
  • Valentine's Day 
  • World Read Aloud Day [18]
  • Digital Learning Day [19]
  • Mardi Gras
  • Lunar New Year
March
Monthly Celebrations
  • National Deaf History Month [20]
  • National Women's History Month [21]
  • Youth Art Month [22]
  • Read Across America [23]
  • National Nutrition Month [24]
  • Irish Heritage Month
  • American Red Cross Month [25]
  • Music in our Schools Month [26]

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

  • ACRL Conference [27]
  • PLA Leadership Academy [28]
  • PLA National Conference [29] (even number years)
  • Tucson Festival of Books [30]
Weekly Celebrations
  • Teen Tech Week [31]

Observations

  • Read Across America [23]
  • Pi Day [32]
  • Freedom of Information Day [33]
April
Monthly Celebrations
  • National Poetry Month [34]
  • Jazz Appreciation Month [35]
  • School Library Month [36]
  • Sexual Assault Awareness Month [37]
  • National Autism Awareness Month [38]

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

  • Los Angeles Times Festival of Books [39]
  • USA Science and Engineering Festival [40]
Weekly Celebrations
  • Crime Victims' Rights Week [41]
  • National Library Week [42]
  • National Park Week [43]
  • National Volunteer Week [44]
  • Preservation Week [45]
  • Money Smart Week [46]

Observances

  • National D.E.A.R. Day [47]
  • National Library Workers Day [48]
  • National Bookmobile Day [49]
  • Global Youth Service Day [50]
  • Earth Day [51]
  • World Book Night [52]
  • El día de los niños/El día de los libros [53]
May
Monthly Celebrations
  • Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month [54]
  • Jewish American Heritage Month [55]
  • National Inventors' Month [56]
  • Mental Health Awareness Month [57]
  • National Bike Month/Bike-to-Work Day [58]
  • National Mobility Awareness Month [59]
  • National Foster Care Month [60]
  • Older Americans Month [61]

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

  • BookExpo [62]
Weekly Celebrations
  • Children's Book Week [63]
  • Choose Privacy Week [64]
  • Hurricane Preparedness Week [65]
  • National Travel and Tourism Week [66]

Observances

  • May Day 
  • National Library Legislative Day [67]
  • Cinco de Mayo 
  • Mother's Day 
  • Memorial Day
  • National Readathon Day [68]
  • Virtual Library Legislative Day [69]
June
Monthly Celebrations
  • Gay and Lesbian Pride Month [70]
  • GLBT Book Month [71]
  • Black Music Month [72]
  • National Oceans Month [73]

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

  • BookCon  [74]
  • ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Conference [75]
  • ALA Annual Conference [76]
  • Printers Row Bookfair [77]
  • New York Book Festival [78]
Observances
  • Flag Day 
  • Father's Day
  • National Donut Day 
July
Monthly Celebrations
  • National Ice Cream Month [79]

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

  • Harlem Book Fair [80]
Observances
  • Independence Day
  • International Friendship Day [81]
August
Monthly Celebrations
  • American Artist Appreciation Month
  • National Golf Month

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

  • IFLA [82]
Observances
  • Ranganathan's Birthday
  • Women's Equality Day [83]
  • National Book Lovers Day (Aug. 9)
September
Monthly Celebrations
  • Civic Awareness Month [84]
  • National Hispanic Heritage Month [85]
  • Library Card Sign-up Month [86]
  • National Recovery Month [87]
  • National Wilderness Month [88]
  • National Preparedness Month [89]
  • National Voter Registration Month [90]

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

  • GAME (AASL) [91]
  • Virtual Institute (ALSC) [92]
Weekly Celebrations
  • Banned Books Week [93]

Observances

  • Banned Books Awareness Day
  • Banned Websites Awareness Day [94]
  • Constitution Day [95]
  • International Day of Peace [96]
  • National Coffee Day 
  • National Voter Registration Day [97]
  • Labor Day
  • International Dot Day  [98]
October
Monthly Celebrations
  • Diversity Awareness Month
  • Information Literacy Awareness Month [99]
  • LGBT History Month [100]
  • National Arts & Humanities Month [101]
  • American Archives Month [102]
  • National Breast Cancer Awareness Month [103]
  • Family History Month [104]
  • National Domestic Violence Awareness Month [105]
  • National Bullying Prevention Month [106]
  • National Cyber Security Awareness Month [107]
  • National Reading Group Month [108]

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

  • PLA Dynamic Planning Institute [109]
  • Texas Book Festival [110]
  • Wisconsin Book Festival [111]
Weekly Celebrations
  • National Friends of the Libraries Week [112]
  • World Space Week [113]
  • Teen Read Week [114]
  • International Open Access Week [115]

Observances

  • Indigenous Peoples' Day
  • International Observe the Moon Night [116]
  • Day of the Girl [117]
  • Halloween 
  • All Hallow's Read [118]
November
Monthly Celebrations
  • Native American Heritage Month [119]
  • National Novel Writing Month  [120](NaNoWriMo)
  • National Entrepreneurship Month
  • National Family Caregivers Month [121]
  • National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month [122]
  • National Scholarship Month [123]
  • Picture Book Month [124]

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

  • I Love My Librarian Award [125]
  • LITA National Forum [126]
  • Miami Bookfair International [127]
  • National Book Awards Ceremony [128]
  • Sharjah International Book Fair [129]
  • Young Adult Services Symposium [130]
Weekly Celebrations
  • National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week [131]
  • Media Literacy Week [132]

Observances

  • Veterans Day 
  • National Philanthropy Day [133]
  • National Gaming Day @ your library [134]
  • Thanksgiving Day 
December
Monthly Celebrations
  • Learn a Foreign Language Month
  • Bingo Month
  • Write to a Friend Month

Library Conferences and Book Festivals

  • Women's Leadership Institute [135]
Weekly Celebrations
  • Computer Science Education Week [136]

Observances

  • Melvil Dewey's Birthday
  • Pearl Harbor Day 

 

Related Links
Join the National Conversation About Mental Health [137]
Celebrate National Poetry Month! [138]
National Reading Group Month and Booklist [139]
National Women's History Month [140]
National Poetry Month [141]
National Inventors Month [142]
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[1] https://programminglibrarian.org/articles/calendar-events-celebrations
[2] mailto:ProgrammingLibrarian@ala.org
[3] http://programminglibrarian.org/articles/financial-wellness-month
[4] http://www.nationalmentoringmonth.org/
[5] https://www.stalkingawareness.org/
[6] http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/mw/2017/symposium
[7] http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/upcoming-annual-conferences-midwinter-meetings
[8] http://www.ala.org/news/mediapresscenter/presskits/youthmediaawards/alayouthmediaawards
[9] https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/feature-0029-tax-identity-theft-awareness-week
[10] http://programminglibrarian.org/articles/african-american-history-month
[11] https://www.nei.nih.gov/lowvision/
[12] http://teendvmonth.org/2015/
[13] http://www.cdc.gov/features/heartmonth/
[14] http://www.ala.org/offices/ala-havana-book-fair-tour
[15] http://www.childrensauthorsnetwork.com/childrens-authors-and-illustrators-week.html
[16] https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/
[17] http://saferinternetday.us/
[18] http://www.litworld.org/wrad/
[19] http://www.digitallearningday.org/
[20] https://www.nad.org/
[21] http://programminglibrarian.org/articles/national-womens-history-month
[22] http://www.arteducators.org/news/yam
[23] http://www.nea.org/grants/886.htm
[24] http://www.nationalnutritionmonth.org/nnm/
[25] http://www.redcross.org/about-us/red-cross-month
[26] https://nafme.org/programs/miosm/
[27] http://conference.acrl.org/
[28] http://www.ala.org/pla/education/leadershipacademy
[29] http://www.placonference.org/
[30] http://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/
[31] http://www.ala.org/yalsa/about-teen-tech-week
[32] http://www.piday.org/
[33] http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/govinfo/opengov/freedomofinfo
[34] http://programminglibrarian.org/articles/national-poetry-month
[35] http://programminglibrarian.org/articles/jazz-appreciation-month
[36] http://www.ala.org/aasl/slm
[37] http://www.nsvrc.org/saam/sexual-assault-awareness-month
[38] http://www.autism-society.org/get-involved/national-autism-awareness-month/
[39] http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/
[40] http://www.usasciencefestival.org/
[41] http://ovc.ncjrs.gov/ncvrw/
[42] http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek
[43] https://www.nps.gov/subjects/npscelebrates/national-park-week.htm
[44] http://www.pointsoflight.org/signature-events/national-volunteer-week
[45] http://www.ala.org/alcts/preservationweek
[46] http://www.ala.org/offices/money-smart-week
[47] http://www.readingrockets.org/calendar/dear
[48] http://ala-apa.org/nlwd/
[49] http://www.ala.org/offices/olos/nbdhome
[50] http://www.gysd.org/
[51] http://www.earthday.org/
[52] http://www.worldbooknight.org/
[53] http://dia.ala.org/
[54] http://programminglibrarian.org/articles/asian-pacific-american-heritage-month
[55] http://www.programminglibrarian.org/articles/jewish-american-heritage-month
[56] http://programminglibrarian.org/articles/national-inventors-month
[57] http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/may
[58] http://www.bikeleague.org/content/bike-month-link-round
[59] http://www.mobilityawarenessmonth.com/
[60] https://www.childwelfare.gov/fostercaremonth/
[61] https://acl.gov/oam/2019/older-americans-month-2019
[62] http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/en/
[63] http://www.bookweekonline.com/
[64] https://chooseprivacyweek.org/
[65] http://www.nws.noaa.gov/com/weatherreadynation/hurricane_preparedness.html
[66] https://www.ustravel.org/events/national-travel-and-tourism-week
[67] http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/nlld
[68] http://www.readathonday.com/
[69] http://www.ala.org/united/advocacy/virtuallegday
[70] http://programminglibrarian.org/articles/gay-and-lesbian-pride-month
[71] http://www.ala.org/glbtrt/glbt-book-month
[72] http://nmaam.org/black-music-month/
[73] http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/june16/30days.html
[74] http://www.thebookcon.com/
[75] https://rbms.info/conferences/
[76] http://2016.alaannual.org/
[77] http://printersrowlitfest.org/
[78] http://www.newyorkbookfestival.com/
[79] http://www.idfa.org/news-views/media-kits/ice-cream/july-is-national-ice-cream-month
[80] http://www.qbr.com/harlem-book-fair.aspx
[81] http://www.un.org/en/events/friendshipday/
[82] http://www.ifla.org/annual-conference
[83] http://www.nwhp.org/resources/commemorations/womens-equality-day/
[84] http://icma.org/en/icma/newsroom/highlights/Article/100637/Citizen_Engagement_An_Outgrowth_of_Civic_Awareness
[85] http://hispanicheritagemonth.gov/
[86] http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/card
[87] https://www.recoverymonth.gov/
[88] http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5196307.pdf
[89] https://www.ready.gov/september
[90] https://www.nass.org/initiatives/natl-voter-reg-month
[91] http://www.ala.org/aasl/GAME
[92] http://www.ala.org/alsc/alsc-virtual-institute-networking
[93] http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks
[94] http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/bwad
[95] http://www.constitutionday.com/
[96] http://internationaldayofpeace.org/
[97] http://nationalvoterregistrationday.org/
[98] http://www.thedotclub.org/dotday/
[99] https://www.govinfo.gov/features/information-literacy-awareness-month
[100] http://www.lgbthistorymonth.com/
[101] http://programminglibrarian.org/articles/national-arts-and-humanities-month
[102] https://www.archives.gov/news/topics/american-archives-month
[103] https://healthfinder.gov/nho/octobertoolkit.aspx
[104] https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/family/
[105] http://www.nrcdv.org/dvam/home
[106] https://www.pacer.org/bullying/nbpm/
[107] http://www.dhs.gov/national-cyber-security-awareness-month
[108] http://www.nationalreadinggroupmonth.org/
[109] http://www.ala.org/pla/education/dynamicplanning
[110] http://www.texasbookfestival.org/
[111] http://www.wisconsinbookfestival.org/
[112] http://www.ala.org/united/events_conferences/folweek
[113] http://www.worldspaceweek.org/
[114] http://teenreadweek.ning.com/
[115] http://www.openaccessweek.org/
[116] http://www.observethemoonnight.org/
[117] http://dayofthegirl.org/
[118] http://www.allhallowsread.com/
[119] http://nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/
[120] https://nanowrimo.org/
[121] http://www.cdc.gov/features/caregivers-month/
[122] http://www.alz.org/co/in_my_community_alzheimers_awareness_month.asp
[123] https://www.scholarships.com/financial-aid/college-scholarships/scholarship-information/national-scholarship-month/
[124] http://picturebookmonth.com/
[125] http://www.ilovelibraries.org/lovemylibrarian
[126] http://forum.lita.org/
[127] http://www.miamibookfair.com/
[128] http://www.nationalbook.org/
[129] https://www.sibf.com/en/home
[130] http://www.ala.org/yalsa/yasymposium
[131] http://nationalhomeless.org/about-us/projects/awareness-week/
[132] https://medialiteracyweek.us/
[133] https://afpglobal.org/NPDLove
[134] http://igd.ala.org/
[135] http://www.acui.org/wli/
[136] https://csedweek.org/
[137] https://programminglibrarian.org/articles/join-national-conversation-about-mental-health
[138] https://programminglibrarian.org/articles/celebrate-national-poetry-month
[139] https://programminglibrarian.org/articles/national-reading-group-month-and-booklist
[140] https://programminglibrarian.org/articles/national-womens-history-month
[141] https://programminglibrarian.org/articles/national-poetry-month
[142] https://programminglibrarian.org/articles/national-inventors-month