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Deadline for Submissions is September 4.

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Libraries as Community Thinking Partners:
Empowering Growth Through Technology, Knowledge, and Human Imagination

Computers in Libraries features the best and brightest minds from all library environments. If you are ready to share practical insights, spark new ideas, and help navigate the future of libraries, apply to be a speaker!

For generations, libraries have connected people with information. Today, they connect communities with something even more valuable: the ability to think, learn, create, and solve problems together.

As AI reshapes education, research, government, business, and everyday life, libraries are evolving beyond their traditional role as providers of information and technology. They are becoming trusted community thinking partners—helping people ask better questions, evaluate information critically, navigate complexity, and transform knowledge into meaningful action.

Technology alone does not create informed communities. Human curiosity, critical thinking, collaboration, and imagination remain essential. Libraries uniquely combine these strengths with emerging technologies, creating spaces where people can explore ideas, develop new skills, and prepare for an increasingly complex world.

Computers in Libraries 2027 explores how libraries are leading this transformation. Through innovative technologies, strategic partnerships, digital literacy, AI, research support, community engagement, and lifelong learning, libraries are empowering their communities to thrive—not simply by providing answers, but by helping people think, discover, and innovate together.

In an age where intelligent systems can generate information instantly, libraries offer something even more enduring: trusted guidance, meaningful human connection, and the ability to turn information into understanding.

Session Topics

AI can generate answers. Libraries help communities ask better questions. This distinction defines the next chapter of librarianship.

Libraries are no longer measured solely by the information they provide, but by the curiosity they inspire, the conversations they foster, the technologies they make accessible, and the communities they empower.

Computers in Libraries 2027 celebrates libraries as catalysts for informed decision-making, lifelong learning, innovation, and civic engagement. Libraries are places where human imagination and intelligent technology work together to build stronger, smarter, and more connected communities.

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Benefits of Speaking

All accepted speakers receive a complimentary Full 3-Day Conference Pass (March 16 - 18), plus great exposure in the industry—so think over your latest success stories or technology ventures, and submit your proposal today!

How To Submit a Proposal

If you would like to participate in Computers in Libraries 2027 as a speaker or workshop leader, please submit a proposal as soon as possible (September 4 at the latest) via the Call for Speakers Form. Please be prepared to include the following brief details of your proposed presentation on the form: title, abstract, a few sentences of biographical information that relate you to the topic, and full contact information for you and your co-presenters (title, address, email, and phone). All abstracts are reviewed by the Organizing and Review Committee and notification regarding acceptance will be made later this fall.

Program Organizing and Review Committee

Program Chair
Brian Pichman, Evolve Project 

Program Coordinator
Jane I. Dysart, Dysart & Jones Associates

Review Committee
Amy Affelt, Compass Lexecon
Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services, Inc.
Marshall Breeding, Library Technology Guides
Frank Cervone, San Jose State University
M. J. D’Elia, Thirdway Think
Richard Hulser, Consultant