(23 Oct 2025) CILIP is delighted to announce that the most prestigious international library event – The World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) – will take place in London and across the UK in 2027 after a successful bid by a partnership led by CILIP.
We are incredibly proud that the UK has been chosen by IFLA as the location for WLIC 2027, to coincide with IFLA’s and the Congress’s 100th anniversary celebrations, and also in a year that marks the 150th anniversary of our own founding as the Library Association. While much of the multi-day Congress will take place at the Excel Centre in East London, there will be events held across the capital and all four UK Nations.
CILIP, Excel London, and London & Partners (the city’s Convention Bureau) collaborated as bidding partners, with support from: Arts Council England; British Council; British Library; Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office; Google; House of Commons Library; Jisc; Mayor of London Sadiq Khan; Ministry of Defence; public libraries Minister Baroness Twycross; and the Publishers Association.
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