New Campaign Schedule for Libraries Week 2025

SAVE THE DATES 2025: Libraries Week (Libraries Change Lives) will take place in June and Green Libraries Week in October.

Through a new campaign approach and schedule, CILIP will lead two separate annual campaigns with partners promoting the impactful work delivered by all information professionals.

The new annual programme for campaigns is:

Libraries Week: Libraries Change Lives, Monday 2 June – Sunday 8 June 2025. Keep an eye out for updates from CILIP with information, resources and key events about this week of advocacy including opportunities for partners to engage.

Green Libraries Week, Monday 27 October – Sunday 2 November 2025. Green Libraries Week brings together a campaign andcelebration to focus on climate change and sustainability. 2025 sees the return of the Green Libraries Conference.

The new schedule was tested in 2024 and encompasses recommendations from the Sanderson Report to harness political engagement for Libraries Week by moving it from October to June each year as a more appropriate time in the parliamentary calendar.

Delivering the Libraries Change Lives campaign through the Libraries Week initiative will drive advocacy and political engagement for all information professionals and the broader library and knowledge sector.

To harness and build on the growing impact of Green Libraries Week, it has been established as a separate public engagement campaign and sector initiative taking place each October.

Establishing new regular slots for Libraries Week and Green Libraries Week will help CILIP get more people and decision makers talking about how information professionals are at the heart of business, education, healthcare and society.