2025 WLA Conference

When: April 10-12, 2025
Where: Tacoma, WA

Advance registration is now closed. On-site registration will be available at the registration desk of the Greater Tacoma Convention Center, Thursday, April 10-Saturday, April 12. Please note that meal availability cannot be confirmed for on-site registration.

Conference App

Whova, the #WLA2025 conference app, is now live! We encourage you to download the app today and build your agenda, set-up carpools with other attendees, plan meet-ups, and much more!

Conference Hotel

Still need to book lodging for your trip to Tacoma? Due to demand, our group-rate discount at the Tacoma Marriott Downtown has been extended until March 28, 2025, or until rooms sell out. Find more information about the conference hotel and book your stay using the group rate here. 

Register to Sponsor/Exhibit!

Registration is open for #WLA2025 Sponsors and Exhibitors! Thank you for considering a partnership with the Washington Library Association for the 2025 Conference in Tacoma, April 11-12 at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center. 

About the Conference

Our 2025 conference theme, Building Bridges & Connecting Communities, invites you to explore the many ways libraries and library workers can bridge divides, connect individuals to valuable resources, and strengthen ties within their communities. 

Conference highlights include:

• Bridge-building opportunities to help you make meaningful, lasting connections, including Dine-Arounds, receptions, a table topics lunch, Divisional unconferences, meetups around shared interests and identities, and an app with an attendee social network.
• 50+ in-person sessions from experts and innovators in Academic, Public, School, and Special libraries across the state.
• Four meals included in your registration, refreshment breaks, receptions, and all-day coffee service.
• Keynote speakers include Peggy Janicki and Shamichael Hallman.
• WLA Book Bash featuring 30+ authors from across the PNW for a festive afternoon of signings and readings.
• Exhibit Hall packed full of library-related vendors offering giveaways, discounts, and exclusive opportunities to conference attendees.
• Virtual sessions available to all attendees to watch on demand through June 2025.
• Preconference Workshops to give a deeper dive into the topics of law and intellectual freedom, trauma in the workplace, ukulele in storytimes, accessibility audits, and political disaster preparedness.
• Extracurricular activities to get you out exploring Tacoma with new friends.
• Meet & Greet Reception at the Washington State History Museum.
• User-friendly app to help you navigate the conference with ease, build your schedule, find new connections, participate in community discussions, enter challenges to win prizes, and so much more.

About Tacoma

Join us in Tacoma, where you’ll brush elbows with a vibrant, creative community of emerging writers, artists and musicians, passionate entrepreneurs and small business owners who do their very best to add to Tacoma’s colorful commercial landscape, and families who have invested in Tacoma for its charming neighborhoods and big city amenities.

You’ll also find great places to bike, run, hike, and explore your budding passion for photography, a growing food scene that’s made national press, top-notch meeting and convention spaces, and world renowned museums. Learn more about this enriching city here.