We’ve made a start on a list for 2019/2022 PD for the Asia region. Please note the following events with opportunities to attend and to present. Please email
librarynetwork@gmail.com if you know of any other opportunities to add to these. The list below is in chronological order and is followed by links to other ongoing events in the region, as well as a list of past events.
May 2020
15 May 20209 (Nexus International School Singapore): Disruption, Culture & The Future, Library Preconference Workshop by Stefanie Gaspari (
Rethinking Literacy 2020)
Links to professional development opportunities in the region
Past events
- New Librarians Symposium (Australian Library and Information Association), 5-7 July 2019 (Adelaide, Australia)
- “Truth & Lies: Trust in Times of Information Disorder” at SMU, 3 April 2019 (Singapore)
- EARCOS Librarians Weekend :Reading and research across language and culture at Taipei American School, 29-30 March 2019 (Taipei, Taiwan)
- 21st Century Learning, Hong Kong, 6-9 March 2019 (21CLHK, Hong Kong)
- 21st Century Learning TeachMeet, 29 February 2019 (Singapore)
- Asia-Pacific International Schools Conference, 12-13 December 2018 (Hong Kong)
- 21st Century Learning TeachMeet, 27 November 2018 (Singapore)
- Socratic seminars with John Zola at UWCSEA, 10-11 November 2018 (Singapore)
- IBO, Cat 3: PYP/MYP/DP–The Role of the Librarian; IBO, Cat 3: DP–Approaches to Learning, 8-10 November 2018 (Beijing)
- Librarians Knowledge Sharing Workshop (LKSW), 8-10 November 2018 (Bangkok Patana School, Thailand)
- Learning 2.0 at ASIJ (American School in Japan), 1-3 November 2018 (Tokyo, Japan)
- Job Alike Workshop (JAW) for Library Officers, 19 October 2018 (Singapore)
- 5th International Conference on Children and Young Adult’s Librarianship (National Library of the Philippines), 17-19 October 2018 (Cebu City, Philippines)
- Follett Workshop with Larry Gilbert, 17 October 2018 (Singapore)
- IBO, Cat 3: Making the PYP Library the Hub of Learning; IBO, Cat 3: MYP–Approaches to Learning, 13-15 October 2018 (Singapore)
- EduTech Asia, 8-11 October 2018 (Singapore)
- IBO, Cat 3: PYP–The Role of the Librarian, 21-23 September 2018 (Hong Kong)
- 21st Century Learning TeachMeet, 19 September 2018 (Singapore)
- TeachMeet at the Australian International School, 11 September 2018 (Singapore)
- Asian Festival of Children’s Content
- IBO, Cat 3: PYP/MYP–The Role of the Librarian ; IBO, Cat 3: MYP–Approaches to Learning, 5-7 September 2018 (Banten, Indonesia)
- IFLA 84th World Library and Information Congress, 24-30 August 2018 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
- Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference, 30 July – 2 August 2018 (Queensland, Australia)
- 21st Century Learning Hong Kong, 17-19 Jan 2018 (Hong Kong)
- EARCOS: 2015: The Tech-Integrated Library, Taipei American School, Nov 7-8
- EARCOS Teachers’ Conference in Bangkok. 29-31 March 2018 (Bangkok, Thailand)
- Google Apps Education Summit Conferences — Asia
- IASL (International Association of School Libraries) conference schedule
- IBBY – International Board on Books for Young People
- Innovative Global Education
- ISLN – Hands on Literacy (November 2012)
- Learning 2.0
- Librarians Knowledge Sharing Workshop & Job-Alike
- The School Librarian Connection
- Singapore American School
- UWCSEA Centre for International Education
- 2017: Singapore: reThinking Literacy, UWCSEA Dover, May 11-13 (in conjunction with 21st Century Learning)
- 2017: Singapore: reThinking Numeracy, UWCSEA Dover, May 4-6 (in conjunction with 21st Century Learning)
- 2016: reThinkingLiteracy, UWCSEA Dover campus, Apr 21-23
- Vision 2020 – a workshop by Kevin Hennah, 23 September 2019
- 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice, 4-7 November 2019