Say YES With Ingram Library Services
Join us at ALA Annual 2026 as we celebrate everything libraries make possible. Visit our booth to discover tools that simplify your workflow, meet our experts, connect with authors, and get inspired with forward‑thinking educational sessions designed to help you serve your patrons better than ever.
Your one-stop destination for everything new, next, and noteworthy in library collections, services, and technology.
Connect one-on-one with the people behind the tools and services you rely on.
Experts available to meet on-site:
Post your problem, explore ideas from peers, and discover how our tools and services can help you overcome obstacles. Plus, see how public libraries across the nation are innovating and improving their processes together.
Join us for sessions designed around what libraries need now — efficiency, discovery, access, community insights, and smarter collection strategies.
Featured Sessions:
Build an efficient acquisitions workflow in ipage that reduces manual work, improves visibility, and keeps orders moving. This session covers practical tools and techniques to help you:
Walk away with actionable tips to optimize your daily workflow, improve consistency, and keep materials moving smoothly from selection to shelf.
Ideal for: Acquisitions and technical services staff
Date: June 27, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM CT
Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick - Regency Ballroom E
Learn how ipage supports strategic, data‑informed collection development. Streamline selection from discovery to purchase and build collections that reflect and anticipate community needs. In this session, you’ll learn how to:
Whether you’re building frontlist excitement or filling backlist gaps, this session helps you work more efficiently and with confidence.
Ideal for: Collection development librarians and selectors
Date: June 27, 2026
Time: 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM CT
Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick - Regency Ballroom E
A discussion for public librarians focused on building efficient, consistent, and sustainable workflows with Ingram.
You’ll leave with actionable processes you can take back to your team.
Date: June 27, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT
Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick - Regency Ballroom E
Lunch Provided
There’s a lot of noise around value-added services—what works, what doesn’t, and what’s even possible. We’re cutting through it.
Join us for a clear, honest conversation about how shelf-ready workflows, metadata, fulfillment, and logistics come together to support your team. No assumptions. No guesswork. Just a transparent look at what we can do—and where we can say YES.
Bring your questions. Share your challenges. Leave with clarity.
Date: June 27, 2026
Time: 4:15 PM – 5:00 PM CT
Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick - Regency Ballroom E
Join library leaders, advocates, and innovators for a full day focused on the future of ebooks and audiobooks in libraries. From legislative and policy updates to practical collection strategies and emerging innovations, this program offers timely insights and real-world perspectives. Engage in rapid updates, collaborative discussions, and meaningful conversations with peers working to expand and sustain digital access for library communities.
Date: June 25, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM CT
Location: McCormick Place W 190
Everyone is Welcome
Join us for a consultation designed to help libraries refine workflows, reduce everyday challenges, and get more value from existing tools and services.
In this session, Ingram’s Collection Development team will help you:
Complete a short form and our team will reach out to schedule your session.
Libraries are being asked to move beyond reactive decisions toward a more proactive, connected model — one that links community demographics, cultural and language trends, collection strategy, outreach, and measurable engagement. This session brings together three organizations working collaboratively to listen, learn, and help move this work forward — guided by librarians’ real questions, challenges, and aspirations.
A Collaborative Approach to a Growing Challenge
Across the library ecosystem, the same questions keep surfacing:
Rather than addressing these challenges in isolation, three organizations are coming together to convene librarians, share perspectives, and explore more connected, proactive approaches that support stronger outcomes for communities.
Date: June 27, 2026
Time: 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT
Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick - Regency Ballroom E
Meet bestselling and emerging authors live at the Ingram Library Services booth. Get free signed copies and connect with storytellers shaping the literary landscape.
Featured Authors:
Friday, June 26th
5:00 – 5:30 PM
Meg Anderson | The Memory of Borrowed Books
6:00 – 6:30 PM
Katie Weaver | Have You Ever Wondered?
Kari-Lynn Winters | Double Up Day! (Booth 3225E)
6:30 – 7:00 PM
Jay Miletsky | Ricky the Rock That Couldn’t Roll
Saturday, June 27th
9:00 – 10:00 AM
Pauline Frommer | Frommer’s New York City 2026
10:00 – 10: 30 AM
Nathan Weidman | Thirty-Six Fighting Holes
E.E. Hornburg | The Night’s Chosen (Booth 3225E)
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Wayne D. Kramer | Penny the Pangolin and the Termite Trophy
David Lee Csicsko | Iconic Artists (Booth 3225E)
Kathy Stinson & Mark Hoffman | Boogy & Tee and Twinkle & Hew (Booth 3123)
11:00 – 11: 30 AM
Jenny Robinson Clark | Are You Here?
Michelle Kadarusman | Listening for Tigers / Music for Tigers (Booth 3225E)
Sid Sharp | Bog Myrtle (Booth 3126)
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Angela Pelster | The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming (Booth 1432)
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Nivola Uyá | ¡Bonita es la Vida! (Booth 3225E)
Lisl H. Detlefsen | My Mom is Like a Kite (Booth 3123)
12:00 – 12:30 PM
Colleen Nelson | How to Save a Library
12:30 – 1:00 PM
Phil Cousineau | Wisdom of the Odyssey: Twenty-four Life Lessons from Homer’s Epic
1:00 – 1:30 PM
Jane Hamilton | The Phoebe Variations
Misael Osorio-Conde | Some Were Just the Fragments (Booth 3225E)
Ariana Koultourides | Platypus and Puggle: Unusual Animals Big and Small (Booth 3126)
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Kari-Lynn Winters | Double-Up Day!
Tanya Konerman | Mud to the Rescue! How Animals Use Mud to Thrive and Survive (Booth 3225E)
1:30 – 2:30 PM
Maria DesJarlait | I Am Not a Costume (Booth 3129)
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Teresa Power | Little Mouse Adventures: In Search of the Holy Grail
Dorothy Lazard | Behind the Desk at the Main: A Librarian’s Memoir (Booth 3225E)
Diane Alber | Purple Space Chickens (Booth 3423)
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Gwen Mayes | More Person Than Patient: Finding Your Purpose and Power with Chronic Illness
3:00 – 3:30 PM
Heidi E. Y. Stemple | The Poetry of Car Mechanics Colleen Nelson | How to Save a Library (Booth 3225E)
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Ron Keres | The Book is Mine! (Finn the Frog)
Sunday, June 28th
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Carol McCloud | Have You Filled a Bucket Today
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Ann D. Koffsky | What Emma Wrote: The Woman Behind the Words of the Statue of Liberty
Kelli Christianson | After the End: A Postwar Novel (Booth 3225E)
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Kate Hannigan | Louisa Learns to Write Lousia May Alcott Creates Little Women Kathleen Reidy | Engineering a Love Story: A Novel (Booth 3225E)
11:00 – 11: 30 AM
Michelle Kadarusman | Listening for Tigers / Music for Tigers
Laura Stanfill | The Neighborhood Dames (Booth 3225E)
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Hannah Chung | Bread Days
1:00 – 1:30 PM
Angela Page | Bountiful: Growing Up With Geraldine Page
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Clay Anderson | This I Know Collen
Delaney | The Hedge Witch (Booth 3225E)
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Robert A. Pape | Our Own Worst Enemies
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Grace Daly | The Scald-Crow (Booth 3225E)
3:00 – 3:30 PM
Julian Peters | Nature Poems to See
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Barb Rosenstock | American Spirits: The Famous Fox Sisters and the Mysterious Fad That Haunted a Nation
4:30 – 5:00 PM
Grace Daly | The Scald-Crow (Booth 3225E)
Monday, June 29th
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Lindsay Merbaum | Witches of the Wheel (Booth 3225E)
McCormick Place Convention Center W 471 b
Beyond Dewey and BISAC: WholeStory’s Natural-Language Approach to Increasing Circulation and Building Patron Knowledge
Traditional systems like Dewey and BISAC don’t just feel rigid—they fragment concepts and often isolate marginalized voices instead of placing them in meaningful context. This session introduces WholeStory, a forthcoming organizational model that reimagines classification for discovery, serendipity, and learning. By grouping titles in user-friendly ways that encourage the discovery of more titles and reflect how subjects are organized in the world, WholeStory helps public libraries boost circulation, highlights diverse perspectives in context, and creates collections that feel connected and relevant. Learn why this shift matters, how it can transform patron engagement, and how interested librarians can help.
Featured speakers:
McCormick Place Convention Center W 471 b
Indie Titles, Fair Chances: A Selector’s Toolkit for Smart Picks
Small presses bring fresh, often diverse voices, but how do you separate hidden gems from risky buys? This session gives library selectors a practical checklist to evaluate indie titles quickly and confidently. Learn the key quality signals that predict success. Walk away with an appraisal grid and a short list of review and metadata cues to make every indie decision faster, fairer, and smarter.
Featured speakers:
McCormick Place Convention Center, Tech Talk Stage
How Ingram Helps Libraries Reach Catalogs and Galleys
Libraries and publishers share a common mission: connecting readers with the right books. This session introduces a new tool designed to strengthen that connection by improving access, elevating diverse catalogs, and reducing friction in how libraries discover, evaluate, and plan for forthcoming titles. Join us for an early look at this new experience and learn how you can help shape what comes next for library-centered collection development.
Featured speakers: