TCAF Libraries & Education Day 2025

A mainstay of TCAF for many years, Libraries & Education Day 2025 will bring together broad public and academic audiences - creating a K-16 meets GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) comics conference. A key focus of LED this year will be graphic medicine, and comics as cultural heritage alongside panels focusing on graphic novel collection development, curation, readers advisory, and advocacy. Comics are such an interdisciplinary format that we are excited for the potential conversations across disciplines and professional circles uniting higher ed, K-12, public libraries, and GLAM communities.

Time / Date: June 6, 2025 from 8:30am-5pm ET

Location: Toronto Metropolitan University Special Collections & Archives, LIB 404, 350 Victoria Street, 4th Floor, Toronto, ON

Who can attend LED? Anyone interested in learning more about comics and graphic novels in schools, libraries, K-12, Universities, higher ed, archives, special collections, and other educational environments. Whether you are just starting out or have been working with comics in educational environments for 10+ years, LED is open to all current and future comics library workers, teachers, scholars, graduate students, and other educational professionals.

If LED is free, why do I need to register? LED is free and open to all but spots are limited so please register in advance so that we know how many people to expect - and what programs you want to see more of! Please register by May 30th to save your spot!

Registration DEADLINE: Friday May 30th at 11:59pm ET

Panels/Workshops:

• Comics for Young Readers: Celebrating the Then and Embracing the Now

• Teaching, Learning, and Doing Research at Comic Cons and Festivals​

• Comics and History: Revivals, Challenges, and What Comes Next

• Bringing Naysayers into the Fold: A Hands-on Workshop on Advocating for Comics and Graphic Novels

• Manga 101

• Comics as Primary Sources for Research: A Look at TMU's WWII Canadian Comics Collection

• Ask a Comics Librarian

• Lightning Talks: Quick Pitches for Comics Education

• Comics for the K-12 and University Classroom: New and Notable Titles

• Where Are Your Comics? Classifying Comics and Graphic Novels in Libraries

. . . plus plenty of time and opportunity for networking!