The ARL Board of Directors has confirmed Knoxville, Tennessee, as the site for ARL’s 2026 Spring Association Meeting, to be held Monday–Wednesday, April 27–29. ARL’s semiannual Association Meetings bring together ARL member representatives in Canada and the United States, along with other leaders in the research community, to discuss current and future realities. A new location is selected each year for the Spring Meeting, to showcase various member institutions and their work. These meetings provide an opportunity to learn in a collaborative space.
The 2026 Spring Association Meeting cohosts are six ARL member institutions in the Southeast US—University of Georgia; University of Kentucky; University of Louisville; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Vanderbilt University; and Virginia Tech—as well as Oak Ridge National Laboratory. More information about the 2026 Spring Meeting will be available in the coming months.
“On behalf of ARL, we thank our member institutions in the Southeast and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for hosting the Spring 2026 Association Meeting,” said Andrew K. Pace, ARL executive director. “Each year our Spring Meeting convenes in a different region to provide member representatives an opportunity to meet formally and informally on topics of shared interest and to learn more about the host institutions in person. The 2026 Spring Meeting will be an excellent opportunity to connect and continue this tradition.”
About the Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of research libraries in Canada and the US whose vision is to create a trusted, equitable, and inclusive research and learning ecosystem and prepare library leaders to advance this work in strategic partnership with member libraries and other organizations worldwide. ARL’s mission is to empower and advocate for research libraries and archives to shape, influence, and implement institutional, national, and international policy. ARL develops the next generation of leaders and enables strategic cooperation among partner institutions to benefit scholarship and society. ARL is on the web at ARL.org.
