The 2025 edition of the annual Library as Place Conference focuses on what Canadian library planners need now more than ever: ways to make meaningful, accessible and flexible spaces by getting inventive, thinking outside of the box and tapping into the library space building community. Libraries of all sizes and sectors are ambitiously working on transformations to meet the evolving needs of their communities. At the same time, they face ongoing challenges of keeping those spaces relevant and adaptable.

The 2025 Library as Place Conference aims to teach the library, municipal, design and architecture sectors about physical space. While hosted in Ontario, 150 delegates are being welcomed from every province and country. Participants from the public, school, special and academic library sectors will meet with municipal decision makers, architects and designers. From here, they may embark on design, building and renovation projects in the library space.