Prospectus

We Persist at the OLA Super Conference 2026!

Super EXPO 2026

Thank you for your interest in the OLA Super Conference 2026 and the EXPO. It is Canada’s largest annual library and information event. The OLA Super Conference attracted 4,648 attendees (in-person & virtual) in 2025.

The 2026 OLA Super Conference will be returning to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

In the past few years, we have learned the importance of holding event spaces and gatherings that are both flexible and accessible for attendees, and we know how important it is to provide options. We are excited to meet in-person for Super Conference 2026, while also curating a Digital Experience that allows OLA members to choose how they attend and participate in the conference.

OLA Super Conference has grown steadily since 1999 and is recognized as a leading event for professional development and networking on the continent. Many vendors come to OLA when they have policies not to attend state/provincial level conferences because of the sheer size and market size that is presented to them.

Please look at the Prospectus below for all the information on the event. Remember that OLA Associate Members receive a discount on space and preference for allocation.

We Persist

Persistence is woven into every aspect of our profession. It is evident in our resilience in the face of existential challenges. It is evident in our steadfast efforts to build, and to bridge, and to make magic with increasingly fewer resources. It is evident in our every act of advocacy when the question is asked: what, and who, are libraries for anyway? Our persistence, our resistance, our belief in this work, is what makes our communities, our schools, and our organizations stronger.

There is an inherent grittiness, a quiet kind of determination in library and information work. As librarians, library workers, researchers, and educators, industry-wide budget cuts and systematic censorship is routine to us; material challenges place us deeply in the trenches of defending the freedom to read and intellectual freedom. We justify our existence in the face of every challenge, stiffening our resolve to represent our communities, to uplift underrepresented and equity-deserving voices, to raise awareness about the detrimental effects of losing libraries in schools, in colleges, in spaces of all kinds. And we do this work with passion and unending determination.

This work, this persistence that is so crucial to our professional roots, is collective action. Through sessions, workshops, socials and beyond at Super Conference 2026, we commit to not only recognizing but building on and celebrating this collective strength. We need one another, now more than ever before.

Together, we persist. Will you join us?

EXPO Dates

Thanks again for your interest and we look forward to seeing you in Toronto this January.

ALERT – OLA is  NOT working with any external vendors to book hotel rooms or to sell any attendee information. Please disregard any emails or phone calls regarding hotels or email lists that are not sent directly from OLA.

For more information please contact:
gap. point. reach. inc. [non-profit leadership]
Phone:  416.699.1938
Email:  info@gappointreach.com

GPR has been appointed OLA’s official representative for advertising, sponsorship, and exhibit sales.