We are very excited to announce the return of TCAF Libraries & Education Day (LED) June 6, 2025!
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TCAF LED is a FREE to attend, all day slate of programming open to library workers, students, educators, comic scholars, creators and anyone who wants to talk and learn more about comics, graphic novels, and education.
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 23rd to save your spot!
Panels/Workshops
Tentative list as of March 28, 2025 - final LED programming list and times to be released by mid-April 2025
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Ask a Comics Librarian
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Comics 101
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Manga 101
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WWII Canadian Comics Exhibit at Toronto Metropolitan University
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Bring Naysayers into the Fold (Workshop)
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Stop the Hate: Comics and Representation
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Graphic Medicine Panel
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Where Are Your Comics? Classifying Comics and Graphic Novels in Libraries
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Networking Opportunities
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. . . and additional panels to be announced soon!
THANK YOU
to our Institutional Sponsor for TCAF 2025 Libraries & Education Day:
+ Our Programming Partners for TCAF 2025 Libraries & Education Day:
Additional partners, sponsors, and signal boosters to come!
Want to support TCAF and LED another way?
Did you know that TCAF’s professional development programming which includes Libraries & Education Day (LED) and Word Balloon Academy (WBA) is the only FREE large scale public professional development programming around comics and graphic novels in Canada? And that our free professional programming is one of the only such initiatives in the world?
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