Spring conference 2025: Rethinking challenges, reimagining opportunities

For our spring conference in 2025 we will be in Belfast. The conference runs from Thursday 10 to Saturday 12 April.

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On Thursday we start as usual with library visits, to the Linen Hall Library and the special collections of the McClay Library, Queen’s University Belfast. 

On Friday, and Saturday morning, we will be at Union Theological College for our CPD sessions and ABTAPL meetings. The ABTAPL committee is very grateful to the staff of Union Theological College for hosting us there and for their warm hospitality. 

We hope to hear from ABTAPL members on new initiatives in our libraries, so that we can share knowledge and innovation. We will also be hearing from Atla on the results of their benchmarking survey in theological libraries. And we have a great session on openness and what it means in scholarly communications and librarianship more generally. 

We will be staying at the Malone Hotel, very close to Union Theological College, and on the Thursday evening we have a stimulating after-dinner talk lined up for conference delegates.