2025 Conference - New York City

Join us for the 70th annual SALALM Conference! 

This international meeting gathers librarians, archivists, scholars, students, book/information professionals, and book dealers interested in collecting, preserving, and providing access to academic library resources in all formats relevant to Latin America, the Caribbean, Iberia, and their diasporic communities. 
We are pleased to welcome participants to New York, NY, USA, May 26-29, 2025. The theme for SALALM 70 is “Hay que volar con lo establecido”*: Libraries and Contracultura(s) in las Américas * Los Violadores “Viejos patéticos” (1983)

This year’s conference is hosted by New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), in partnership with Columbia University, the City University of New York, and the New York Public Library. Most of the events will take place at New York University.

Please join us at our conference hotel, the Moxy NYC East Village. See our HOTEL page for information and a link to reserve your room.
The Local Arrangements committee is co-chaired by Angela Carreño and Nelson Santana. Members include Eric Silberberg, Jhensen Ortiz, Silvia Cho, and Sarah Aponte, with assistance from Melissa Aslo de la Torre and Alejandro Herrera Prada. Please contact local-arrangements@salalm.org with any questions or concerns.