Library Celebration Days

📅 2025–2026 School Library Events Tentative Calendar

Mark your calendars and join us in celebrating reading, learning, and community!

September 2025 – Library Card Sign-Up Month & Orientations

• 6 – National Read a Book Day

• 8 – International Literacy Day

• 18 – Read an E-book Day

October 2025 – TeenTober Month

• 5–11 – Banned Books Week; theme: “Censorship is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” 

• 11 – Myth and Legends Day

• 19-25-– National Friends of Libraries Week

• 16 – Dictionary Day

• 27-31–Global Media and Information Literacy Week
  
  

November 2025 – International Games Month

• All Month – NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

• 07-13–National Book Award Week

• 10-14 – National Young Readers Week

December 2025

• 10 – Dewey Decimal System Day

• 21 – National Short Story Day; Short Fiction Day
  
  

January 2026

• 01-– Copyright Law Day

• 02-– National Science Fiction Day

• 12-18- Universal Letter Writing Week 

• 14– Poetry at Work Day 

• 16– Book Publishers Day

• 18– National Thesaurus Day
  
  

February 2026 

• 01-09–National Storytelling Week

• 05–World Read Aloud Day

• 14 – International Book Giving Day; Library Lovers Day; Read to Your Child Day
  
  

March 2026

• 02 – Read Across America Day

• 02-08 – Read an E-book Week

• 19–International Read to Me Day

• 16-22–World Folktales and Fables Week

• 20 – World Storytelling Day; Bibliomania Day

• 21 – World Poetry Day
  
  

April 2026 – School Library Month

• 04 – National School Librarian Day

• 06-12 – National Library Week (Theme: “Drawn to the Library!”)

• 10–Take Action for Libraries Day; Support Teen Literature Day; National Poem in Your Pocket Day

• 12 – Drop Everything and Read (D.E.A.R.) Day

• 23 – World Book Day; National Email Day

• 23 – Shakespeare Day; Talk Like Shakespeare Day

• 27–National Tell A Story Day

• 28 – Great Poetry Reading Day
  
  

May 2026

• All Month – Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month