The International Reading Association (IRA) will hold its conference May 4—8, 2008 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. IRA is a partner organization with ALA and ALSC. This is a major conference, with more than 450 sessions, 300 exhibitors, and lots of authors and illustrators. One of the keynote speakers will be Jamie Lee Curtis. Other authors include Walter Dean Myers, Gail Gibbons, Alexie Sherman, and Alice Walker, just to name a few!
Information about the conference is online at http://www.reading.org/association/meetings/annual.html. I have been able to attend a couple of IRA conferences and it is especially interesting to see how our work as school and public librarians meshes with that of other reading professionals. Preregistration is open through April 7, 2008. After that date, you must register on-site.