The European Print Initiatives Collaboration (EPICo) network is delighted to announce the next EPICo Conference, taking place from Wednesday 30 September to Friday 2 October 2026. The main conference will be held at the British Library's Knowledge Centre in London, with a limited number of places available for an optional visit to the Library’s high-volume storage facility in Yorkshire the day before the conference starts, on Tuesday 29 September.
Building on the traditions established since the first meeting in Kuopio, Finland in 1999, the EPICo Conference will once again focus on collaborative approaches to the management and preservation of physical library collections with the theme Libraries Together: Safeguarding Our Collections for the Future.
Previous Conferences
EPICo Conference, 2024
'Importance of Print in a Digital World'
Barcelona, Catalunya
25th - 27th September 2024
Presentations by conference speakers can be viewed at University of Vienna's repository
EPICo/Kuopio Conference, 2022
'Review and Renew: Collection Management Policies in a Digital Age'
Vienna, Austria
7th-9th September 2022
Presentations by conference speakers can be viewed at University of Vienna's repository
Kuopio Conference, 2018
"A Matter of Trust. Cooperative Print Storage and Shared Archiving Initiatives"
Basel, Switzerland
14th to 16th March 2018
Kuopio Conference, 2015
"Aligning Commercial and Public Document Repositories to Facilitate Free and Sustainable Information"
Kuopio, Finland
21st to 22nd May 2015
Kuopio Conference, 2012
"Global Policies, Imperatives and Solutions for the Efficient Library Collection Management and Access to Less Used Documents"
Kuopio, Finland
9th to 10th August 2012
IFLA preconference to IFLA 2012 in Helsinki. Sponsored by IFLA sections on Acquisition and Collection Development and Serials and Other Continuing Resources.
Proceedings: O'Connor, S. (ed.). (2013) Special Issue: Kuopio: Third [sic] International Conference on Repository Libraries. Library Management. 34 (4/5)
Kuopio Conference, 2009
"The Universal Repository Library and Guarantees for the Sustainability of Digital Copy"
Kuopio, Finland
29th to 30th October 2009
Sponsored by IFLA sections on Acquisition and Collection Development and LIBER (The Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche).
Kuopio Conference, 2004
"Preserving and Maintaining Availability of Print Material. The Role of Repository Libraries"
Kuopio, Finland
13th to 15th May 2004
Proceedings: O'Connor, S. (ed.). (2005) Special Issue: Repository print libraries: Vital strategies in the digital world. Library Management. 26 (1/2)
Kuopio Conference, 1999
"Solving Collection Problems Through Repository Strategies. The Economics of Repository Libraries."
Kuopio, Finland
9th-11th May 1999
Proceedings: Pauline Connolly (ed.): "Solving Collection Problems Through Repository Strategies". Boston Spa, IFLA Offices for UAP and International Lending, 1999. ISBN 0-95324394-X