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Booking is now open for the Library & Information History Group's 2013 conference. This year's conference, entitled "Libraries in the Public Sphere: How the past informs the present and the future", will be held on Monday 1 July, at Manchester Metropolitan University, as a satellite to CILIP Umbrella (which starts on the Tuesday). The conference is packed with papers that are bound to generate discussion. From the effects of austerity on collection development to the organisation of voluntary libraries, the historical perspective is strikingly relevant to the challenges facing libraries today. Papers cover a range of topics from mobile libraries to academic liaison. The conference is very reasonably priced and highly accessible (for instance, it is easily possible to arrive by train from London on the day, in time to register). The full conference programme, further details, and booking form are available at www.lihg.org/conference.