LibreTexts June 2026 Newsletter

LibreTexts News & Updates | June 2026  

Greetings, LibreTexts Community! 

Keep reading for the latest updates from the LibreTexts team.

Be sure to subscribe to our new calendar of events to stay up-to-date on all our workshops, webinars, conferences, and other events!

That's a Wrap: ALA Conference 2026

Last week, Director of Outreach, Engagement, and Development, Jennifer Rogers, and Director of Curriculum Innovation and Development, Justin Shorb represented LibreTexts at the American Library Association Conference in Chicago.

They spoke with librarians from institutions of every size, across the country, including many just starting out on their open education journey. These conversations matter more than ever as librarians are essential partners in information literacy and resource curation, and their work shapes what students can access and how they learn. Growing our outreach to academic librarians is a core piece of LibreTexts 2025-2028 Strategic Plan, and it's a priority we're carrying forward into 2026 and beyond.

ALA was exactly the kind of room we needed to be in: librarians eager to learn what open education is all about, and others ready to begin building initiatives for their own communities.

Quick post-conference fun: reply to this email with your favorite Benny the Owl character, and if you're one of the first five to respond, you'll be entered to win one of the very first Benny plushies, your own pocket-sized LibreTexts mascot.

LibreFest is Right Around the Corner

As the calendar turns to July we are one step closer to this year's annual virtual LibreFest workshop. Registration will be open through the start of event on July 13. There's also still time to volunteer to for a breakout room, or present a success story by July 5.

Additional information and registration is on our website: https://academy.libretexts.org/event/librefest-2026-1/register

Noteworthy 

Since our start in 2008, the LibreTexts team has facilitated faculty collaborations across the country, helping instructors work together on building new course content while making powerful connections across institutions and disciplines. Making it easier for our community to work together and build their own communities starts here! Currently we have faculty looking to work on the following projects over the next year: 

• Introduction to Special Education for K-12 Classrooms - especially on describing how to implement best-practices in the classroom (textbook)
• Organic Chemistry Structure-based Question Writing (using ADAPT Sketcher)
• Voice and Video thread-based question writing for language courses (ADAPT Discuss-It); Especially in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, and Italian
• Collaboration opportunities for Education Research
• Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Nanomaterials
• Mathematics in Context, Intro to Physics, Sport Studies,
• Emerging technologies, UDL in ID, Learning theories in action, instructional strategies for e-learning, ID models through experiential learning

If you are interested in finding collaborators, asking questions about how LibreTexts are used in other people’s classes, or other communities of practice, please head over to the new LibreTexts Connections Forum and join the conversations! 

  Is your institution part of our LibreNet consortium? If not, consider joining and become part of a growing community of OER practitioners and advocates unlike any other. More information about the numerous benefits of LibreNet membership can be found on our website. 

  Have you heard about our professional development opportunities through LibreTexts Academy? From year long cohorts to asynchronous webinars, Academy has something for all of the OER advocates and practitioners in your life. Head over to our website and fill out an interest form to get started. 

  Don't forget about our First Friday Features posted on our Connections Forum on the first Friday of each month. Be sure to follow the First Friday Features tag to ensure you receive a notification every time a new video is available. Look for the next installment on July 3!