Registration is now open for School Library Collection Fair. For the first time since 2019, Tenn-Share will be holding this free vendor fair and TEL professional development opportunity on November 7th, 2025 from 10am-4pm CT at the John P. Holt Brentwood Library in Brentwood, TN.
At this event school and youth services librarians will get a chance to connect with vendor partners, purchase collection items and build relationships while also having an opportunity to learn about vendor and TEL resources.
Registration will close on 10/27/25 and more event details will be sent to you via email after that date.
Event Schedule (more details to come!)
9:30am – 11:45 am CT – Vendor Fair and TEL PD
11:45 am – 1:15 pm CT – Lunch
1:30 pm – 4 pm CT – Vendor Fair and TEL PD
Confirmed Vendor Partners (will continue to be updated as information is received)
| Vendor | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Gale | Gale provides schools with access to carefully curated, curriculum-aligned content and professional learning resources. Readily accessible, our content is paired with an intuitive, user-friendly experience that makes it easy for educators to meet students where they are—all while prioritizing their own professional growth and self-care. |  |
| Ingram | Ingram Library Services is a trusted partner for libraries, offering comprehensive solutions including collection development, cataloging, processing, and ordering tools. Their services help libraries streamline acquisitions, enhance discoverability, and meet the evolving needs of their communities. With a focus on innovation and support, Ingram empowers libraries to deliver exceptional experiences to their patrons. |  |
| Junior Library Guild | Unbox a Century of Collection Expertise. A curated selection of the best new books delivered monthly by a trusted partner with 95 years of experience serving libraries. Targeted collection growth, professional reviews, time savings for librarians, and a monthly wave of excitement for K-12 readers, all in one single box. |  |
| Mackin | For over 40 years, Mackin has provided PK-12 libraries and classrooms with access to over 4.2 million print and digital titles. The 23-time, multi-award-winning digital content management system, MackinVIA, along with divisions Mackin Classroom, MackinMaker, Mackin Learning, and the brand-new, whole-school resource management system, MackinVision, help to create a truly unique and robust educational resource company that schools and educators have relied on year after year. |  |
| Marshall and Rose | Fun, local bookish jewelry and trinkets! |  |
| Mike Howard Educational Services | For the past 25 years, Mike Howard has been an independent, direct publisher's representative. Mike works with Library Media Specialists across Kentucky and West and Middle Tennessee, and is representing the following publishers:      |  |
| Perma-Bound | Perma-Bound is a leader in book rebinding with over 65 years of experience setting industry standards by being the first to offer an unconditional guarantee on our Perma-Bound books. Perma-Bound is a family owned and operated company laser focused upon providing small town personalized customer service and offerings from thousands of publishers in an assortment of bindings and formats. |  |
| Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) | The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is a virtual library that you can access from your home computer, school computer lab, or smartphone – anywhere with an Internet connection. Access to over 400,000 electronic resources including magazines, scholarly journals, podcasts, videos, e-books, test preparation materials, federal census records, Tennessee primary source materials, and more can all be found here. All types of nonprofit libraries participate in TEL and benefit from the wide range of information TEL databases offer, including homework help to new readers, consumer health information, business resources, leisure reading suggestions, current event essays, academic and civil service test preparation help, and genealogy and family history sources. Over 1.2 million searches are performed each month across the various TEL databases. Since 1999, the Tennessee Electronic Library has been dedicated to providing equal access to this expansive collection of electronic resources for all Tennesseans. TEL saves individual libraries money by providing core reference materials, journals, newspapers and is of special benefit to smaller and rural libraries since they could not afford these databases on their own. The Tennessee Electronic Library is made possible through funding provided by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. TEL is administered by the Tennessee State Library and Archives, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State, Secretary Tre Hargett. |  |
| Tennessee Library for Accessible Books & Media | The Tennessee Library for Accessible Books & Media (LABM) provides free public library services to any Tennesseean who has a disability which makes it difficult for them to read standard print. We loan our audio, braille and large print materials all over Tennessee through the U.S. Postal Service’s “free matter” mailing privilege, so there are not even any postage fees. In addition, we have a website and app which makes it possible to download the braille and audio books and magazines to a smartphone, tablet, braille display (which we loan to braille readers), or a smart speaker. We also loan talking book players for use with the audio books. The LABM is part of a national network of such libraries in every state and the territories. U.S. citizens with print disabilities can borrow the materials anywhere in the world. |  |