Schedule

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast and Registration
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. President’s Address and ACRL/NY Business Meeting

Jane Suda, President
9:15 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. Opening Remarks 

Carrie Marten, 2024 ACRL/NY Symposium Chair
9:20 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Session 1: Individual Presentations

  • Finding Your Purpose: Leading Workshops on Justice-Oriented Scholarship
    • Claudia Berger, Sarah Lawrence College / Pratt Institute
  • TikTok as a Search Engine: Implications for Academic Librarians in Reference and Instruction
    • Kelly Karst, CUNY Brooklyn College
10:15 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Break and Posters
10:40 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. Session 2: Lightning Talks

  • What’s Information Literacy without a little Civic Engagement? Using NYC Open Data in an Information Literacy Course
    • Samantha Slattery and Gina Levitan, CUNY Hunter College
  • Who Belongs Here? Naming and Countering Epistemic Injustice in Academic Archive
    • Dorian Onifer and Mee-Len Hom, CUNY Hunter College
11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Session 3: Lightning Talks

  • On Display: Community Engagement, Counter-Stories, and Diversity Audits through Curating Reference Exhibits
    • Tierney Gleason, Fordham University
  • The Implications of Pausing Acquisitions in Special Collections Libraries
    • Melina Moe, Columbia University
11:45 a.m. – 11:55 a.m. ACRL/NY Chapter
11:55 a.m. – 1:10 p.m. Lunch and Posters
1:10 p.m. – 2:05 p.m. Session 4: Individual Presentations

  • Library and Union Values: Alignments, Frictions, and Resolutions
    • Alan Witt, SUNY Geneseo
  • Libraries as Sustainability Leaders or: How We Came To “Love” Trash
    • Zachary Vickery and Morgan Bond, SUNY Oswego
2:05 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Coffee & Dessert Break and Posters
2:30 p.m. – 3:35 p.m. Session 5: Panel Discussion

  • Fridays in May: Queer BIPOC Peer Networking Program Overview
    • Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, New York University / Pratt School of Information; Traci Mark, Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO); Sam Mandani, NYU Libraries; Stefany Merkelbach, Bard Graduate Center; Sagal Hassan, CUNY Queens College 
3:35 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Closing Remarks and Door Prizes