60

8:00 - 9:00 

Sign-in & Breakfast

15

9:00 - 9:15

Opening Remarks

20

9:15 - 9:35

Opening Activity

15 - 20

9:35 - 9:55

Individual Presentation: “Reciprocity in Practice: Building Resilient Cross-Institutional Partnerships from Crisis” by Amanda Schlumpberger

Summary:

This presentation focuses on supporting communities under stress, the evolving role of academic librarians in supporting communities, and creating resilient, sustained, and mutually beneficial cross-institutional partnerships and collaborations. The presenter will share experiences of a University of Kansas (KU) librarian and their collaboration with Haskell Indian Nations University.

In February 2025, the federal Bureau of Indian Education ordered Haskell University in Lawrence, KS to immediately terminate probationary employees. The terminations resulted in more than a quarter of the university’s staff being laid off, including faculty who were in the middle of teaching courses for the spring semester. KU library faculty and staff rallied to determine how to support the Haskell library. This presentation will address the ways KU Libraries helped provide instruction and research support to Haskell in collaboration with Haskell librarians. It describes the structural supports and personal relationships in place to make partnership work. It also looks at the challenges faced and strategies used to navigate those barriers. Most significantly, it will detail outcomes with special attention given to how recognizing a moment of need at a cross-institutional partner helped establish more sustained and resilient community engagement between KU Libraries and Haskell's Library.

5 

9:55 - 10:00

Q + A

30 - 50

10:00 - 10:50

Panel: “Ensuring History: Decentralization, Documenting Dissent, and Academic Freedom at Columbia University” by Conrad Lochner, EY Zipris, Emily Reardon 

Summary: 

Ensuring History: Decentralization, Documenting Dissent, and Academic Freedom at Columbia University looks to examine the possibility and viability of decentralized archives and networks within the framework of protest activism as a pedagogical tool whether by way of informal or institutional use. Part of this exploration is understanding how to create, preserve, and disseminate this material in a methodology that maintains a sense of ethical equity opposed to systemic exclusion. 

10

10:50 - 11:00

Q + A

15

11:00 - 11:15

Activity for Session 1

20

11:15 - 11:35

Break (Coffee + Snacks)

10 - 15

11:35 - 11:50

Lightning Talk: “Presence in the Present: Queer Liberation Library Pushes Back Against Censorship” by Kieran Hickey (he/they)

Summary: 

In response to the escalating climate of censorship entwined with the fear of LGBTQ2IA+ information and topics, a group of professionals in librarianship, nonprofits, and technology came together to create something new. Queer Liberation Library (or QLL) is a digital library project that offers access to LGBTQ2IA+ literature, information, and resources to its members across the United States. QLL is both an effort of resistance in the present moment and an opportunity to stay present as the queer information landscape evolves alongside wider political movements of censorship and extremist conservatism. Learn about QLL’s mission and vision, its unique place in the information access ecosystem, and its relevance to academic research and academic librarianship. 

10 - 15

11:50 - 12:05

Lightning Talk: “Mapping Library Resources: A Circumnavigation of the Academic Library” by Roxy Rico

Summary:

Students have a world of resources available to them through academic libraries, but locating and navigating those resources can feel overwhelming, even for experienced researchers. This lightning talk explores the re-envisioning of the academic library system's digital and physical resources through the creation of a series of hand-drawn maps. The maps include two fantasy imaginings of Columbia University online library resources and one non-literal interpretation of real library locations at Columbia. This presentation invites attendees to rethink library signage, student engagement, and the relationship between physical and digital library resources. 

15

12:05 - 12:20

Activity for Sessions 2 + 3

10

12:20 - 12:30

Q + A 

70

12:30 - 1:40

Lunch

15 - 20

1:40 - 2:00

Individual Presentation: “Beyond Misinformation: Strategies and Tactics for Addressing the Growing and Pernicious Problem of the Misrepresentation and Misappropriation of Research” by Winn. W. Wasson

Summary:

In today’s information environment, researchers must prepare for the possibility that their research could go viral—but in a way that misunderstands, misrepresents, or misappropriates their research. This is a growing and pernicious trend, but libraries can support researchers contending with the politicization of their research. I created—and since 2021, have been teaching—a workshop to help prepare students and faculty for the possible misrepresentation and misappropriation of their research. The workshop’s content includes the use of social media and tools provided by an educational institution’s library databases to keep current on one’s field of research and the public discourse surrounding it. It also covers options for responding to incidents, as well as opportunities to practice those responses. I am currently adapting the workshop into a LibGuide and asynchronous videos for use by a wider audience. Attendees at this presentation will come away with a recognition of the growing problem of the misrepresentation and misappropriation of research; the ability to evaluate suggested strategies and tactics—and devise new ones—for proactively developing responses to incidents.; and the ability to assess how they can advise students and faculty at their own campuses on preparation and response. 

15- 20

2:00 - 2:20

Individual Presentation: “Presenting Sex in the Library: Sexual Information Literacy, Embodiment, and the Evolving Role of the Academic Librarian” by Alex (or AGP) Gallin-Parisi

15

2:20 - 2:35

Activity for Session 4

10

2:35 - 2:45

Q + A

15

2:45 - 3:00

Break: Coffee + Dessert

15

3:00 - 3:15

Closing Activity

10

3:15 - 3:25

Time to Share 

10

3:25 - 3:35 

Call to Action

15

3:35 - 3:50

Closing Remarks