2026 Kentucky Library Instruction Round Table Annual Retreat

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Wednesday, July 15th (Virtual)

9:45 a.m. - 9:55 a.m. - Opening Remarks

10:00 a.m. - 10:25 a.m. - Teaching Literature Reviews by Using Restaurant Reviews (Lauren Ervin, Asbury University)

10:30 a.m. - 10:55 a.m. - Designing In‑Class Infographic Activities to Reduce AI Reliance (Sarah Drerup, University of Kentucky)

11:00 a.m. - 11:25 a.m. - One Second One Shot: Training Student Assistants in Instructional Library Work (Colten Hoot, University of Louisville)

11:30 a.m. - 11:55 a.m. - From the Classroom to Congress: Teaching, Telling, and Advocating (Jay Stringer-Vaught, Maysville Community & Technical College)

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Lunch Break

1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. - Visual Literacy Instruction and Generative AI (Courtney Stine, University of Louisville)

2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. - Got To Be Real: Using University Archives to Connect Students to the Past (Sebastian Themelis, Western Kentucky University)

2:45 p.m. - 2:55 p.m. - Closing Remarks

Thursday, July 16th (In-person at Eastern Kentucky University)

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. - Registration and Coffee/Refreshments

9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. - Keynote: Non-Judgment as Praxis: Inhabiting the Messy Middle of AI and Information Literacy (Maria T. Accardi, Indiana University Southeast) 

11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Concurrent Sessions

Session 1: Reflections from AI 101: Lessons Learned from Developing an AI Microcourse for a University Campus (Lori Bird & Katrina Salley, Transylvania University)

Session 2: Yielding Space for Finding Meaning: Students Need Time to Connect with Themselves (Rachel Riffe-Albright, Eastern Kentucky University)

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Lunch Break (group dine around or on your own)

2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. - Old Man Yells at Cloud, and You Can Too! An Information Literacy Gripe Session (Rob Detmering, University of Louisville)

3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. - From Retreat to Redesign: A Librarian: Faculty Partnership in Research Assignment Design (Cindy Judd & Angela Dial, Eastern Kentucky University)

4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. - Kindness as Resistance (Julie Howe, Centre College)

4:45 p.m. - 4:55 p.m. - Closing Remarks