Friday, April 24, 2026 from 9 AM - 4 PM

University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

Schedule with abstracts

8:30 - 9:00 AM

• Breakfast & Networking

9:00 - 9:20 AM

• Welcome and Presentation of the Academic Innovator Award

9:30 - 10:20 AM

• Library Voices in Campus Conversations

• Successes and Challenges with Teaching Data Literacy in Academic Libraries

• Save Our Signs: Countering Censorship through Collaboration

10:30 - 11:20 AM

• Development and Implementation of a Research Journal in a First Term Seminar Course

• Implementing a "Publishing Workflow" in LibGuides

• Leading from the Library: Developing and Implementing AI Strategy from a Student-Centered Perspective

11:30 AM - 12:20 PM

• TREC-ing Along: Librarians' Journeys Serving Justice-Impacted Students

• The proof is in the failure

• Breaking Down Silos: Leading an Integrated Writing, Tutoring, and Library Support Team

12:30 - 1:20 PM

• Lunch

1:30 - 2:20 PM

• Patently obvious? A patent overview and guessing game

• How Prepared Are First-Year Students? Faculty Perspectives on Media and Information Literacy Readiness

2:30 - 3:20 PM

• Vegetables in the hotdish: Using popular reading collections, study breaks, and wellness programming to reach students before and beyond the research paper

• Whatcha Mean, What's a [Library] Zine? Making and Using Zines in Library Instruction and Outreach

3:30 - 4:00 PM

• Lightning Rounds

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