Draft Schedule

Welcome

[Track A] Neutrality Challenged

• Sasha Frizzell, “And That Was Stupid to Me”: Dorothy Porter Wesley's Classification System as Proto-Critical Cataloging

• Veronica A. Wells, “The Library's Responsibility Towards a National Music”: Collection Development Practices of American Music LibrarNeauians in the Early 20th Century

[Track B] What We Collect, Who We Serve: Unique Collections and the History of Library Community (Panel)

Laura J. French, Sylvia Hernandez, Elizabeth Rivera

[Track A] Future Scenarios from the Past

• Peter Brinkley, Barnwoggler's Invention: A Library Imaginary in the 1920s

• S.E. Hackney, Classification and Computation: S.R. Ranganathan and the Role of Libraries in Early Text Processing Models

[Track B] Disaster, Change and Reinvention

• Alessia Zanin-Yost, From Treasures to Knowledge: Tradition, Crisis, and Reinvention in Italy's Libraries

• Ann Glusker, Librarians Navigating Change at UC Berkeley—Stories of Heart and Resilience

Keynote 

Dr. Laura E. Helton

[Track A] Influences, Biases, and Powers

• Kristen Schuster, Towards a Moral Economy: Masculinities and Information Work in UK Libraries

• Jaime Ding, The War Librarian's Long Legacy

• Melissa Stewart, Surprising Story of Nonfiction’s Negative Name: Why Nineteenth-century Librarians “Othered” the Literature They Valued Most and How that Affects Us Today

[Track B] What’s in a Name: 21st Century Challenges of a Donor-Named Library (Panel)

Marguerite Ragnow, Davu Underwood Seru, Aiden Bettine

Invited Speaker Panel

Tribute, Metadata, and Professional Remembrance in American Librarianship: “An Overview of the Librarians We Have Lost Project”

[Track A] Institutional History, Institutional Critics

• Doug Campbell, Before ALA: Charles Coffin Jewett and the Librarians’ Convention of 1853

• Tom Glynn, ‘The Nature and Uses of Library History’: The Library History Round Table and Library Historiography in the 1970s

[Track B] Cataloging and Collection Building

• Tara Murray Grove, “Papers of All Kinds Are Piling Up Rapidly”: The Development of American Philatelic Literature and Libraries, 1861-1927

• Melissa Stewart, Oh, the Irony! How Melvil Dewey's Quest for Efficiency Prioritized the Books He Valued Least

• Julie Marie Frye, Lived Curriculum: School Librarians and the Translation of Life Adjustment Education, 1948–1958

[Track A] Libraries as Narrators of History 

• Rachel Trnka, A Tale of two Carnegie libraries: The West Tampa Free Public Library and the Tampa Free Public Library

• Mike Selby, Love & Theft: The 100 Year History of the Cranbrook Public Library

[Track B] Research/Editor Session

[Track A] The Networking Library

• Claudia Grisales, Lian Ruan, Kate Williams, Building Community Through Information: The Illinois Fire Service Institute Library in the Digital Age

• Bernadette A. Lear, Cumberlinks and Gremlans:  Building Pennsylvania Libraries' Roads to the Information Superhighway

[Track B] Services, Networks, and Technologies During WWII 

• Mark W. Duncan, Bringing Books to Sailors: The Work of the ALA, American Merchant Marine Library Association, and American Seamen's Friend Society

• Nathan Johnson, The Wartime Document: Microphotography and the Library of Congress, 1938–1944

Open Session

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