*See the Program for session descriptions and Presenters for speaker bios
Thursday, May 12th
Welcome and Introduction 12:30 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions 1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Session A: Short talks and papers
“Building Community for Library Workers with Disabilities”
Presenters: Katie Quirin Manwiller; Brea McQueen
“Academic Libraries and Student Homelessness Before and After COVID-19”
Presenter: Vikki C. Terrile
Session B: Short talks and papers
“Preferred Names & Gender at CUNY: LGBTQ Advocacy Work”
Presenter: Elvis Bakaitis
“Dressing Down: Sexism, Classism, and Racism in “Professional Attire” in Libraries”
Presenter: Jenni Jacobs
Session C: Panel presentation
“ScholCom and OER Fellowship: Pathways for New Librarians within CUNY”
Presenters: Rachael Nevins; Elizabeth Arestyl; Eric Silberberg; Ellis Ging
Concurrent Sessions 2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m
Session A: Short talks and papers
“Digital Scholarship at the Edge of the Nothing”
Presenter: Leila Walker
“Chronicling Inequity through Culture: The Association for Cultural Equity and the Alan Lomax Archive”
Presenter: William Blick
Session B: Panel presentation
“Imposter Syndrome in Academic Libraries: Indigenous Women Edition ”
Presenters: Emilee Bews; Kaia MacLeod; Bethany Paul
Session C: Interactive presentation
“Built to Belong: A student-driven approach to designing library spaces”
Presenters: Renee Kiner; Leslie Poljak; Rachel Rubin; Diana Dill
Concurrent Sessions 3:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Session A: Short talks and papers
“The Information Undercommons, or, What Even is the Library School?”
Presenter: James Lowry
“The Neutrality Myth: Exploring the Invisible Stories our Spaces Tell”
Presenters: Breanne Crumpton; Kelly C. Rhodes
Session B: Short talks and papers
“Local Circulation Policies as Barriers for Readers of Non-territorial Languages”
Presenter: Reyzl Grace MoChridhe
“Sharing for the greater good: How resource sharing and interlibrary loan challenge unequal informational structures (but it’s a struggle)”
Presenter: J. Silvia Cho
Session C: Short talks and papers
The Politics of Intellectual Freedom in the 1930s-1950s American Librarianship
Presenter: Jonathan Cope
“The Clash of the Commons: An Imagined Library Commons Discourse”
Presenter: Emily Benoff
Keynote Address 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Keynote Address by Mariame Kaba
Friday, May 13th
Opening Session 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Alternative session and Interactive Session
“Research Impact Fluxkit: A Playful Exploration of Research Assessment”
Presenter: Erica Finch
“Search and destroy: Interrogations on power dynamics in the library classroom”
Presenters: Ava Brillat; Shatha Baydoun
Concurrent Session 11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
Session A: Short talks and papers
“In the Framework, The Information Literate Individual is White.”
Presenter: Anders Tobiason
Reckoning with the Wounds of Coloniality in Information Literacy”
Presenter: Adrianna Martinez
Session B: Short talks and papers
“Exclusionary Architecture: Physical Barriers to Accessing a Children’s Collection”
Presenter: Sarah B. Cohn
“Monuments to the “College Experience”: Academic Libraries as Institutional Propaganda”
Presenter: Ashley Hosbach
Session C: Short talks and papers
“What are you, really?” Multiracial Library Workers’ Experiences in Libraries”
Presenter: Diana K. Wakimoto
Concurrent Sessions 12:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Session A: Panel presentation
“Neuroatypical Navigation in the Library: Students Renovate and Redesign the Library for Success”
Presenters: Jess deCourcy Hinds and students
Session B: Interactive presentation
“Budgets as storytelling: Using narrative budgets to advocate for support”
Presenter: Cinthya Ippoliti
Session C: Panel presentation
“As You Like It: Black Labor, White Comfort, & DEI Theater”
Presenters: Brea McQueen; Alexandria Brown; Anastasia “Stacy” Collins
