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2026 Conference Programs

Welcome to DLF Forum 2026!

All times are shown in the time zone of the conference (Eastern Time).
The current conference date and time is: 23rd June 2026, 04:35:34pm EDT.

Daily Overview

Date: Wednesday, 14/Oct/2026

11:00am
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11:50am

Keynote: Digital Libraries Now: Institutional Strategy, Stewardship, and Leadership Realities
Location: Main Plenary Room

12:00pm
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12:50pm

W01: Collaboration in the Courthouse: a Student- and Partnership-Powered Digital History Project
Location: Breakout 1

W02: Hallucinating the Hand: Developing an Evaluative Methodology for the Accuracy of Machine-Generated Handwritten Text Transcription
Location: Breakout 2

W03: Archiving Community and Place: The AV Materials of the Larry Long Papers
Location: Breakout 3

W04: From Downloaded Computers to Digital Storytelling: Using Agile-Inspired Approaches and Community Partnerships to Process Digital Collections
Location: Breakout 4

1:00pm
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1:50pm

W05: Ethical and Practical Implications of Trans+ Metadata and Digital Collections
Location: Breakout 1

W06: AI Data Centers and Climate Change: Developing a Field Guide for Library and Archival Workers
Location: Breakout 2

W07: Voices in 360 Degrees: The Power of Immersive Storytelling
Location: Breakout 3

W08: Extra! Extra! Building Community Metadata Through Historical Black Newspapers
Location: Breakout 4

1:50pm
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2:30pm

WB: Break

2:30pm
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3:20pm

WLT: Lightning Talks
Location: Main Plenary Room

3:30pm
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4:20pm

W09: Accessibility and Discoverability for Digital Collections: Ethical Considerations and Workflows for Using AI to Create Alternative Text
Location: Breakout 1

W10: Expanding Institutional Storytelling Through Curated Access to Untold Narratives
Location: Breakout 2

W11: Archivist as Architect: The Hidden Labor of Managing Digital Infrastructure
Location: Breakout 3

W12: Partner Session: Breaking Down the Silos: One Platform for Digital Collections and Institutional Repositories
Location: Breakout 4

4:30pm
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5:20pm

W13: Trends in Library UXR: Phygital Research, AI, and Object‑Centered Analytics
Location: Breakout 1

W14: Taming the Digital Collections Backlog: Challenges and approaches to growing access to digitized materials
Location: Breakout 2

W15: Centering the Source: Community-Driven Web Archiving Models
Location: Breakout 3

W16: Collaborate, Tell, Teach: A Novice-Expert Approach to Building a Digital Exhibit on Chinese and Chinese American University Students in the Early 20th Century
Location: Breakout 4