2026 Conference Programs

Meeting the Community Where They Are: Multi-Channel Engagement for Houston’s LGBTQ+ Archival History

Elizabeth Hansen

Texas Archive of the Moving Image

‘Almost Unlimited’ Patron-Driven Scanning and Responsive Processing in Special Collections and Archives

Mary Haegert

Houghton Library, Harvard University, United States of America

Beyond the Vibe: Why Digital Collections Need Legible Workflows, Not Just Prompts

Anthony Sanchez

University of Arizona Libraries, United States of America

Partner Talk: No Migration Required: Next-Generation Tools for Existing Repositories

Noah Smith

Discovery Garden, United States of America

Can a Program Own It? AI, Copyright, and Legal Personhood

Suha Tariq

University of Toronto, Canada

Digitizing Nitrate Negatives for Preservation and Fire Safety

Jenna Effenberger

Yale University Library, United States of America

Impacts on Collection Diversity: Assessing Repository Data During Collection Review

Bryan Ricupero, Emily Baumgart

Dartmouth College, United States of America

Using MaRMAT for reparative metadata evaluation at Indiana University

Brianna McLaughlin, Juliet Hardesty

Indiana University, United States of America

Minimal Infrastructure for Urgent Community-Based Digital Archives: Memory Care-work and Rocky Flats Nuclear Containment Activism

Kadallah Burrowes¹, Sydney Neal¹, Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara¹, Chris Allred², Giselle Herzfeld²

1: University of Colorado Boulder, United States of America; 2: Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center

Building an Data and Artifact Centered Digital History Project with Cursor and Grounded AI

Kevin Hegg

James Madison University, United States of America

Replacing and Migrating Legacy Preservation Storage in a HIPAA-Regulated Repository

Emma Semrau, Amanda Greenwood

University of Virginia, United States of America

Partner Talk: Digital Curation: When Collections Come Alive

James Rein

ResourceSpace, United Kingdom

This Digital Collections Platform Catalogs Puppets? Extending Metavus for Arts and Cultural Heritage Organizations

Elizabeth De Angelis

Internet Scout Research Group, United States of America

Extending the Reach: Library-Led Digital Storytelling as Community Engagement and Scholarly Amplification

Hayley Blackburn

University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Mapping Archival Technological Ecosystems in Canada and the United States

Allie Querengesser¹, Jessica McMillen², Michelle Paquette³, Rachel Van Unen⁴

1: University of Calgary, Canada; 2: West Virginia University, United States of America; 3: Smith College, United States of America; 4: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America

Make It Searchable, Keep It Meaningful: Rethinking Ephemera in Digital Libraries

Sudha Anand

Indiana University, United States of America