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2026 Conference Programs

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Wed 14 Oct Thu 15 Oct
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Main Plenary Room
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W01: Collaboration in the Courthouse: a Student- and Partnership-Powered Digital History Project
12:00pm - 12:50pm
W05: Ethical and Practical Implications of Trans+ Metadata and Digital Collections
1:00pm - 1:50pm
W09: Accessibility and Discoverability for Digital Collections: Ethical Considerations and Workflows for Using AI to Create Alternative Text
3:30pm - 4:20pm
W13: Trends in Library UXR: Phygital Research, AI, and Object‑Centered Analytics
4:30pm - 5:20pm
W02: Hallucinating the Hand: Developing an Evaluative Methodology for the Accuracy of Machine-Generated Handwritten Text Transcription
12:00pm - 12:50pm
W06: AI Data Centers and Climate Change: Developing a Field Guide for Library and Archival Workers
1:00pm - 1:50pm
W10: Expanding Institutional Storytelling Through Curated Access to Untold Narratives
3:30pm - 4:20pm
W14: Taming the Digital Collections Backlog: Challenges and approaches to growing access to digitized materials
4:30pm - 5:20pm
W03: Archiving Community and Place: The AV Materials of the Larry Long Papers
12:00pm - 12:50pm
W07: Melting Metropolis: Recording, Making, and Archiving Stories of Urban Heat in New York City
1:00pm - 1:50pm
W11: Archivist as Architect: The Hidden Labor of Managing Digital Infrastructure
3:30pm - 4:20pm
W15: Centering the Source: Community-Driven Web Archiving Models
4:30pm - 5:20pm
W04: From Downloaded Computers to Digital Storytelling: Using Agile-Inspired Approaches and Community Partnerships to Process Digital Collections
12:00pm - 12:50pm
W08: Extra! Extra! Building Community Metadata Through Historical Black Newspapers
1:00pm - 1:50pm
W12: Partner Session: Breaking Down the Silos: One Platform for Digital Collections and Institutional Repositories
3:30pm - 4:20pm
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
4:30pm - 5:20pm
Keynote: Digital Libraries Now: Institutional Strategy, Stewardship, and Leadership Realities
11:00am - 11:50am
WLT: Lightning Talks
2:30pm - 3:20pm
WB: Break
1:50pm - 2:30pm