2024 Conference Programs

Session Overview

Date: Tuesday, 22/Oct/2024
11:00am - 11:50am	Welcome and Featured Speaker: Advancing the HBCU Digital Library Trust through Relationship-Building Location: Main Plenary Room
12:00pm - 12:50pm	Tu01: Data Speculations: Expanding Access to Copyrighted Collections as Data Location: Breakout 1	Tu02: From Tactile to Digital: Translating Complex Physical Collections through Digitization and Description Location: Breakout 2	Tu03: Will This Be Maintained? User-Centered Design for Future Us Location: Breakout 3	Tu04: Hands-on Tech problem-solving in your library using the Toward Gigabit Libraries toolkit Location: Breakout 4
1:00pm - 1:50pm	Tu05: Enhancing Exhibit Accessibility through 3D Interactive Technologies Location: Breakout 1	Tu06: Towards Resilient Open Infrastructures: Celebrating and Navigating Organizational Transitions Location: Breakout 2	Tu07: Neurodivergent Project Management Location: Breakout 3	Tu08: Finding the Path Home: Visualizing Connections and Characteristics Across the PLN Ecosystem Location: Breakout 4
1:50pm - 2:30pm	Break Enjoy this break either on your own or join the session, "I Am / We Are From... Writing Meditation" led by Lee Jiménez. Be sure to return at 2:30pm ET for Lightning Talks followed by more sessions! Break, D1 B1: I Am / We Are From... Writing Meditation with Lee Jiménez In the “I am/We are From… Writing Meditation,” participants will have the opportunity to explore how we can lean on our memory...
2:30pm - 3:20pm	Lightning Talks Location: Main Plenary Room
3:30pm - 4:20pm	Tu09: “A Tiger’s Leap into the Past”: Artist Re-authorship and the Digital Archive Location: Breakout 1	Tu10: Funding AI: Current Trends, Critical Dialogue, and Opportunities Location: Breakout 2	Tu11: Getting Engaged with CLIR’s Climate Resiliency Workshop Series Location: Breakout 3	Tu12: Partner Session: Empowering Archives: Connecting Communities through Digital Collections Location: Breakout 4 This engaging panel session will explore how three Quartex customers—Loyola Marymount University, University of Toronto Mississauga, and Texas Wesleyan University—have harnessed the power of digital collections to foster diversity, enhance access, and increase visibility of their archival materials.
4:30pm - 5:20pm	Tu13: Portals of Discovery: A Look Inside the American Congress Digital Archives Portal Project Location: Breakout 1	Tu14: Centering Chamorro and Carolinian agency through digital archiving and preservation workshops in the Mariana Islands Location: Breakout 2	Tu15: Results and Insights from NDSA’s Fourth Digital Storage Infrastructure Survey Location: Breakout 3	Tu16: Insights from User Research on Digital Collections for Text, Image, and Audio/Moving Images at the University of Michigan Location: Breakout 4

Date: Wednesday, 23/Oct/2024
11:00am - 11:50am	Welcome & Lightning Talks Location: Main Plenary Room
12:00pm - 1:30pm	W01: Digital Pedagogy on Paper: An Assignment Redesign Workshop Location: Breakout 1	W02: Hands-On with Samvera's Hyku IR Location: Breakout 2 * If you plan on attending this Hyku session, send an email message to Christine at peterson@amigos.org so she can set up a Hyku instance for you.	W03: The Inclusive Metadata Toolkit - Leveling Up Reparative Description Location: Breakout 3	W04: Learning to Use Booksnake: A New App for Exploring Digitized Archival Materials in Physical Space Location: Breakout 4
1:30pm - 2:00pm	Break Enjoy this 30-minute break on your own or join one of the two scheduled sessions: Craft Corner with Laura Wilson Guided Meditation and Self-Massage with Chauvet Bishop. Craft Corner with Laura Wilson Come along to Craft Corner during your break at Virtual DLF! Some suggested seasonal projects are posted below, but feel free to bring any creative project you’re currently working on (or no...
2:00pm - 2:50pm	W05: Relational Possibilities: Using Generative Artificial Intelligence in Artful Digital Storytelling with Black and Indigenous Aesthetic Forms Location: Breakout 1	W06: Reflecting on the Past, Present, and Future: 10 years of the Assessment Interest Group Location: Breakout 2	W07: A Collaborative Approach: Providing Access to Black Voices of Iowa and Their Stories Location: Breakout 3	W08: Partner Session: Innovating Digital Repositories: enhancing the basic DSpace with DSpace extensions Location: Breakout 4 Join us for an engaging and informative panel session hosted by 4Science, where we dive into the powerful world of DSpace and its extensions.
3:00pm - 3:50pm	W09: Seeing Yourself on Campus: Creating A Sense of Belonging on a College Campus for Native American Youth Through Digital Pedagogy Location: Breakout 1	W10: Can You Try Again?: Using Large Language Models to Generate Alt Text for Online Image Collections Location: Breakout 2	W11: Taking a UX-led Approach to Digital Library Development and Design Location: Breakout 3	W12: A Public Digital Humanities Center for San José: Fostering Belonging and Innovation in a Joint-Use Library Location: Breakout 4
4:00pm - 4:50pm	W13: Open-source Capacity Building Discussion and Community of Practice Exploration Location: Breakout 1	W14: Digital Collecting in Times of Institutional Conflict Location: Breakout 2	W15: Preserving the Past for the Future: Inheritance Baltimore’s Mobile Digitization Lab Location: Breakout 3	W16: Safe and Informed Access: How Vassar College Libraries Dealt with Racist, Xenophobic, or Otherwise Harmful Material in the Digital Library Location: Breakout 4