2026 ALISE Annual Conference

2026 ALISE Annual Conference

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9:00am EST

Emerging Scholars Workshop TBA Exploring the Good Questions: Using Google NotebookLM, MagicSchool AI, and Bibliometrics for Curriculum Development and Research TBA Power, Policy, and the Preparing Gap: Reframing LIS Education for Political Reality TBA Registration & Badge Pick Up TBA

12:00pm EST

Break - Lunch on Own TBA

1:30pm EST

Breakout 1.4: It Depends on Who’s Asking: Positionality, Power, and Care in Qualitative Research with Equity-Deserving Communities TBA Breakout 1.5: Teaching Technical Troubleshooting in LIS Education: Moving from “It was Implied” to a Pedagogical Norm TBA Breakout 1.6: Co-Designing an Engaged Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Course for LIS Students TBA Breakout 1.1: Faculty Perceptions of Generative AI in Student Learning: Navigating Opportunities, Threats, and Assessment Practices TBA Breakout 1.1: Shaping Ideas through Questions: Framing Ethical Generative AI Use in Education TBA Breakout 1.1: Who Should Teach AI Ethics? Designing an LIS-Centered Curriculum for Undergraduate Students TBA Breakout 1.2: Community-based Teaching and Research in Digital Cultural Heritage Preservation: Exploring Challenges Using Boundary Spanning Framework TBA Breakout 1.2: Creating Community-Centered Collaborations in Archival Education TBA Breakout 1.2: The Curriculum of Silence & the Structural Absence of Archival Concepts in the LIS Core TBA Breakout 1.3: ARL Libraries’ Mental Health and Wellness Guides TBA Breakout 1.3: Finding Help: Teens’ Mental Health Information Habits TBA Breakout 1.3: Scaling Practice-Ready Preparation: An Online, Immersive Fellowship Training Program in Health Sciences Librarianship TBA

2:45pm EST

3:00pm EST

Breakout 2.5: Documenting the Destruction of Ukrainian Libraries in Wartime: A Transnational Service-Learning Initiative TBA Breakout 2.6: Leveraging Cross-Campus Collaboration: Strategies and Reflections from LIS-led Initiatives TBA Breakout 2.2: Understanding the Role of Brain Breaks in Asynchronous Graduate Courses TBA Breakout 2.2: Where Should Librarians Learn to Teach Online? A Diagnostic Framework for LIS Curriculum and Professional Development TBA Breakout 2.2: Who Better than a Peer? Increasing Graduate Student Engagement in an Online MLS Program TBA Breakout 2.3: A Survey of North American Librarians’ Perceptions of and Experience with Artificial Intelligence TBA Breakout 2.3: Continuing Education as Ethical Infrastructure: Informal AI Learning in Academic Librarianship TBA Breakout 2.3: Exploring AI in Libraries: Implications, Challenges, and Policy Issues TBA Breakout 2.4: An Epistemology of Reading LLM Writing: Implications for Librarianship TBA Breakout 2.4: Beyond the Red Pill: Question Literacy, Search, and the Pedagogy of Refusal in LIS Education TBA Breakout 2.4: How do we Talk with Students About Bullshit? A Virtue Epistemology for Conspiracy Theories TBA Breakout 2.1: Turning the Tide of Open Questions into Multidimensional Skills Development for School and Career TBA

5:00pm EST

Past Presidents Reception TBA

6:00pm EST

Opening Night Reception TBA

7:00pm EST

We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes TBA

7:10pm EST

Interrogo – A Poetic Dialogue TBA