2026 ALISE Annual Conference

2026 ALISE Annual Conference

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7:30am EST

Continental Breakfast TBA Registration & Badge Pick Up TBA

9:00am EST

President's Welcome & Opening Plenary Session TBA

10:15am EST

10:30am EST

Breakout 3.6: Embedding Critical Reflection in AI-Mediated Research: A DEAL-Based Toolkit for Information Evaluation TBA Breakout 3.6: What the Music Asks: A Sonic Pedagogy for Inquiry in LIS Education Breakout 3.5: Student Assessments, Heutagogy, and Generative AI: A panel Discussion on AI-informed assessment strategies of Library and Information Science Educators TBA Breakout 3.3: Authentic Assessment in a Graduate Asynchronous Youth Literature Course TBA Breakout 3.3: Called to Adventure TBA Breakout 3.3: Curiosity Under Constraint: Teaching Future Youth Librarians to Recognize Suppressed Inquiry Among Teens TBA Breakout 3.4: Confidence and Capacity: Research Self-Efficacy and Institutional Support among Academic Librarians TBA Breakout 3.4: Leadership Challenge: Upskilling staff via micro-credentialing: What are the necessary skills? TBA Breakout 3.4: Micro-Credentials as Continuing Education Infrastructure for Librarianship: Preparing LIS Educators to Address Digital Equity, Mental Health and Wellness, and Disaster Preparedness TBA Breakout 3.1: Who Gets to Ask the Questions: Disability Research and Advocacy as a Collaborative Endeavor TBA Breakout 3.2: When Questions Harm: Power, Silence, and Social Opprobrium in Information Environments TBA Breakout 3.6: When They Dared to Be Powerful: A Podcast Series Amplifying the Legacy of Black Women in Librarianship

11:50am EST

Lunch and Learn TBA

12:00pm EST

Council of Deans, Directors, Chairs Luncheon TBA Poster Setup TBA

12:30pm EST

1:05pm EST

Breakout 4.5: What If We Did It Right? Edutainment in Graduate LIS Education TBA Breakout 4.6: Inquiry Toward Liberation: Teaching Critical Library and Information Science Curricula TBA Breakout 4.3: Disaster-Ready Librarians: Translating Research, Partnerships, and Knowledge into LIS Curriculum TBA Breakout 4.3: From Buildings to Communities: A Pilot Framework for Analyzing Public Library Disaster Plans Through a Community Resilience Lens TBA Breakout 4.3: Public Libraries as Mediating Structures for Racial Justice: Community Perceptions and Recommendations in Preparation for the Field TBA Breakout 4.4: Do You Know Where This Record Has Been? Archival Creators Disrupt Archival Standards TBA Breakout 4.4: Dwelling in the Threshold: Productive Liminality and the Design of Inquiry in Libraries and Archives TBA Breakout 4.4: Seeking Southern Queers: Teaching Researchers How to Search for Intersectional History in the Archives TBA Breakout 4.1: From Dormancy to Dialogue: Revitalizing the ALISE Doctoral Student SIG TBA Breakout 4.2: Strengthening School Librarian Preparation through Standards, Strategic Partnerships, and Responsive Practices TBA

2:20pm EST

2:35pm EST

Breakout 5.4: From Good Questions to Useful Answers: Knowledge Translation of Public Library Research TBA Breakout 5.5: Leave the Mess: Embracing the Untidiness of Qualitative Research TBA Breakout 5.6: How Do We Know What They Know?: Critical Approaches to Youth Services Research TBA Breakout 5.2: Asking the Good Questions: Self-Efficacy, Question Formation, and Entry Pathways into Programming in Library and Information Science Education TBA Breakout 5.2: Byte-Sized AI Learning: Lessons Learned after Building AI Literacy MLIS Learning Content TBA Breakout 5.2: Time2Reflect: A Multi-Agent AI System for Scaffolded Post-Class Reflection in STEM Graduate Education TBA Breakout 5.3: How Do We Know What We Know? A Future-forward Framework for LIS Program-Level Assessment TBA Breakout 5.3: Making A PACT: A Framework for Teaching Data Collection Ethics in the LIS Classroom TBA Breakout 5.3:The Question Behind the Question: How Coaching Helps LIS Teach for Who Students Need to Become TBA Breakout 5.1: Naming, knowing, and belonging:Centering queer and trans communities in our “good questions.” TBA

3:50pm EST

4:20pm EST

Breakout 6.5: What Comes After? Hope, Resilience, and Acceptance in Teaching LIS Sustainability TBA Breakout 6.6: Dissertation Type? Other! : Supporting and Sustaining Non-traditional Dissertation Approaches TBA Breakout 6.3: “Am I the Only One?”: Menopause, Peer Support, and the Role of Anonymous Online Communities TBA Breakout 6.3: “Lots of my questions I’ve answered before I even knew I had a question”; Information practice among trans South Carolinians” TBA Breakout 6.3: Constructions of Cognitive Authority in a Vaccine-Hesitant Facebook Affinity Group TBA Breakout 6.4: BePraX: A Pedagogical Meta-Umbrella for Information Behavior, Practice, and Experience TBA Breakout 6.4: Fugitive Epistemology: Reframing What Counts as Information in Library and Information Science TBA Breakout 6.4: The Bad Questions: Interrogatory Epistemic Injustice and The Limits of Performative Inquiry TBA Breakout 6.1: Youth Services in LIS: Celebrating a plurality of perspectives TBA Breakout 6.2: How do or can we transcend beyond the Innovative to Transformative? - Asking the Bold Question! TBA

5:45pm EST

Works In Progress Poster Session & Reception TBA