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Wednesday, November 18
 

9:00am EST

Breakout 7.1: Expressive Freedom and LIS Education
Wednesday November 18, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am EST
Academic freedom; Expressive freedom; higher education; educational institutions ; institutional autonomy.
Speakers
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John Burgess

Associate Professor and Teaching Excellence Coordinator, University of Alabama
Assistant Professor and Teaching Excellence Coordinator for the University of Alabama's School of Library and Information Studies
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Amanda Shelton

University of Missouri-Columbia
Wednesday November 18, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am EST
TBA

9:00am EST

Breakout 7.2: Good Questions and Developments in Teaching Information Organization: Metadata, Cataloging, and Collections
Wednesday November 18, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am EST
competencies; skill training; flipped classroom; music materials; indigenous materials
Speakers
avatar for Vyacheslav Zavalin

Vyacheslav Zavalin

Tenured Faculty Member, Texas Woman's University
Dr. Vyacheslav "Slava" Zavalin is a faculty member of the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman's University. He teaches courses on information organization, cataloging and classification, information retrieval, and a variety of technical subjects, including data... Read More →
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Priya Kizhakkethil

Faculty Member, Texas Woman's University
Dr. Priya Kizhakkethil is an assistant professor in the School of Library & Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas, USA. She received her PhD from the University of North Texas, and her research interests include human information behavior, information... Read More →
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Karen Snow

Professor, Ph.D. Program Director, Dominican University
Karen Snow is a Professor and the Ph.D. Program Director in the School of Information Studies.  She teaches face-to-face and online in the areas of cataloging, classification, and metadata.  Dr. Snow’s main areas of research interest are cataloging quality, ethics, and education... Read More →
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Sonia Archer-Capuzzo

Clinical Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Dr. Sonia Archer-Capuzzo is Clinical Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she teaches information organization and access, cataloging and classification, indexing and abstracting, and music librarianship. Sonia... Read More →
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Mary Burke

Faculty member, University of North Texas
Dr. Mary Burke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of North Texas (UNT). She specializes in digital language archiving, information organization, and cultural heritage stewardship, with a focus on increasing accessibility for Indigenous... Read More →
Wednesday November 18, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am EST
TBA

10:30am EST

Breakout 8.1: Academic Freedom as Policy: Governance and Practice
Wednesday November 18, 2026 10:30am - 11:45am EST
Academic freedom; Educational institutions; Institutional autonomy; International perspectives.
Speakers
avatar for Xiaohua Awa Zhu

Xiaohua Awa Zhu

Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Xiaohua Awa Zhu is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her work focuses on several themes at the intersection of information policy, social informatics, and libraries: misinformation governance, rights related to... Read More →
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Charles Sutton

Assistant Professor, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Indianapolis
Charles Sutton is an assistant professor at Indiana University, Indianapolis. His teaching/learning philosophy centers on community – community organizing, community-engaged and community-based participatory research. His research explores the social-material manifestation of circulating... Read More →
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Kim Krutka

Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University
I am Assistant Professor of Library and Information Studies at ODU. Previously, I was a high school social studies teacher for 7 years and an elementary and high school librarian for 10 years. My research interests include critical examination of libraries, exploration of STEAM experiences... Read More →
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Spencer Lilley

Associate Professor, Victoria University of Wellington
New ZealandIndigenous KnowledgeData Sovereignty
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Jieun Yeon

Assistant Professor, University of Maryland iSchool
Dr. Jieun Yeon is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland College of Information. Her research centers on public library governance, aiming to facilitate democratic and community-oriented decision-making for public library professionals and community members. Her ongoing... Read More →
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Melissa Cardenas-Dow

Social Sciences Librarian, Sacramento State University
Wednesday November 18, 2026 10:30am - 11:45am EST
TBA

10:30am EST

Breakout 8.2: Repairing the Record: A Curriculum Workshop
Wednesday November 18, 2026 10:30am - 11:45am EST
Cultural Heritage Informatics, Collective Memory, Crowdsourcing, Digital Humanities, Epistemicide.
Speakers
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Tyler Youngman

Assistant Professor, East Carolina University College of Education
Dr. Tyler Youngman writes and teaches about the history and philosophy of cultural destruction. Their agenda examines how bibliographical artifacts and preservation infrastructures mediate performances of pastmaking. Their scholarship on epistemicide, epistemic injustice, and cultural... Read More →
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Joseph Winberry

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Data and Information Sciences
Joseph Winberry, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science. His scholarship emphasizes critical library and information science—especially in relation to societal aging. Current research projects... Read More →
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Beth Patin

Associate Professor | Program Director, MLIS, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
Dr. Beth Patin is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Studies and is also serving at the Program Director for the Masters of Science in Library and Information Studies program at Syracuse University, where her work explores the intersection of information access and... Read More →
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Renate Chancellor

Associate Professor Associate Dean for Access, Ethics, and Belonging, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
Renate Chancellor, (PhD Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, (UCLA), is Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Access, Ethics, and Belonging. She is recipient of the 2014 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Excellence in Teaching... Read More →
Wednesday November 18, 2026 10:30am - 11:45am EST
TBA

1:40pm EST

Breakout 9.1: The Good Questions: Exploring LIS Education
Wednesday November 18, 2026 1:40pm - 2:55pm EST
Cultural Capital; Curriculum; Diversity; Curriculum Development
Speakers
avatar for Elizabeth Burns

Elizabeth Burns

Interim Dean University Libraries/ MLIS Program Director, Old Dominion University
Dr. Elizabeth Burns serves as the Interim Dean for the University Libraries at Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA. She is an associate professor and the Program Director for the Library and Information Studies Program in the Darden College of Education and Professional Studies. Dr... Read More →
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Amanda Harrison

Assistant Professor, University of Central Missouri
Amanda Harrison worked for 15 years in PreK-12 education and fourteen as a school librarian in Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the University of Central Missouri's Library Science program. She has served on numerous professional committees... Read More →
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Natalie Taylor

University of South Florida
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Denise Shereff

BRONZE, University of South Florida
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Spencer Lilley

Associate Professor, Victoria University of Wellington
New ZealandIndigenous KnowledgeData Sovereignty
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Vanessa Irvin

East Carolina University
Wednesday November 18, 2026 1:40pm - 2:55pm EST
TBA

1:40pm EST

Breakout 9.2: International Collaboration in LIS Education
Wednesday November 18, 2026 1:40pm - 2:55pm EST
Global engagement; LIS education; Internationalization
Speakers
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Dick Kawooya

Associate Professor, School of Information Science, University of South Carolina
Dr. Dick Kawooya is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Science, University of South Carolina, specializing in information policy and intellectual property (IP). His research focuses on IP, innovation, and access to knowledge, particularly within Africa’s informal... Read More →
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Paria Aria

Assistant Professor, Texas Woman's University
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Nadine I. Kozak

Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Nadine Kozak, Ph.D., is an information policy scholar whose research examines how individuals, communities, and organizations interpret, adopt, and challenge policies, regulations, and laws. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication and Science Studies in 2010 from the University of California... Read More →
Wednesday November 18, 2026 1:40pm - 2:55pm EST
TBA
 
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