2026 ALISE Annual Conference

2026 ALISE Annual Conference

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

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

7:30am EST

Continental Breakfast TBA Registration & Badge Pick Up TBA

8:00am EST

9:00am EST

Breakout 7.5: Questioning AI: Four Perspectives TBA Breakout 7.6: Exploring Educational and Cultural Exchange Through the Fulbright Experience TBA Breakout 7.3: Celebrating the Impact of Librarians through Wikipedia: A LIS Pedagogical Contribution to Public History TBA Breakout 7.3: Developing User Experience Competencies in Library and Information Science Students: The Case of UX Certificate Revisions. TBA Breakout 7.3: LIS in the Gen Ed Space: Using Undergraduate Courses to Advocate for Libraries and Librarianship TBA Breakout 7.4: Equipping for Engagement: Lessons Learned and Questions Remaining after designing a Curriculum for Restorative, Reciprocal Immigrant Partnerships TBA Breakout 7.4: Fostering Latino Musical Awareness: A Cultural Perspective Through the Development of a Special Vinyl Record Collection TBA Breakout 7.4: Reconsidering consent, voice, and child-centeredness in interviews with children TBA Breakout 7.1: Expressive Freedom and LIS Education TBA Breakout 7.2: Good Questions and Developments in Teaching Information Organization: Metadata, Cataloging, and Collections TBA

10:15am EST

10:30am EST

Breakout 8.5: Academic Hazing: Why Does it Exist in LIS? TBA Breakout 8.6: Why ALISE Matters: Dialogic Reflection & Construction of Organizational Identity & Value TBA Breakout 8.3: Information (Anti)Consumerism: How Can Students Reclaim Control in a World of Frictionless Information? TBA Breakout 8.3: Reading and the Future of Society: Are We There Yet? TBA Breakout 8.3: Who Gets Called Wicked? When Disagreement Becomes Disqualification Online TBA Breakout 8.4: Principles Without Practice: LIS Professional Education and the Demands of the Contemporary Book Challenge Environment TBA Breakout 8.4: Serving Older Adults: Important Questions and Professional Preparation TBA Breakout 8.4: Where Are the Animals in Library and Information Science Education? TBA Breakout 8.1: Academic Freedom as Policy: Governance and Practice TBA Breakout 8.2: Repairing the Record: A Curriculum Workshop TBA

12:00pm EST

Awards Luncheon & Annual Business Meeting TBA

1:40pm EST

Breakout 9.3: Are Items Answering the Right Questions? A Context-sensitive Approach to Cataloging AI-generated Media TBA Breakout 9.3: Asking Good Questions in AI-Supported Problem Solving: A Scoping Review of AI Literacy and Information Behavior in Education TBA Breakout 9.3: Good Questions, Bad Answers: Designing Black Women with AI TBA Breakout 9.4: Accessibility in Action: Drivers, Mandates, and Institutional Influence on Accessibility in Academic Libraries TBA Breakout 9.4: More Than a Literature Review: Discussing the Problem of Citing Retracted Papers TBA Breakout 9.1: The Good Questions: Exploring LIS Education TBA Breakout 9.2: International Collaboration in LIS Education TBA

3:00pm EST

Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition and Reception

4:00pm EST

ALISE Board of Directors Meeting Afternoon at Leisure