2026 ALISE Annual Conference

2026 ALISE Annual Conference

1:30pm EST

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

3:00pm EST

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

10:30am EST

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

1:05pm EST

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

2:35pm EST

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

4:20pm EST

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

9:00am EST

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

10:30am EST

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

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