9:00AM-9:20AM 

Opening session

9:20AM-10:20AM

Keynote Address

“What’s in a Name? Rebuilding a Library Named after Martin Luther King Jr.” by Richard Reyes-Gavilan, Executive Director of the DC Public Library

10:20AM-10:30AM

Break

Social Lounge

10:30AM-12 Noon

• Navigating the Flood of Information: Cognitive Biases, Management, and Information Literacy for the COVID-19 Infodemic, Rajesh Singh and Amanda Delisi
• Pivoting Absentee Ballot Day in the Library during the Pandemic, Gwendolyn Reece, Mary Evangeliste and Kristina Alayan
• Paddling Upstream: Navigating Pandemic Pandemonium as Instruction Librarians and What We Learned, Maria Koshute and Kelly Durkin Ruth
• Instructional Design within Reach: A Collaborative Approach to Creating Meaningful Library Instruction Online, Leah Richardson, Shira Loev Eller and Jesse Gershuny

Session 2 (Briefing)

Archives and Special Collections 

• Taking the Archives Out of the Basement: Creative Outreach at Rutgers University Special Collections and University Archives, Tara Maharjan
• Collecting and Curating COVID-19: One Historical Society's Online Approach, Shane MacDonald
• Processing the Multi-language Papers of a Scholar: A Finding Aid for the Rev. Paulinus Bellet O.S.B. Papers of the Semitics/ICOR Library, Katherine DeFonzo
• Materiality Assumes the Mantle of Intrinsic Value, Amanda Bernard

Noon-1:00PM

Lunch (on your own)

Poster Lightning Talk Presentations

Poster Q&A Session (12:30PM-1PM)

 Talk with the Sponsor (LAC Group)

1:00PM-2:30PM

Session 3 (Panel)

The Virtual Programming Pivot: DMV Public Libraries and Rapid Changes in Programming During COVID-19

Panel Moderator: Mr. Nicholas A. Brown, COO for Communication and Outreach, Prince George's County Memorial Library System 

Panelists:
David Quick, Adult Programs & Partnerships Coordinator, DCPL

Tracy Dimond, Adult Services Coordinator, Enoch Pratt Free Library

Robyn Truslow, Public Relations Coordinator, Calvert Library

Pamela Hamlin, Family Literacy Specialist, Prince George's County Memorial Library System

• Measuring Student Success in Academic Libraries with the Kirkpatrick Model, Jeff Prater
• W&L Law Journal Rankings: Measuring Scholarly Impact in the Legal Field, Andrew Christensen and Alex Zhang
• Launching LACLI: Project of open access resources for Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian studies, Flora Lindsay-Herrera and Jesús Alonso-Regalado
• Exploring the Connections Between Ethnic Studies and Librarianship: A Discussion, Raymond Pun, Melissa Cardenas-Dow, and Kenya Flash

2:30PM-2:45PM

Break 

2:45PM-4:15PM

Session 5 (Briefing)

Social Justice and Librarianship: Diversity, Inclusion, and Ethics

• Out and Proud: Queering the Library, Teresa Miller, Rebecca Oxley, Erica Ezeifedi and Rachel Zukowski
• Innovative Approaches to Ethical Cataloging Practices, David Heilbrun, Yoko Ferguson and Rachel Lavender
• Lift Every Voice: Public Library Programming on Anti-Racism and Black Culture, Elizabeth Ajunwa
• Collaborating on Antiracist Praxis, Hannah Park

Session 6 (Briefing)

Special and Federal Libraries: Serving Specific Needs

• Building a Bridge to Entrepreneurs, Natalie Burclaff and Lynn Weinstein
• Current awareness for remote locations, Edward McClure
• Quick Access to International Collections: Country Guides at the Library of Congress, Maria Thurber
• How the DTIC Thesaurus and Metatagger Application Support the Indexing Process at DTIC, Scott Steele