| California Academic & Research Libraries |
Program Schedule
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Track B |
Track C |
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9:00-9:15 AM |
Welcome & Opening Remarks Sarah Forzetting, CARL President |
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9:15-10:20 AM |
Keynote Address Michael Meth, Dean of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library at San José State University |
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10:20-10:40 AM |
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10:40-11:25 AM (45 minute presentations) |
Beyond Pre-Packaged AI: Teaching Students to Build Custom Research Tutors Using the ACRL Framework Alexis Pavenick, CSU Long Beach |
AI-Powered or Pressured? Navigating Gen AI Adoption in the California State University System Talor Wald, Mount St. Mary's University Ariana Varela, Cal State Los Angeles William Ortiz, CSU San Bernadino |
Prompting Against the Machine: Teaching Critical Data Literacy Through AI Interrogation Dykee Gorrell, San Jose State University |
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11:25-11:35 AM |
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11:35-11:55 AM (20 minute presentations) |
Ctrl+Alt+SIFT: Rebooting Info Literacy for AI Times Rayheem Eskridge, Cal Poly Pomona |
AI-Enhanced Liberation: Empowering Neurodivergent Learners Amanda Makula, University of Southern California |
Mapping Evidence Synthesis Production in the CSUs: Reproducibility, the Role of Librarians, and Opportunities for the Future CARL Research Grant Recipients Mary Catherine Ellis, San Diego State University Essy Barroso-Ramirez, San Jose State University Yuqi He, San Jose State University Dawn Hackman, San Jose State University |
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12:05-12:50 PM (45 minute presentations) |
AI Might Summarize, But It Can’t Think: Keeping Humans at the Center of AI-Assisted Literature Reviews Katie Perry, CSU Los Angeles Lettycia Terrones, CSU Los Angeles |
Speeding Up or Slowing Down? AI & Slow Librarianship in Academic Libraries Amanda Makula, University of San Diego Heather Sardis, MIT Libraries Meredith Farkas, Portland Community College |
The Human Brand: Why Libraries Should Be the Last to Automate Their Voice John Jackson, Loyola Marymount University |
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12:50-1:50 |
LUNCH |
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LUNCH |
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1:50-2:10 PM (Vendor Demos) |
Gold Sponsor - Lexis Nexis [presenter, title] |
Gold Sponsor - SAGE [presenter, title] |
CARL Partner - California Community Colleges [name], Council of Chief LIbrarians |
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1:50-2:10 PM (Poster Sessions) |
Cross-Campus Collaboration for Accessible Course Materials Sylvia Page, UCLA Emilie Eshbaugh, UCLA Courtney Hoffner, UCLA |
LLM—Let’s Learn More: A Deep Research Experimentation Katherine Kapsidelis, UCLA Michelle Brasseur, UCLA Eli Edwards, UCLA Law Jamie Hazlitt, UCLA Courtney Hoffner, UCLA |
Cracking the Case: A Survey on Resource Usefulness and Librarian Assistance among First-Year Health Sciences Students
Jennifer A. Silverman, University of Southern California Wilson Dental Library |
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2:10-2:15 PM |
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2:15-3:00 PM (45 minute presentations) |
Centering Ethics in Library Instruction for Human Flourishing in an AI Future Brittany Harden, Point Loma Nazarene University Robin Lang, Point Loma Nazarene University |
AI SWOT Amy Catania, Contra Costa College Erica Watson, Contra Costa College |
Do We Have Anything to Say About It? Why and How to Critically Evaluate Embedded AI tools in Library Databases Jen Pesek, Santa Clara University |
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3:00-3:05 PM |
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3:05-3:30 PM (20 minute presentations) |
Bringing Librarian Ethics to the AI Discussion Dr. Mary Jordan, St. Cloud Technical and Community College |
Inductive Learning as an Approach in Information Literacy (IL) Instruction Integrating the Utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. Wil Weston, San Diego State University |
AI Literacy’s Hidden Prerequisite: Why Having Information Literacy Is Essential For Understanding And Using AI Sophia Mosbe, Santa Clara University |
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3:30-3:35 PM |
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3:35-4:00 PM |
Closing Remarks Sarah Forzetting, CARL President |
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