The Collective 2025

The Collective 2025

Alejandra Mendez

Middlesex Community College

Coordinator of Library Services, Lowell Campus

Lowell, MA

https://libguides.middlesex.mass.edu/library

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About me

I am an academic librarian, and education researcher. My areas of interest are information literacy education, information and algorithmic bias, critical curriculum theory, and video game scholarship.

7:30am EDT

Registration Cattails C/DCorey Halaychik • Chante Hope

9:00am EDT

Welcome to The Collective Cattails CChante Hope • Corey Halaychik • Emily Mann • Jessica Szempruch

10:30am EDT

10:45am EDT

Craft & Chat: Zine Making & Using Crafts to Encourage Group Discussion Cattails BSara Sweeney Bear • Ellen Boggs

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Break TBA

1:30pm EDT

Futurecasting: Making Sense of Critical Disruption Within Libraries Cattails CJackson Hoch

2:30pm EDT

2:45pm EDT

Escape the Lecture: A Choose Your Own Adventure for Library Instruction Cattails ALindsay Bush • Fannie Ouyang • Johanna MacKay • Devon Cozad

4:15pm EDT

4:30pm EDT

Storytelling Slam: Confessions of a Librarian Cattails CALICE ISOKA

9:00am EDT

Rest and Reflection Day TBA

9:00am EDT

Make your LibGuides Accessible Cattails FCorrine Syster

10:30am EDT

10:45am EDT

Less But Better: Rethinking What Matters in Your Library Life Cattails CKate Tompkins • Brooke Fry

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Break TBA

1:30pm EDT

Connecting through Gaming: Fostering Collaborations among Librarians through Bingo! Cattails CAlejandra Mendez • Kim Money Priddy

2:30pm EDT

2:45pm EDT

LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX BABY! Let's Talk About Sex: Engaging Students in Sexual Health Education through Gaming Cattails BElizabeth Long Allen • Larissa Elliott • Randa Lopez Morgan

3:45pm EDT

4:00pm EDT

Wrap Up Session Cattails BCorey Halaychik • Chante Hope