The Collective 2025: Full Schedule

10:45am EDT

Bringing Your Favorite Characters to Life - Cosplaying and the Library Community

Tuesday April 15, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT

Do you love dressing up for halloween? Want to escape reality with a new persona? Interested in stepping up your storytelling game? Find out how you can dress up anytime with cosplay! Come learn a brief history, the types of cosplay, resources for cosplays and conventions, and how to integrate cosplay programming into your library.

Speakers

Hannah Brandon

Tuesday April 15, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Cattails A

Interactive Panel, Skill-Building Workshop

1:30pm EDT

Anything Can Explode: Preparing your library for emergencies and disasters

Tuesday April 15, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT

Cattails A

At Nova Southeastern, we are located in the hurricane belt of South Florida and we've seen it all. We want to share experiences with others on the role of the library during emergency situations, exchange tips and best practices in preparing your library for the next one, and ways to keep everyone safe and calm

Speakers

Steve Roberts

Circulation Manager, NSU Florida

Alejandro Sierra

Circulation Supervisor - Martin and Gail Press Health Professions Division Library, NSU Florida

Tuesday April 15, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
Cattails A

Interactive Panel

2:45pm EDT

Escape the Lecture: A Choose Your Own Adventure for Library Instruction

Tuesday April 15, 2025 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT

Cattails A

Are you ready to spark your creativity and gamify a one-shot? This panel discussion will feature four academic librarians who have taken elements from a variety of games to create one-shot sessions where students must critically think through solving clues while also being introduced to people, library resources, and spaces.

Speakers

Lindsay Bush

Reference and Instruction Librarian, Union College

Fannie Ouyang

Johanna MacKay

Instructional Design Librarian, Skidmore College - Lucy Scribner Library

Johanna provides reference and instruction as well as develops outreach and programming for faculty, staff, and students at Skidmore College. She’s the library liaison to several departments and programs and oversees several collections including the library’s Children’s collection... Read More →

Devon Cozad

Research and Instruction Librarian, Daemen University

Hello! I am a Research & Instruction Librarian at Daemen University, a private college located in Amherst, New York. I specialize in first year experience and information literacy instruction. I am also involved in campus conversations about supporting early adopters of genAI. As... Read More →

Tuesday April 15, 2025 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Cattails A

Interactive Panel, Hands-On Workshop

9:00am EDT

An Interactive Game to Reimagine Scholarly Communications

Thursday April 17, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EDT

Cattails A

This interactive session will be organized as a board game (in the style of the Game of Life), shaking players out of the barrier mindset to explore how a radical rethinking of the scholarly communications landscape would advance the educational and stewardship missions of academic libraries while better serving university communities.

Speakers

Jennifer Townes

Open Access Librarian, Emory University

Jenny Townes joined the Emory University Libraries Scholarly Communications Office in May 2022 as the Open Access Librarian. In this capacity Jenny leads open access outreach and advocacy, specifically focused on two of the university’s open access repositories: OpenEmory and E... Read More →

John Morgenstern

As the Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian, John Morgenstern is the primary resource within Emory Libraries for copyright education and consultation with a secondary focus on scholarly communications topics such as the publishing process, publishing contracts, and open... Read More →

Thursday April 17, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
Cattails A

Make/Hack/Play

1:30pm EDT

DNA Wutchyalike: Entwining the strands of established and innovative strategies to understand genetic information

Thursday April 17, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT

Cattails A

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing provides access to confusing revelations; yet we lack expertise to interpret this information about ourselves. This hands-on workshop will guide participants through finding reliable consumer health information; grappling with issues of privacy, financial burdens, ethics and the emotional impact of uncertainty; and handling emerging information about risk.

Speakers

Terrence Bennett

Amelia Landenberger

Assistant Professor, Law Library, University of Akron

Thursday April 17, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
Cattails A

Hands-On Workshop

2:45pm EDT

From Mold to Magic: Seizing Opportunities to Reimagine Library Staffing

Thursday April 17, 2025 2:45pm - 3:45pm EDT

Cattails A

Make the most of unexpected challenges by innovating in times of crisis! Learn how one library system challenged the traditional perceptions of library staff roles by implementing a new service pilot, and relocating more than 60 staff when the main library unexpectedly closed due to the discovery of mold.

Speakers

Lisa Wells

Caroline Dulworth

Thursday April 17, 2025 2:45pm - 3:45pm EDT
Cattails A

Interactive Panel, Roundtable Discussion