CFP: Teaching and Learning with AI Conference, June 11-13, 2026 (Orlando, Florida - June 11-13, 2026)

 Share Your Ideas at the 4th Annual Teaching and Learning with AI Conference!

The call for proposals is closing soon – January 30 – for the fourth annual Teaching and Learning with AI: A Sharing Conference Between Educational Practitioners (https://digitallearning.ucf.edu/teachwithai/) conference to be held June 11-13, 2026, in Orlando, Florida. Professionals, instructors, researchers, librarians, and policymakers from all sectors of higher education are invited to participate as presenters or attendees.

Topics may include:

• Teaching models that embrace AI tools
• Academic integrity and grading
• Faculty using AI to create course content
• Faculty development and support
• Copyright, ownership, and provenance
• Ethical considerations
• Building AI applications for education
• Institutional policies
• Discipline-specific implementations of AI

Want to submit a proposal? View the proposal guidelines (https://cfp.sched.com/speaker/wjpQZ2tRIO/event).

Feel free to reach out to us at teachwithai@ucf.edu with any questions regarding the proposals or the event.

Sincerely,

The Teaching and Learning with AI Conference Committee

CFP: CORE Week - Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group (CITSIG) - Virtual Meeting March 5, 2026

CORE’s Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group (CITSIG) invites speakers to present as part of the 2026 Core Virtual Interest Group Week. The CITSIG session will take place virtually on Thursday March 5 at 11am Central Standard Time. 

 

Over the past five years, libraries have faced many challenges, some old, some new. Organizational restructuring and new economic uncertainties continue to impact library technical services, along with new book banning campaigns, the recent emergence of AI, growing DEI efforts and challenges, and a myriad of other established responsibilities. These changes are reshaping users’ needs and expectations along with the future of technical services work.

 

We are seeking proposals for presentations about how technical services librarians think about and respond to recent trends at their institutions, in librarianship, or across society.

 

Potential areas to address could include, but are not limited to:

• Artificial intelligence
• Change management in technical services
• Creative uses of vendor services
• Implementations of tools that work with your ILS, such as API-scripts or Cloud Apps
• Unique classification schemes

 

We aim to provide a session with 2-3 short presentations (20 minutes maximum each) followed by a brief Q&A. We welcome your presentation proposals by Friday January 30, 2026, with selection communicated by February 9, 2026. 

 

You do not need to be a member of ALA/Core to present or attend.

 

Please submit your proposal using this form.

 

Sincerely, 

Amy Dittman Chair & Elizabeth Szkirpan Chair-elect

 

Amy Dumouchel Dittman
Head of Electronic Resources and Serials Acquisitions; Chair CORE Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group (CITSIG)

Harvard Library ITS

amy_dittman@harvard.edu 

CFP: ELUNA 2026 Practical Applications and General Product/Tool Demonstrations Track (April 29 – May 1, 2026 - Los Angeles, California) - Ex Libris

ELUNA Call for Proposals--Practical Applications and General Product/Tool Demonstrations Track

The ELUNA 2026 Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee is excited to open the Call for Proposals for sessions in Practical Applications and General Product/Tool Demonstrations! We invite you to submit your 45-minute breakout session ideas for the 2026 Annual Meeting by January 15, 2026.

Our conference theme is “Libraries Always Changing.” Libraries and archives are some of the best organizations to address this. All of you adapt to continue to create and improve connections by integrating various technologies allowing your patrons to access and interact with information and other resources in new formats via different tools. You pioneer new programs to fulfill community needs as your visions help you champion your patrons. We look forward to seeing your unique spin on this topic.

The Practical applications & general product/tool demonstrations track encourages proposals for all topics, and here are just a few to think about!

• Workflows and projects in and across acquisitions, cataloging/metadata management, circulation, resource sharing, etc.
• Cross-departmental collaborative projects
• "Cool tools” that integrate with, or help with, Alma workflows
• Metadata management
• Data cleanup
• Managing or using COUNTER statistics 
• Cross-training/ changing jobs and applying skills from one module to another
• Documenting institutional knowledge, recording workflows, preparing for retirements and other changes 
• Changes in the ILL landscape

Submit your session proposal(s) by the January 15, 2026 deadline!  Once again, we are using the Dryfta platform to collect your proposal submissions.

• Visit our Ex Libris Knowledge Days and ELUNA Conference 2026 event page
• Log in with your credentials used last year (or create a new account if you didn't create an account previously by choosing Attendee Registration – Create Account)
• Click your name menu > My Submissions
• Click "New Submissions" on the My Submissions page
• On the Submission form, click once on the Event Name in the Submission Type field to show the Annual Meeting proposal fields - even if Annual Meeting is already displaying
• Enter your proposal information (you can save and complete the presentation proposal later if needed)

Want to review the proposal form fields for the Annual Meeting without logging into Dryfta? Or would you like some guidance filling them in? Visit the ELUNA Proposal Tips page for more information.

You'll see more reminder messages from us throughout the 2026 Annual Meeting lifecycle. And even if you are not interested in presenting at the Annual Meeting this year, we hope you plan to join us for one or more ELUNA 2026 Conference events at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, California.

• ELUNA Developers Day+: April 27 – 28, 2026

• ELUNA Analytics Afternoon: April 28, 2026

• ELUNA Annual Meeting:  April 29 – May 1, 2026

Looking for hands-on training for Ex Libris products? Ex Libris will offer Knowledge Days as a pre-conference event on April 27 - 28, 2026.

If you have any questions about the ELUNA 2026 Annual Meeting or the other ELUNA 2026 Conference events, send them to ELUNA's LibAnswers Queue for the ELUNA 2026 Planning Team to answer.

We are happy to answer questions about the Practical Applications & General Product/Tool Demonstrations sessions (our emails hyperlinked below).  Hope to see you in Los Angeles! 

Rebecca Hyams, Meghan Lenahan, and Keelan Weber

Co-chairs, Practical Applications & General Product/Tool Demonstrations Track

CFP: 2026 SOUCABL Call for Proposals (Southern University and College Academic Business Librarians Conference) - May 13-14, 2026 - Nashville, Tennessee

Are you an academic librarian with liaison responsibilities in business, finance, or entrepreneurship? In the Southern US? If so, the Southern University and College Academic Business Librarians Conference (SOUCABL) is for you! SOUCABL is a great opportunity to meet other information professionals, develop your regional network of colleagues, share ideas, and brainstorm solutions.

We are now accepting proposals!

https://forms.gle/MvjRNsSAymgSftJD9

Timeline

  *   Proposals are due Friday, January 9, 2026
  *   Proposals confirmed no later than Friday, January 30, 2026

We especially encourage proposal submissions from librarians who work at smaller institutions or for whom providing public and technical services for business, finance, sports management, or entrepreneurship education and programming is only part of their job.

The SOUCABL Conference began in 2019 as a uniquely affordable opportunity for academic business librarians in the U.S. South for professional development, networking and community building. SOUCABL also includes a generous vendor community that fully sponsors the conference, and makes up an integral part of the annual programming. The conference prioritizes participation from the  District of Columbia and 14 Southern states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

About the Conference

What: The SOUCABL Conference: Chapter 7 - "Striving & Thriving"

When: Wednesday, May 13  - Thursday, May 14, 2026

Where: Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Cost: No registration fee.

  *   Breakfast and lunch will be provided in addition
  *   There will be a welcome reception on Wednesday and closing reception on Thursday
  *   Speakers are responsible for covering their own travel and lodging

Pre-Conference Literacy Lab

The preconference will explore strategies for teaching a range of business information literacies—including data, financial, and related competencies—within the context of today’s evolving landscape of resources, technologies and ethical questions. Sessions will emphasize practical approaches for maximizing the impact of available resources, and highlighting creative methods of instruction. We especially encourage workshops that critically examine pedagogical practices through an ethical lens, considering issues such as equity, accessibility, and responsible use of information. The aim is to inspire attendees with fresh ideas,  and equip them with practical tools and reflective frameworks. Tell us how your workshop might help our community to enhance our teaching in meaningful and conscientious ways.

Striving & Thriving: Start Where You Are, Use What You Have, Do What You Can

The theme of the 2026 conference is “Striving & Thriving.” We invite business librarians to share their creative, practical, and impactful approaches to supporting business information needs with the resources at hand or have sourced new funding in new ways. Whether you’ve developed innovative programs, forged strategic partnerships, leveraged technology in new ways, or found small changes that made a big difference, we want to hear your story. Proposals should highlight successes, lessons learned, and strategies for thriving despite today’s shrinking budgets.

Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Have you adapted or repurposed existing tools, collections, or spaces in ways that had a significant impact?
• What partnerships have helped you extend your reach or offer new services?
• Have you used technology creatively or inexpensively to enhance access, engagement, or efficiency?
• What lessons have you learned from experimenting with new approaches, and how have they shaped your current practice?
• How do you measure or demonstrate the impact of your work on a budget?

Formats

• Pre-conference Workshop: 55 minutes including all interactive elements
• Lightning talk: 10 minutes (includes any Q&A), limited to 5 slides maximum

We are open to accepting different formats. Sometimes a lightning talk can be expanded into a workshop, sometimes a workshop can condense into a lightning talk. We are looking for events that provide impact with the quickest return for time invested. We are also open to innovative formats. If you have an idea to develop it into a program, we’d love to hear from you. We are of course happy to consider different modalities for those who have specific requests.

Please contact Twyckoff@fsu.edu for suggestions for the program or proposals.
Please contact hd.mckay@vanderbilt.edu for any questions about travel and hospitality related to the conference.

Submit your proposals here: https://forms.gle/MvjRNsSAymgSftJD9

Kind regards,

Kara (in my role as a member of the planning committee)

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Kara Van Abel, MLIS | Associate Professor | Reference Librarian
Liaison to the Collat School of Business
UAB Libraries | Mervyn H. Sterne Library
UAB | The University of Alabama at Birmingham
kvanabel@uab.edu

CFP: Special Issues on GenAI Tools within Libraries, Archives and Museums - Information Technology and Libraries #ITAL

Guest editors Ellen Schmid and Katy Miller invite you to submit a proposal for an article in an upcoming special issue of Information Technology and Libraries that will explore the integration of Generative AI tools within library, archive, and museum research environments. This special issue will be published in September 2026. We welcome contributions that provide practical insights, case studies, or user research on the development, deployment, and impact of AI-enhanced research tools. Topics of interest include user-focused interfaces, implementation processes, UX assessments, and the influence of GenAI on workflows, data analysis, and research practices. Articles should present first-hand experience with designing, testing, or evaluating AI helpers, and may cover commercial or open-source solutions. 

Submissions of up to 5,000 words will be accepted for a publication target of September 2026. 

Article proposals are due February 1, 2026 and include a 500-word abstract and a brief statement about the author's experience in the field. Authors will be notified of acceptance in late February, with a submission of the first draft of the article (no more than 5,000 words) due May 1, 2026. Articles will go through the same rigorous peer review, copyediting, and proofreading process as any other ITAL article.

This issue will be guest edited by Ellen Schmid and Katy Miller in collaboration with ITAL's Editor (Ken Varnum) and Assistant Editor (Joanna DiPasquale). 

Submit your proposal: https://forms.gle/aSjdjpvoR2QG4By87

Email questions to: 

• Ellen Schmid, Law Librarian and Judicial Communications Manager, Kane County Law Library,  Illinois 16th Judicial Circuit, schmidellen@16thcircuit.illinoiscourts.gov
• Katy Miller, Department Head, Learning Engagement, John C. Hitt Libraries, University of Central Florida, mailto:katie.miller@ucf.edu

CFP: NASIG Annual 2026 - June 2-4, 2026 Madison, Wisconsin

NASIG is soliciting proposals for its 41st Annual Conference, to be held June 2 - 4, 2026, in Madison, Wisconsin. We are currently seeking in-person presentations. Sessions will be one hour in length on topics related to the areas defined in NASIG’s Core Competencies, including, but not limited to:

• Electronic resource life cycle and management
• Collection analysis, assessment, and development
• Licensing and legal framework of library content
• Ethical issues in technical services
• Standards and systems of cataloging and classification, metadata, linked data, and indexing
• Standards, initiatives, and best practices for library content
• Scholarly communication, including copyright, data management, and assessment and impact metrics
• Institutional repositories, publishing, digital preservation, open educational resources, and open access
• Life cycle and workflow of print continuing resources
• Relationship building between libraries, vendors, publishers, standards bodies, and others involved in the information community
• Supervision and management of staff working in areas relevant to NASIG
• Management of projects related to electronic and/or print resources or scholarly communication
• Use of artificial intelligence (AI) in technical services workflows
• Initiatives and best practices in areas included in the core competencies and awareness of trends and ongoing developments in those areas
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion in relation to libraries

Each session should include approximately 30-45 minutes of content, with remaining time allotted for discussion.  

Co-presenters are welcomed, but we ask that you limit submissions to no more than three presenters. Presenters may be asked to combine sessions with other presenters on similar topics.

Proposals are selected by the Program Planning Committee based on their relevance to NASIG member interests.  Please refer to the Proposal Resources page to see the rubric used by the committee to evaluate submissions, as well as other resources for crafting a successful proposal.

Presenters will have the option of publishing a conference report in the NASIG Conference Proceedings.

More information about the conference is available at https://nasig.org/NASIG-Annual-Conference. Accepted presentations will be offered a 50% discount off qualified registration for the conference.

Please submit all proposals using the online form at https://proposalspace.com/calls/d/1903

The submission deadline is December 19, 2025

Questions? Please email nasigppc@gmail.com

Calls for Spotlight Sessions and Great Ideas poster sessions will be forthcoming. Presenters at these shorter sessions do not qualify for discounted registration.

CJ Garcia

NASIG Social Media Coordinator

Call for Posters: MiALA 2026 Annual Conference (Traverse City, Michigan - May 6-8, 2026) - Michigan Academic Library Association

Call for Poster Proposals is Now Open!

The Michigan Academic Library Association (MiALA) invites you and your colleagues to submit poster proposals for the annual conference to be held May 6-8, 2026, at the Park Place Hotel & Conference Center in Traverse City, MI. Participation from librarians, library staff, LIS students, and administrators from all types of academic libraries is encouraged, so please share this announcement. We welcome posters on any topic related to work in academic libraries, particularly if they have a connection to the conference theme, Finding Our True North: Creating Connections to Light Our Way.

Poster proposals should include a description of no more than 300 words. They will be evaluated on impact on academic libraries and higher education, originality and creativity, and clarity. If you submit a presentation proposal that is not accepted, we encourage you to reframe your topic for consideration as a poster.

Prior to submitting your proposal, please review the Poster Session Guidelines page.

Please submit your poster proposal using the online form here by February 16, 2026.

The primary contact listed on each proposal will receive a message indicating receipt of the proposal when it is submitted, and a decision on proposals by the end of February.

Questions about poster proposals can be sent to Lauren Vogt, LaurenVogt@ferris.edu. Questions about the conference in general can be sent to conference@miala.org.

Presentation opportunity! Seeking technology "geeks" for a virtual forum - RUSA Emerging Technology Section (Virtual event in March 2026)

RUSA Emerging Technology Section:

https://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/ets

The RUSA Emerging Technology Programming committee is organizing a "Speed Geeking" discussion surrounding accessibility, emerging technology, and libraries at a virtual event in March. "Speed geeking," is similar to the concept of "speed dating," in that participants rotate around to different presenters at timed intervals. The presenters ("geeks") would have a very short presentation and Q&A session (~5 minute presentation,~5 minute Q&A, for 10 minutes total) with multiple rotating groups.

If you have a topic at the intersection of emerging technologies and accessibility in a library setting, and you'd be interested in speaking in a virtual forum setting along with other "geeks," please consider replying privately to me (rachelmenzel@creighton.edu), ideally by the end of the year.

Thank you for your consideration, and I hope you have a pleasant holiday season!

Rachel
RACHEL MENZEL, MLIS
STEM Reference and Instruction Librarian
Research and Instruction Department | University Libraries
she | her | hers
rachelmenzel@creighton.edu