2024 Annual Conference

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2024 OK-ACRL Annual Conference!

Friday, November 8, 2024

Theme: Success Stories: Courageous & Creative Solutions for Academic Librarians

Location:
Tulsa Community College Northeast Campus
First Floor, Main Academic Building
3727 E Apache St, Tulsa, OK 74115

Registration includes continental breakfast, your conference registration, lunch, and afternoon snacks.

Keynote Speaker: Janet Brennan Croft is an Associate University Librarian at the University of Northern Iowa and previously worked at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (recently reissued in paperback in April 2024) and has also written on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Orphan Black, J.K. Rowling, Terry Pratchett, Lois McMaster Bujold, and other authors, TV shows, and movies. She is the editor or co-editor of many collections of literary essays, most recently Loremasters and Libraries in Fantasy and Science Fiction with Jason Fisher. She edits the refereed scholarly journal Mythlore and is associate editor of Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+.

Schedule

START	END	EVENT	LOCATION
8:45 AM	9:30 AM	Registration & breakfast	TCC NE Seminar Center
9:30 AM	9:45 AM	Welcome & business meeting	TCC NE Seminar Center
9:45 AM	10:45 AM	Keynote: Janet Brennan-Croft	TCC NE Seminar Center
10:45 AM	11:00 AM	Break 1	TCC NE Seminar Center
11:00 AM	11:45 AM	Breakout Sessions 1
	Presenter 1A	Impact of Library Visits on Undergraduate Student GPA: The Vital Role of the Library as a Contributor to Student Success – Myra Bloom, Angie Sample, and Mark Hall	Room AB111
	Presenter 1B	Old Lady Yells at Cloud: Considering AI for Libraries – Toni Hoberecht	Room AB114
	Presenter 1C	Orygma: Reimagining Library Orientation Through Gameful Design – Chris Rosser and Holly Reiter	Room AB130
11:45 AM	1:00 PM	Lunch	TCC NE Seminar Center
1:00 PM	1:45 PM	Breakout Sessions 2
	Presenter 2A	Maintaining Momentum: How One Regional Public University Library is Staying Afloat – Andrea Parton	Room AB111
	Presenter 2B	Basic 3D Modeling with Tinkercad – Karl G. Siewert	Room AB114
	Presenter 2C	Graduate Student Support in the Academic Libraries – Frances Alvarado-Albertorio	Room AB130
	Presenter 2D	The Library as Connecting Point: Bringing Students and Faculty Together – Krista Denne	TCC NE Seminar Center
1:45 PM	2:00 PM	Break 2 with cookies	TCC NE Seminar Center
2:00 PM	2:45 PM	Breakout Sessions 3
	Presenter 3A	Digging for FOSLs: Launching a successful library friends group – Stewart Brower	Room AB111
	Presenter 3B	Policies, Models, & Trends in Open Access, Open Data & Persistent Identifiers: An overview and update – Clarke Iakovakis , Dani Kirsch, and Matt Upson	Room AB114
	Presenter 3C	Forging Successful Relationships with Faculty to Support Critical Information Literacy – Megan York and Kay Strahan	Room AB130
2:45 PM	3:00 PM	Closing remarks and door prizes	TCC NE Seminar Center