LUC 2024

Three librarians and a member of each of their friends group will moderate and discuss best practices of having a friends of the libraries group as well as their experiences. Discussion will range from starting a friends groups to maintaining good working relationships over the years and their successes and challenges along the way.

An adaptation of a 2024 ALA Annual Conference presentation, this new spin on a sharing session features 40 one-minute, rapid-fire tips delivered by library professionals across the state, covering topics from assessment collection development to marketing to weeding. The objective is to provide lessons learned, tips, and best practices from seasoned and new professional alike in a concise format. Topics will span all library services, but will be categorized by function. A brief Q&A will follow.

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At community and technical colleges, the populations we serve and the challenges we face often differ from those of 4-year institutions. In this session two CC librarians will discuss their experiences and explore the unique challenges and rewards of community college librarianship including supporting both academic and technical education programs, providing library services to multiple campuses, offering library and information literacy instruction, and building relationships across campus.

On March 15, the Listen with LOUIS podcast focused on the topic of AI in libraries. Holly Goodwin, Dr. Megan Lowe, Phillip Martin, and Rob Stephens discussed AI in libraries, particularly about what the panelists were noticing at their libraries, what they found useful, and how libraries should be talking to their campus communities about AI. AI continues to evolve, and libraries and institutions of higher learning respond to those evolutions. This panel will provide updates to that discussion.

As the world of scholarly research continues to expand exponentially and the landscape of research continues to evolve, are the resources you are providing to your patrons evolving too? Re-imagining Search, Discovery, and Assessment the Web of Science platform with new content and AI integrations:

Please join us to learn more about how the recent developments in the Web of Science platform focus on integrating and connecting research, as the Web of Science now curates, unifies, and links research to includes Awarded Grants, Pre-Prints, and Theses and Dissertations. Understand new connections to your existing resources on the PQ platform and Pivot-RP solutions, and get your first glimpse at newly developed AI technologies with the Web of Science Research Assistant focused on providing a comprehensive solution to streamline the research workflow.

Join Fletcher Librarians to explore the future of academic libraries as learning hubs. Topics and ideas will revolve around using physical space wisely, creating makerspaces, catalog service changes, serving outside of our target audience, and more. Come prepared to discuss ideas for restructuring or share innovations already in place at your library.