California Academic & Research Libraries

Time (PDT)

Track A

Track B

Track C

9:00-9:15 AM

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Sarah Forzetting, CARL President

9:15-10:20 AM

Keynote Address

Michael Meth

Dean of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library at San José State University

10:20-10:40 AM

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10:40-11:25 AM

(45 minute presentations)

Beyond Pre-Packaged AI: Teaching Students to Build Custom Research Tutors Using the ACRL Framework

Alexis Pavenick, CSU Long Beach

AI-Powered or Pressured? Navigating Gen AI Adoption in the California State University System

Talor Wald, Mount St. Mary's University

Ariana Varela, Cal State Los Angeles

William Ortiz, CSU San Bernadino

Prompting Against the Machine: Teaching Critical Data Literacy Through AI Interrogation

Dykee Gorrell, San Jose State University

11:25-11:35 AM

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11:35-11:55 AM

(20 minute presentations)

Ctrl+Alt+SIFT: Rebooting Info Literacy for AI Times

Rayheem Eskridge, Cal Poly Pomona

AI-Enhanced Liberation: Empowering Neurodivergent Learners

Amanda Makula, University of Southern California

Mapping Evidence Synthesis Production in the CSUs: Reproducibility, the Role of Librarians, and Opportunities for the Future

CARL Research Grant Recipients

Mary Catherine Ellis, San Diego State University

Essy Barroso-Ramirez, San Jose State University

Yuqi He, San Jose State University

Dawn Hackman, San Jose State University

12:05-12:50 PM

(45 minute presentations)

AI Might Summarize, But It Can’t Think: Keeping Humans at the Center of AI-Assisted Literature Reviews

Katie Perry, CSU Los Angeles

Lettycia Terrones, CSU Los Angeles

Speeding Up or Slowing Down? AI & Slow Librarianship in Academic Libraries

Amanda Makula, University of San Diego

Heather Sardis, MIT Libraries

Meredith Farkas, Portland Community College

The Human Brand: Why Libraries Should Be the Last to Automate Their Voice

John Jackson, Loyola Marymount University

12:50-1:50

LUNCH

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LUNCH

1:50-2:10 PM

(Vendor Demos)

Gold Sponsor

Lexis Nexis

Will Baptist, Account Manager - Academic & Library Solutions

Gold Sponsor

SAGE

[presenter, title]

CARL Partner

California Community Colleges

[name], Council of Chief LIbrarians

1:50-2:10 PM

(Poster Sessions)

Cross-Campus Collaboration for Accessible Course Materials

Sylvia Page, UCLA

Emilie Eshbaugh, UCLA

Courtney Hoffner, UCLA

LLM—Let’s Learn More: A Deep Research Experimentation

Katherine Kapsidelis, UCLA

Michelle Brasseur, UCLA

 Eli Edwards, UCLA Law

 Jamie Hazlitt, UCLA 

Courtney Hoffner, UCLA

Cracking the Case: A Survey on Resource Usefulness and Librarian Assistance among First-Year Health Sciences Students

Jennifer A. Silverman, University of Southern California Wilson Dental Library

2:10-2:15 PM

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2:15-3:00 PM

(45 minute presentations)

Centering Ethics in Library Instruction for Human Flourishing in an AI Future

Brittany Harden, Point Loma Nazarene University

Robin Lang, Point Loma Nazarene University

AI SWOT

Amy Catania, Contra Costa College

Erica Watson, Contra Costa College

Do We Have Anything to Say About It? Why and How to Critically Evaluate Embedded AI tools in Library Databases

Jen Pesek, Santa Clara University

3:00-3:05 PM

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3:05-3:30 PM

(20 minute presentations)

Bringing Librarian Ethics to the AI Discussion

Dr. Mary Jordan, St. Cloud Technical and Community College

Inductive Learning as an Approach in Information Literacy (IL) Instruction Integrating the Utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools.

Wil Weston, San Diego State University

AI Literacy’s Hidden Prerequisite: Why Having Information Literacy Is Essential For Understanding And Using AI

Sophia Mosbe, Santa Clara University

3:30-3:35 PM

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3:35-4:00 PM

Closing Remarks

Sarah Forzetting, CARL President