Friday, APRIL 5TH
9:30 to 3:30
If It’s Broke, Let’s Fix It: Open Dialogue Between Problem & Opportunity
Join us for a day of sharing, exploring, and discussing the challenges and opportunities for improving access to collections!
This year’s keynote panel serves as an excellent example of how librarians raise questions, problem-solve, and effectively turn challenges into opportunities all in an effort to create and improve access and discovery.
Brian Dobreski
Brian is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at University of Tennessee-Knoxville. His research focuses on the practices and implications of knowledge and information organization, as well as the concepts of personhood and personal identity in information.
Jeff Edmunds
Jeff is Digital Access Coordinator at the Penn State University Libraries, where he has worked for more than thirty years. Since 2017, he has been an outspoken critic of BIBFRAME.
Violet Fox
Violet is a Cataloging & Metadata Librarian at Northwestern University’s Galter Health Sciences Library. She is the creator of the Cataloging Lab, a wiki designed to promote collaboration in library metadata. Violet is passionate about critical cataloging, zine librarianship, and promoting the mental health of library workers.
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