BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:54thannualconference2026 X-WR-CALDESC:Event Calendar METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//Sched.com ARLIS/NA 54th Annual Conference//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260416T170000Z DTEND:20260416T171500Z SUMMARY:ARLIS/NA Virtual Day: Conference Planning Advisory Committee Opening Remarks DESCRIPTION:Join the Conference Planning Advisory Committee (CPAC) live from Concordia University’s 4TH SPACE\, a vibrant public venue in the heart of downtown Montreal dedicated to research\, learning\, and community engagement. This free virtual pre-conference day will be available via Zoom\, where attendees can interact with speakers\, or by livestream on YouTube. Open to members and non-members alike\, this event does not require registration for the Montréal conference.\n\nThe event is from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. See the full schedule for the event by following this link.\n\nRegister using this \;Zoom registration link for the entire session from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.\nLivestream link for the entire session from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:6f6b77463bbc19cb2038090efe51d8e8 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/6f6b77463bbc19cb2038090efe51d8e8 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260416T171500Z DTEND:20260416T183000Z SUMMARY:ARLIS/NA Virtual Day: Curating Resistance: Library Exhibitions as Pedagogy\, Protest and Practice DESCRIPTION:Research libraries stage exhibitions that resist silence\, amplify marginalized voices and invite new forms of public dialogue. Far from neutral\, library exhibitions are increasingly important as pedagogical\, political and cultural interventions. This panel will explore how exhibitions rooted in library collections and curatorial practice function as acts of resistance–whether to institutional inertia\, political censorship or canonical narratives. \n\nExhibiting Resistance: Experiential Learning through Archival Curation \nSpeaker: Sam Regal \nThis paper presents a student internship program at a large public research university\, where an undergraduate curated an exhibition from archival protest ephemera. The project connected current student activism with institutional legacies of resistance\, transforming the library into a site of dialogue between past and present struggles.\n\nCuration in Academic Art Libraries: Empowering Students and Promoting New Forms of Storytelling \nSpeaker: Anaïs Grateau \nThe paper considers how student-led exhibitions resist static art-historical narratives and challenge the notion of art libraries as apolitical spaces. Through case studies of collaborative curatorial projects\, the paper highlights exhibitions-as-pedagogy\, positioning students as active meaning-makers who shape interpretive frameworks for diverse audiences.\n\nI Object: Activist History\, Library Exhibitions and Art\nSpeakers: Courtney Hunt and Leticia Wiggins \nThis paper presents a case study of an exhibition that merged archival collections with contemporary feminist art to foreground the activist history of an R1 university campus. Staged amid state-level restrictions on diversity\, equity and inclusion initiatives\, the project demonstrates how art libraries can serve as sites of cultural resistance under conditions of political constraint.\n\nWidening the Arc: Drawing on the Full Spectrum of Library Collections\nSpeaker: Jamie Vander Broek \nThis paper examines an exhibition that resisted the conventional privileging of “treasures” by displaying scientific works alongside mass-produced children’s books\, and by inviting visitors to handle materials directly. By dismantling the hierarchy between special and circulating collections\, the project demonstrates how library exhibitions can resist entrenched curatorial orthodoxies and reframe everyday materials as vital sources of public knowledge.\n\nThe event is from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. See the full schedule for the event by following this link.\n\nRegister using this Zoom registration link for the entire session from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.\nLivestream link for the entire session from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:e1fd938d3dfe9fcaebc40e1a88ec20a0 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/e1fd938d3dfe9fcaebc40e1a88ec20a0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260416T185000Z DTEND:20260416T200000Z SUMMARY:ARLIS/NA Virtual Day: Meet Your Board: Open Members’ Meeting DESCRIPTION:This open members’ meeting will offer attendees an overview of ARLIS/NA’s current priorities\, activities\, and leadership updates for the 2025–2026 program year. The session will begin with the President’s welcome and report\, followed by reports from the Secretary\, Treasurer\, Development Committee\, and Editorial Director\, offering updates on the association’s governance\, finances\, fundraising\, and publications. Together\, these presentations will give members an opportunity to learn more about the work of the association and stay connected to its ongoing initiatives. The session will conclude with a presentation and question period on travelling to Montréal for the conference\, featuring representatives from the Conference Planning Advisory Committee and the Advocacy and Public Policy Committee.\n\nThe event is from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. See the full schedule for the event by following this link.\n\nRegister using this Zoom registration link for the entire session from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.\nLivestream link for the entire session from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:7be423a6a4cbdf1cc9d3449116d7e4ae URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/7be423a6a4cbdf1cc9d3449116d7e4ae END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260427T180000Z DTEND:20260427T190000Z SUMMARY:D&I Committee Annual Business Meeting DESCRIPTION:Join the Diversity & Inclusion Committee for our Annual Business Meeting. We will share a brief overview of the Committee's activities for the past year\, as well as provide plenty of opportunity for discussion and feedback from the membership. We hope to see you there! \; CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:f359a81386aecdcb043405aaf1a87d91 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/f359a81386aecdcb043405aaf1a87d91 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260427T190000Z DTEND:20260427T200000Z SUMMARY:Membership Committee Annual Business Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Membership Committee will provide an overview of the accomplishments of this year and discuss the annual membership survey results. \; CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:db891d2ba161e05f2fd8e9236b7c6e98 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/db891d2ba161e05f2fd8e9236b7c6e98 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260428T170000Z DTEND:20260428T180000Z SUMMARY:Materials SIG Virtual Meet up DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion about possible directions the Materials SIG can explore to expand into broader areas of tactility\, material culture\, and object based learning.\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting \n\nID: 98262215850 Passcode: 354871 \n\n‪(US) +1 651-372-8299‬ \n98262215850@zoomcrc.com CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:01db277c49cc744a53ca899292ba1231 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/01db277c49cc744a53ca899292ba1231 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260429T150000Z DTEND:20260429T160000Z SUMMARY:Art Librarians Parents and Caregivers (ALPaCa) SIG Annual Business Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Art Librarians Parents and Caregivers Special Interest Group (ALPaCa SIG) will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday\, April 29 from 11-12pm EDT. This meeting will be held virtually and you are welcome to drop in as you are able to attend. We will introduce our new co-chair\, talk about goals for the upcoming year\, and set aside time for caregivers to talk and provide mutual support. CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:0062141016bd9d09b25363463392e23f URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/0062141016bd9d09b25363463392e23f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260429T180000Z DTEND:20260429T190000Z SUMMARY:ARLIS/NA Midstates Chapter Meeting DESCRIPTION:Midstates Chapter Spring business meeting\n\n \;---\n \;  \;\nOne tap mobile  \;+16468769923\,\,99977960666# US (New York)  \;+16469313860\,\,99977960666# US  \; \n\n \;---  \;  \;\nJoin by SIP  \;• 99977960666@zoomcrc.com  \;Passcode: 566202  \;  \;Join instructions  \;https://uiowa.zoom.us/meetings/99977960666/invitations?signature=-HUNhCN-hgltSM4WQQb89iccYxEyMmSjvHcQX24aTHA CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:7fde044a81c7f1ce6fb2d44baaa95445 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/7fde044a81c7f1ce6fb2d44baaa95445 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260429T190000Z DTEND:20260429T200000Z SUMMARY:ARLIS Mountain West Chapter Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:Annual Business Meeting for the Mountain West Chapter\n\n\nhttps://uccs-edu.zoom.us/j/97203976858 \;\nMeeting ID: 972 0397 6858 \n\n One tap mobile +17193594580\, 97203976858# US +13462487799\, 97203976858# US (Houston) Dial by your location +1 719 359 4580 US +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 444 9171 US +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 205 0468 US +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 305 224 1968 US +1 309 205 3325 US +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 360 209 5623 US +1 386 347 5053 US +1 507 473 4847 US +1 564 217 2000 US +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 646 931 3860 US +1 689 278 1000 US +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:26c072886e5b34c117e9155428157022 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/26c072886e5b34c117e9155428157022 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260430T180000Z DTEND:20260430T190000Z SUMMARY:Intersectional Feminism & Art SIG Meeting DESCRIPTION:Join the Intersectional Feminism & Art SIG for our annual business meeting. Find out more about this Special Interest Group and our activities on our Knowledge Commons page. \;\n\nWe invite all who are interested to join our conversation! CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:3b1e939810afe69b28940530289d6ea6 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/3b1e939810afe69b28940530289d6ea6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260430T190000Z DTEND:20260430T200000Z SUMMARY:ADSL Division Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:Art & Design School Library Division annual business meeting. CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:c902e4702dbf6d50ca1c21176849f689 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/c902e4702dbf6d50ca1c21176849f689 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260502T150000Z DTEND:20260502T163000Z SUMMARY:(SOLD OUT) Habitat 67 Tour Group 1 DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.\n\nCost : $ 55\n\nHabitat '67 \;was designed by Moshe Safdie for the 1967 World Fair’s in Montreal and remains an iconic example of Brutalist prefabricated modular housing. This tour will discuss the origin and evolution of Habitat and explores some of the pedestrian streets and terraces\, as well as Moshe Safdie’s apartment. We will also have access to some archival materials from the Moshe Safdie Archive\, held at McGill University\, to learn about his original vision for Habitat ’67 while appreciating the landmark structure that was built..\n\nTransportation : Provided \nA bus will depart from the hotel with participants. \;\n\nImportant Information:\nTours will be offered in English\, and guides will be pleased to answer questions in French.\n$ All costs are in USD.\n\n#madeinquebec\n\n\n\n\nPerspective\, Habitat '67\, Moshe Safdie Archive\, John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection\, McGill Libraries CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:Habitat 67\, 2600 Ave Pierre-Dupuy\, Montreal\, Quebec H3C 3R6 SEQUENCE:0 UID:14657e1d65220135e41c1693db0996e1 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/14657e1d65220135e41c1693db0996e1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260502T183000Z DTEND:20260502T210000Z SUMMARY:ARLIS/NA Board Meeting DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:Outremont 1\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:4e66370d163beb4d3985416434a367c7 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/4e66370d163beb4d3985416434a367c7 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T120000Z DTEND:20260503T210000Z SUMMARY:Registration & Hospitality DESCRIPTION:Register for the conference\, pick up registration materials\, or get conference information. CATEGORIES:REGISTRATION & HOSPITALITY LOCATION:Inscription\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:1d90af248083cbee41b3846296cc6725 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/1d90af248083cbee41b3846296cc6725 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T120000Z DTEND:20260503T210000Z SUMMARY:Self-Schedule Room DESCRIPTION:Self-Schedule Room\nARLIS/NA conference attendees may reserve a space in the self-schedule room for informal in-person meetings to be held during the conference. This space is meant for conversations and knowledge-sharing on topics related to art librarianship. Meetings may be private or open to all conference attendees. The room will be equipped for groups of up to 48 attendees. A/V and catering are not available. Click here to reserve the room. The deadline to sign-up is Friday\, April 10th. \; \;All meetings will be listed in Sched by April 17th.\n \;\nIf you have any difficulty with the registration form\, or if you have any questions\, please contact Gwen Mayhew (gmayhew@cca.qc.ca).\n \;\nRestrictions\nThe room should not be used by vendors or sponsors. Vendors or sponsors wishing to reserve a space should reach out to ARLIS/NA conference planner Megan Brouwer (m.brouwer@arlisna.org). \;The room should not be used by constituency groups (i.e. SIGs\, Chapters or Divisions) for their annual meetings. Constituency group meetings are held virtually before or after the conference. \;CLICK FOR FORM HERE\n\n CATEGORIES:SELF-ASSIGNING LOCATION:Westmount 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:a59343dbf3855d1914ea7a08403f37ef URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/a59343dbf3855d1914ea7a08403f37ef END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T130000Z DTEND:20260503T160000Z SUMMARY:(Sold Out!) Ceci n'est pas un catalogue d'exposition: how to catalog exhibition publications DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a workshop to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the workshop. You must register via conference registration.\n\nArt exhibition publications pose unique cataloging challenges and often require more use of cataloger's judgment than other types of art documentation. They usually necessitate intervention in terms of transposing\, omitting\, and supplying data\, and choice of access points can be complicated.\n \n This workshop will provide practical guidance to catalogers working with art exhibition publications by explaining issues and situations characteristic of this type of material. The four chapters of Cataloging Exhibition Publications: Best Practices\, updated 2023-2025\, will frame the program\, and relevant standards and documentation will also be covered. Presentations by members of the Cataloging Advisory Committee will be supplemented by interactive learning activities\, real-world examples\, and discussion.\n \n The workshop will include an overview of cataloging art exhibition publications\; recommendations for applying RDA rules and policies\; instruction on assignment of Library of Congress Subject Headings and use of controlled thesauri for genre/form access\; and local considerations in selection of subject headings and name access points.\n \n While especially helpful to catalogers\, the workshop also welcomes new professionals and students interested in cataloging\, solo librarians for whom cataloging is only a minor part of their job\, and other art library workers.\n \n Learning Objectives:\n • An understanding of cataloging issues unique to art exhibition publications and familiarity with best practices and documentation.\n • RDA rules and national policies applicable to transcription of title and statement(s) of responsibility\, addition of notes\, and selection of name and title access points.\n • Use of controlled vocabularies for subject and genre/form access\, especially assignment of LCSH in accordance with the relevant sections of the Library of Congress Subject Headings Manual. CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP LOCATION:Montreal 8\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:40767627f92cba812ddb6c1fd39c06c2 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/40767627f92cba812ddb6c1fd39c06c2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T130000Z DTEND:20260503T160000Z SUMMARY:How We See AI: Collage Inquiry Workshop DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a workshop to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the workshop. You must register via conference registration.\n\nHow do you see AI? What metaphors\, images\, and associations come to mind when you think about its impact on society and visual culture? For the past year\, we have been exploring these questions through a series of public workshops that use collage inquiry—an arts-based research method that invites participants to construct meaning through layering and juxtaposition of images. Each workshop has featured a talk by an artist or scholar whose work critically examines AI\, addressing issues such as intellectual property\, social ethics\, privacy\, creative authorship\, and surveillance. These talks have provided grounding and provocation\, after which participants respond visually by creating collages from an array of provided ephemera.\n \n In this workshop\, rather than listening to a guest speaker\, participants will engage directly in collage-making while learning about our project findings. In doing so\, they will experience firsthand how collage inquiry can serve as a tool for reflecting on complex\, rapidly evolving issues like AI—where metaphor\, symbolism\, and image association often reveal insights that elude purely verbal analysis.\n \n Participants will leave with their own visual reflections on AI\, strategies for incorporating collage inquiry into their teaching or outreach\, and a deeper appreciation of how visual metaphor can open up new ways of understanding technological and cultural change. CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP LOCATION:Montreal 7\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:968d5cc6765f21dac8a9104c26aad5c1 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/968d5cc6765f21dac8a9104c26aad5c1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T140000Z DTEND:20260503T210000Z SUMMARY:Exhibit Hall Set-up DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:951181da399ac7f686f4ba1c677360b2 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/951181da399ac7f686f4ba1c677360b2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T140000Z DTEND:20260503T160000Z SUMMARY:(SOLD OUT) Black Montréal Experiences : Old Montréal – Origins\, Presence\, and Resistance Walking Tour Group 1 DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.Cost : $ 35\nOld Montréal – Origins\, Presence\, and ResistanceThis tour explores the earliest documented presence of people of African descent in Montreal\, beginning in the 17th century. Participants will learn about early Black figures and examine the realities of Black people in New France and under British rule. The tour also highlights sites connected to Black labour\, resistance\, and community formation\, revealing how Black history is foundational to the city’s earliest development. Through architecture and place-based storytelling\, participants gain a deeper understanding of how Black presence shaped Montreal from its beginnings.\n\nRito Joseph is the founder and lead tour guide of Black Montreal Experiences\, where he brings Montreal’s Afro-descendant history to life through engaging and immersive storytelling. Blending culture\, history\, art\, and music\, he guides participants on a journey that uncovers the rich presence\, lasting contributions\, and demographic evolution of Black communities in the city. Transportation : not provided.Meeting point is a short walk from the hotel (9 minutes) at the the corner of McGill and Saint-Jacques streets\, \;near Square-Victoria Metro. \;Important Information:The tour will be offered in English\, however the facilitator also speaks French.$ All costs are in USD.#madeinquebec\n\n\n\n CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:e3a03a129284481cbe51adf017d979e6 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/e3a03a129284481cbe51adf017d979e6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T140000Z DTEND:20260503T160000Z SUMMARY:Dorchester Square and Its Surroundings: Heritage and Architecture at the Heart of the City Walking Tour DESCRIPTION:We are happy to announce that tour registration is now open to non-conference participants!\nPlease note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.Cost : $ 25\nStarting from Dorchester Square\, formerly Dominion Square\, created in the 19th century and later becoming the gateway to downtown\, this Heritage Montreal tour\, led by an architect specializing in heritage conservation\, traces the major stages of the city’s development. It takes visitors from early landmark buildings\, such as Windsor Station and the cathédrale-basilique Marie-Reine-du-Monde\, to large commercial complexes like the Sun Life and Dominion Square buildings\, culminating with the iconic Place Ville Marie\, a symbol of modernity. \;\n\nTransportation : not provided. \nDorchester square is a short walk (7 minutes) from the hotel. Meet your guide at the fountain in front of 1001 Dorchester Square. \nImportant Information:The workshop will be offered in English\, however the facilitator also speaks French.$ All costs are in USD.\n\n#madeinquebec\n\n\n CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:38f2ba4541950beb3310364aebabe4d9 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/38f2ba4541950beb3310364aebabe4d9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T163000Z DTEND:20260503T193000Z SUMMARY:Leadership Institute DESCRIPTION:Open to all ARLIS/NA members who lead\, aspire to lead\, or wish to support the evolution of our field and organization.\n\nThis year’s Institute has two parts. For the first half\, we are excited to welcome Vesna Antwan\, a Montreal-based professional coach\, who will facilitate a workshop titled “Burnout Prevention: Navigating Stress and Building Resiliency in Challenging Times.” See below for the full workshop description. For the second half\, we will focus on rethinking the structure of ARLIS/NA and brainstorming ways to make our work more sustainable for our members.\n\nBurnout Prevention: Navigating Stress and Building Resiliency in Challenging Times\n\nBurnout is not simply the result of working too hard\, it is often the predictable outcome of chronic stress\, structural constraints\, and care-based professions being asked to do more with fewer resources. For those whose work sits at the intersection of service\, education\, and community care\, burnout has become increasingly common and increasingly normalized.\n\nThis participatory 90-minute workshop invites participants to explore burnout through both an individual and systemic lens. Together\, we will examine what burnout is (and what it isn’t)\, how it shows up emotionally and physically\, and why resilience cannot rest solely on individual coping strategies. The session will combine short teaching segments\, reflection\, and facilitated group engagement to support shared language and collective insight.\n\nBy the end of this workshop\, participants will be able to:\n\n· Distinguish between stress\, anxiety\, depression\, and burnout\, and recognize early warning signs\n\n· Understand the emotional\, physical\, and relational impacts of burnout\, particularly in care-oriented and service-driven roles\n\n· Identify how organizational culture and systemic pressures contribute to burnout\n\n· Apply practical\, realistic tools to support energy\, boundaries\, and resilience in the workplace and beyond\n\nParticipants will leave with greater clarity\, shared language\, and concrete strategies they can adapt to their own professional contexts — as well as a renewed sense that burnout is not a personal failure\, but a collective challenge that deserves collective care.\n\nPhoto: Vesna Antwan\, professional coach\n\nA light snack will be provided. \;\n#food #madeinquebec CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 3-4\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:1969544a7a74b7279b952c3ed09026f3 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/1969544a7a74b7279b952c3ed09026f3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T163000Z DTEND:20260503T180000Z SUMMARY:Designing Your Online Presence: Professional Branding in Non-Traditional Formats DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a workshop to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the workshop. You must register via conference registration.\n\nThis workshop will be led by experts who will share their perspective on professional branding in GLAM industries. \n\nThis workshop will take the format of individual lightning round feedback from panelists\, with time allotted at the end for audience questions. Discussion will focus on strategies to present one’s skills and experiences to hiring committees in new and emerging media types. The workshop will closely analyze the role of digital tools such as portfolios and personal websites in the hiring process. \n\nIn addition to traditional resumes and CVs\, digital methods of personal branding are emerging among graduate programs as an option for representing one’s work in professional spaces\, and in some cases are submitted as graduation requirements. This workshop seeks to explore the ways in which these emerging digital tools may enhance or hinder an individual’s success in the job market\, as well as which\, if any\, alternatives may better demonstrate one’s skills in a digital format. Attendees will explore how to effectively align early career experience to required and preferred qualifications. This workshop will also aim to discuss the best ways in which to include transferable skills in other industries into job requirements. Participants in this workshop will explore how to craft application documents in a variety of formats that illustrate how their skills meet the needs of the hiring organization. CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP LOCATION:Montreal 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:73f2915aae5d10db7923ee5027f3a1f4 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/73f2915aae5d10db7923ee5027f3a1f4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T170000Z DTEND:20260503T190000Z SUMMARY:No Gloss Risography Studio Workshop 1 DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.\n\nCost : $ 75\n\nDiscover the fundamentals of Riso pritning through a creative Zine worshop at No Gloss Risography Studio! Participants will produce and original creation (Illustration\, collage etc.) on site and learn how to separate their work in 2 colours. All participants works will be grouped in a zine format that we will also print together. Throughout the workshop we will go over topics like transparencies\, overlays and file preparation. Each participant will leave with a copy of the zine.Transportation : not provided. \;The recommended transportation arrangements are to coordinate a shared Uber or to allocate sufficient time for travel via public transit (which involves significant walking).Destination address : \;5445 de Gaspé #609Once you are in the buidling\, chose the second set of elevators (see here). \;Go up to the 6th floor\, take a right when you get our of the elevator\, then another right to turn the corner and look for #609. There will be a little doorbell you can ring to inform Sophie of your presence.\n\nImportant Information : \nThe workshop will be offered in English\, however the facilitator also speaks French.\nAll costs are in USD.\n\n#madeinquebec\n\n\n\n CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:No Gloss Risography Studio\, 5445 Av. de Gaspé #609A\, Montréal\, QC H2T 3B2 SEQUENCE:0 UID:8cb6ca1bcdabf9ad5e5daeab23574a7a URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/8cb6ca1bcdabf9ad5e5daeab23574a7a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T173000Z DTEND:20260503T193000Z SUMMARY:(SOLD OUT) Rare Books and Special Collections\, McGill University Libraries DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.\n\n Cost : $ 20\n\nLocated on McGill University’s downtown campus at the base of Mount Royal\, Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) is home to McGill's historic humanities and social sciences library collections. RBSC collects a broad range of materials\, from manuscript and published works to puppets\, and is particularly strong in holdings related to Montreal and Canada\, the history of printing\, natural history\, Enlightenment philosophy\, and architecture. Enjoy a curator-led tour of collection highlights\, with a special focus on Montreal’s history and built environment through books\, photographs\, and archives. We will finish the tour with a quick visit to the Book Arts Lab\, featuring our refurbished 1821 Columbian printing press.\n \nSpend a little extra time in the Visual Arts Collection’s Visible Storage Gallery before entering the Rare Books & Special Collections reading room on the 4th floor of McLennan Library. You can also expand your visit with a self-guided virtual tour of Indigenous art on public display at McGill. This interactive map highlights Indigenous art across campus from the McGill Visual Arts Collection: https://www.mcgill.ca/vacollection/indigeous-art-public-display-mcgill \n\nMcGill University is an English language\, public university founded in 1821. Learn more about the university: www.mcgill.ca/about and McGill Libraries: www.mcgill.ca/libraries.\n\nTransportation : not provided. \;\nTour guides will meet the group at the hotel and walk together to McGill campus (approximately 20 minutes\, walking outdoors\, slight incline). Alternatively\, participants may wish to share an Uber (approximately 10 minutes).\nDestination address: \nMcLennan Library Building\, 4th floor\, 3459 McTavish Street\, Montreal\, H3A 0C9.\n\nImportant Information: \;The tour is planned as a walk-through of the Visible Storage Gallery\, special collections reading room\, classroom\, and letterpress lab\, located on the 4th floor of the McLennan Library Building. Elevator accessible. Visitors should be prepared for walking and standing during the visit\; chairs available on request.\n\nTours will be offered in English\, and guides will be pleased to answer questions in French. \n$ All costs are in USD.\n\n#madeinquebec\n\nSpecimen of printing types and ornaments\, in use at the printing office of Lovell & Gibson\, Montreal\, 1846. CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:McGill Rare Books and Special Collections\, McLennan Library Building 4th floor - 3459 McTavish Street Montreal\, Quebec H3A 0C9 SEQUENCE:0 UID:eee04fc6ddd8a61f820089a021a456e5 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/eee04fc6ddd8a61f820089a021a456e5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T181500Z DTEND:20260503T194500Z SUMMARY:Dog Ears: On Independent Publishing\, Reading Lists\, and the Politics of Citation DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a workshop to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the workshop. You must register via conference registration.\n\nDog Ears is an alternative reading list and zine collaboratively developed by workshop participants. Its title and triangular form reference the practice of folding over the corner of a page in a book. It signifies reading in progress\; a place to return to. A dog-eared book has been well-read\, well-worn\, perhaps overly-loved. It is the tactile result of a book passed among friends or strangers.\n \n Led by artist-publisher dani neira\, the workshop’s participants will learn to make an accordion-folded zine\, and collaboratively design an alternative reading list. Dog Ears broadly defines “alternative” as independently published materials\, artists’ projects\, or other non-traditional means of production and dissemination.\n \n As a part of the project’s critical and conceptual grounding\, the workshop will discuss community-based strategies in independent publishing\, and the reading list as a networked structure where meaning is produced. This web of relationships will be explored through the lens of kinship\, framed by queer\, feminist\, and BIPOC perspectives on citational justice.\n \n *Workshop Participants: Please bring a zine\, artists’ book\, or otherwise “alternative” book that you feel kinship with. The participants’ books will create the collaborative reading list — which is the content of the zine! Bringing a physical copy is ideal\, but if this is not possible\, a title in mind works as well. New to the world of independent publishing? Don’t worry! There will be a small zine library to select from.\n \n Key Themes for Discussion:\n - Affect\, materiality\, and printed matter\n - Zine-making as pedagogy\n - Citational justice and approaches to developing reading lists and collections\n - Strategies of resource and knowledge-sharing in independent publishing CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP LOCATION:Montreal 7\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:42f1215bbf0d3ee49efa2e6a13025b43 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/42f1215bbf0d3ee49efa2e6a13025b43 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T194500Z DTEND:20260503T211500Z SUMMARY:Meet your Divisions\, Sections\, SIGs\, and Affiliates DESCRIPTION:Meet Your Divisions\, Sections\, SIGs\, and Affiliates Ice Cream & Coffee Social\n\nCool off\, recharge\, and connect! Join us for a relaxed ice cream and coffee social where you can meet colleagues from ARLIS/NA’s Divisions\, Sections\, Special Interest Groups\, and Affiliate organizations. \n\nWhether you’re new to ARLIS/NA or a longtime member\, this is a sweet way to discover communities that match your professional interests and get involved in collaborative projects.\n\nAll attendees welcome — come for the connections\, stay for the sprinkles! \;\n\n#food\n\n CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 3-4\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:4d4c66be62d4402734e29e1be5840647 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/4d4c66be62d4402734e29e1be5840647 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T200000Z DTEND:20260503T210000Z SUMMARY:ARLIS/NA Chapter Transitions: Onboarding & Offboarding Session DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation on onboarding and offboarding practices for ARLIS/NA chapter chairs and executive board members. This session offers an opportunity to share experiences\, discuss best practices\, and connect with others stepping into or out of leadership roles. \n\nIn-Person Session — Annual Conference Open to all ARLIS/NA chapter executive board members. The session room accommodates up to 48 attendees. \n\nVirtual Session — Post-Conference A virtual option will be offered for those unable to attend in person. The date will be announced over the summer. \n\nQuestions? Contact Lori Salmon\, ARLIS/NA Chapters Liaison\, chapters_liaison@arlisna.org\n\n CATEGORIES:SELF-ASSIGNING LOCATION:Westmount 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:a4c2056785264933bffd012312418eed URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/a4c2056785264933bffd012312418eed END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T213000Z DTEND:20260503T223000Z SUMMARY:First-timers and International members DESCRIPTION:Reception hosted by Liv Valmestad\, ARLIS/NA President\, and our ARLIS/NA Membership Committee. Mix and mingle with members of the ARLIS/NA Executive Board\, members at large\, as well as your fellow attendees. Ribbons on badges identify attendees as speakers\, moderators\, board members\, and more\, making it easy for you to introduce yourself to new people. First-Time ARLIS/NA attendees and attendees from outside the United States are encouraged to attend.\n#food CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Salon Bonaventure\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:ad6d176390933b244554ca557ee7066a URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/ad6d176390933b244554ca557ee7066a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260503T223000Z DTEND:20260504T003000Z SUMMARY:Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:Reconnect with colleagues at a catered opening reception in the hotel’s elegant Montreal Ballroom. Drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and hors d'oeuvres will be provided.\n\nWe extend our sincere gratitude to the following ARLIS/NA chapters whose generous contributions made the opening reception possible: Central Plains\, Mid-Atlantic\, Midstates\, Mountain West\, New England\, New York\, Northern California\, Northwest\, Southern California\, and Twin Cities.\n#food CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Montreal 4-5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:004c3f4cc67f6693f8c7819cde0486ab URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/004c3f4cc67f6693f8c7819cde0486ab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T113000Z DTEND:20260504T210000Z SUMMARY:Registration & Hospitality DESCRIPTION:Register for the conference\, pick up registration materials\, or get conference information. CATEGORIES:REGISTRATION & HOSPITALITY LOCATION:Inscription\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:b846f145e3dd0ff9ff8d0f10fe998dc4 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/b846f145e3dd0ff9ff8d0f10fe998dc4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T113000Z DTEND:20260504T123000Z SUMMARY:Breakfast DESCRIPTION:Mingle with attendees over a hot breakfast before sessions begin for the day! Breakfast is provided free for all registered attendees and will feature a bagel bar\, fresh sliced fruit\, yogurt bar\, cheddar plate\, assorted pastries (GF and non-GF)\, coffee\, tea\, and an assortment of juices.\n\n#food CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Montreal 4-5 Foyer\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:8daaaba5e98d6574fbd2eb5a16cbbc33 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/8daaaba5e98d6574fbd2eb5a16cbbc33 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T120000Z DTEND:20260504T210000Z SUMMARY:Childcare DESCRIPTION:Childcare will be available on site at the conference hotel by licensed provider. Attendees can register children at the subsidized rate below. Monday\, May 4 – 8:00 am to 5pm ($50) Tuesday\, May 5 – 8:00 am to 5pm ($50) Wednesday\, May 6 – 8:00 am to 12:30pm ($25 CATEGORIES:CHILDCARE LOCATION:TBD\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:5d41ebaf42f8ca253e042b995c5456c3 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/5d41ebaf42f8ca253e042b995c5456c3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T120000Z DTEND:20260504T124500Z SUMMARY:Connect with CARTA: Info Session & Member Meet-Up! DESCRIPTION:While enjoying a complimentary breakfast\, connect with the Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA) program team and members to learn more about the collaborative’s activities and participation opportunities. CATEGORIES:SELF-ASSIGNING LOCATION:Westmount 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:a8fabacab0e5f63e6323dfe271b0f9cf URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/a8fabacab0e5f63e6323dfe271b0f9cf END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T120000Z DTEND:20260504T210000Z SUMMARY:Mother's Room DESCRIPTION:See registration desk to sign out the room out for use. CATEGORIES:SELF-ASSIGNING LOCATION:Westmount 5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:b3a3a58d8b3204350797f13d0461e923 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/b3a3a58d8b3204350797f13d0461e923 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T120000Z DTEND:20260504T210000Z SUMMARY:Self-Assigning Room DESCRIPTION:Self-Schedule Room\nARLIS/NA conference attendees may reserve a space in the self-schedule room for informal in-person meetings to be held during the conference. This space is meant for conversations and knowledge-sharing on topics related to art librarianship. Meetings may be private or open to all conference attendees. The room will be equipped for groups of up to 48 attendees. A/V and catering are not available. Click here to reserve the room. \;The deadline to sign up is Friday\, April 10th.  \;All meetings will be listed in Sched by: April 17th.\n \;\nIf you have any difficulty with the registration form\, or if you have any questions\, please contact Gwen Mayhew (gmayhew@cca.qc.ca).\n \;\nRestrictions\nThe room should not be used by vendors or sponsors. Vendors or sponsors wishing to reserve a space should reach out to ARLIS/NA conference planner Megan Brouwer (m.brouwer@arlisna.org). \;The room should not be used by constituency groups (i.e. SIGs\, Chapters or Divisions) for their annual meetings. Constituency group meetings are held virtually before or after the conference. \;CLICK FOR FORM HERE\n CATEGORIES:SELF-ASSIGNING LOCATION:Westmount 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:ad8d5182b8ff18c4d69e8fef263f5624 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/ad8d5182b8ff18c4d69e8fef263f5624 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T120000Z DTEND:20260504T140000Z SUMMARY:Exhibit Hall Set-up DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:362f4b11fb5bbfcf0536458e2f90f426 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/362f4b11fb5bbfcf0536458e2f90f426 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T120000Z DTEND:20260504T210000Z SUMMARY:Meditation Room DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Outremont 4\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:b3fefd3f86005830140717303af0aad7 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/b3fefd3f86005830140717303af0aad7 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T120000Z DTEND:20260504T140000Z SUMMARY:Posters Set -up DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:7e057f552dbf03ee6e7eeff1abf3a2df URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/7e057f552dbf03ee6e7eeff1abf3a2df END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T120000Z DTEND:20260504T210000Z SUMMARY:SCIP Makerspace DESCRIPTION:Visit the Makerspace for a dose of creative and social stimulation between conference programs. Organized annually by SCIP SIG. CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Outremont 5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:bd566f5c43dc879761e022d7325bb735 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/bd566f5c43dc879761e022d7325bb735 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T124500Z DTEND:20260504T130000Z SUMMARY:Conference Welcome and Land Acknowledgement DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Montreal 4-5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:ee9c6bff919936db74a47ff2ff9f342b URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/ee9c6bff919936db74a47ff2ff9f342b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T130000Z DTEND:20260504T140000Z SUMMARY:Diversity Forum Speaker: Camille Larivée DESCRIPTION:The ARLIS/NA Diversity & Inclusion Committee is excited to welcome Camille Larivée\, who will be giving a presentation entitled Resistance is Our Only Armour: Art as Insurrection. \;The presentation will be in English.\n\nCamille Larivée is an award-winning street artist\, independent curator\, writer\, and cultural worker based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang/Montreal\, on Turtle Island (so-called Canada). Camille’s artistic and curatorial work is focused on amplifying what the dominant culture tries to suppress\; from making space for invisibilized collective memories in urban public space\, to reminders of the urgency of caring for local biodiversity. Camille will speak about their public art projects\, exhibitions\, and publications that they have brought to fruition in the past decade\, and art as a force for challenging the status quo and claiming space and power.\n\nCamille will trace persistent themes of combatting erasure and making the marginalized visible from the beginnings of their street art interruptions during the infamous 2012 Quebec Student Strike\, through the foundation of their collective project\, Unceded Voices: Anticolonial Street Artists Convergence\, to their work with the Indigenous Curatorial Collective/Collectif des commissaires autochtones (ICCA) and their book about Francophone Indigenous art in Quebec\, D’horizons et d’estuaires – Entre mémoires et créations autochtones. Camille will speak to how they prioritize the actions of diversity and accessibility in their current role as the Executive and Artistic Director at the Montréal\, arts interculturels (MAI)\, a pioneering multidisciplinary venue in the Canadian art scene\, and love and reverence in their independent artistic and curatorial practice today.\n\n//\\\n\nLe comité Diversité et inclusion de l’ARLIS/NA est ravi d’accueillir Camille Larivée.\n\nLe Comité Diversité et inclusion de l'ARLIS/NA est ravi d'accueillir Camille Larivée\, qui fera une présentation intitulée : « La résistance est notre seule armure : l'art comme insurrection ». La présentation sera donnée en anglais.\n\nCamille Larivée est une artiste de rue primée\, une commissaire indépendante\, une écrivaine et une actrice du secteur culturel basée à Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang/Montréal\, sur l’île de la Tortue (ce qu’on appelle le Canada). Le travail artistique et curatorial de Camille vise à mettre en lumière ce que la culture dominante tente de réprimer \; qu’il s’agisse de faire une place aux mémoires collectives invisibilisées dans l’espace public urbain ou de rappeler l’urgence de préserver la biodiversité locale. Camille parlera de ses projets d’art public\, de ses expositions et de ses publications réalisés au cours de la dernière décennie\, ainsi que de l’art en tant que force permettant de remettre en question le statu quo et de revendiquer un espace et un pouvoir.\n\nCamille retracera les thèmes récurrents de la lutte contre l’effacement et de la visibilité des personnes marginalisées\, depuis les débuts de ses interventions d’art urbain lors de la célèbre grève étudiante de 2012 au Québec\, en passant par la création de son projet collectif\, Unceded Voices : Anticolonial Street Artists Convergence\, jusqu’à son travail avec l’Indigenous Curatorial Collective/Collectif des commissaires autochtones (ICCA) et son livre sur l’art autochtone francophone au Québec\, D’horizons et d’estuaires – Entre mémoires et créations autochtones. Camille expliquera comment elle accorde la priorité à la diversité et à l’accessibilité dans son rôle actuel de directrice générale et artistique de Montréal\, arts interculturels (MAI)\, un lieu multidisciplinaire pionnier de la scène artistique canadienne\, ainsi qu’à l’amour et au respect dans sa pratique artistique et curatoriale indépendante d’aujourd’hui.\n\nPortrait of Camille Larivée\, \;© Katya Konioukhova\n#madeinquebec ​ CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Montreal 4-5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:66723df4e214ce76adf88d860d7eb941 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/66723df4e214ce76adf88d860d7eb941 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T140000Z DTEND:20260504T150000Z SUMMARY:Systems Meet-Up DESCRIPTION:Informal meeting for those with systems responsibilities to share information.\n\n CATEGORIES:SELF-ASSIGNING LOCATION:Westmount 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:09c7a5f7424cc7626688e40a116ed9fb URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/09c7a5f7424cc7626688e40a116ed9fb END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T140000Z DTEND:20260504T143000Z SUMMARY:Coffee Break with Exhibitors DESCRIPTION:Come grab a cup of coffee or tea and visit with exhibitors.\n#food #coffee \; CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:daf6c03f4571f9eea5a215b14541efef URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/daf6c03f4571f9eea5a215b14541efef END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T140000Z DTEND:20260504T170000Z SUMMARY:Exhibit Hall DESCRIPTION:The Exhibit Hall will be open for conference attendees to meet vendors and to learn more about the products and services they offer. CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:60c128f6439cb61b2051c7054811afeb URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/60c128f6439cb61b2051c7054811afeb END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T140000Z DTEND:20260504T153000Z SUMMARY:Posters on View DESCRIPTION:All posters have been assigned numbers\, which is how you will be able to locate them in St-Laurent Rooms 1-2 on the main/lobby floor of the Hotel Bonaventure. Please see attached PDF for more information. \n\n CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:7249933642181cb1e240691a73010522 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/7249933642181cb1e240691a73010522 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T143000Z DTEND:20260504T154500Z SUMMARY:Artists’ Books as Sites of Resistance DESCRIPTION:Centering on makers and forms\, this panel considers how artists’ books can be viewed as sites of resistance. The impulse to generate such books is sparked by artistic ideas rather than practicality\, their modes of creation defy traditional publishing norms\, and their physical shapes often circumvent the limits of the codex. Artists’ books are neither solely books nor solely art. They exist as unique or multiple copies. In a digital age\, they are meant to be tactile\, experienced as material objects in intimate proximity to human hands. They evade formal display in casework. Artists’ books allow for experimentation. Their textures\, media\, structures\, and narratives can be idiosyncratic and varied. Their networks of distribution can be conventional or alternative. \n\nThe first panelist\, Christine Walde\, will show how artist’s books defy categorization. Walde frames artists’ books as outliers that defy norms\, exploring how the form of the book across titles such as Clive Philpott's Fruit Salad\, Andy Warhol's Index (Book)\, and Ben Denzer's 20 Slices\, acts as a perfect site of resistance. \n\nNext\, Caroline Clavell will speak to the Renegade Bookbinding Guild\, a not-for-profit guild of artists founded as a Discord server during the COVID-19 pandemic\, and engaged in binding fannish works under the idea of fandom gift economy. Rejecting the idea of publishing as a purely commercial endeavor\, the guild preserves the ephemeral in print as a labor of love and anchors a community that freely shares resources and tutorials. \n\nFinally\, Nemo Xu will present on the inaugural catalogue for Behind VA Shadows (BVAS)\, a public art project founded as an autonomous choice by a group of frontline staff at the ICA/Boston to celebrate the dual identity as artists and museum workers. Xu shares how the collaborators considered what records would be necessary and adequate to tell the story of BVAS\, to preserve the history and experience of their grassroots project\, and resist disappearance. \n\nWeaving together insights into physical forms and creation processes\, the lived experiences of creatives and cultural caretakers\, from the recent past to the present day\, the panel frames artists’ books as contemporarily relevant and rich with possibilities for defiance. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 8\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:1e0c35137ab088f28593184adbf5c8e1 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/1e0c35137ab088f28593184adbf5c8e1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T143000Z DTEND:20260504T154500Z SUMMARY:It's All Coming Back: A Roundtable Discussion on Reference in Art Libraries DESCRIPTION:This roundtable session is a follow-up to the first "Reference in Art Libraries: a roundtable discussion" offered at the ARLIS Conference 2024 in Pittsburgh. Reference providers will lead discussion by answering questions investigating the current state of reference collections and services offered in art libraries\, as well as reflecting back on changing approaches over time. Speakers will contribute examples from their work weeding\, shifting\, adjusting collections\, and providing research consultations with students and researchers. The theme of resistance will also inform these conversations. Are we resisting traditional approaches to reference services and spaces? How can providing reference interactions push back against AI offerings of research support? This program is also timely as the end of 2025 marked the 20th anniversary of "Guide to the Literature of Art History" volume 2 (ALA Editions\, 2005).\n\n CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 4-5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:b8e36b356e598f247b82e942fd4cf2b9 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/b8e36b356e598f247b82e942fd4cf2b9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T143000Z DTEND:20260504T154500Z SUMMARY:Resisting Classification: Issues in Special Collections DESCRIPTION:Special collections bring their own (special) challenges and opportunities. This session will cover topics related to managing special collections in libraries.\n\nThe #GayAgenda: LGBTQIA2S+ materials in the Murray & Hong Special Collections at Michigan State University Libraries\nSpeakers: Nicole Smeltekop and Eli Landaverde\nMSU Libraries Special Collections began collecting radicalism and activism materials in the late 1960s. The large amount of LGBTQIA2S+ materials collected over four decades remained dormant and the collection had not been kept up to date until the appointment of a curator in 2018. This paper presentation will discuss assessing previous collection development decisions\, setting collection development priorities for the collection\, and expanding cataloging practice beyond inventorying to follow more current practice. This will include details on conducting a collection analysis to identify gaps in the collection\, developing policies that include ensuring various experiences and identities were represented in the collection\, and cataloging material focused on the LGBTQIA2S+ community ethically and empathetically. A focus for the examples will be on the art prints and posters collected\, many from lesser-known artists. The cataloging part of the presentation will include tips for working with this material - including a list of best-practices and resources\, using both Library of Congress Subject Headings and Homosaurus as controlled vocabularies\, and considerations when creating Library of Congress Name Authority File headings for underrepresented groups.\n\nPhotobooks as Resistant Objects: Politics\, Propaganda\, and the Colonial Gaze\nSpeaker: Margherita Naim\nMany library holdings worldwide include photobooks on politically significant topics from several historical periods and regions of the world. At times\, these photobooks can be considered sensitive materials due to both contained images and accompanying texts. This may be the case with war and propaganda materials\, photojournalistic reports\, or publications originating from colonial contexts. As such\, these photobooks must be viewed not only as particularly significant sources for research into the history of photography\, but also within a transdisciplinary framework.\nI refer to them as ‘Resistant Objects’ (Thomas\, K. and Gu\, J. H.\, ‘Resistant Objects’\, Conversation\, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz\, October 10\, 2025)\, as they hold a resistant potential in reframing perspectives on historical narratives as well as reconstructing creative processes.\nIn this context\, I would like to present a case study from the Martin Salter Collection\, a private collection of photobooks recently acquired by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (KHI). The collection consists primarily of photographers’ monographs from a wide range of countries\, veritable book objects\, some of them very rare. An overview of the ‘Resistant Photobooks’ included in this collection will be matched by descriptions of other photobooks held by the KHI\, and by other libraries.\n\nWhat’s in an Artist File? The Future of Artist Files\nSpeakers: Amelia Nelson\, Alexandra Reigle\, Kathleen O'Reilly\, and Bridget O’Keefe\nArtists’ files are a uniquely rich and dynamic resource\, that may include zines\, correspondence\, artist statements\, exhibition ephemera\, and other documentation that illuminate artists’ careers and practices. Despite their significant research value\, the idiosyncratic nature of their content and varied methods of acquisition often present challenges for libraries.\nIncreased attention to documenting regional artists\, particularly those historically underrepresented in traditional art historical narratives\, has underscored the critical importance of artist files. In many cases\, these files serve as the only record of underrecognized artists\, regionally significant artists\, and artist-run spaces. In this presentation\, members of the Artist File SIG will share and synthesize the results of a survey of institutions that collect artist files to provide a snapshot of current practices\, perceived value\, and resource needs. Building on these findings\, SIG members will propose community-driven best practices and tools to support those responsible for creating\, maintaining\, and activating artist files. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:f494abe0a21b0e026f04c75ed18f8b97 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/f494abe0a21b0e026f04c75ed18f8b97 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T154500Z DTEND:20260504T171500Z SUMMARY:BIPOC Luncheon DESCRIPTION:A catered luncheon for our BIPOC members to share a meal\, experiences\, and develop professional networks during a dedicated time and space.\n#food CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 3-4\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:49b650725fd6d2767ec38ce266a9da21 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/49b650725fd6d2767ec38ce266a9da21 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T170000Z DTEND:20260504T220000Z SUMMARY:Exhibit Hall DESCRIPTION:The Exhibit Hall will be open for conference attendees to meet vendors and to learn more about the products and services they offer. CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:8a510c3ec435aee868705985a253fc9b URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/8a510c3ec435aee868705985a253fc9b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T170000Z DTEND:20260504T210000Z SUMMARY:Posters on View DESCRIPTION:All posters have been assigned numbers\, which is how you will be able to locate them in St-Laurent Rooms 1-2 on the main/lobby floor of the Hotel Bonaventure. Please see attached PDF for more information.\n\n CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:113473d92fa3c4eda0fdbe5c3940303e URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/113473d92fa3c4eda0fdbe5c3940303e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T171500Z DTEND:20260504T184500Z SUMMARY:Feminist Resistance: Preserving and Activating Feminist Legacies from the Archive DESCRIPTION:This panel explores feminist resistance as practiced by artists whose work and lives are documented in archival collections at the Getty Research Institute\, examining how their creative\, political\, and bodily interventions challenged prevailing cultural narratives around gender\, sexuality\, power\, and representation. Drawing on the papers of feminist artists\, as well as digital and programmatic approaches to engaging feminist legacies\, the panel demonstrates how resistance takes form—materially\, performatively\, and structurally—through art\, writing\, and institutional activism.\n\nThe first presentation\, \;The Female Experience: Works by Faith Wilding and subRosa\, explores the papers of an artist whose solo and collaborative projects focus on critiquing dominant perceptions of women’s health and social identities. Through performance\, installation\, activist interventions\, writing\, and pedagogy\, Wilding and subRosa challenge societal views of women’s bodies and traditional roles. This feminist resistance is documented in an array of materials in Wilding’s archive—from cyberfeminist websites\, workbooks\, and videos to installations and solo performances reflecting on both mundane and distinctive female experiences.\n\nThe second presentation\, \;Harmony Hammond and the Work of Making Space\, examines the papers of a multidisciplinary feminist artist who mounted sustained resistance to the erasure of lesbian identity in the art world. Through interconnected strategies—including co-founding A.I.R. Gallery and the Heresies Collective\, publishing Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History (2000)\, and maintaining her own creative practice—she challenged institutional exclusion on multiple fronts. Hammond’s archive reveals how her scholarly interventions\, institutional activism\, and artistic works operated as acts of resistance against systemic marginalization.\n\nThe third presentation\, Resisting Erasure: Institutional Strategies to Support Feminist Art Historical Research\, addresses institutional approaches that support feminist research\, examining strategies that facilitate scholarly investigation into women’s artistic practices and resistances. As part of a larger research project that aims to examine the relationship between feminist performance art and its archives\, this presentation will focus on the various ways that the research project has aimed to share resources pertaining to the holdings at our research institution. The speaker will primarily highlight the newly revised and expanded LibGuide on feminist archival resources\, which was updated to bring attention to latent stories within our institutional collections and to take a feminist approach to historiography and the erasure of histories in the artistic canon. Throughout\, the speaker will reveal the considerations underpinning decisions around accessibility within the shifting political landscape in the U.S.\n\nThe fourth presentation\, Valentines for a Feminist Future\, addresses programmatic initiatives that activate these feminist archives\, with particular emphasis on networks of care and issues of bodily autonomy. Inspired by our collections of women artists’ archives\, the speaker will describe events and partnerships that serve to illuminate the histories of feminist activism and resilience with the urgency of our contemporary moment.\n\nTaken together\, these presentations demonstrate how libraries and archives function as essential sites for preserving and activating feminist resistance practices. Through research\, cataloging\, and dissemination\, the resistance strategies documented in these archives continue to contribute to the vital work of contemporary cultural workers. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 8\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:047e932ea86b49ee564bcb8eb7f74743 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/047e932ea86b49ee564bcb8eb7f74743 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T171500Z DTEND:20260504T184500Z SUMMARY:It's raining cats and logs! New topics in cataloguing DESCRIPTION:Exploring Wikidata’s Potential for Managing Artist Identities at the National Gallery of Art Library\nSpeakers: Jung Soo Bae\, Amy Watson\, Emily Sawyer\n\nThe Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) has traditionally offered centralized\, standardized authority control of artist names\, artwork titles\, and subjects in library metadata. Built on human-readable\, string-based access points and controlled vocabularies\, these legacy records are less adaptable to today’s interconnected information environment. Furthermore\, the training and review process required to contribute to the LCNAF can pose barriers to participation and slow innovation.  \; \n\nIn response\, libraries have begun working collaboratively to explore a shift from traditional authority control toward more flexible\, URI-based entity management within a Linked Open Data (LOD) framework. The Entity Management Cooperative (EMCO) Early Adopters Program supports this transition by promoting interoperability and discoverability of authority data in LOD ecosystems\, developing shared data models for entity description\, and supporting community-driven experimentation. \n\nAs part of this program\, the National Gallery of Art Library conducted a pilot project to assess the potential for the management of artist identities in Wikidata in comparison to LCNAF. This presentation outlines our workflows and highlights key findings\, including challenges encountered and opportunities uncovered\, and provides practical insights for institutions considering similar approaches. \;\n\nEnhancing Records\, Expanding Access\nSpeakers: William Blueher\, Daisy Paul\n\nCataloging is a shared enterprise. A bibliographic record created by one cataloger in Connexion can be added to and enriched by catalogers around the world. But if your library catalog is not synched to Connexion\, many of these bibliographic enhancements – things like summary notes and tables of contents – won't ever appear in your records. We work in one such library\, so we developed a process for adding these enhancements (specifically the 505 and 520 fields\, though the process could be adapted to work for other fields as well) from Connexion records into our integrated library system.\n\nSince implementing this workflow\, we’ve enhanced thousands of records in our catalog\, greatly increasing the accessibility and discoverability of our collection. While it is an involved process\, we have broken it down into manageable steps that other libraries will be able to replicate and modify to their own needs. In addition to Connexion\, we relied on open-access tools such as MarcEdit and Notepad++ to efficiently batch edit data.\n\nWe will provide a detailed report on the impact this workflow has had on our library catalog. We will examine not only the number of enhanced records but also provide a breakdown of what types of records have the highest probability of having available enhancements\, allowing for a more targeted implementation of this workflow. We will also provide access to step-by-step documentation so that the audience can replicate this work at their institutions.\n\nJust as cataloging is a shared enterprise\, we believe these sorts of technical workflows ought to be as well.\n\nHidden in History : Curating a Featured Collection for Indigenous Architecture Library Materials\nSpeakers: Aubree Tillett\, Tina Gross\n\nThere are few books documenting the architecture of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas from an Indigenous perspective. Last year the Design Librarian experienced difficulty locating enough materials related to Indigenous architecture to create a robust book display that had been requested to support the Minnesota American Institute of Architects (AIA) Indigenous Design Camp. A more comprehensive search of the library catalog was initiated and colleagues with subject and cataloging expertise were consulted. Through this process it became clear that most of the books with information about Indigenous architecture in the library collections are not assigned a Library of Congress Classification of NA for Architecture. Instead they were cataloged with LC classifications for E and F: History of the Americas. Academic libraries' indiscriminate adoption of LC cataloging tools and practices\, such as ""collocating"" resources about Indigenous Peoples' practices in specific areas (such as architecture\, astronomy\, education\, medicine\, etc.) with resources about that Indigenous group rather than with the specific endeavor\, has significant drawbacks. Within the University of Minnesota Libraries\, books classified as history and social sciences are held in different libraries spanning three distinct geographic locations. Additionally\, the items related to architecture in E and F are not next to each other on the shelves in the same library\; the materials are first organized by Indigenous community then architecture. The separation of related items creates barriers to browsing and the serendipitous di... CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 7\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:726a69592cb63300b5b65e999c5aa678 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/726a69592cb63300b5b65e999c5aa678 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T171500Z DTEND:20260504T184500Z SUMMARY:Reframing Resistance: Reimagining Libraries through Reuse DESCRIPTION:The information landscape is rapidly shifting\, from print to electronic and from still text to immersive media. Libraries must employ adaptive strategies to navigate this new terrain\, not merely resisting the seismic shift\, but reinventing our collections. As we move into a digital landscape\, art and design students still yearn for the tactile and material experiences that libraries offer. Compounding this challenge is the era of scarcity in which we find ourselves. As art librarians\, we can reframe our thinking—not by seeking new resources\, but by exploring what we might do with what we already have. What can we reuse or reimagine to stimulate renewed enthusiasm for research and learning?\n\nArt librarians can embrace change by reconsidering how our collections relate to the past\, present\, and future. This panel centers on four case studies that highlight these time frames followed by a moderated discussion about the application of this sustainability mindset to the broader field of information work.\n\nIn REviving Discards\, we learn about a library undergoing a transition to a more digitally-focused resource\, where print books are being replaced with ebooks\, slide collections are being replaced with online repositories\, and outdated periodicals are being discarded for digital options. These tangible resources have completed their library service\, but what if we could give them a second life? The library has developed a new collection of visual resources where students can explore these retired assets and transform them into new creations.\n\nWith libraries shifting to electronic resources\, REactivating Spaces becomes crucial. Empty shelving and now inactive areas provide places for students to engage with new opportunities. On the arts level of a university library\, the vacated periodicals area was transformed into a student exhibition space. Blank walls in the makerspace were lined with material samples\, and the defunct dumbwaiter offered the potential for small displays of miniature books.\n\nIn REarranging Collections\, due to budget reductions a librarian has been unable to purchase new print publications for her art and architecture library. Rather than let the stacks become stagnant\, she is rearranging the current collection to create new curated browsing opportunities. Some collections are permanent\, such as crafting a graphic novel collection\, while others are temporary displays that expose connections between subjects and titles\, such as highlighting books on architecture from the arts section.\n\nYet\, what is absent from a collection can tell us as much as what is present. If what our collections contain is indicative of what society values\, then absence reveals what society has found unimportant or\, worse\, chosen to suppress. REclaiming Lost Narratives examines how a librarian worked with a Women in Architecture and Design class to reclaim lost narratives of female designers by creating an exhibition of book covers\, based on library research\, dedicated to the monographs that should have been and could potentially be in the future.\n\nBy adopting a sustainability mindset\, we resist the potential decline of libraries due to budget cuts and online convenience and reimagine what is possible with the resources at hand. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 4-5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:7641327c38d282c5aab49bb781b4fca7 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/7641327c38d282c5aab49bb781b4fca7 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T173000Z DTEND:20260504T183000Z SUMMARY:Artstor on JSTOR User Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:Explore the latest updates to Artstor on JSTOR in this interactive user group session. We’ll highlight new Artstor collections along with recent platform enhancements\, including accessibility and an overview of JSTOR Workspace for teaching and research with images. Hear directly from librarians as they demonstrate how they’re using Artstor on JSTOR on their campuses\, and leave with practical timesavers and ideas you can put to use right away. Includes time for Q&A.\n\nModerated by Elizabeth Berenz (ITHAKA) and Lisa Gavell (ITHAKA).\n\nBring your laptop if you’d like to follow along and try out Workspace features during the session. CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:St-Laurent 3-4\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:2a39c8ac7cabf4ffb3bcf175dfb0978f URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/2a39c8ac7cabf4ffb3bcf175dfb0978f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T184500Z DTEND:20260504T194500Z SUMMARY:Poster Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us for the poster opening session. Meet with poster presenters\, and enjoy some light refreshments.\n\n#food\n\nAll posters have been assigned numbers\, which is how you will be able to locate them in St-Laurent Rooms 1-2 on the main/lobby floor of the Hotel Bonaventure. See attachment for more information.\n\n CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:d7b45732ebc46ca8b0cad2aef81b003f URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/d7b45732ebc46ca8b0cad2aef81b003f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T194500Z DTEND:20260504T210000Z SUMMARY:Arrangez-vous! Tales from the archives DESCRIPTION:The work of archivists is often performed in parallel to librarians. Although the approach to managing an archival collection is different from managing a library collection\, many of the same issues are raised in both fields. Attendees to this session will hear about current issues and topics within archives.\n\nEstablishing the NYC Trans Archives: Archival resistance in action\nSpeaker: Elvis Bakaitis (they/them)\n\nNYC Trans archives is a newly founded\, community-based archives located in New York City. We collect personal papers\, art\, digital media\, zines\, comics\, and other forms of self-expressive works by and about transgender individuals and communities. This talk will provide a focused introduction to the start of an entirely new organization\, based on a model of collective agreement/discussion\, and operating on a limited\, non-institutional budget. As a non-profit organization\, NYC Trans Archives has been the recipient of two grants and will host an intern from the Mellon-funded FOCAS project in Fall 2026. The presenter will outline the NYC Trans Archives' origin story\, a form of "resistance" in a time of systemic hostility to gender diverse lives in the United States. The purpose of this talk is to inspire connection at ARLIS between professionals in the field and the shared project of preserving histories of gender diverse people across the world.\n\n滋賀重列: A case study of mutual influences and the archival traces they leave behind\nSpeaker: Emilee Mathews\n\nIn this paper I discuss archival traces across Japan and the United States regarding 滋賀重列|SHIGA Shigetsura\, a Japanese architect who studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the 19th century and went on to develop the leading theory on late Meiji period Japanese housing typology. Perhaps most poignantly\, only one building remains of SHIGA-san’s work: his own family home\, which is still occupied by his descendents. That he was known for his expertise on housing and his own home still stands today is a testament to his understanding of the building typology. His own theory\, one more defined by relativism than absolutist dictates\, builds in flexibility and empathy to the individual circumstances of home ownership. SHIGA-san’s considerable body of writing and association with multiple institutions and publications left traces across both the University of Illinois archives and historic collections\, and several repositories in Japan. It is a case study that illuminates links between Japan and the U.S. that are often acknowledged\, yet our understanding of those influences still has much to improve. By telling this story through the lens of archival research\, we can illuminate mutual dependencies between libraries across nations to tell expansive stories and celebrate cross-cultural accomplishments.\n\nThere’s Tea on the Table: end of life and legacy work in archival donor relations (or what I wish I had known before talking about death at work)\nSpeaker: Lucy Pauker\n\nThis paper addresses the challenges and offers potential aids to navigating trauma and grief in donor relations\, from the perspective of an early career archivist. It explores these themes through the author’s role as Processing Archivist at a community archive (Jewish Public Library Archives) and leans specifically on the author’s relationship with a Montreal artist whose fonds is housed at the JPL-A. The presentation aims to dive into the trust building and difficult conversations that occur when pursuing legacy collections in which the donor is also the creator. By exploring examples of conversations with donors who are approaching end of life\, or the families/colleagues of the recently departed\, the author hopes to outline both the messiness of grief in the workplace and supports needed to aid in this process.\n\nThe NeverEnding Story: Current and Ongoing Issues in Architecture Archives\nSpeaker: Tellina Liu\n\nThis paper addresses three issues in architectural archives: increasing access and use\, backlog and accruals\, and donor relations. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:f7d101280795fe2d0f74d82afb424de0 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/f7d101280795fe2d0f74d82afb424de0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T194500Z DTEND:20260504T210000Z SUMMARY:Ch-ch-ch-changes: turning to face the strange (changes in your library) DESCRIPTION:In French we say\, "plus ça change\, plus c'est la même chose\," meaning "the more things change\, the more they stay the same." Some of the changes we have experienced in the field of librarianship are here to stay\, but some are not. From generative AI to library closures and job changes\, change is all around us.\n\nThe Roots of This Tree Are Rotten!: Resisting the Institutional Push for GenAI\nSpeakers: Torie Quiñonez\n\nThe rapid rise of AI integration into our lives this past year has been startling. At all levels of the academy\, educational organizations are announcing partnerships with tech companies seemingly without any critical consultation\, thoughtful deliberation\, or educator input. These expensive alliances are coming at a time of extreme budgetary contraction. Why are universities investing massive amounts in contracts with private companies when budgets are so tight? Who benefits? The call of “Will our students be ‘AI’ ready?” drowns out the more important question: “is AI ready for our students?” Research shows that Gen AI tools are often “confidently wrong\,” offer up biased and racist responses\, extract a devastating toll on the environment\, provide venues for bad actors to exploit vulnerabilities\, and harm critical thinking and analytical skills through repeated use and reliance.\nWhile some educators talk about “ethical use of AI\,” we argue that there is no ethical use possible when looking at all parameters. Even before addressing the resultant systemic issues\, the tools themselves were created using stolen content and are currently being argued over in 47 legal cases (and counting). Our student artists and writers are in the crosshairs of these ethical issues. AI “helpers” have been inserted into many products without a stated desire or demonstrated need for them. The use cases we are given to convince us to uncritically adopt tools we never asked for are at best offering moderate levels of time-saving “efficiency\,” and at worst replacing opportunities for actual care and communication with inferior electronic substitutes. Are they actually helping students learn? Or are they instead creating an added layer of obfuscation between a human and the information sources they need\, while furthering disinvestment in education and people?\nIn the face of a forced narrative of tech inevitability\, we want to give our university community another option: resistance. In the tradition of DIY resistance literature that came before us\, we created a zine to provide a voice that goes against the stream of hype and normalization. In "The Roots of this Tree are Rotten!" we explain how we were inspired to look critically at the hype and call out GenAI\, especially the way it has been an engine of shoddy substitutes for the things our students actually need: care\, support\, and mentorship. Instead of giving in to the convenient insistence that “it’s not going away\,” we instead propose ways to resist\, opt out\, and push back on the narrative that “everyone is using it.” Attendees will learn about some of the major ethical concerns about Generative AI\, how to identify and pop hype bubbles that push a narrative of tech inevitability\, and ways to both resist uncritical adoption of GenAI tools and normalize opting out.\n\nFinal Chapters: How Academic Art Librarians Navigate Institutional Closure\nSpeaker: Becky Alexander\n\nIn the past decade\, with increasing frequency\, academic librarians at art colleges have arrived at work to learn that the libraries they have stewarded for years—sometimes decades—are closing along with their institutions. This is an unprecedented professional experience for which few librarians have experience or training. What does it mean to do the work of permanently closing a library under circumstances that are often confusing and emotionally fraught\, and for which there are no clear or “right” answers?\n\nThis talk presents research by Becky Alexander\, a librarian at the now-closed San Francisco Art Institute and currently an archivist at the San Francisco Art Institute Legacy Foundation + Archive. Drawing on interviews with ten other academic art librarians who experienced institutional closure\, she examines how librarians navigated the dismantling of collections\, the preservation of archives\, the support of students and faculty\, and the personal and professional ramifications of losing both a workplace and a community. By foregrounding librarians’ lived experiences\, this presentation shares lessons learned\, ethical considerations\, and forms of solidarity that can help guide others facing similar institutional crises.\n\nLineages of Solo Librarianship at the Center for Book Arts\nSpeakers: Gillian Lee\, Nicole Rosengurt\n\nIn this talk\, the former and current librarian at a small educational arts nonprofit discuss the challenges and successes of the transfer of responsibilities\, and the real do’s and don’ts of leaving and beginning a “lone arranger” position.\n\nWe also dive deeper into the hu... CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 4-5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:2ee6485f8e09506b0916c2008c789f7b URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/2ee6485f8e09506b0916c2008c789f7b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T194500Z DTEND:20260504T210000Z SUMMARY:Pièces de résistance: librarians standing up for social justice DESCRIPTION:How can librarians support and commemorate student-led protests? This timely topic will be considered in the context of recent protests and encampments\, while keeping in mind lessons learned from protests dating back to the 1970s.\n\nVociférer par l’image : les affiches du Printemps érable\nSpeakers : Catherine Ratelle-Montemiglio\, Catherine Bernier\n\nEn droite ligne avec la thématique du congrès ARLIS/NA 2026\, soit la résistance\, cette présentation aura pour objectif de présenter deux corpus d’affiches créés durant le mouvement étudiant de 2012. Surnommé le « Printemps érable »\, ce mouvement étudiant s’est formé d’abord pour lutter contre la hausse des droits de scolarité\, pour par la suite embrasser des préoccupations sociétales plus larges. Les affiches sélectionnées pour cette présentation sont celles créées par le collectif de l’École de la Montagne rouge ainsi que par l’artiste Clément de Gaulejac. Ces corpus sont conservés par une institution patrimoniale\, au sein d’une collection d’affiches regroupant plusieurs milliers de documents. Nous aborderons les enjeux d’acquisition et de conservation liés à ces documents éphémères. Nous présenterons également le corpus du point de vue du graphisme et de leur condition de création\, soit dans l’urgence d’un mouvement politique. Nous souhaitons également aborder des sujets plus larges\, comme la place des documents politiques et militants dans les collections institutionnelles.\n\nArchiving Potential History: Pop-up Art Libraries and the 2024 Student Protest Encampments\nSpeaker: Maggie McLaughlin\n\nThis presentation uses the 2024 student protest encampments for Palestine liberation as a lens to activate the art library’s potential for resistance\, social justice work\, and student activism. In particular\, this presentation concerns one specific encampment at a large public university and its combination art tent\, zine collection\, and pop-up library that sat at the center of the camp. This triangulation established the space as one of creativity\, critical inquiry\, and mutual aid\, leading to a series of interdisciplinary teach-ins with collaborations between teaching faculty and university librarians. Rooted in this case study\, this presentation considers the generative entanglement between art libraries\, student activism\, and information literacy. This presentation views art libraries as sites full of possibility and potential to document and archive a history of diversity and dissent. It offers activating the art library as a space of messiness and movement\, bringing together the study and practice of art in ways that help students assess their own critical and ethical engagement with the contemporary information landscape\, especially as relates to social justice.\n\nArt Students’ Resistance: Studying the Past\, Informing the Future\nSpeaker: Rachel Resnik\n\nIn 1970 students across the United States held protests to oppose the Vietnam War. On May 4th at Kent State University four students were killed and nine others were injured during one such protest. Twenty-eight National Guard troops had fired 67 rounds of bullets at the protesting students.\n\nAlready involved in the anti-war movement and enraged by the killings at Kent State\, Massachusetts College of Art (MassArt) joined a national student strike. Classes were canceled and faculty and students engaged in community service projects. The most enduring project\, The Graphic Workshop\, operated from 1970-1992. Over its two decades in operation\, the Workshop produced hundreds of silk-screened posters with styles and subjects reflecting the group’s changing priorities. The MassArt Archive holds many examples of Graphic Workshop posters\; 162 examples are now available in the JStor Image Library.\n\nThe similarities between the state of affairs in 1970 and those today are striking. How can the work created in the early Seventies by the Graphic Workshop inform our interactions with students today? How can these posters inspire us to use our fear and frustration to make works of resistance that are meaningful\, beautiful\, and enduring? CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 7\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:783912df149db5f3f1e0bd9ebb8d10a8 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/783912df149db5f3f1e0bd9ebb8d10a8 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T200000Z DTEND:20260504T210000Z SUMMARY:Getty Research Portal Updates and Community Conversation DESCRIPTION:This informal afternoon session invites Getty Research Portal contributors\, prospective partners\, and interested users to learn about recent updates and ongoing development of the Getty Research Portal (portal.getty.edu)\, a collaborative platform providing free global access to digitized art history texts. The session will include a walkthrough of the new Primo‑based discovery platform and updates on behind‑the‑scenes systems work supporting the Portal’s next phase. Ample time will be reserved for conversation\, questions\, and shared discussion about how the Portal is being used in research\, teaching\, and library work. \n\nAttendees are encouraged to bring their laptops to explore the Portal in real time and take part in a shared brainstorming activity using a collaborative Canva document.\nRefreshments will be provided\, and all are welcome to join the conversation. CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:St-Laurent 3-4\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:df5796f059d5fd2307f2136eff781833 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/df5796f059d5fd2307f2136eff781833 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T210000Z DTEND:20260504T220000Z SUMMARY:Exhibitors Reception DESCRIPTION:The Exhibitors Reception offers a unique chance to connect directly with the vendors essential to art libraries. Meet the people behind the platforms\, publications\, and services you rely on\, and strengthen the relationships that support our field while enjoying a beverage (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and tasty food stations.\n#food CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:9d30a097208faf3d61c81af1b85382dd URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/9d30a097208faf3d61c81af1b85382dd END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T213000Z DTEND:20260504T233000Z SUMMARY:ARLIS/NA New England Chapter Meet Up DESCRIPTION:In-person meet up for all New England chapter members who will be in Montreal for the conference. We will meet at Time Out Market in Montreal and people can order dinner/snacks/drinks if they are interested. This is a short walk from the hotel and will be pretty casual. \n\nLocation: \nTime Out Market\n705 Sainte-Catherine St. W\, \nMontreal\, Quebec H3B 4G5\n\n\nContact:\nAbi Sweeney: \;asweeney@massart.edu CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:9c8dd938a7654b0574a127bd2fe4b4b8 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/9c8dd938a7654b0574a127bd2fe4b4b8 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260504T230000Z DTEND:20260505T010000Z SUMMARY:Society Circle DESCRIPTION:The ARLIS/NA Society Circle is pleased to present an artist talk by \;Didier Morelli at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Morelli is a curator\, performance and art historian\, cultural critic\, and visual artist.\n\nPlease note that adding this event to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the talk. You must register for this event when you register for the conference.\n \;\nTransportation will not be provided. The CCA is accessible by Metro.\n \;\nAn invitation-only Society Circle reception and tour of the CCA’s vaults for members who have donated $200+ USD (or $200+ CAD for non-US based members) will follow the artist talk.\n\nThis event is generously supported by ARLIS/NA Society Circle donors. To donate or learn more about joining the ARLIS/NA Society Circle\, please visit: https://www.arlisna.org/donate-now.\n#madeinquebec CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Off-site: Canadian Centre for Architecture\, 1920\, rue Baile\, Montréal (Québec) H3H 2S6 Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:712af59729904451885c93bfedb3cd89 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/712af59729904451885c93bfedb3cd89 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T113000Z DTEND:20260505T203000Z SUMMARY:Registration & Hospitality DESCRIPTION:Register for the conference\, pick up registration materials\, or get conference information. CATEGORIES:REGISTRATION & HOSPITALITY LOCATION:Inscription\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:e27759fc23fc2fa2293fbe1e7c0047b2 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/e27759fc23fc2fa2293fbe1e7c0047b2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T113000Z DTEND:20260505T123000Z SUMMARY:Breakfast DESCRIPTION:Mingle with attendees over a hot breakfast before sessions begin for the day! Breakfast is provided free for all registered attendees\n#food CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Montreal 4-5 Foyer\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:11985a848ed624f45abf9fd4ce83b9f6 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/11985a848ed624f45abf9fd4ce83b9f6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T120000Z DTEND:20260505T210000Z SUMMARY:Childcare DESCRIPTION:Childcare will be available on site at the conference hotel by licensed provider. Attendees can register children at the subsidized rate below. Monday\, May 4 – 8:00 am to 5pm ($50) Tuesday\, May 5 – 8:00 am to 5pm ($50) Wednesday\, May 6 – 8:00 am to 12:30pm ($25 CATEGORIES:CHILDCARE LOCATION:TBD\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:8c2c37d91bf42db37554ba19786c87a5 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/8c2c37d91bf42db37554ba19786c87a5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T120000Z DTEND:20260505T200000Z SUMMARY:Mother's Room DESCRIPTION:See registration desk to sign out the room. CATEGORIES:SELF-ASSIGNING LOCATION:Westmount 5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:eb13536281902d28f3ba3a8652422caf URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/eb13536281902d28f3ba3a8652422caf END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T120000Z DTEND:20260505T200000Z SUMMARY:Self-Assigning room DESCRIPTION:Self-Schedule Room\nARLIS/NA conference attendees may reserve a space in the self-schedule room for informal in-person meetings to be held during the conference. This space is meant for conversations and knowledge-sharing on topics related to art librarianship. Meetings may be private or open to all conference attendees. The room will be equipped for groups of up to 48 attendees. A/V and catering are not available. Click here to reserve the room. \;The deadline to sign up is Friday\, April 10th.  \;All meetings will be listed in Sched by: April 17th. \n \;\nIf you have any difficulty with the registration form\, or if you have any questions\, please contact Gwen Mayhew (gmayhew@cca.qc.ca).\n \;\nRestrictions\nThe room should not be used by vendors or sponsors. Vendors or sponsors wishing to reserve a space should reach out to ARLIS/NA conference planner Megan Brouwer (m.brouwer@arlisna.org). \;The room should not be used by constituency groups (i.e. SIGs\, Chapters or Divisions) for their annual meetings. Constituency group meetings are held virtually before or after the conference. \;CLICK FOR FORM HERE\n CATEGORIES:SELF-ASSIGNING LOCATION:Westmount 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:2bbe9c229e9f8ecc5b90a3e6542d4068 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/2bbe9c229e9f8ecc5b90a3e6542d4068 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T120000Z DTEND:20260505T200000Z SUMMARY:Meditation Room DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Outremont 4\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:f8a676b197718dc219bc04904fc5e728 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/f8a676b197718dc219bc04904fc5e728 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T120000Z DTEND:20260505T200000Z SUMMARY:SCIP Makerspace DESCRIPTION:Visit the Makerspace for a dose of creative and social stimulation between conference programs. Organized annually by SCIP SIG. CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Outremont 5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:954c1f9b4291df9ba527483680e34f1f URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/954c1f9b4291df9ba527483680e34f1f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T123000Z DTEND:20260505T140000Z SUMMARY:Developing Curatorial Skills in Library Settings DESCRIPTION:Libraries curate and host exhibitions for a range of contexts and purposes\, and exhibitions are a popular means of public scholarship and outreach. For many library workers\, however\, these responsibilities are often secondary to their primary duties or job functions\, requiring additional labor and frequently with limited or no formal training. This panel will explore how four different librarians\, representing museum\, academic\, and art spaces\, began working on exhibition projects and learned curatorial practices. Additionally\, the panel will discuss how curatorial projects fit into their standard library work and broader library goals.\n\nCuration and exhibition design are intersecting skills that draw from a variety of disciplines to advance information literacy\, visual storytelling\, and pedagogical practice in physical and digital spaces. In these spaces\, library workers serve in multiple roles\, including student mentors\, visual educators\, creative designers\, and program managers. By translating our expertise and talents into exhibitions\, we can create transformative experiences for our communities\, whether through works of art or library resources. This viewpoint\, which highlights creativity\, authorship\, and collaboration\, serves as an act of resistance against the framing of librarians as customer service drones. More than a display of objects\, exhibition work provides an important avenue of expression\, scholarship\, and creative growth.\n\nA Library Exhibition Program for Everyone: Coordinating Both Library- and Community-Led Exhibits\nSpeaker: Heather Koopmans\n\nWhat does one need to lead an exhibits program that includes library-initiated exhibits as well as those developed by members of an academic community? Heather Koopmans will share how she learned on-the-job to review and select exhibits as part of a program\, co-plan exhibits with faculty and library peers (bridging departments and disciplines)\, showcase faculty- and student-generated art in the library\, and evolve the program in alignment with changing priorities.\n\nBack to School: Library Lessons in Museum Studies\nSpeaker: Jacob Lackner\n\nHow do museum studies and librarianship intersect in the world of exhibitions? Jacob Lackner will discuss leading a museum and exhibitions team\, curating exhibits alongside students and faculty\, and the experience of learning as a student in a museum studies MA program.\n\nThe Art of Museum Library Exhibitions: Combining Diverse Skills to Foster Creative Curation\nSpeaker: Rebekah S. Boulton\n\nRebekah Boulton is a museum librarian working in a public-facing reading room\, and curates exhibitions of library materials within the museum’s exhibitions program and hosts related public programming. Like many librarians\, Boulton came to this work with no formal exhibitions training\, and draws from her background in art history and library studies to consider all aspects of curation to be able to convey the meaning and merit of materials to audiences.\n\nLearning on Display: Curatorial Praxis in an Academic Art Library\nSpeaker: Courtney Hunt\n\nSpeaking from experiences at a public R1 university\, Courtney Hunt will share how she learned to curate through the staging of a semester-long exhibition containing library and special collections materials as well as art. Hunt will also speak about running an exhibitions program of student/staff work in a standalone fine arts library. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 7\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:20a4b34acbd4a9f52d622d565d7c7136 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/20a4b34acbd4a9f52d622d565d7c7136 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T123000Z DTEND:20260505T140000Z SUMMARY:Engaging our audience: new ideas in instruction and outreach DESCRIPTION:While much has changed in librarianship in recent years\, the need for thoughtful and innovative instruction has never been more important than now. Presenters in this session will discuss what library instruction looks like in 2026.\n\nThe Power of Pausing: Resisting AI Pressure Through Intentional Slowness\nSpeaker: Eva Sclippa\n\nIn an environment in which AI is being urgently pushed throughout academia\, we have found that pausing offers a powerful means of resistance. Students are using generative AI\, at times with institutional encouragement\, without guidance about how to consider the larger ramifications on the artistic\, academic\, or information landscape\, or on their own work and learning. At Boston University\, colleagues spanning the libraries and the Educational Resource Center identified a pressing need for more informed decision-making about AI tool engagement\, use\, and intention. This led to the development of the “Pause Before You Prompt” tool for reflection before the point of algorithmic engagement.\n\nStructured around seven concepts—ethics\, consequences\, privacy\, copyright\, transparency\, personal motives\, and accuracy—Pause Before You Prompt introduces mindful slowness into the AI use process. It provides students with key questions to address in advance of AI use to help them determine how or if to use generative AI products for their specific needs. We then built on this core framework to develop an accompanying assignment and in-class activity for instructors to incorporate into their courses.\n\nPause Before You Prompt has since been published in BU’s institutional repository and both library and writing instructor resources. Additionally\, we successfully piloted the in-class activity with writing tutors on campus\, who have now been trained to use it in their conversations with students. Meanwhile\, other academic services have independently begun training their peer tutors in using Pause Before Your Prompt in their work with their fellow students. Faculty have demonstrated the tool within their own classes across disciplines. Other campus partners and stakeholders have expressed interest\, including advising and student success teams and our Institute for Excellence in Teaching. Finally\, library leadership has put forward a proposal for us to share Pause Before You Prompt with Boston University’s AI Development Accelerator as part of their AI developments symposium series.\n\nDuring this session\, we will discuss the process of creating this tool\, with a particular focus on methods for assessing and organizing individual and institutional values. Attendees will have an opportunity to reflect on the values and questions about generative AI that they feel are most critical for members of their campus community to engage with\, as well as methods for effectively reaching their students and colleagues in a period of accelerating change.\n\nZine workshops for Critical and Creative thinking in the Academic Library\nSpeakers: Sarah Wood-Gagnon\, Lindsey Baker\nIn an age increasingly dominated by AI\, digital communication\, and surveillance capitalism\, it is important to nurture in-person community building and tactile experiences. This presentation will highlight a series of zine-making workshops designed to engage students with experimental modes of learning and foster creativity within library environments. The idea arose from a growing interest in zines and crafting on campus. The workshops focus on diverse approaches to knowledge creation\, encouraging participants to explore new ways of expressing ideas and remixing information through physical media. The workshop series beings with basic how-tos and distilling a research project into a zine for accessibility and concludes with more explicitly creative workshops on visual storytelling and poetry. This presentation will discuss how to stage these types of workshops\, content covered and a selection of student work\, and overall takeaways. We hope to highlight the importance of informal learning and making within the academic library.\n\nMap Making and Treasure Hunting: understanding and supporting the information seeking behaviors of artist researchers\nSpeaker: Melanie Landsittel\nIn Map Making and Treasure Hunting: understanding and supporting the information seeking behaviors of artist researchers\, Graduate Assistant Melanie Landsittel\, MFA\, aims to identify how research-based instruction in museums\, galleries\, and libraries has the potential to enrich studio-based visual arts education. She discusses the need for structured supplementary resources for studio-based learning\, situated in frameworks like Research Creation and Practice-Led Scholarship. Drawing on her experience earning both the MFA and MLIS\, she will share research tools in the form of a targeted workbook\, student workshops structure\, and results of a focus group analysis with visual arts student participants on the resources’ effectiveness.\n\nPicture This: Collaborative approache... CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:5e1f87f64301955b530820d3bf1424f2 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/5e1f87f64301955b530820d3bf1424f2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T123000Z DTEND:20260505T140000Z SUMMARY:President's Choice: From Canada to Norway: Indigenous Presence and Decolonial Practice in Academic and Museum Libraries DESCRIPTION:Art libraries within academic institutions and museums globally continue to play a vital role in advancing the work of decolonization and Indigenization across library spaces\, collections\, and information cataloguing practices. This session highlights initiatives that contribute meaningfully to the ongoing journey toward reconciliation\, with case studies spanning Canada and Norway. Presentations will examine the Indigenous art purchasing program at the University of Manitoba\, including the work of an artist whose pieces are now prominently featured within the library\; the Salish Weave Teaching Collection integrated into the Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre at Simon Fraser University Library in Burnaby\; and the decolonizing strategies undertaken by librarians at the Nasjonalmuseet (National Museum) in Oslo. Together\, these projects reflect a growing commitment to inclusive\, culturally responsive library practices and the reimagining of institutional relationships with Indigenous knowledge systems.Art as Literacy: bringing Indigenous art into academic libraries\nSpeaker: Ashley Edwards\n\nIndigenizing the University of Manitoba Libraries' Art Collection\nSpeaker: Janet Rothney\n\nIndigenous art in Norwegian libraries: DDC and Humord after the launch of the report Truth and Reconciliation – basis for a settlement with Norwegianization Policy and Injustice against Sami\, Kven/Norwegian Finns and Forest Finns\nSpeakers: Hildegunn Gullåsen\, Birgit Jordan\, Per Gisle Galåen\n\n CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 8\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:b0d62ea4f93bb80f683744b883213fc4 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/b0d62ea4f93bb80f683744b883213fc4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T123000Z DTEND:20260505T140000Z SUMMARY:Resistance is futile—or is it? The future of AI in cataloguing DESCRIPTION:This panel\, sponsored by the ARLIS/NA Critical Librarianship SIG\, will feature presentations that critically engage the topic of artificial intelligence in technical services. As libraries and library workers are increasingly called upon to variously adopt\, teach\, or provide guidance on AI tools in our work\, it is crucial that we also lead the way in critically assessing\, and guiding others in critically assessing\, the material conditions of artificial intelligence and its impacts on information integrity\, intellectual property\, civil discourse\, and natural ecosystems.\n\nResisting the disruption: creating space to consider ‘AI’ in cataloging\nSpeaker: Amy Watson\n\nThis presentation will examine the push to adopt “AI” in cataloging. By decoding Silicon Valley’s rhetoric of disruption\, library workers can create the space to evaluate the long-term sustainability and impact of “AI” technologies\, develop ethical guidelines for their use\, and imagine alternate pathways to address the needs driving the pressure to adopt “AI” in cataloging. Though focused on cataloging\, the presentation will touch on core issues in critical librarianship and attendees will gain tools to begin resisting the disruption in their own library work.\n\nReimagining Metadata: Featuring an AI-Driven\, Holistic Tool for Transformative Cataloguing and Discovery of Marginalized Collections\nSpeakers: Amy Andres\, \;Liya Louis \n\nGenXCat is an open-access\, holistic\, multilingual template series that integrates generative AI with human-in-the-loop oversight to create inclusive metadata for unique and underrepresented bibliographic and non-bibliographic collections. Developed in an academic art library\, it addresses biases in AI-generated cataloging\, resisting Anglophone dominance by enabling transliteration and multilingual description and culturally specific terminology while preserving cataloguer authority. GenXCat supports learning for new cataloguers\, aligns with DEIA-AR values\, and promotes ethical AI use while raising awareness of the limitations of current copyright laws and the need to reimagine copyright and policy frameworks. By broadening access to marginalized materials\, it advances Universal Bibliographic Control and offers adaptable documentation for global library adoption.\n\nEmbodied Knowledge as Resistance: Designing Ethical AI for Cultural Heritage Archives\nSpeaker: Shan Chuah\n\nThis presentation examines an AI prototype developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services to support the cataloguing needs of the Cross-Cultural Dance Resources collections at Arizona State University. These collections span more than seventy years of rare ethnographic documentation and provide a vital record of movement-based traditions from many parts of the world. The project explores how automated video analysis and culturally informed metadata design can improve access to dance materials that are often compressed into a single undifferentiated category within cataloguing systems. By integrating Laban movement analysis frameworks\, the work investigates how AI can enhance discovery while resisting reductive classification. The results indicate that intelligent chunking and targeted machine learning can reduce processing costs and expand technical capacity for institutions responsible for sizable non-textual heritage collections. At the same time\, the project uses these technical outcomes to open a broader critical conversation about the values that shape automated systems. It considers how AI models interpret cultural material\, how archival labor shifts when automation becomes a routine part of technical services\, and how librarians may influence the ethical direction of these tools. Through this case study\, the project proposes ways in which art librarians\, as custodians of cultural memory\, can guide AI toward practices that respect traditional knowledge systems and contribute to sustainable stewardship of embodied heritage. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 4-5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:8a10682aee5a488b217a26c6b24c7fee URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/8a10682aee5a488b217a26c6b24c7fee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T124500Z DTEND:20260505T170000Z SUMMARY:Exhibit Hall DESCRIPTION:The Exhibit Hall will be open for conference attendees to meet vendors and to learn more about the products and services they offer. CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:01368491c8d64e115d3cf2d2da55ab84 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/01368491c8d64e115d3cf2d2da55ab84 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T140000Z DTEND:20260505T143000Z SUMMARY:Coffee Break with Exhibitors DESCRIPTION:Come grab a cup of coffee or tea and visit with exhibitors.\n#coffee CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:3bf8d751ac512d98bf6cc3ac109f7a56 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/3bf8d751ac512d98bf6cc3ac109f7a56 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T140000Z DTEND:20260505T153000Z SUMMARY:Posters on View DESCRIPTION:All posters have been assigned numbers\, which is how you will be able to locate them in St-Laurent Rooms 1-2 on the main/lobby floor of the Hotel Bonaventure. Please see attached PDF for more information. CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:825f715b2ced87297348fda128d93430 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/825f715b2ced87297348fda128d93430 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T143000Z DTEND:20260505T154500Z SUMMARY:Bit by bit\, putting it together: building (and rebuilding) library collections DESCRIPTION:Building and maintaining a library collection shapes how research is conducted now and in future generations. No library has infinite shelf space\, so deciding what to purchase (and what to deaccession) is always an essential question. Presenters in this session will consider issues related to collection development in art libraries.\n\nSo you think you want a materials library?\nSpeaker: Morwenna Peters\n\nIs a materials library essential to develop arts students’ materials and academic literacies? A research project funded by ARLIS UK & Ireland brought together a librarian\, a technical manager and a materials library co-ordinator at two UK universities to investigate this question.\n\nThe project was underpinned by the researchers' shared ethos that using materials within teaching is relevant to: understanding a sustainable approach\; developing critical thinking and reflective skills\; and using materials and objects as a vehicle for learning.\n\nThrough a series of events\, activities\, visits and knowledge exchange opportunities\, the researchers created a set of resources to support educators in confidently delivering materials literacy workshops in their own institutions. This presentation will share the context\, outcomes (both planned and unexpected) and the next steps for this research project.\n\nStinky\, Grubby\, Graffitied\, and WEIRD: A Visual Arts Weeding Success Story\nSpeaker: Andrea Johnston\n\nAh the joys of weeding. Time to review our collections\, take stock of what is and isn’t moving\, and embrace the mantra: out with the old and in with the new! While essential to managing our collections\, weeding presents unique challenges\, particularly with visual arts collections. From handling heavily used or damaged materials to navigating faculty communication and staff fatigue\, the process can be both daunting and unexpectedly delightful.\nThis session recounts the presenter’s experience as a newly appointed Visual Arts Librarian at a mid-sized institution\, tasked with revitalizing a collection that had not been reviewed in several years. The work involved not only weeding a neglected collection\, but also included the work to advocate\, promote\, and preserve this unique and important section of the library.\n\nRecognizing the distinctive nature of visual arts materials\, the presenter developed a phased collection development and weeding strategy. This included crafting tailored weeding criteria\, consulting with colleagues\, and conducting hands-on review of materials to better understand the collection’s scope and needs. The phased approach was designed to minimize disruption\, reduce staff fatigue\, and support thoughtful decision-making.\nThis session will share lessons learned from the first phase of the project\, completed in Spring 2025\, and outline plans for future phases. Attendees will gain insights into developing visual arts-specific weeding guidelines\, informed in part by criteria gleaned from a session presented during ARLIS/NA’s 2025 virtual conference\, along with strategies for phasing a weeding project\, and approaches to advocating for collection renewal and revitalization. Examples of surprising and humorous finds will be shared to illustrate the complexities and joys of this work.\nEqual parts hilarious\, enlightening\, and gratifying\, this session is ideal for librarians at small to mid-sized institutions looking for practical strategies to manage visual arts collections with creativity\, care\, and just the right amount of weird.\n\nWhen everything was in flux\, this library turned to Fluxus!\nSpeaker: Margaret English\n\nSmall and departmental libraries within large academic institutions are constantly under threat of amalgamation into main collections\, or even closure. This paper will discuss the drastic cuts to space\, collections and staff at one such library\, and the strategies taken by the solo librarian to deal with the changes. The library made a quick pivot from being a resource for both undergraduate and graduate students and faculty to being a "Special Collection" with reduced hours. When everything was in flux\, the library turned to Fluxus. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 4-5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:84cd83d565424bbd72b9d6741d8d5e02 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/84cd83d565424bbd72b9d6741d8d5e02 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T143000Z DTEND:20260505T154500Z SUMMARY:From Paint Tubes to Digital Drawings: Navigating Appraisal in Artists’ Archives DESCRIPTION:In an era marked by ongoing budget cuts\, shrinking storage space\, and a surge in born-digital records creation\, archives face a growing challenge: How do we determine what to keep? Focusing specifically on artists’ archives\, this panel discussion will convene experienced archival professionals working across museums\, academic libraries\, and artist foundations\, in both Canada and the USA to explore the complex strategies and evolving criteria involved in appraisal and collection development.\n \n The panel will address the increasing necessity for appraisal\, weeding\, and sampling under institutional pressures\, and how decisions must balance institutional priorities with the inherent richness and messiness of preserving an artistic practice. Artists’ archives—often composed of highly personal\, eclectic\, and unconventional materials—do not always fit neatly into traditional institutional frameworks. As such\, appraisal requires deep contextual knowledge and collaborative engagement with artists and their estates\, and a willingness to advocate for nuance in what might otherwise be seen as ephemeral material.\n \n Panelists will bring their specialized experience\, highlighting approaches to appraising both physical and born-digital materials. Particular attention will be given to handling accruals\, which pose logistical and intellectual challenges as some artists continue to work and produce after the initial donation. These additions often fall outside of typical processing workflows and call for agile\, iterative approaches to appraisal and processing.\n \n The discussion will also explore ways that professionals are resisting increased limitations—budgetary\, spatial\, and administrative—to ensure that artists' archives continue to be collected and preserved equitably across institutions. How can we maintain commitments to underrepresented voices and experimental practices when resources are stretched thin? What ethical obligations do institutions have when facing these limitations?\n \n Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all solution\, this session will provide a space for reflection on best practices and peer exchange. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of the tensions at play\, implementable strategies\, and the knowledge to advocate for thoughtful and sustainable appraisal practices. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 8\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:6601e0551403dcadc5ff96eb0546b8ef URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/6601e0551403dcadc5ff96eb0546b8ef END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T143000Z DTEND:20260505T154500Z SUMMARY:Spaces\, Cases\, and Faces: Gaming in Academic Art Libraries DESCRIPTION:We are living in the ludic century: an era of gamification\, participatory culture\, and play. Whether aware of it or not\, most people engage with some kind of game – or gamified experience – every day. Video games have exceeded film and television as the most popular form of media\, while the popularity of tabletop games – including role-playing games – is surging. How are information workers rising to meet the new standards for critical thinking and information literacy required to foster informed participants of these thriving and ever-present media? How can gamification tactics and participatory culture be harnessed to disrupt and expand information literacy services? How can game collections be curated and activated as new sites of research for art scholarship? Art and design libraries specifically hold a unique position of responsibility in this field as many of their users not only play - but intend to create - games. How are libraries stepping up to shape the future of this field? Hear from three information workers who have been spearheading innovative game collections\, services\, and research in their libraries.\n\nThe first presentation\, Videoludic Literacies: How The SVA Libraries are Shaping the Future of Video Games\, recounts the creation of a Retro Game Lounge at the School of Visual Arts\, which marked the latest milestone in the continued development of the SVA Libraries' branch\, Library West – a non-traditional library hub. This presentation will discuss how The Retro Game Lounge and its associated collections were conceived\, planned\, and built\, with a focus on both the practical aspects and how it further realizes the communal\, multimedia\, and multimodal ethos of Library West.\n\nThe second presentation\, LARPing in the Library: Activating Live Action Research Protocol\, examines a collaboration between a librarian and art professor from Southern Methodist University who teamed up to create a research assignment that had students LARPing in the library. Students used various physical resources in the library to create a symbol and lore for their guild. This multi-session exercise disrupted students’ expectation that research in an academic setting would mirror their everyday searching behaviors.\n\nThe third presentation\, "I've Experiments to Run\, There is Research to be Done": The State of Video Game Collections in Academic Art Libraries addresses how academic art libraries are shaping the future of video game scholarship within the art history discipline – by virtue of what they deem relevant for entry into their collections. By identifying video game materials in the collections of research-focused academic art libraries\, this presentation outlines which aspects of art historical video game research are currently supported\, and which aspects of gaming's art culture are missing. Special attention is given to counterculture game creation including rom hacks and hardware mods as they have been largely absent from video game exhibitions. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:c30536d55f6aa2f64804bbd75d6b508a URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/c30536d55f6aa2f64804bbd75d6b508a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T143000Z DTEND:20260505T154500Z SUMMARY:This belongs in a museum! (Or does it?) Topics in museum librarianship DESCRIPTION:Working in a museum library combines aspects of academic\, special and public librarianship. Speakers in this session will present on the unique issues facing museum libraries and librarians.\n\nForging a Library-Museum Partnership: Creativity\, Exploration\, and Resistance\nSpeaker: Jacob Lackner\n\nAfter the Oxford College Library and the Michael C. Carlos Museum were brought together as part of organizational realignment at Emory University\, library and museum staff began to build a formalized partnership for the first time. The goal of this endeavor was to bring museum collections\, resources\, and personnel to a new audience at a new campus. Collaboration started with small meetings and building internal teams with relevant stakeholders. This created a foundation for lending artwork\, planning and constructing a dedicated exhibition space\, and guest speaking during library instruction. The process has required a commitment to cooperation\, resource sharing\, flexibility\, and patience\, but has already achieved exciting results. Museum resources enabled the library to bring more diverse voices onto the Oxford College campus\, including works by contemporary African and contemporary Indigenous artists\, as well as displaying an exhibit of works on paper that was co-curated with an Oxford College faculty member.\n\nAs an act of resistance\, this collaboration stands against the dominant view that undergraduate education should prioritize job training and narrow pathways over humanistic inquiry and digressions into the arts. Instead\, this project encourages students to resist the pressure of productivity\, look at something unexpected in the library\, and ask questions about the relationship between art\, information\, and society. Additionally\, the project resists the idea that museum collections must always remain in the museum\, giving them new context and new viewers in a new place. Established pieces from the collection can be reinterpreted by taking up residence amidst busy students\, student artwork\, and book stacks.\n\nAttendees will learn strategies and takeaways for planning library-museum collaboration and be encouraged to see how similar partnerships can advance long-term goals at their institutions. Libraries and museums can learn much from each other\, and joining forces can leave both institutions better prepared for the challenges of the future.\n\nCatalogues of the World: Building a Universal Archive\nSpeaker: Holly Phillips\n\nLaunched in 2001\, the Contemporary Catalogs Project (CCP) is an initiative of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library to actively collect and preserve contemporary art gallery exhibition catalogs from around the world. Led by library staff with support from interns and volunteers\, the project entails identifying galleries\, requesting catalogs\, recording solicitations\, and acknowledging donors. The project goals are: to preserve publications for future researchers\; acquire materials while they are still readily available\; represent living artists as inclusively and globally as possible\; and expand collecting beyond dominant networks of publishers and distributors.\n\nThrough sustained outreach and the generosity of galleries worldwide\, the library has acquired more than 25\,000 publications\, representing 60 countries and over 10 languages. In 2020\, the project was expanded to include PDF catalogs\, which Watson is requesting\, archiving\, and making publicly available for online viewing and download. More than 5\,700 gallery catalog PDFs are now available directly through WorldCat\, Watsonline (our online catalog)\, and downloadable as an entire collection in MARC format record sets.\n\nThis presentation will include an overview of the workflow and tracking documentation developed for the project\, highlights and key takeaways\, and introduce a newly launched landing page and online index.\n\nWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Korea\nSpeaker: J. Vera Lee\n\nThis original archival research focuses on the role of the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA\; formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts (HAA)) in a seminal stateside exhibition of Korean National Treasures. Robert Griffing\, then-Director of HAA\, became interested in sponsoring an exhibition of Korean National Treasures as a member of the UNESCO-International Commission of Museums (ICOM\; 1947). When the Korean War erupted in 1951\, and national treasures in peril were packed and moved from the National Museum of Korea (NMK) in Seoul to Pusan\, Griffing offered HAA as a haven for Korean National Treasures to Kim Chewon\, NMK Director. Griffing and Kim’s correspondence reveals a framework of influence and power linked to narrating national identity through the objects of the eventual 1957 exhibition (that originated with the National Gallery of Art). I evaluate the making of this exhibition as a precursor to current events around national representation in art museums and libraries. On a more modest scale\, I have reformatted my po... CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 7\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:96df3054a6194232b621cdef1c4ac5c6 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/96df3054a6194232b621cdef1c4ac5c6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T160000Z DTEND:20260505T170000Z SUMMARY:The Current State of ILL: informal discussion of challenges\, trends\, and innovations DESCRIPTION:Open to all who are interested in interlibrary loan\, resource sharing\, and document delivery.\n\n CATEGORIES:SELF-ASSIGNING LOCATION:Westmount 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:4016ab9abfb96c95bf745aa22ff0ef4a URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/4016ab9abfb96c95bf745aa22ff0ef4a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T160000Z DTEND:20260505T170000Z SUMMARY:Convocation and Awards Ceremony Rehearsal DESCRIPTION:Rehearsal for presenters and award winners to review the Convocation and Awards Ceremony agenda and logistics. CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Montreal 4-5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:8ce931f328a9203fa2e089a53d8885a8 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/8ce931f328a9203fa2e089a53d8885a8 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T170000Z DTEND:20260505T200000Z SUMMARY:Exhibit Hall DESCRIPTION:The Exhibit Hall will be open for conference attendees to meet vendors and to learn more about the products and services they offer. CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:3db5bb51e06af6dbb35c269edae86791 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/3db5bb51e06af6dbb35c269edae86791 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T170000Z DTEND:20260505T200000Z SUMMARY:Posters on View DESCRIPTION:All posters have been assigned numbers\, which is how you will be able to locate them in St-Laurent Rooms 1-2 on the main/lobby floor of the Hotel Bonaventure. Please see attached PDF for more information. CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:2b8d7ec72039976986a1f5738c2cb877 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/2b8d7ec72039976986a1f5738c2cb877 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T170000Z DTEND:20260505T190000Z SUMMARY:(SOLD OUT) Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal Library Tour DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.\n\nCost : $ 30\n\nGuided tour of the Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal \;Library\, including a presentation of their work and a discussion on the issues facing the library. Visit the Musée on your own after the library tour.\n \nTransportation : not provided.\n The recommended transportation arrangements are to walk (25 minutes) or coordinate a shared Uber. \n\nDestination addess : \;Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal\, 1380 Sherbrooke St W\, Montreal\, Quebec H3G 1J5\nMeet your guide in the entrance lobby.\n\nImportant Information:\nTours will be offered in English\, and guides will be pleased to answer questions in French.\n$ All costs are in USD.\n\n#madeinquebec\n\n\n\n CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal\, 1380 Sherbrooke St W\, Montreal\, Quebec H3G 1J5 SEQUENCE:0 UID:fe0972a6048ebaf65bfea8ccf79357f3 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/fe0972a6048ebaf65bfea8ccf79357f3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T171500Z DTEND:20260505T183000Z SUMMARY:Beyond Transactional: Libraries\, Artists\, and Vendors in the Fight for Equitable Access DESCRIPTION:How can libraries\, museums\, and the vendors they partner with embody resistance in the face of privatization\, censorship\, and inequity? This panel will explore an emerging partnership between Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)\, an organization dedicated to preserving and providing access to media art\, and Pratt Institute Libraries\, which is working to expand ethical\, sustainable access to these collections. Positioning themselves as allies rather than vendors\, EAI is actively developing initiatives that resist barriers to access by highlighting marginalized art histories\, supporting educators in underfunded schools\, and collaborating with organizations such as Art Resources Transfer to distribute publications and curricula to public libraries and prison systems.\n \n The panel will examine how libraries\, artists\, and cultural organizations can collaborate to resist exploitative market dynamics\, expand access to underrepresented voices\, and preserve media art as a vital cultural record. Rebecca Cleman\, Executive Director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)\, will outline EAI’s mission and history of providing educational access to media art\, with a focus on the Educational Streaming Service and recent partnerships with academic institutions. Nelson Henricks\, a Montreal-based educator and artist with media art in distribution through Video Data Bank\, will discuss his experience using EAI in the classroom. Matthew Garklavs\, the Electronic Resources Librarian at Pratt Institute Libraries\, will address his collaboration with EAI to develop a shared cataloging infrastructure and reflect on working with vendors to support sustainable\, long-term access to educational resources.\n \n While touching upon current developments in the field\, this panel will position collaborations between vendors\, libraries\, and creators not as transactional relationships but as opportunities for solidarity and shared purpose. In contrast to conventional subscription models\, EAI is piloting new pathways\, such as subsidized streaming for schools and open sharing of MARC records\, that align with libraries’ commitments to openness and equitable access. By including an artist’s voice\, the panel will also foreground the stakes for creators whose works risk invisibility without the stewardship of organizations committed to long-term preservation and accessibility.\n \n Anchored in Montreal\, a city with a deep history of cultural resistance\, this panel will resonate with the conference theme by showing how art information professionals can transform professional practice into a form of resistance\, expanding access\, amplifying marginalized histories\, and reimagining collaborative partnerships over commerce. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 7\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:8d3a6aa833f8845965ac2ac28289bd7c URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/8d3a6aa833f8845965ac2ac28289bd7c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T171500Z DTEND:20260505T183000Z SUMMARY:Getting crafty in the library! DESCRIPTION:Some librarians are turning to arts and crafts as a way to engage new and continuing audiences. Presenters in this session will discuss how using crafting in the library has provided new opportunities for their researchers.\n\nCraftivism as Library Pedagogy in the Age of Disruption\nSpeakers: Kellie Lanham-Friedman\, Rachel Riter\n\nCraftivism\, simply put\, is craft + activism. In this paper\, we present an overview of what craftivism is\, the movement’s significance to the current socio-political climate\, and how we have embedded a maker pedagogy into library instruction sessions and workshops. Drawing on existing literature on maker pedagogy\, the presentation outlines our institution’s incorporation of maker tools into curriculum (including zine assignments\, podcast lessons\, and more)\, and highlights a new workshop designed around craftivism titled Unraveled: Censorship and Craft. Participants learned basic sewing skills while creating embroidered patches\, buttons\, and bracelets with messages that resonate with their sociopolitical beliefs. Alongside skill-building\, participants were introduced to the concept of craftivism and invited to connect it with issues like free speech\, censorship\, and intellectual freedom. Ultimately\, craftivism and maker pedagogy gives students a voice to defend their rights\, expands their autonomy\, and challenges flawed traditional forms of educational assessment. This paper situates craftivism not only as a creative practice\, but also as a pedagogical strategy for academic libraries to resist cultural and technological disruption while empowering students to think critically\, create meaningfully\, and advocate for their rights.\n\nCut\, Paste\, & Share: 20 Creative Ways to Teach with Zines and Spark Low Cost High-Impact Engagement in Libraries\nSpeaker: Megan Lotts\n\nZines—self-published\, low-cost\, and highly creative—are transforming how libraries engage with their communities. Since launching the Rutgers Art Library Zine Initiative in 2019\, we have seen firsthand how zines foster creativity\, visual literacy skills\, self-expression\, and storytelling while empowering underrepresented communities.\n\nThis presentation will share 20 practical tips for integrating zines into library programming\, collections\, and instruction. Drawing on examples from the Art Library Zine Teaching Collection—which now includes over 750 unique resources—this presentation will highlight strategies for using zines in classrooms\, and for events\, and outreach activities. Case studies include collaborations with an English Department to transform annotated bibliography assignments into zines\, a partnership with an Asian American Studies Department that won a digital humanities award\, and the creation of popular library “Zine Creativity Kits” distributed to over 500 patrons during Welcome Week events.\n\nFrom this presentation participants will learn how zines can support interdisciplinary teaching\, empower underrepresented voices\, and create opportunities for playful\, hands-on learning in library settings. The session will also discuss practical considerations such as curating a zine collection\, facilitating workshops\, promoting engagement through exhibits and how to engage cross-disciplinary and organizational collaborations. Attendees will leave with actionable ideas for starting or expanding zine initiatives in their own libraries—whether through instruction\, outreach\, or collection development—all while keeping costs low and impact high.\n\nArchival Interventions (with Scissors!): Zine- and Buttonmaking as Resistance at UCSC Special Collections and Archives\nSpeaker: Sam Regal\n\nAs is intrinsic to most repositories\, the collections within the University Archives at UC Santa Cruz are interwoven with bias. Collections materials unevenly represent student life and experience\, eliding certain knowledge\, identities\, and expression across the documented history of the university. In response and resistance to these elisions\, UCSC Special Collections and Archives developed the “Zine Art Party\,” a critical zine- and buttonmaking series hosted in Special Collections and Archives. At these events–usually held during finals week–students are invited to cut\, remix\, collage\, and otherwise intervene upon the archive to tell their own stories. The “Zine Art Party"" has three major objectives: to welcome students into Special Collections and Archives and foster a sense of belonging in the space\, to critically activate collections materials\, and to empower students to pursue arts-based research methodologies. Librarian Sam Regal will set the “Zine Art Party” program in situ by outlining the role\, utility\, and activist potentialities of critical making as a teaching methodology and research practice\, with particular attention paid to the political implications of experimentation and play. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 8\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:c48c82166d36da83ee4e5f74b08bbff6 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/c48c82166d36da83ee4e5f74b08bbff6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T171500Z DTEND:20260505T183000Z SUMMARY:Just another brick in the wall: architecture and libraries DESCRIPTION:This session contains a paper presentation followed by a pre-coordinated panel in English and French focusing on architecture and libraries. \n \n“Designed to be Seen”: Revisiting Library Architecture and its Remnants of Colonial Legacies” - This presentation focuses on how library architecture buildings and their designs\, often viewed with admiration and inspiration\, may evoke colonial legacies. Like colonial museum architecture\, colonial library architecture has parallel connections to imperialism in knowledge production and how such architecture portrays a particular aesthetic sensibility: an enduring symbol of imperial power and knowledge over colonized populations. Drawing on works of architectural historians and historians of empire\, and case studies of libraries built in colonial-era regions\, this presentation argues how library architecture did not only serve as a repository for colonial knowledge and practice in the imperial landscape but was designed in function and form to invoke imperial power in post-colonial societies. \n \nFrom a different angle\, the colonial legacy of library architecture relates to the larger idea that architecture is not neutral. Instead\, architecture reflects cultural values\, public needs\, and urban change\, and across Canada\, buildings have been repurposed or demolished in response to shifting social priorities\, economic forces\, growth\, and community resistance. \n \nIn the second part of this session\, then\, the bilingual panel will discuss the evolution of architecture in two major Canadian cities\, Montréal and Toronto\, through the lens of library and archival collections. Each panelist will highlight examples of architectural development\, repurposing\, and/or resistance held at their institution\, encouraging discussion about the role libraries and special collections play in preserving Canada’s architectural history and its societal impact. Through textual documents\, photographs\, building records\, maps\, and other documents\, libraries and archives provide evidence of these architectural evolutions\, making them available for both studying the past and inspiring the future.\n \nThe Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) will illustrate some of the architectural transformation in Montréal through Expo 67 islands and pavilions that have since been repurposed\, such as the Pavilions of Québec and France. As well\, they will highlight the Shaughnessy house\, which similarly embodies this sense of adaptation. Built in the 19th century and once threatened with demolition\, the mansion has now been restored and revived through its integration into a research institution. In different ways\, these examples both demonstrate how architecture can be reimagined and sustained across generations and also highlight the cultural value embedded in the built environment. \n \nThe Eberhard Zeidler Library (University of Toronto) will highlight architectural resistance and development in Toronto through Ontario Place\, a public entertainment space on Toronto’s waterfront since 1971\, where redevelopment has recently become a point of civic debate. The topic of Ontario Place in our libraries and special collections demonstrates how resistance has shaped architecture and design in Toronto\, from defending public space to establishing a cultural self-definition. \n \;\nThe first part of the panel will be in French and the second part in English. The slides will be bilingual. Questions in English and French are welcome. \;\n#madeinquebec CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:cb983049d851ec93a2d16a5b95bc1499 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/cb983049d851ec93a2d16a5b95bc1499 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T171500Z DTEND:20260505T183000Z SUMMARY:Open Books\, Open Doors: Resistance to Gatekeeping Artists' Books in Libraries DESCRIPTION:For over 70 years\, artists have used artists’ books to bypass conventional art world channels\, ripe with gatekeeping\, exclusion\, and bias. Their unprecedented portability and accessibility allowed artists more agency over production and distribution. Artists’ books continue to be a vital mode of creative expression\, particularly for exploring socio-political issues\; however\, the same qualities that make these works vibrant and democratic pose challenges for libraries. Artists’ books inherently resist traditional ways that libraries acquire\, describe\, and provide access.\n\nThis panel explores how librarians can navigate these challenges and remove barriers to engagement in artists’ books collections. We will present case studies from museum and academic libraries\, along with historical examples\, to demonstrate how artists’ books can be promoted as essential library materials and how we can work together to steward these collections for future generations. By opening the doors to artists’ books collections\, we can champion underengaged perspectives and allow more users to see themselves in our holdings.\n\nFrom Activism to Access: Resisting the Status Quo with Artists' Books\nSpeaker: Joey Vincennie\n\nBy examining the history of activism through the lens of artists' books\, this presentation aims to show how this form was used as a tool for uncensored artistic expression and consciousness-raising. Drawing parallels from historical examples to contemporary artists’ books\, we explore how these objects circumvent the hegemony of traditional art and publishing structures and act as vehicles for socio-political activism\, arguing that artists' books in library collections push back against limits to expression. By revising access policies for artist book collections\, participating in art book fairs\, promoting artists’ books through programming\, and supporting small publishers\, the author aims to show how librarians can resist the gatekeeping of information\, ideas\, and access.\n\nThe Role of Research in Undergraduate Studio Practice: A Qualitative Study\nSpeaker: Giana Ricci\n\nThe inherent challenges of collecting artists’ books for circulating academic libraries often deter librarians from considering them for inclusion. At New York University Libraries\, we see an opportunity to interrogate existing methods of collecting that may exclude or discourage creative research in higher education. In this presentation\, I will discuss original qualitative research concluding that student artists are keen to use non-traditional resources in their creative practices\, but that library conventions may limit their engagement. I will propose ways we can resist these conventions\, while maintaining professional standards\, in order to bring artists’ books and other creative resources into the hands of our users.\n\nMentorship and Meaning in a Museum Library Special Collections\nSpeaker: Ivy Blackman\n\nThe Whitney Museum of American Art’s Frances Mulhall Achilles Library offers our student interns a rare opportunity to select and present artists’ books to an audience of museum professionals as a part of their participation in our program. Their selections and research are used as the basis for special collections and artists’ books education for the following year. The project invites students into the meaningful work of artists’ books research and curation\, and provides a useful model for engaging emerging professionals in work with artists' books that goes well beyond paging and shelving. This presentation discusses the ways in which removing barriers to pre-professional work with artists' books has proven fruitful for our interns\, our staff\, and our understanding of our collections. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 4-5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:9f68fab2c89e5f615e54168bc4984d60 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/9f68fab2c89e5f615e54168bc4984d60 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T183000Z DTEND:20260505T190000Z SUMMARY:Coffee Break with Exhibitors DESCRIPTION:Come grab a cup of coffee\, tea and some snacks while you visit with exhibitors.\n#food CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:c1864237948ff39e5999a06f8264bdad URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/c1864237948ff39e5999a06f8264bdad END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T183000Z DTEND:20260505T193000Z SUMMARY:(SOLD OUT) Cinémathèque québécoise : mediathèque Guy L. Coté library collection and the archives DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.\n\nCost : $ 20\n\nPresentation of the Guy L. Coté Media Library\, its collection of documents (books\, magazines\, videos\, etc.)\, as well as the Cinémathèque québecoise's archive collection (photos\, posters\, drawings\, etc.). A brief presentation of the collections\, the services offered\, and examples of documents will be followed by a tour of the storage areas of both collections.\n\nTransportation : transit pass provided. \nThe recommended transportation arrangements are to use public transit as a group.\n\nDestination addess \;: Cinemathèque québécoise\, \;335 Boul. de Maisonneuve E\, Montréal\, QC H2X 1K1Meet your guide in the Cinematheque reception. \;\n\nImportant Information:The elevator leading to the library will be out of service for the weeks to come. It is quite possible that it will still be unavailable on the day of the visit. This unfortunately prevents access for wheelchair users. There are a dozen steps.\n\nTours will be offered in English\, and guides will be pleased to answer questions in French.\n$ All costs are in USD.\n\n#madeinquebec\n\n\n CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:Cinémathèque québécoise\, 335\, boul. De Maisonneuve Est Montréal\, Québec\, H2X 1K1 SEQUENCE:0 UID:df05e60de83e8c0d43563f5d88e89bd9 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/df05e60de83e8c0d43563f5d88e89bd9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T190000Z DTEND:20260505T200000Z SUMMARY:Book Art SIG In Person Huddle DESCRIPTION:Join the co-coodinators of the Book Art SIG for an informal social to share stories about our conference experience\, talk book arts\, and meet each other in person.\n\n CATEGORIES:SELF-ASSIGNING LOCATION:Westmount 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:e4d672e85704ead696625cca7ca50c48 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/e4d672e85704ead696625cca7ca50c48 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T190000Z DTEND:20260505T201500Z SUMMARY:A Culture of Resistance: Libraries\, Archives and the Impact of Culture on Collecting (and Collecting on Culture) DESCRIPTION:How do libraries and archives reflect and capture our current moment? Papers in this session will cover topics including AIDS\, music and web archiving.\n\nArt\, Archives\, and the Long Tail of HIV & AIDS Artistic Production\nSpeaker: Emilie Hardman\n\nThis paper examines an open digital collection documenting the artistic legacy produced by the HIV & AIDS crisis and its long\, continuous tail as a case study in resistance enacted through form rather than resolution. Bringing into proximity materials drawn from community archives\, personal holdings\, and dispersed institutional collections\, the corpus spans four decades of cultural production and includes fine art\, artist books\, essays\, agitprop\, performance documentation\, oral histories\, and other traces of embodied cultural artmaking generated under conditions of crisis\, stigma\, loss\, and collective care.\n\nRather than presenting a coherent institutional archive or a curated digital exhibition\, the collection operates as a deliberately heterogeneous body of work. Its materials were never meant to sit quietly beside one another\, nor to be stabilized into a singular narrative of artistic response. Their digital co-presence foregrounds unevenness--differences in provenance\, scale\, documentation\, and preservation that are not reconciled but held in view. This heterogeneity is not treated as a problem to be solved\, but as a defining condition of the collection’s intellectual and interpretive potential.\n\nThe paper explores the opportunities this structure creates for engaging with cultural memory that remains unfinished. It attends to how the collection makes visible forms of cultural production that persist unevenly\, circulate through personal and community care\, and resist being safely historicized. Attention is given to how context can be provided without imposing closure\, how absence and loss function as constitutive features of the record\, and how crisis-born cultural expression can be made accessible without being converted into settled heritage.\n\nRather than offering resolution\, the collection creates space for ongoing interpretation\, reuse\, and scholarly encounter. The paper argues that such openness (structural\, descriptive\, and interpretive) allows the collection to sustain unresolved cultural legacies and to support new forms of engagement with the artistic afterlives of HIV & AIDS.\n\nBuilding a Global Digital Archive for Popular Music and Culture Zines\nSpeaker: Elizabeth Martin-Ruiz\n\nIn 2015\, a non-profit music research organization took the initiative to establish an international and multilingual digital archive of independently published fanzines and magazines dedicated to popular music and culture. These zines cover a wide variety of related topics\, accompanied by visual art such as comics\, drawings\, and photography\, and all captured in unique graphic design. This presentation will chronicle the multifaceted journey\, from securing licensing rights and converting content from print to digital format to developing an innovative platform that ensures long-term preservation and intuitive user searching. I will then highlight how the platform design facilitates the discovery of a diverse range of content and makes content accessible to a wide range of users. Recently launched\, the archive offers an opportunity to provide insight into the technical\, legal\, and curatorial challenges associated with such an undertaking. It ultimately attests to the complexities of building a global digital resource for interdisciplinary scholarship.\n\nPunk Rock & Resistance: Documenting Decades of Defiance in an International Zine Archive\nSpeaker: Jacqueline Santos\n\nThe visual punk rock aesthetics of the late 20th and early 21st century draw on themes of free expression\, feminism and gender non-conformism\, anti-establishmentarianism and political criticism\, as well as liberation. These themes are likewise prevalent in zines—noncommercial\, frequently homemade publications usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subjects. Emerging in opposition to established publications of their respective eras\, zines amplified voices of resistance during periods of censorship\, economic disparity\, racial inequality\, and political unrest. This paper presents examples of visual archival zine content within the scope of these themes\, and especially related to “resistance”\, to underscore the importance of community-based archival practices in preserving underrepresented historical and current perspectives. Using a digital zine archive as a case in point\, it demonstrates how zine archives function as cross-disciplinary resources for institutions\, students\, and scholars beyond their graphic content and make accessible material of artistic expression of marginalized groups that remains urgently relevant today.\n\nResisting Ephemerality: Web Archiving Online Arts Content Before It Disappears\nSpeakers: Sarah Beth Seymore\, Sumitra Duncan\n\nArt historians\, critics\, curato... CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 4-5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:641d296716b3a44404bbeff37506d602 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/641d296716b3a44404bbeff37506d602 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T190000Z DTEND:20260505T201500Z SUMMARY:New Voices in the Profession DESCRIPTION:Returning for its twentieth year\, New Voices in the Profession provides professionals who are new to art librarianship or visual resources work the opportunity to present topics from exceptional coursework\, such as a master's thesis\, or topics with which they are engaged early in their professional life. New professionals are defined as either students in MLIS or Master's programs leading to a career in art librarianship or visual resources\, or those within five years of Master's level study. For many\, this is their first professional speaking engagement.\n \n This panel began at the ARLIS/NA 2006 Annual Conference in Banff and has since received wide attention and praise. Topics presented reveal new ideas as well as different ways of thinking about established concepts. Speakers give the conference attendees a glimpse of academic interests and current discourses of the newest ARLIS/NA members. \n \n The New Voices session is organized by the Professional Development Committee\, ArLiSNAP\, and the Student Advancement Awards Subcommittee.\n \n Dusting Off the Artist Files: Early Career Collaborations in Art Librarianship\, Cataloguing and Archives\nSpeaker: \;Kate Nugent\nFrom 1969 to 2014\, the librarians at the Bibliothèque des arts de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) collected ephemera that documented the activities of Canadian artists\, galleries and exhibitions in the form of artist files. Until recently\, these files—which predominantly relate to Québécois artists and local Montreal galleries—were not discoverable in the library catalogue\, and were thus rarely consulted by students. To evaluate the significance of the artist files and the feasibility of integrating them into the library catalogue\, a student was recruited as part of an internship in an MLIS program. Following her recommendations\, the cataloguing team at UQAM decided to prioritise the artist files and began processing the collection to make it discoverable and accessible to students.\nThis presentation will outline my experience as an early-career cataloguing librarian processing artist files\, an experience that builds on my previous archival work and my background in art history. I will discuss the challenges of the project\, how I combined cataloguing and archival standards\, and the experience of working with a student as an early professional. This presentation ultimately advocates for collaboration in these projects—between departments\, between students and librarians—and encourages new professionals to take on these projects as a way to learn and grow.\n\nMexican Bracero Railroaders in the United States During World War II: An Endangered History\nSpeaker: \;Emily Mizokami\, Gerd Muehsam Award 2026\nMore than 136\,000 Mexican citizens came to the United States during World War II to work the most grueling railroad jobs through a contractual agreement between the U.S. and Mexican governments. At the war's end\, they were all immediately and unceremoniously sent back to Mexico. And yet\, few have heard their stories. The railroaders were part of the larger bracero program which primarily employed farm workers. The railroad arm of the program lasted only two and half years\, while the agricultural branch went on for 22 years. The short duration of the program\, combined with the difficulty of accessing archival records documenting living and working conditions\, explains the lack of a robust selection of comprehensive literature and public awareness about World War II bracero railroaders. If the bracero program is featured in scholarly journals\, it is rare for the railroad braceros to be provided more than a passing mention. If one walks through the exhibit spaces in North America's premiere railroad museums\, one will not see these men represented in photographs\, documents\, or railroad art. To raise awareness and encourage further research\, this presentation provides a brief history of the railroad bracero program\, a review of existing literature on the understudied topic\, and thoughts as to why we still know so little about these men and their contributions.\n\nThe Role of Fellowships in Early Career Development\nSpeaker: \;De’Ivyion “Ivy” Drew\nWhat is the role of library fellowships in early-career development? This presentation will cover the fellowship experiences of the UNC Chapel Hill Primary Source Teaching Fellowship and the Yale Kress Fellowship in Art Librarianship. MLIS students gain expertise of daily library activities through work practicums in settings that interest them\; however\, these practicums lack the ability to expose students to a wide variety of librarianship paths\, often limited to the setting/context of the hosting institution. Both fellowships feature self-directed project deliverables and collaborative structures designed to address the gap MLIS students experience navigating the paths of librarianship.\nThe Primary Sources Teaching Fellowship is funded by a three-year (2022 to 2025) grant from the Lau... CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 7\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:5745330e742d6dcd0a97827828d9b867 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/5745330e742d6dcd0a97827828d9b867 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T190000Z DTEND:20260505T201500Z SUMMARY:Reports from the field: trends in academic art libraries DESCRIPTION:What's new in academic librarianship? Join us for four papers from colleagues from the US and Canada as they present on new projects\, workflows\, and policies.\n\n“But what is it doing here?”: Library exhibition as pedagogy\, strategy\, and belonging\nSpeakers: Sarah Ward\, Madeline Eschenburg\n\nIn the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic\, Butler University’s Irwin Library mounted an exhibition to highlight how previous generations used art to process grief and loss\, build community\, and fight for their lives. The goal: to combine display\, pedagogy\, and outreach by involving students\, faculty\, and the broader Indianapolis community in a month-long\, multi-modal\, collaborative exhibit.\n\nUnexpectedly\, the exhibit also provided visible\, concrete support to marginalized members of the community during a time when DEI-labeled programs were shuttering across the country. As one student asked on the eve of the opening\, “Is that a real González-Torres? But what is it doing here?” The answer: it is here because you are here\, and you should see yourself and your interests reflected here.\n\nThis presentation offers a case study that provides creative examples of connecting librarians (and libraries) with students\, faculty\, and administration. It will examine ways that existing ARLIS resources can contribute to successfully mounting an exhibition on a shoestring budget. It will also present the perspectives of the co-curators\, an arts librarian and an art history professor\, to discuss their approach in engaging the library as a space of learning\, engagement\, and belonging.\n\nWho’s an Authority\, Anyway? DEIA-AR-centered Instruction on Finding and Evaluating Sources\nSpeaker: Jean Thrift\n\nThis case study presents a librarian-art history faculty collaboration at Furman University in spring of 2025\, on instruction exploring two frames of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education through a DEIA-AR lens. These lessons were part of a writing-research intensive course examining the role of museum spaces as sites for activism and resistance in contemporary society. Students conducted research projects culminating in proposals for DEIA-AR initiatives to be implemented in contemporary museums. For the frame ‘Information Has Value\,’ we assigned a short reading and screened part of a documentary to inform a class discussion on equity issues in the scholarly communication landscape. Students then reviewed strategies for finding and accessing sources with a deeper understanding of why some sources are open access\, while some must be accessed through the library\, and the implications of each model. Next\, for the frame ‘Authority Is Constructed and Contextual\,’ we interrogated who is considered an authority by presenting and discussing scholarly communication demographic data. Students then evaluated and discussed\, with a critical focus on bias\, the authority of two potential sources they had found.\n\nBreaking the Virtual Ceiling: Library Strategies for VR/AR Adoption in Design Disciplines\nSpeaker: Alisha D. Rall\n\nAs information professionals\, we have all experienced the frustration when an emergent technology fails to meet expectations\, encounters complex barriers or lacks equitable access. While the widespread adoption of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) in higher education has fallen short of expectations\, the potential value in the architecture and design environment are compelling. Pedagogical benefits of immersive 3D visualization include increased student engagement\, improved spatial perception\, dynamic precedent research\, and high impact design problem solving. As architecture and design librarians\, it is important to understand how we might assist our liaison faculty in overcoming hurdles to bringing the VR/AR experience into the classroom.\n\nOur academic library is the home of a large makerspace/innovation lab. Upon the recent acquisition of forty Meta Quest 3 headsets\, the team was looking for campus partners to promote VR technology usage beyond gaming and entertainment. With the mission to embed VR experiences into academic curriculum\, a pilot test was launched between the library and the College of Architecture\, Planning and Design to test feasibility of VR headset applications in the classroom. This initiative explored the feasibility of headset lending program for classroom assignments from technical\, pedagogical and service model perspectives.\n\nMy presentation will share the progress of our pilot test\, highlighting challenges and opportunities of VR/AR adoption in academic environment\, particularly within the arts\, humanities and design disciplines. Drawing on practices at peer institutions\, the discussion will address service models\, patron privacy\, technological obsolescence\, app hosting and uploads\, accessibility\, and curriculum integration. A persistent limitation of VR adoption in higher education is the difficulty of connecting headset use to instructional content\; too often\, VR/A... CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 8\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:a7979c636c148aed00b2bb809ea4cc3f URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/a7979c636c148aed00b2bb809ea4cc3f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T200000Z DTEND:20260505T220000Z SUMMARY:Exhibit Hall Take Down DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:d7c1633f3a1488fdbddc36e2ef8efd6f URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/d7c1633f3a1488fdbddc36e2ef8efd6f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T200000Z DTEND:20260505T220000Z SUMMARY:Poster Take Down DESCRIPTION:All posters must be removed by 6:00 PM. CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:St-Laurent 1-2\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:52f7c27d2f8d6c4042707d8f53984bf9 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/52f7c27d2f8d6c4042707d8f53984bf9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T203000Z DTEND:20260505T221500Z SUMMARY:Convocation & Awards Ceremony with Keynote Speaker DESCRIPTION:"Please join us for the 54nd annual ARLIS/NA Convocation & Awards Ceremony. Our convocation keynote speaker will be the renowned artist Angela Graurholz. \n \n Artist/photographer and graphic designer Angela Grauerholz has been living and working in Montreal since 1976. She was a founding member of ARTEXTE and has worked as a designer for art magazines\, museums and artists throughout the 80s. As Full Professor at the École de design Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)—where she also directed the Centre de design (2008 to 2012)—she taught typography and photography from 1988 to 2017. In 2019\, the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver awarded her an Honorary Doctorate of Letters\, and more recently\, UQAM bestowed upon her the title of Professor Emerita.\n Her artistic work has been exhibited and collected widely in Canada\, the United States\, and Europe. She has participated in many international events of distinction including the Sydney Biennale (1990)\, Documenta IX (1992)\, the Carnegie International (1995) and the Montréal Biennale (2004). She was awarded a number of prestigious prizes for her accomplishments in the arts\, such as Québec’s Prix Paul-Émile Borduas (2006)\, the Canada Council’s Governor General Award in Visual and Media Arts (2014)\, and in 2015\, the distinguished Scotiabank Photography Award (Toronto).\n Amongst a selection of many solo exhibitions\, her work was shown at the Westfälischer Kunstverein\, (Münster\, 1991)\, the MIT List Visual Arts Center\, (Cambridge\, MA\, 1993)\, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo\, 1999)\, the Power Plant (Toronto\, 1999)\, the Museum of Contemporary Photography\, Columbia College (Chicago\, 1999)\, the Blaffer Art Museum\, University of Houston (2004)\, VOX\, Contemporary Image Centre\, Montreal (2006)\, and the Vancouver Public Library (2008). Angela Grauerholz (photographies 1990 – 1995)\, a survey exhibition organized by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 1995\, travelled to several institutions in Canada\, Germany\, Swizerland\, and France (1995-96). In 2010\, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa mounted a retrospective exhibition of her work\, consequently shown at the University of Toronto Art Center in 2011. In conjunction with the Scotiabank Photography Award\, the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto also put together another important survey exhibition (2016).\n \n L'artiste/photographe et graphiste Angela Grauerholz vit et travaille à Montréal depuis 1976. Elle a été membre fondatrice d'ARTEXTE et a travaillé comme graphiste pour des magazines d'art\, des musées et des artistes tout au long des années 80. Professeure titulaire à l'École de design de l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)\, où elle a également dirigé le Centre de design (de 2008 à 2012)\, elle a enseigné la typographie et la photographie de 1988 à 2017. En 2019\, l'Université d'art et de design Emily Carr lui a décerné un doctorat honorifique en lettres\, et plus récemment\, l'UQAM lui a conféré le titre d'émérite.\n \n Son travail artistique a été largement exposé et collectionné au Canada\, aux États-Unis et en Europe. Elle a participé à de nombreux événements internationaux prestigieux\, notamment la Biennale de Sydney (1990)\, la Documenta IX (1992)\, la Carnegie International (1995) et la Biennale de Montréal (2004). Elle a reçu plusieurs prix prestigieux pour ses réalisations dans le domaine des arts\, tels que le Prix Paul-Émile Borduas du Québec (2006)\, le Prix du Gouverneur général en arts visuels et médiatiques du Conseil des Arts du Canada (2014) et\, en 2015\, le prestigieux Prix Scotiabank de la photographie (Toronto)."\n\n#madeinquebec CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Montreal 4-5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:531d7cb75f73332b1eb676e0cd3d11e2 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/531d7cb75f73332b1eb676e0cd3d11e2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260505T230000Z DTEND:20260506T010000Z SUMMARY:Convocation Reception at Société des Arts Technologiques DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Convocation at the Société des arts technologiques (SAT) with a reception unlike any other. Attendees will have the opportunity to experience the SAT’s iconic 360-degree immersive dome\, animated by VJ Bunbun and accompanied by striking\, large-scale visuals—an unforgettable convergence of sound\, image\, and shared experience.\n \n Founded in 1996\, the SAT is a non-profit creative hub dedicated to the development and celebration of digital culture. It uniquely brings together immersive experiences\, research\, training\, performances\, exhibitions\, and social spaces under one roof\, making it a renowned destination for cutting-edge art\, technology\, and community engagement in the heart of Montreal.\n\nDrinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and hors d'oeuvres will be served.\n\nDirections for getting to the SAT from the Hotel : \;\n\n#food #madeinquebec \; CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Off-site: Société des arts technologiques (SAT)\, 1201\, boulevard Saint-Laurent\, Montréal (Québec) H2X 2S6 Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:0a4d382655fa561df8128deda9b87d36 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/0a4d382655fa561df8128deda9b87d36 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T113000Z DTEND:20260506T160000Z SUMMARY:Registration & Hospitality DESCRIPTION:Registration & Hospitality desk is in a different location for Wednesday! \; If you have a question or require assistance\, please go to the staff office to speak with a member of ARLIS/NA staff. CATEGORIES:REGISTRATION & HOSPITALITY LOCATION:Westmount 1\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:3494f6f84d3625ddcc143d12ce15f5a3 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/3494f6f84d3625ddcc143d12ce15f5a3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T113000Z DTEND:20260506T123000Z SUMMARY:Breakfast DESCRIPTION:Mingle with attendees over a hot breakfast before sessions begin for the day! Breakfast is provided free for all registered attendees and will feature fresh sliced fruit\, eggs\, breakfast pork and sausage\, chef’s choice of potatoes\, individual yogurts\, assorted pastries (GF and non-GF)\, coffee\, tea\, and an assortment of juices.\n#food CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Montreal 4-5 Foyer\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:744029aa26448d4e833d39862d64b308 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/744029aa26448d4e833d39862d64b308 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T120000Z DTEND:20260506T163000Z SUMMARY:Childcare DESCRIPTION:Childcare will be available on site at the conference hotel by licensed provider. Attendees can register children at the subsidized rate below. Monday\, May 4 – 8:00 am to 5pm ($50) Tuesday\, May 5 – 8:00 am to 5pm ($50) Wednesday\, May 6 – 8:00 am to 12:30pm ($25 CATEGORIES:CHILDCARE LOCATION:TBD\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:474bd3153c16297eab58a17bf1563851 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/474bd3153c16297eab58a17bf1563851 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T120000Z DTEND:20260506T150000Z SUMMARY:Mother's Room DESCRIPTION:Go to Westmount 1 (staff office) to sign room out. CATEGORIES:SELF-ASSIGNING LOCATION:Westmount 5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:294df38b2e06e75e8b9d2083ee072a6b URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/294df38b2e06e75e8b9d2083ee072a6b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T120000Z DTEND:20260506T140000Z SUMMARY:Meditation Room DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Outremont 4\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:b5bf619c8f02617d436a927aca5f4b31 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/b5bf619c8f02617d436a927aca5f4b31 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T120000Z DTEND:20260506T140000Z SUMMARY:SCIP Makerspace DESCRIPTION:Visit the Makerspace for a dose of creative and social stimulation between conference programs. Organized annually by SCIP SIG. CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Outremont 5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:abf037b62f1ca3f2b2e1a9319985a8c9 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/abf037b62f1ca3f2b2e1a9319985a8c9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T123000Z DTEND:20260506T133000Z SUMMARY:P'tite vite! Activating Our Collections (lightning talks) DESCRIPTION:Don't have a lot of time? Join us for some "p'tite vite" (lightning talks) covering a variety of topics in art librarianship.\n\nErrand into the Maze: Untangling Photograph Vertical File Cataloguing Practices\nSpeakers: Sarah Fischer\, Angela Rapp\n\nThe Jerome Robbins Dance Division photograph vertical files are among the most utilized of our collections. As dance is an ephemeral art form\, these photographs are often some of the only visual documentation of choreographic works. Maintaining artificial collections at institutions as vast as the New York Public Library provides its own challenges and we questioned if our vertical files were truly available for “ready reference” in our reading room. In the fall of 2024\, we began to actively remediate stub catalog records for our photograph files to improve their searchability and create more access points.\n\nWe will discuss our ongoing process to update all stub records from preexisting formats to RDA standard\, as well as increase authorized authority files and local subject headings listed. This work will allow patrons to gain a stronger\, more comprehensive understanding of what they will receive in our reading room. In addition\, these controlled access points increase the visibility of underrepresented dance artists and companies. This project could also serve as a future model for remediation of other vertical files in our collections and for similar institutions that prioritize accessibility and service.\n\nDIY Scholarship: Zines in Academic Libraries\nSpeaker: Autumn Wetli-Staneluis\n\nZines are gaining visibility on college campuses through both teaching and creation\, and in academic libraries as part of archives or circulating collections. Zines are often archived as ephemera reflecting specific times\, places\, and cultures\, while others provide extracurricular support for students’ personal lives and\, in teaching contexts\, zines can serve as outlets for creative self-expression. This talk will focus on zines within a scholarly realm. It will begin by briefly defining the zine and how it often appears in academia and outline the development and purpose behind a new circulating zine collection at a large academic library. Key considerations for libraries developing similar collections will be provided. The main emphasis of this talk though\, will be on how zines can function as a valuable supplement to traditional\, academic scholarship. Zines contribute meaningful work that complements\, yet exists outside of\, traditional publishing avenues\, offering unique insights and showcasing scholarship that challenges conventional publishing models. Zines can elevate marginalized voices\, address controversial or complex issues\, and add a personal dimension to scholarly output. They can serve as easily accessible resources\, often written in plain language rather than academic jargon\, that spark interest in a topic and may even inspire students to pursue their own scholarly work outside traditional publishing realms. This is particularly significant because standard scholarly publishing can exclude diverse contributions due to Eurocentric\, historically imposed definitions of what constitutes “scholarly work.” The speaker will share several examples from their library’s zine collection that illustrate this role of the zine in scholarly research.\n\nSelf-Publishing as Resistance: The Role of Artist-Run Centres in Collecting Small Press Publishing\nSpeaker: Tess Davey\n\nArt Metropole is a non-profit artist-run centre with a 51-year history of exhibiting\, publishing\, collecting\, and distributing printed works by contemporary artists. Recently our organization has placed a growing emphasis on placing small-press and self-published titles in libraries and special collections. This endeavour expands on our founding incentive as an artist run-centre and collection agency devoted to the documentation\, archiving and distribution of all the images\, by emphasizing the power of cultivating library partnerships to increase the circulation of publications that are sourced directly from the artists who produce them. By distributing a large number of self-published and small press works\, Art Metropole has historically been a channel for marginalized groups to distribute works by and for their communities. Our ever-expanding inventory of zines\, artists’ books and multiples is a testimony to the relationship between artists’ publishing and underground networks of resistance and information sharing. A core tenet of our mandate is ensuring such works enter the historical record\, so establishing direct relationships with artists and librarians through our Library Services Program and inventory channels is a key emphasis of our organization.\n\nShake Those Assets! Using Special Events to Promote Your Hidden Collections\nSpeaker: Nicole O’Hara\n\nAcademic libraries’ institutional archives can be one of the most underutilized resources on campus. Tucked away in locked rooms and filled with cr... CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 7\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:b9cad7081da2c48567162e4e5f88ddd6 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/b9cad7081da2c48567162e4e5f88ddd6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T123000Z DTEND:20260506T133000Z SUMMARY:The Art of Library Administration: Pathways to Leadership DESCRIPTION:Art and design librarianship requires a balance of subject expertise\, knowledge of unique and distinct collections\, interdisciplinary research practices\, and creative problem-solving. Often these professionals work in specialized libraries where they employ a wide range of library-related knowledge and skills. All of these qualities make art librarians uniquely situated for library leadership roles beyond their disciplinary knowledge. Yet the transition from subject specialist to library administrator is not often discussed\, and the challenges and opportunities resulting from this progression remain underexplored. This panel brings together art librarians who now serve in administrative positions\, sharing how their experience in art librarianship has shaped their approach to library leadership.\nThis session focuses on pathways to library administration\, with the intention to demonstrate how art librarian expertise can translate effectively into a diverse range of administrative and leadership competencies. Panelists hold a variety of leadership positions\, some maintaining their core art librarian duties while others are entirely focused on administrative responsibilities. They represent academic and art and design school libraries located in the United States and Canada\, providing a diverse range of perspectives\, and will speak to the conference theme of resistance to the many challenges facing the profession.\n\nSome prompts and questions panelists may address include:\n-How would you describe your career trajectory and how has your background in art librarianship prepared you for your current role as a library administrator?\n-What professional and personal adjustments are necessary when moving from a subject specialist role to an administrative one\, and have you been able to retain connections to your work as an art librarian while taking on broader responsibilities?\n-Tapping into the spirit of resistance\, how do you resist the challenges faced by librarians in this age\, including but not limited to censorship\, government interference\, budget cuts\, and the reduction of staff and resources?\n-How can library administrators foster diversity\, equity\, inclusion\, and anti-racism in their libraries?\n-What advice do you have for art librarians who are interested in moving into administrative roles in an academic and/or art and design school setting and how can ARLIS/NA better support this career trajectory?\n\nBy centering the voices of art librarians who have successfully transitioned into administrative roles\, this panel seeks to demystify the path from subject specialist to library leader. It will provide practical advice\, inspiration\, and a space for honest reflection on the challenges and rewards of such career moves. After all\, leadership itself is an art—shaped by experience\, creativity\, and a commitment to both people and collections.\n\nThis panel is moderated by a member of the ARLIS/NA Management SIG. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 8\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:15cffa6934ecaffc73c9655687899548 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/15cffa6934ecaffc73c9655687899548 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T123000Z DTEND:20260506T133000Z SUMMARY:Weathering the Storm: Disaster Preparedness and Climate Resilience in GLAMs DESCRIPTION:This pre-coordinated panel\, organized by the Museum Library Division\, will feature speakers from galleries\, libraries\, archives\, and museums (GLAMs). Panelists will speak on experiences and preventive measures taken with various environmental crises\, including fires\, floods\, and tornadoes. Utilizing a case study approach\, panelists will draw on personal experiences with disasters and their impact on work practices. The theme of resistance will be explored in how staff prioritize collection care\, access policies\, and well-being during times of disasters in GLAM environments. Attendees will come away from this panel with resources on disaster preparedness to spark dialogue and action in the ARLIS/NA community.\n\nDocumenting Disaster: The Role of Technical Services and Archival Work in Times of Severe Weather\nSpeakers: Jenna Stout\, Rebecca Brown-Gregory\nThis paper will explore the intersection of technical services and archival work in documenting past disasters and historic building vulnerabilities while also preparing for future disasters. In the wake of ongoing environmental events\, including recent tornado activity\, and infrastructure deterioration\, it is more important than ever to have continuity of operations in place. Art museum library workers will speak on the significance of cataloging and making accessible past institutional reports on environmental risks. The paper will also dive into departmental efforts\, ranging from the creation of disaster kits to the flagging of priority collections for first responders\, and overall maintenance of institutional knowledge.\n\nThe Emotional Toll of Protecting Archival Memory in the Path of the Los Angeles Fires\nSpeaker: Lola Jalbert\nI began an internship with the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library (housed in USC Special Collections) last January as the Los Angeles fires broke out. Part of the collection is housed at USC and was untouched by the fires\, but other materials are stored in a house in the Pacific Palisades\, where the fires began. I am interested in drawing on my personal experience\, as well as the experiences of other involved parties\, to argue that emotional resilience is as much a part of disaster preparedness as bureaucracy and logistics.\n\n“A Plan\, and Not Quite Enough Time”: My Journey Through Disaster Planning\, Recovery\, and Management for Audiovisual Archives\nSpeaker: Linda Smith\nI have interned at two sites that experienced significant flooding and while almost no AV materials were significantly destroyed\, some changes to the space/storage were made (while other changes could or have not be made)\; students from my program were also involved in flood recovery to an AV archive and I have spoken with the archives director about those efforts and the aftermath of the flood\; I will be approaching this from a research/case study methodology\, utilizing interviews with those directly involved to emphasize the need for greater attention to this issue and how different care can look for AV materials/collections. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:a2fe54889dd4270b225fa70c9d5c900c URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/a2fe54889dd4270b225fa70c9d5c900c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T134500Z DTEND:20260506T144500Z SUMMARY:Cataloguing\, qu'est-ce que c'est aujourd'hui? Cataloguing Problems Roundtable Discussion DESCRIPTION:Catalogers\, catalog users\, and database builders in any type of library may encounter issues in the creation of metadata and how it is manifest in the catalog or discovery system. Existing metadata may need to be revised as names change\, new names are encountered\, language about topics evolves\, or to revise harmful terminology. Sharing metadata involves the use of standard rules and procedures and controlled vocabularies such as LCSH and the Getty Vocabularies. All of these matters are covered by documentation from such organizations as OCLC\, LC\, PCC\, ALA\, and Getty. Open discussion to share experiences or methods can be helpful as well as providing answers to specific problems. Small groups (or a group of the whole) will discuss particular areas of concern\, such as classification\, artists' books\, special collections materials\, exhibition catalogs\, authority control and entity management\, local information\, or tools for managing sets of records. All attendees would be able to introduce issues or offer solutions. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 8\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:314a62da1130fa13d30f60204a9aa2e1 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/314a62da1130fa13d30f60204a9aa2e1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T134500Z DTEND:20260506T144500Z SUMMARY:P'tite vite! Using libraries to connect (and connect the dots) (lightning talks) DESCRIPTION:Don't have a lot of time? Join us for some "p'tite vite" (lightning talks) covering a variety of topics in art librarianship.\n\nArtworks as Records: Healing Archival Absences in a Disability Arts Collection through Community Partnership\nSpeakers: Noa Ryan\, Maylyn Iglesias\, Kailee Faber\n\nThe Organization was a nonprofit active in the New York City area from the late 1960s through the 2010s that provided arts workshops and studio space and resources to people with severe mental illness and/or developmental disability with a history of institutionalization. From the 1970s-2010s\, the organization maintained what they referred to as an “archive” of artworks created by members in workshops hosted in mental healthcare institutions or as part of the studio program. The records are mostly artworks on paper created in a variety of mediums\, from painting to drawing to collage.\n\nIn our presentation\, we will provide a brief overview of the collection\, grant project\, and processing approach before centering our talk on the unique strengths and challenges associated with incorporating community voices in archival processing. We will discuss the research\, outreach\, and ethics components of working with materials from underrepresented artists in the disability arts community. We’ll also address the challenges related to tackling a large-scale grant project with limited resources. We will close by describing our future goals for building out this collection with oral histories\, activating the material with programming\, using the artworks as educational tools\, and engaging in further community collaboration.\n\nMapping Post-War Artistic Networks with Semantic Technologies\nSpeaker: Calista Donohoe\n\nArt librarianship often operates in spaces where information is fragmented\, siloed\, or restricted. In this context\, resistance can take the form of experimentation to create more open\, flexible\, and interconnected systems of information. This lightning talk will present the Roma/New York\, 1948–1964 pilot project\, an experimental initiative that demonstrates how knowledge graphs can model complex art historical narratives and serve as a mode of resistance within art librarianship.\n\nThis lightning talk will reflect on the process of developing the pilot\, from identifying entities in the Celant/Costantini text to modeling relationships with attention to time and place. It will also address challenges encountered in translating narrative accounts into structured data\, including issues of granularity\, ambiguity\, and alignment with other vocabularies.\n\nMost importantly\, this presentation will reflect on the broader implications of linked data as a cultural commitment to resistance through openness\, collaboration\, and connection. By resisting the fragmentation and privatization of information\, art librarians can use linked open data to reveal connections across collections\, geographies\, and histories. The Roma/New York pilot shows that even small-scale\, experimental initiatives can model a future where knowledge is more connected\, accessible\, and resilient.\n\nOvercoming Student Resistance through providing Reference Services through the Writing/Tutoring Center\nSpeaker: Martha Neth\n\nAcademic libraries need to reimagine reference services in response to shifting student needs and changing patterns of campus engagement. One promising model integrates reference support directly into the writing and tutoring center\, bringing research assistance to where students already seek academic help. This approach reduces barriers to library use\, embeds research skill development into existing support networks\, and creates a seamless pathway between tutoring\, writing support\, and research guidance. Students who resist traditional reference services can be reached more directly. And conversely\, students who resist tutoring services may be brought into the fold through reference work.\n\nThis lightning talk will share a case study of implementing reference services in a tutoring center environment\, highlighting how cross-trained tutors can address both research and writing challenges in a single interaction. Attendees will learn strategies for staff training\, workflow integration\, and marketing to students. I will explain how this approach fosters collaboration between librarians and tutoring staff\, creates more authentic research consultations\, and increases students’ confidence in navigating information resources.\n\nResisting Loss in the Performing Arts: Preserving At-Risk Media\nSpeaker: Olivia Buck\n\nThis lightning talk examines a digital preservation initiative launched in Spring 2025 at the Juilliard School to safeguard more than thirty years of archival performance recordings originally captured on VHS. In partnership with a digitization vendor\, the project preserves student and faculty performances alongside masterclasses led by internationally recognized artists. This project positions digital preservation methodologies as a mean... CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 7\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:5d5a528e545d9d7b8360ec9939b99168 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/5d5a528e545d9d7b8360ec9939b99168 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T134500Z DTEND:20260506T144500Z SUMMARY:Ⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙ̀ⲛⲭⲏⲙⲓ: north African language revival ↔ Indigenous Egyptian art as living archives DESCRIPTION:Collective memory institutions have functioned as gatekeepers of Remenkeemi (Indigenous Egyptian) cultures and knowledges stolen and retold through colonizing tales and mythologies. Colonial institutions including libraries\, archives\, universities\, and museums hold manuscripts and art in Metremenkeemi (language of the people of the Black Soil) written in several scripts (Hieroglyphic\, Hieretic\, Demotic\, Coptic). Categorizing our Indigenous language and cultures as ‘ancient’ history violently erases the Niremenkeemi's centuries long fight to survive through art\, oral histories\, and familial practices. Indigenous languages and sacred artifacts held within colonial institutions are undervalued\, severed\, categorized as dead historical artifacts\, and remain inaccessible for revitalization efforts.\n \n The language revival process we embarked upon is a land-based practice reconnecting colonized and displaced north Africans with the lands and ancestors that made them. We share how language revival through varied art practices is a form of archiving that preserves our language as both a cultural praxis and acts of living. Further\, our multigenerational engagement and outreach through language and art programming to build our living archive connects Niremenkeemi across generations strengthening our language revival process.\n \n This pre-coordinated session includes three Niremenkeemi (Egyptian people) language revival journeyers who carry and intersect the skills of archiving\, art-making\, and scholarship to explore art and visual literacy as a simultaneously archiving and reviving tool for ancestral languages and the teachings woven within. We explore Metremenkeemi’s expressions and archives through art and share the collective journey we have embarked upon through ancestral language lessons\, cultural revival\, and at this time\, art to propel us further into our language as a day-to-day praxis. Working against the dominance of gatekeeping and access\, this panel shares examples of the various artworks\, writings\, and alternative publications being created by Niremenkeemi through our language revival arts project.\n \n We also share the many ways colonial memory institutions gatekeep our ancestral scripts and sacred artifacts. Many are catalogued as ‘rare’ and remain imprisoned within inaccessible special collections. We reflect on the ways that digital platforms allow us to undo some of that gatekeeping. For example\, the Living Keemi website and online video meeting platforms enabled us to participate in language lessons across time zones. Recording/archiving lessons by our language keeper allow sharing our language with artists needed for our language revival process. Simultaneously\, we are navigating the precarity of digital preservation and planning around the colonizing tendencies of predatory technology. Our process requires an ethics of care as we introduce artists to the language\, engage in art making\, plan a hybrid art exhibit\, and decolonize approaches for archiving and sharing language revival art.\n \n Language revival is an indigenization process that resists erasure and initiates healing from colonial violence and trauma. Learning our ancestral language allows us to access our ancestral wisdoms and knowledges\, for language holds the nuances and analogies that make meaning out of the world around us. At its core Indigenous language revival as an archival process decenters colonialism and white supremacy and advocates for social justice while opening portals towards new world making and healing.\n \n About the moderator: \n Erika DeFreitas is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes performance\, photography\, video\, installation\, textiles\, drawing and writing. Placing emphasis on gesture\, process\, the body\, documentation and paranormal phenomena\, DeFreitas mines concepts of loss\, post-memory\, legacy and objecthood. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. DeFreitas holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:Montreal 6\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:2dbd1de0e15333f0038eea07655946be URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/2dbd1de0e15333f0038eea07655946be END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T144500Z DTEND:20260506T160000Z SUMMARY:Critical Librarianship Special Interest Group Meet & Greet DESCRIPTION:Join the Critical Librarianship (Crit Lib) SIG for an informal meet & greet at the Crew Collective & Cafe. Come buy a coffee or tea and chat with fellow SIG members. We will meet in the Hotel Bonaventure lobby at 10:45 am and walk over as a group. Crew Collective & Cafe (GC2R+W7 Montreal) is about a 10-15 minute walk from the conference hotel. CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Hotel lobby\, 900 Rue De la Gauchetière O\, Montréal\, QC H5A 1E4\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:238680eb8f9475a6d3fbb36a974f5df1 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/238680eb8f9475a6d3fbb36a974f5df1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T150000Z DTEND:20260506T160000Z SUMMARY:Annual Business Meeting DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the Executive Board and open to all ARLIS/NA members\, please join your colleagues at the ARLIS/NA Annual Membership and Business Meeting to show your support as the new members of the Executive Board take office. The meeting will feature updates on society activities\, remembrances\, a preview of the 2027 conference\, time for your questions\, and much more. \; Coffee\, tea\, muffins and donuts will be provided.\n#food CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Montreal 4-5\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:d4c255cbc63d6833d113d7b5812f7f05 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/d4c255cbc63d6833d113d7b5812f7f05 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T173000Z DTEND:20260506T193000Z SUMMARY:(SOLD OUT) Habitat 67 Tour Group 2 DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.Cost : $ 55Habitat '67 was designed by Moshe Safdie for the 1967 World Fair’s in Montreal and remains an iconic example of Brutalist prefabricated modular housing. This tour will discuss the origin and evolution of Habitat and explores some of the pedestrian streets and terraces\, as well as Moshe Safdie’s apartment. We will also have access to some archival materials from the Moshe Safdie Archive\, held at McGill University\, to learn about his original vision for Habitat ’67 while appreciating the landmark structure that was built..Transportation : ProvidedA bus will depart from the hotel with participants. Important Information:Tours will be offered in English\, and guides will be pleased to answer questions in French.$ All costs are in USD.#madeinquebec\n\n\n\nPerspective\, Habitat '67\, Moshe Safdie Archive\, John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection\, McGill Libraries CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:Habitat 67\, 2600 Ave Pierre-Dupuy\, Montreal\, Quebec H3C 3R6 SEQUENCE:0 UID:fb1c405ae92021b0bc94fb0d0539bba0 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/fb1c405ae92021b0bc94fb0d0539bba0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T173000Z DTEND:20260506T193000Z SUMMARY:(SOLD OUT) The McCord Stewart Museum DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.\n\nCost : $ 30\n\nMcCord Stewart Museum : Guided Tour of Montreal 1976: An Olympic Feat exhibition and visit to the Archives and Documentation Centre.\n\nTransportation : not provided. \nThe recommended transportation arrangements are to use public transit from the Hotel (Métro Bonaventure to Métro McGill). \;\n\nDestination address : McCord Stewart Museum\, \;690 Sherbrooke St W\, Montreal\, Quebec H3A 1E9\n\nImportant Information:\nTours will be offered in English\, and guides will be pleased to answer questions in French.\n$ All costs are in USD.\n\n#madeinquebec\n\n\n CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:5f1ccf9672601ecbba05caf979c76fdc URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/5f1ccf9672601ecbba05caf979c76fdc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T180000Z DTEND:20260506T200000Z SUMMARY:Black Montreal Experiences : Sainte-Catherine Street – Entertainment\, Performance\, and Contemporary Legacy Walking Tour Group 2 DESCRIPTION:We are happy to announce that tour registration is now open to non-conference participants!\nPlease note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.Cost : $ 35\nSainte-Catherine Street \;Tour – Entertainment\, Performance\, and \;Contemporary Legacy\nThis tour examines the evolution of Black cultural and social presence in downtown Montreal\, focusing on spaces of artistic expression\, entrepreneurship\, and public life. Participants will explore how Black communities contributed to Montreal’s cultural landscape through music\, art\, activism\, and public engagement. The tour connects historical movements to contemporary realities\, highlighting the continued influence of Black creators\, thinkers\, and community leaders in shaping the city’s identity today. \;\n\nRito Joseph is the founder and lead tour guide of Black Montreal Experiences\, where he brings Montreal’s Afro-descendant history to life through engaging and immersive storytelling. Blending culture\, history\, art\, and music\, he guides participants on a journey that uncovers the rich presence\, lasting contributions\, and demographic evolution of Black communities in the city. Transportation : not provided.Meeting point at the hotel lobby. \;Important Information:The tour will be offered in English\, however the facilitator also speaks French.$ All costs are in USD.#madeinquebec CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:c5c92ec38d04429e7642bb80dbb8046b URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/c5c92ec38d04429e7642bb80dbb8046b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T183000Z DTEND:20260506T200000Z SUMMARY:(SOLD OUT) Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.\n\nCost : $ 20\n\n\nJoin us for a tour at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)! Founded in 1979\, the CCA is an international research institution and museum premised on the belief that architecture is a public concern. Since its founding\, the CCA has produced exhibitions\, publications\, research programs\, and public events. We use our extensive collection of archives (both physical and digital)\, prints\, drawings\, photographs\, and library materials to explore new ideas and conversations around architecture today\, thinking about how architecture shapes—and might reshape—contemporary life.\n\n\nAlthough the CCA is based in Montréal\, we are international in our collecting scope and in our work\, sometimes partnering with institutions abroad to better explore global perspectives. Digital tools allow us to share our research and our collection with local and international audiences.\n\n\nThis tour will include an overview of the CCA’s mission\, a tour of current exhibitions\, a visit to our study room\, and a peek into the library’s vaults. Members of the CCA staff will be available to answer questions related to how we provide reference services\, our cataloguing policies\, and our approach to acquisitions.\n\n\nTransportation : transit pass provided.\n\nThe recommended transportation arrangements are to walk (25 minutes) or use public transit as a group from the Hotel (Métro Bonaventure to Métro George-Vanier). \; \n\n\nDestination addess \;: Canadian Centre for Architecture\, \;1920 Baile St\, Montreal\, Quebec H3H 1R4\n\n\nImportant Information:\n\nTours will be offered in English\, and guides will be pleased to answer questions in French.\n\n$ All costs are in USD.\n\n\n#madeinquebec\n\n\n\n\nPhoto credit : Tim Klähn CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)\, 1920 Baile St\, Montreal\, Quebec H3H 1R4 SEQUENCE:0 UID:f65a6b01964ff3e3e0b388bed7d7bb9a URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/f65a6b01964ff3e3e0b388bed7d7bb9a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T193000Z DTEND:20260506T210000Z SUMMARY:(SOLD OUT) Artexte (Contemporary Art Documentation Centre) Visit DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.\n\nCost : $ 20\n\n Join us for an engaging afternoon at two remarkable institutions : Artexte contemporary art documentation centre and VOX contemporary image centre.\n\nFounded in the 1980s by artists Angela Grauerholz and Anne Ramsden\, alongside art historian Francine Périnet\, Artexte has grown into one of Canada’s most distinctive art documentation centres. Its collection of over 38\,000 catalogued physical and digital documents — spanning exhibition catalogues\, artists’ books\, monographs\, periodicals\, and unconventional publications — consistently pushes the boundaries of what a document can be.\n\n\nBeyond its collection\, Artexte engages audiences through residency programmes\, exhibitions\, publications\, special events\, and tailored mediation activities including guided tours\, roundtables\, and lectures — all designed to activate the collection and renew it through fresh perspectives.\n\nDuring your visit\, librarian Léa Boisvert-Chénier and documentation technician Jonathan Lachance will offer an introduction to Artexte’s history and mandate\, accompanied by a curated selection of eclectic documents that blur the line between artwork\, book-object\, and publication. Time will also be set aside to explore the display created especially for the ARLIS/NA conference and to put your questions directly to the presenters.\n\n\nThe afternoon continues with a guided tour of the current exhibition at VOX. Founded in 1985\, VOX is dedicated to promoting image-based artistic practices from 1960 to the present\, with programming that invites critical dialogue around art and contemporary society. Those wishing to extend their visit are welcome to stay for the opening of Petits actes de résistance / Small Acts of Resistance.\n \n\nTransportation : transit pass provided.The recommended transportation arrangements are to walk (25 minutes) or use public transit as a group from the Hotel (Métro Bonaventure to Place D'armes). Destination addess \;: Artexte Information Centre\, 2 Rue Sainte-Catherine E #301\, Montreal\, Quebec H2X 1K4\nImportant Information:\nTours will be offered in English\, and guides will be pleased to answer questions in French.\n$ All costs are in USD.\n\n#madeinquebec\n\n\n\n CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:Artexte\, 2 St Catherine St E #301\, Montreal\, Quebec H2X 1K4 SEQUENCE:0 UID:3955d9d9d956820911a826328140b9e6 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/3955d9d9d956820911a826328140b9e6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260506T210000Z DTEND:20260506T230000Z SUMMARY:Vernissage : Petits actes de résistance / Small Acts of resistance DESCRIPTION:Join us on May 6th from 17h-19h for the launch of ARLIS/NA very own vitrine at Artexte: Petits actes de résistance / Small Acts of resistance. Artexte has gathered small artists’ publications from ARLIS members (present\, past and even future) or affiliates on the theme of resistance. This display of artworks from our own community will create a conversation amongst ourselves on the meaning of resistance\, especially in our current political climate\, as well as on its material interpretations through different mediums. It will also create a window for publics less familiar with our field to engage with the kinds of reflections that live with us as information professionals\, artists and humans. \n\nJoin us in a relaxed setting to celebrate our creative spirit and discover Artexte as a vital documentation centre for contemporary art among your peers. Bar service will be available.\n\nThis event is free and open to the public.\n\nTransportation : not provided.The recommended transportation arrangements are to walk (25 minutes) or use public transit as a group from the Hotel (Métro Bonaventure to Métro Saint-Laurent).Destination addess \;: Artexte Information Centre\, 2 Rue Sainte-Catherine E #301\, Montreal\, Quebec H2X 1K4#madeinquebec CATEGORIES:SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATION:Artexte\, 2 St Catherine St E #301\, Montreal\, Quebec H2X 1K4 SEQUENCE:0 UID:5d1bf9dd390dc137690d30bc42703a80 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/5d1bf9dd390dc137690d30bc42703a80 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260507T113000Z DTEND:20260508T000000Z SUMMARY:Québec City : The Story of Old Québec and French Canada DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: \;Meet your wrangler on May 7th at 7:00 am in Hotel Bonaventure lobby area (10th floor).  \;The \;bus \;will \;depart at 7:30 am. \;\n\nPlease note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. \;You must register using the tours registration link. \;\n\nCost : $ 150\n\nSchedule \;\n7:00 a.m.: Meet your wrangler\, Pierre B. Landry\, at the exterior hotel entrance \n7:30 a.m.: Departure from Hôtel Bonaventure\n 10:30 a.m.: Arrival in Québec City and free time (Lower Town and lunch on your own)\n 1:00 p.m.: Meet your guides at Place Royale for your tour (2 hours 30 minutes)\n 3:30 p.m.: End of the tour and second free period\n 4:30 p.m.: Return to the bus and departure for Montréal\n 7:30 p.m.: (Approximate) arrival in Montréal\n\nTransportation : Provided. \;\nA coach bus will depart from the hotel at 7:30am. Meet your wrangler at the \;exterior hotel entrance \;at 7:00am\n\nMeals : Not included.\nConsider bringing snacks for both bus journeys.\n\n\n--\n\nDescription\nUnrivaled DestinationQuébec City ’s historic district is Canada’s first permanent settlement founded by French cartographer Samuel de Champlain in 1608. It is also a unique North American Unesco World Heritage site.Witness of Atlantic World ColonizationShaped by the history of the Atlantic World\, Old Québec has witnessed major events from colonial period to modern days: settlements in the St. Lawrence Valley and Atlantic coast by Europeans\, Franco-British conflicts and their North American repercussions\, American and French Revolutions and arising Napoleonic Wars\, Canadian expansion to the Pacific in the wake of the American Civil War… Landmark of Continental HistoryOld Québec features hundreds of historical monuments\, a unique architecture as well as French and British institutions that have survived to this day. It’s the ideal heritage district to help history enthusiasts connect the dots of North America’s history\, from French and British colonial periods to present-day Canada and USA.ThemesYour guides are storytellers and introduce themes about the history\, architecture\, art\, culture… such as:Founding and colonization of Canada\; First Nations\, Truth and Reconciliation\; Colonial conflicts and British Conquest\; French Canada\, Louisiana and Acadia\; How the history of the USA shaped Canada\; Art of the Ursuline nuns\; St. Lawrence Seaway up to the Great Lakes\; Architecture of Old Québec\; Catholic Church in Québec\; French and British fortifications\; Politics and attempts to secede from Canada\; 1960s Quiet Revolution\;Religious practices and secularization of Québec society\; Private and public education system\; and more.\n\nImportant Information:The tour will be offered in English\, however the guide also speaks French.$ All costs are in USD. \n#madeinquebec\n\n\n CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:Hotel lobby\, 900 Rue De la Gauchetière O\, Montréal\, QC H5A 1E4\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:27af0d5c9a4c17a736f3c2dd90ac5a85 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/27af0d5c9a4c17a736f3c2dd90ac5a85 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260507T120000Z DTEND:20260507T230000Z SUMMARY:Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada & Library and Archives Canada Preservation Campus DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: \;Meet your wrangler on May 7th at 7:45 am in Hotel Bonaventure lobby \;area (10th floor).  \;The \;bus \;will \;depart at 8am. \;\n\nPlease note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.\n\nCost : $ 120\n\nThe visit to the National Gallery of Canada will start with an introduction to the collections of the library and archives\, with an emphasis on rare books\, artists’ books and multiples and the archival collections. Participants will then \;tour of the permanent collections and the exhibition Sylvia Safdie: Terra.\n\nThe tour of the Preservation Campus\, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) \;boasts vaults to protect archives from all hazards and laboratories enabling specialists to digitize documents and carry out restoration treatments. During the tour\, participants will have the chance to wander through the laboratories and learn how the specialists work everyday to preserve history. \;In the vaults\, they will discover works by Canadian artists.\n\n\nTentative schedule : \;\n8:00am : Departure from Hotel Bonaventure \;\n10:00am : Arrival at National Gallery \;\n12:00pm : Lunch on your own\n2:30pm : Library and Archives Canada Preservation Center\n4:30pm : Departure from Ottawa to return to Hotel Bonaventure\n6:30pm : (Approximate) Arrival at Hotel Bonaventure\n\nTransportation : Provided.\nA bus will depart from the hotel at 8:00am. \n\nMeals : Not included. \n\nImportant Information:\nThe tour will be offered in English\, however guides also speak French.\n$ All costs are in USD.\n\n\n\n CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:Hotel lobby\, 900 Rue De la Gauchetière O\, Montréal\, QC H5A 1E4\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:b9be44e502d3a7eee5240dc464db65bb URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/b9be44e502d3a7eee5240dc464db65bb END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260507T140000Z DTEND:20260507T160000Z SUMMARY:(SOLD OUT) Habitat 67 Tour Group 3 DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.Cost : $ 55Habitat '67 was designed by Moshe Safdie for the 1967 World Fair’s in Montreal and remains an iconic example of Brutalist prefabricated modular housing. This tour will discuss the origin and evolution of Habitat and explores some of the pedestrian streets and terraces\, as well as Moshe Safdie’s apartment. We will also have access to some archival materials from the Moshe Safdie Archive\, held at McGill University\, to learn about his original vision for Habitat ’67 while appreciating the landmark structure that was built..Transportation : ProvidedA bus will depart from the hotel with participants. Important Information:Tours will be offered in English\, and guides will be pleased to answer questions in French.$ All costs are in USD.#madeinquebec\n\n\n\nPerspective\, Habitat '67\, Moshe Safdie Archive\, John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection\, McGill Libraries CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:Habitat 67\, 2600 Ave Pierre-Dupuy\, Montreal\, Quebec H3C 3R6 SEQUENCE:0 UID:e49f8bc592e63a4d34a0385c1abc0b31 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/e49f8bc592e63a4d34a0385c1abc0b31 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260507T140000Z DTEND:20260507T153000Z SUMMARY:Resisting Speed: Building a Francophone Letterpress Workshop at UQAM Group 2 DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the \;tours registration link.Cost : $ 25Currently under development in the heart of UQAM's Central Library\, l'Atelier typographique is a Letterpress Workshop\, an emerging space dedicated to the preservation\, transmission\, and contemporary exploration of typographic and relief printing practices. The workshop is being built around an exceptional donation from the Musée de l’imprimerie du Québec\, which entrusted UQAM with the stewardship of its historic printing equipment after years without a permanent home.This working collection includes a cast-iron hand press\, cylinder presses\, platen presses\, and thousands of wood and metal typefaces\, ornaments\, and printing plates dating from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. Some of the equipment is currently undergoing restoration\, a process that is integral to the project’s pedagogical mission and to the responsible reactivation of these historic tools. Rather than functioning as a static display\, the workshop is conceived as an operational environment where historical materials are progressively brought back into use through teaching\, research\, and creative practice.Distinctively\, the UQAM Letterpress Workshop is a francophone typographic space—a rare presence in the North American academic landscape. It contributes to sustaining the history of French-language printing in North America while positioning the library as a site of cultural continuity and resistance.Aligned with UQAM’s broader initiative to transform libraries into spaces of experimentation and interdisciplinary dialogue\, the workshop already supports pedagogical projects in graphic design\, visual arts\, literature\, book history\, arts history and communication.In an era shaped by speed and dematerialization\, the slow\, manual processes of letterpress printing offer a form of resistance—inviting reflection\, embodied knowledge\, and renewed attention to the material conditions of language and culture.Transportation : transit pass provided.The recommended transportation arrangements are to use public transit as a group from the Hotel (Métro Bonaventure to Métro Berri-UQAM). It's possible to access the library directly from the metro level. Destination addess \;: UQAM Central Library\, 400 Rue Sainte-Catherine E\, Montréal\, QC H2L 2C5Important Information:The workshop will be offered in English\, however the facilitator also speaks French.$ All costs are in USD.#madeinquebecPhoto credit: Clémence Lesné CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:UQAM Bibliothèques\, Pavillon Hubert-Aquin (local A-M225)\, 400 Rue Sainte-Catherine E\, Montréal\, QC H2L 2C5 SEQUENCE:0 UID:82ee9c42a4f82a7a834329415c347a86 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/82ee9c42a4f82a7a834329415c347a86 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260507T173000Z DTEND:20260507T193000Z SUMMARY:Tour of BAnQ’s National Library (in Rosemont) Group 1 DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.\n\nCost : $ 15\n\nThe National Library (in the Rosemont neighbourhood) is the preservation centre for all materials published in Québec since 1764. It is part of BAnQ (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec \;\, loosely translated as the National Library and Archives of Québec\, the province’s largest cultural institution. The National Library notably houses specialized collections of artists' books\, posters\, and prints. This tour is an opportunity for you to learn more about BAnQ’s mission and visit the storage facilities where its most precious published materials are stored. You’ll also view a selection of heritage documents on the theme of “resistance\,” reflecting the commitment of Québec artists throughout different eras.\n\nTransportation : not provided. \;The recommended transportation arrangements are to coordinate a shared Uber or to allocate sufficient time for travel via public transit (which involves significant walking).\n\n Destination adress : \;Bibliothèque nationale (Rosemont)\, \;2275 Rue Holt\, Montréal\, QC H2G 2M2\n\nImportant Information:\nTours will be offered in English\, and guides will be pleased to answer questions in French.\n$ All costs are in USD.\n\n#madeinquebec\n\n\nPhoto credit: \;Mikael Theimer CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:BAnQ (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec)\, 2275 Rue Holt\, Montréal\, QC H2G 2M2 SEQUENCE:0 UID:2197950da1d9a6b6f883964f97d7df9d URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/2197950da1d9a6b6f883964f97d7df9d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260508T140000Z DTEND:20260508T160000Z SUMMARY:Tour of BAnQ’s National Library (in Rosemont) Group 2 DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.Cost : $ 15The National Library (in the Rosemont neighbourhood) is the preservation centre for all materials published in Québec since 1764. It is part of BAnQ (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec \, loosely translated as the National Library and Archives of Québec\, the province’s largest cultural institution. The National Library notably houses specialized collections of artists' books\, posters\, and prints. This tour is an opportunity for you to learn more about BAnQ’s mission and visit the storage facilities where its most precious published materials are stored. You’ll also view a selection of heritage documents on the theme of “resistance\,” reflecting the commitment of Québec artists throughout different eras.Transportation : not provided. \;The recommended transportation arrangements are to coordinate a shared Uber or to allocate sufficient time for travel via public transit (which involves significant walking).Destination adress \;: Bibliothèque nationale (Rosemont)\, 2275 Rue Holt\, Montréal\, QC H2G 2M2Important Information:Tours will be offered in English\, and guides will be pleased to answer questions in French.$ All costs are in USD.#madeinquebec\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: \;Mikael Theimer CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:BAnQ (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec)\, 2275 Rue Holt\, Montréal\, QC H2G 2M2 SEQUENCE:0 UID:cad7100804fca427e2bbe605257863d9 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/cad7100804fca427e2bbe605257863d9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260508T170000Z DTEND:20260508T190000Z SUMMARY:No Gloss Risography Studio Workshop 4 DESCRIPTION:Please note that adding a tour to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the tour. You must register using the tours registration link.Cost : $ 75Discover the fundamentals of Riso pritning through a creative Zine worshop at No Gloss Risography Studio! Participants will produce and original creation (Illustration\, collage etc.) on site and learn how to separate their work in 2 colours. All participants works will be grouped in a zine format that we will also print together. Throughout the workshop we will go over topics like transparencies\, overlays and file preparation. Each participant will leave with a copy of the zine.Transportation : not provided. \;The recommended transportation arrangements are to coordinate a shared Uber or to allocate sufficient time for travel via public transit (which involves significant walking).Destination address : \;5445 de ave Gaspé #609Once you are in the buidling\, chose the second set of elevators (see here).Important Information :The workshop will be offered in English\, however the facilitator also speaks French.All costs are in USD.#madeinquebe CATEGORIES:TOURS LOCATION:No Gloss Risography Studio\, 5445 Av. de Gaspé #609A\, Montréal\, QC H2T 3B2 SEQUENCE:0 UID:66365abf064f78a66d60a6f23d6712ea URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/66365abf064f78a66d60a6f23d6712ea END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260511T180000Z DTEND:20260511T190000Z SUMMARY:Canada Chapter Meeting DESCRIPTION:Annual business meeting of the ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter. CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:e3f8e415526fc58f5771552ecc1b5790 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/e3f8e415526fc58f5771552ecc1b5790 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260511T180000Z DTEND:20260511T190000Z SUMMARY:Research and Information Services Section Meeting DESCRIPTION:Please join us to meet and discuss current goals\, reflect on conference sessions\, and brainstorm for the future with the Research and Information Services Section. \nRISS is a community of practice comprising researchers and educators from cultural and arts institutions across North America. We are public facing information professionals working in academic libraries\, archives\, and museum communities. We shape creative and research practices by educating our community about the contemporary information landscape and guiding the development of the skills and habits of mind necessary for lifelong learning and critical thinking. We foster creative confidence and play a critical role in building communities that support and enrich the arts and humanities. CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:66ec7c964f26b710505add5a395e9356 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/66ec7c964f26b710505add5a395e9356 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260511T200000Z DTEND:20260511T210000Z SUMMARY:ARLIS/NA Central Plains Chapter Business Meeting DESCRIPTION:Join the ARLIS/NA Central Plains Chapter for the annual spring business meeting. Make connections with members and find out what's happening at art libraries in the region. CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:57ad9a1e5e2b8e17f5f1a0749c1ac61d URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/57ad9a1e5e2b8e17f5f1a0749c1ac61d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260512T130000Z DTEND:20260512T150000Z SUMMARY:Ohio Valley Chapter Spring 2026 Meeting DESCRIPTION:The ARLIS/NA Ohio Valley Chapter\, with members from Ohio\, Kentucky\, western Pennsylvania\, and West Virginia\, will hold their Spring 2026 meeting online. All are welcome\, including new and long-time chapter members\, library school students living or working in the area or considering the area\, and other ARLIS/NA chapter members interested. For more information on the chapter: https://ohiovalley.arlisna.hcommons.org/\n\n\nHello\,  \;the ARLIS/NA Ohio Valley Chapter is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.  \; Topic: ARLIS/NA Ohio Valley Chapter Spring 2026 meeting Time: May 12\, 2026 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)  \; Join from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, or mobile device: https://uky.zoom.us/j/85432544929?pwd=3NpiwpMwOwgG0a9ToRJKaio5wr8OAa.1  \;  \; Password: 367048  \;Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll):  \;16469313860\,85432544929#  \;or 13017158592\,85432544929#  \; Or Telephone:  \;  \; Dial:  \;  \; +1 646 931 3860 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 301 715 8592 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 305 224 1968 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 309 205 3325 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 312 626 6799 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 646 876 9923 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 507 473 4847 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 564 217 2000 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 669 444 9171 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 689 278 1000 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 719 359 4580 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 253 205 0468 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 253 215 8782 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 346 248 7799 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 360 209 5623 (US Toll)  \;  \; +1 386 347 5053 (US Toll)  \;  \; Meeting ID: 854 3254 4929  \;  \; International numbers available: https://uky.zoom.us/u/kbeSfgyNR CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:e27aeffacfd9578d88de5327216e3133 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/e27aeffacfd9578d88de5327216e3133 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260512T160000Z DTEND:20260512T170000Z SUMMARY:Museum Library Division Annual Business Meeting DESCRIPTION:Annual business meeting. CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:3b9071531caea85e51348a6d39c41e6a URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/3b9071531caea85e51348a6d39c41e6a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260512T180000Z DTEND:20260512T190000Z SUMMARY:ARLIS/NA Academic Division Business Meeting DESCRIPTION:Moderators: Stephanie Jacobs and Erin Dickey CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:cd43b6707dcd27841d2670006cb85697 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/cd43b6707dcd27841d2670006cb85697 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260513T150000Z DTEND:20260513T160000Z SUMMARY:Teaching SIG Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:Join the Teaching Special Interest Group to brainstorm about the year ahead! CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:ff70ccc27b546d191553d17132f54665 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/ff70ccc27b546d191553d17132f54665 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260513T180000Z DTEND:20260513T190000Z SUMMARY:Cataloging Section Annual Business Meeting DESCRIPTION:The annual business meeting of the ARLIS/NA Cataloging Section will take place on Monday\, May 18 at 2:00 PM EDT. A full agenda will be shared closer to the meeting\, but some topics will include:\n-An overview of the Section's activities over the last year\n-Planning for next year's activities\, including call for Vice-Moderator\, future lightning talks\, and Catablog posts\n-Communication channels including Commons\, Slack\, and Catablog\n\n CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:bc2eb112ff98d907c01234c627818eb4 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/bc2eb112ff98d907c01234c627818eb4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260514T190000Z DTEND:20260514T200000Z SUMMARY:Neurodiversity & Disabilities SIG Annual Business Meeting DESCRIPTION:Join the Neurodiversity & Disabilities SIG for our Annual Business Meeting. All ARLIS/NA members are welcome. We will discuss SIG activities from the past year\, as well as provide plenty of opportunities for feedback and brainstorming from members. \; CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:5f5b01a8859569e9971fcfb139df4256 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/5f5b01a8859569e9971fcfb139df4256 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260514T200000Z DTEND:20260514T210000Z SUMMARY:Retirement Special Interest Group Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:Coordinators Carol Terry and Sherman Clarke will host the annual business meeting and Spring Gathering of the Retirement SIG\, open to all members of the SIG as well as others contemplating retirement! CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:dd5e875128ebc788844114b2a5cb3500 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/dd5e875128ebc788844114b2a5cb3500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260515T140000Z DTEND:20260515T150000Z SUMMARY:Spring Chapter Business Meeting for ARLIS SC DESCRIPTION: \;Note: This meeting is 1pm-2pm PDT but will be posted in EDT! Join us for the ARLIS SC Spring Business Meeting! We will have time for a conference recap and chapter updates\, as well as spring/summer programming. CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:c27b5dcec693879d527602393317149a URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/c27b5dcec693879d527602393317149a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260515T180000Z DTEND:20260515T190000Z SUMMARY:Architecture & Planning Section Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:Annual meeting of the Architecture & Planning Section. CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:23c80c68644aecab5ac45f0ec3a2ebcf URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/23c80c68644aecab5ac45f0ec3a2ebcf END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260518T170000Z DTEND:20260518T180000Z SUMMARY:Cataloging Advisory Committee (CAC) Annual Business Meeting DESCRIPTION:Join the ARLIS Cataloging Advisory Committee for our annual business meeting. We will report on our activities and discuss potential projects.\n\n---\nMeeting ID: 299 351 7145 Passcode: &zzW8*VMow \nOne tap mobile +16699009128\, 2993517145#\, *9293002611# US (San Jose) +16694449171\, 2993517145#\, *9293002611# US CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:b50b007f01b9cf1355a29634b08de6c3 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/b50b007f01b9cf1355a29634b08de6c3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260518T180000Z DTEND:20260518T190000Z SUMMARY:Special Collections & Archives SIG Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:In this informal meeting\, the SIG will discuss topics for future programming and initiatives. CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:969cd05f46a4fd3a85176462e51636dc URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/969cd05f46a4fd3a85176462e51636dc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260520T150000Z DTEND:20260520T160000Z SUMMARY:Book Arts SIG Annual Business Meeting: Résistance Redux DESCRIPTION:Unable to join us in Montréal or keen to relive the Résistance? Come to our annual business meeting to share Book Arts Highlights from the 54th Annual Conference in Montreal.\n\n---\nJoin via audio One tap mobile:  \;  \; US: +16692545252\,\,1601597379#\,\,\,\,*362636# or +16469641167\,\,1601597379#\,\,\,\,*362636# Or dial  \;  \; For higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location. US: +1 669 254 5252 or +1 646 964 1167 or +1 646 828 7666 or +1 415 449 4000 or +1 551 285 1373 or +1 669 216 1590 Meeting ID:  \;  \; 160 159 7379 Passcode:  \;  \; 362636 CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:9c36f4bfb9df38ab000f677a7bddb852 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/9c36f4bfb9df38ab000f677a7bddb852 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260521T190000Z DTEND:20260521T200000Z SUMMARY:Texas-Mexico Chapter Spring Business Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Spring Annual Business Meeting for the ARLIS/NA Texas-Mexico Chapter. CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:2053f3f67edd8dbdb973fb08e8904a02 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/2053f3f67edd8dbdb973fb08e8904a02 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260526T170000Z DTEND:20260526T180000Z SUMMARY:ARLIS LGBTQIA2S+ SIG Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:Moderator: Elias Larralde CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:9ae5e150b95ca05f2ef18a6895a3e7dc URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/9ae5e150b95ca05f2ef18a6895a3e7dc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260526T190000Z DTEND:20260526T200000Z SUMMARY:Graphic Novels\, Comics\, and Zines SIG Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:Updates from the SIG on Notable Graphic Novels Review. Lightning Rounds from members. \;\n\nPresenter: Cassy Lee\, Comics Artist and City College of San Francisco Librarian\nTitle: Zines as Graphic Medicine for Librarians\nDescription: Cassy Lee\, comics artist and librarian\, created a mini-zine template for librarians to reflect on their own wellness using visual storytelling as a tool for self care and healing. In this lightning session\, learn about how Cassy has been facilitating zine workshops for librarians as a graphic medicine practice. Participants will receive a digital copy of the zine template to print out. Short Q&A.\n\n\n\nPresenter: Richard Minsky\, Artist\, publisher\, Founder of the Center for Book Arts\nTitle: Preserving and Cataloging The Barbara Slate Archive\n\nDescription: Barbara Slate's Archive is now at Washington University Libraries' Dowd Illustration Research Archive. Richard will go through the Catalog and talk about the process of making the catalog\, its distribution\, and delivering the archive to Washington University. Short Q&A. CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:eaffb65fe32c2e121507a1b6780e40e8 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/eaffb65fe32c2e121507a1b6780e40e8 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260516T014640Z DTSTART:20260529T180000Z DTEND:20260529T190000Z SUMMARY:ARLIS/NA Documentation Committee Annual Business Meeting DESCRIPTION:Join the Documentation Committee to learn about our charge\, recent accomplishments\, and plans for the upcoming governance year. For more information\, check out our page on the ARLIS/NA Website at https://www.arlisna.org/documentation-committee and our collection of oral histories and reports on Knowledge Commons at https://arlisna.hcommons.org/groups/documentation-committee/.\n\n CATEGORIES:CONSTITUENCY MEETING LOCATION:Virtual\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada SEQUENCE:0 UID:5643103c62a6e19474f0c68f6b536470 URL:http://54thannualconference2026.sched.com/event/5643103c62a6e19474f0c68f6b536470 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR