Storytelling the Profession (~7-10 minutes) - Firsthand accounts of someone's experience as a STEM library professional, told without slides
I Have a Problem (10-15 minutes) - Questions, problems, or scenarios related to STEM librarianship (not personnel problems) that will be discussed by attendees and presenters ... live
I Have a Solution (~15-30 minutes) - Workplace "life hacks" and creative solutions to issues in STEM librarianship, followed by a discussion with attendees
All times listed are in USA Eastern Time. The program will go from 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT. 🕰️
Wednesday, November 19
11:00 Welcome and Announcements
11:10 Keynote – Data Rescuers: Organizing a Collaborative Hackathon to Save At-Risk Public Data
12:10 Break
12:25 Lightning Talks
Applying Active Learning Strategies to the Teaching of Intellectual Property to Undergraduate Students
GIS: Not Just for Geologists!
Periodic Tables and Permissions: Copyright Education for Chemistry Students
12:45 Sponsor Talks
1:05 Break
1:20 Lightning Talks
Still in the Stacks: Weeding Print Journals in the Digital Age
Call Me Re-Identified
A New Liaison Model: Expanding Roles, Enhanced Collaborations, and Exciting Opportunities for STEM Librarians
Melting the ice: Making Love Data Week an interdepartmental collaboration
1:50 Storytelling the Profession
"I Heard You Know About AI," or: How I Semi-Accidentally Became an AI Literacy Resource
2:05 Birds of a Feather Discussions
2:35 Short Talks
Hallucinated, fabricated, or confabulated: A work-in-progress presentation of a hallucinated citations scoping review
Leveling the Lab: How Academic Libraries Can Use VR Circulation for STEM Equity
3:15 Break
3:30 Storytelling the Profession
Oh no! The Sky is the Limit?!: Figuring Out the Open Science Librarian Role
3:45 Announcements
Thursday, November 20
11:00 Welcome and Announcements
11:10 I Have a Problem / Solution
More money more problems: A science librarian stumbling through collection development
Unplugging to Reconnect: Tackling Technostress with Analog Productivity in STEM Libraries
11:40 Storytelling the Profession
Out of My Field, In My Lane: Reflections on Mentoring Undergraduate Research as a First-Year STEM Librarian
Bridging the Gap: A STEM Librarian’s Journey from an Academic Library to High School and Back
12:00 Break
12:15 Storytelling the Profession
Research Support Through Institutional Storytelling: A STEM Liaison's Centennial Collaboration
Oh No, There Goes the Library – Go Go PTRC!
12:45 Birds of a Feather Discussions
1:35 Break
1:55 Short Talks
Bridging Research and Communication: Librarian-Led Instruction in Research Poster Design
Expanding Student Engagement through a Joint Science Library and Museum Collaboration
Designing for transfer students: Rethinking literature assignments in generalist STEM courses
2:55 Break
3:10 Sponsor Talks
3:30 I Have a Problem / Solution
Research Partner or Shortcut? Exploring the Role of Google NotebookLM in Library Instruction
CiteSource: An RShiny Life Hack for Evidence-Based Database Selection
4:00 Announcements
Friday, November 21
11:00 Welcome and Announcements
11:10 Keynote – Stranger Than Fiction: The Costs and Dangers of Generative AI
12:10 Break
12:25 Short Talks
Understanding Faculty Participation in Transformative Publishing: Lessons from a Public University
A Sustainability Shelf for climate justice and the SDGs
All Together Different in STEM Graphic Novels: Sequential Art in STEM
1:25 Break
1:45 Sponsor Talks
2:15 Birds of a Feather Discussions
3:00 Break
3:15 Storytelling the Profession
From researcher to STEM librarian: attempting to navigate a career switch
3:30 End of Conference
Meeting participants will have every opportunity to be fully engaged and both presenters and attendees will have equal opportunities to contribute to the conference. This means that we will do everything we can to make our conference accessible to all.
Committee Members
Planning Committee
Elisabeth White, Co-Chair (outgoing)
Nancy Shore, Co-Chair
Karalyn Ostler, Co-Chair (incoming)
Kayleigh Bohémier
Krista Schmidt
Margot Hanson
Natercia Valle
Laura Palumbo
Jenny Hart
Erin Carrillo
Mei Ling Lo
Sponsors
Please contact us if you would like to sponsor the 2025 conference. We are still soliciting sponsors to cover accessibility costs and keynote honoraria. Thank you so much to those who have sponsored us so far!
AAAS
ACS
AMS
IEEE
IET
IOPP
Project Euclid
SPIE
In addition, we are pleased to announce this year that we are working with EveryLibrary Institute as our fiscal sponsor.
Thank you to the STEM librarians community for all of your support! Please contact us at planning@stemlib.co if you would like to be added to our Discord server, our professional development hub.
If you have accessibility needs, please let us know.
