STEM Librarians Collaborative 2024 Meeting

November 20-22, 2024

The 2024 STEM Librarians Collaborative meeting will be held on Zoom. A small registration fee will help us with Zoom costs and other operational fees.

Please view our Code of Conduct here.

View the full schedule, including abstracts, here.

Schedule At A Glance

Session formats:

• Lightning talks (~5 minutes)
• Short Presentations (~15 minutes)
• 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
• Interactive Learning Sessions (~15-30 minutes)

All times listed are in USA Eastern Time. The program will go from 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT. 🕰️

Wednesday, November 20

• 11:00 Keynote – Integrating Social Justice Content into Your STEM LibGuides: 5 Simple Inclusive Additions
• 11:45 Break
• 12:00 Lunch - Birds of a Feather
• 12:45 Break
• 1:00 Lightning Talks
  • Up, Up, and Away! Soaring to New Heights With Graphic Medicine
  • AI Showdown: Comparing Scopus AI with Consensus and Other AI-powered Research Tools
  • Quick Methods For Understanding Information Use by STEM Professionals
  • Pop-Up Perspectives: STEM Student Reflections on Skill Development & Support
  • The Relentless Consolidation of Science Libraries at ARL Institutions
  • “Should I Be Doing This?”: Student Perceptions of GenAI and Faculty-Librarian Collaboration on GenAI Literacy
• 1:45 Break
• 2:00 Short Talk – ‘I need to make a map - can you help me?’: Starting Geospatial Literacy at the Beginning and Reaching Learners Across Diverse Subject Areas with Online and Open Instructional Videos
• 2:20 Short Talk – Empowering Emerging Engineers through Alumni Connections
• 2:40 I Have a Problem – Where Do Engineering Students Fit in Conducting Evidence Synthesis in Master’s Colleges and Universities?
• 3:00 announcements and (optional) virtual social activities

Thursday, November 21

• 11:00 I Have a Problem –
  • I Have A Problem: I’m Mid-Career
  • Our White Whale is a Goldfish
  • Supporting Scientist Biography Assignments in the Enshittoscene
• 11:40 Storytelling the Profession
  • Experiences of a Neurodivergent Librarian in Academia: My Challenges, Solutions, and Story
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer (It was a great big lit search)
  • To Teach or To … Also Teach: One Chemist's Journey in Librarianship
• 12:00 Lunch - Birds of a Feather
• 12:45 Break
• 1:00 Storytelling the Profession
  • I am the Digital Transformation of STEM Librarianship!
  • My Journey from an Academic to an Academic Librarian
• 1:20 Short Talks
  • Forging a Path in the Research Wild: Tips from a Year’s Practice
  • Fostering Research Integrity: A Collaborative RCR Workshop Series
• 2:00 Break
• 2:15 Short Talks
  • Perceptions, Opinions, & Actions: The Effects of Generative AI on Authors’ Desire to Open up Their Science
  • Primary Source Savvy: Evaluating Student Resource Use in STEM
  • Development of a Misinformation Instructional Toolkit
• 3:15 Announcements and virtual social activities

Friday, November 22

• 11:00 Keynote – AI-Driven Engagement: Connecting Libraries, AI Literacy, and Faculty in STEM Education
• 11:45 Break
• 12:00 Lunch - Birds of a Feather
• 12:45 Break
• 1:00 Short Talks
  • Interdisciplinary Evidence Synthesis: Lessons Learned From Diverse Audiences
  • The Deductive Duo Exhibit: STEMulating Minds with Sherlock Holmes and AI
  • Integrating Art Into STEM Programming in the Library: An Overview of a Training Webinar
• 1:45 Break
• 2:00 Short Talks
  • Speed Topic Dating – Helping Students Nail Down Their Research Topics
  • Other Duties as Assigned: Balancing Subject and Functional Skills at a Small STEM-focused Academic Library
• 2:40 Interactive Learning Session: Enhancing Digital Accessibility: Effective Strategies for Writing Alternative Text, Link Text, and Headings
• 3:00 Announcements and virtual social activities

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
• Nancy Shore, Co-Chair (incoming)
• Kayleigh Bohémier, Co-Chair (outgoing)
• Karalyn Ostler
• Krista Schmidt
• Margot Hanson
• Natercia Valle
• Laura Palumbo
• Jenny Hart
• Erin Carrillo

Sponsors

Please contact us if you would like to sponsor the 2024 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!

• ACS
• IET
• Project Euclid
• SPIE
• AMS
• SIAM
• IEEE
• AAAS

In addition, we are pleased to announce this year that we are working with RDAP as our fiscal sponsor again.

Contacting Us

Please email us at proposals@stemlib.co with any questions.

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.