Full Schedule

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CDT

Family Care Room

Location: McCormick Place, W 473

6:00 AM - 11:00 PM CDT

OCLC Meeting Room 1

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Michigan

6:00 AM - 11:00 PM CDT

OCLC Meeting Room 2

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Ontario

6:00 AM - 11:55 PM CDT

OCLC Meeting Room 3

Location: Marriott Marquis, Physics Boardroom

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CDT

Community of Care Quiet Room

Location: McCormick Place, W 474

7:00 AM - 8:00 PM CDT

First Aid

Location: McCormick Place, Level 1 Near Shuttle Pick Up

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM CDT

Spectrum Leadership Institute: Breakfast

Location: Palmer House, Adams Room

7:30 AM - 4:00 PM CDT

Academic and Research Libraries Tour: Creating Contemporary Spaces in Historic Libraries (TICKETED)

Location: Off Site, Off Site

7:30 AM - 6:30 PM CDT

Meeting of the Committee on Accreditation

Location: Off Site, ALA Training Room - 225 N Michigan Ave

7:30 AM - 7:00 PM CDT

Registration

Location: McCormick Place, Grand Concourse

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT

The HistoryMakers Breakfast

Location: Off Site, The HistoryMakers, 1900 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Annual Board Meeting

Location: Marriott Marquis, Geography

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

Thinking Money for Kids Librarian Summer Camp (FREE TICKETED)

Location: Marriott Marquis, Great Lakes A

Moderator: – American Library Association

Presenter:

Presenter: – Perry County District Library

Presenter: – Coos Bay Public Library

Presenter: – Ferguson Municipal Public Library

Presenter: – Henderson Memorial Public Library

8:00 AM - 12:30 PM CDT

One Mission, Many Voices: Libraries Collaborating for Inclusion - IRRT Preconference (TICKETED)

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Adler ABC

Presenter: – State Library of Oregon

Presenter: – Chemeketa Community College

Presenter:

Presenter: – National Library Board of Singapore

Presenter: – Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY)

Presenter:

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CDT

Assembling Your Consultant Tool Kit: What you Need to Know to Become a Successful (TICKETED)

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, DuSable AB

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CDT

Capital Improvements Project Management for Libraries: The Tools you Need to Build a Better Library Space (TICKETED)

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Clark AB

Presenter: – Early Rain, LLC

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CDT

Introduction to Digital Preservation (TICKETED)

Location: Marriott Marquis, Great Lakes F

Presenter: – University of Southern Mississippi

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CDT

Practice Cataloging Using Official RDA (TICKETED)

Location: Marriott Marquis, Great Lakes B

Moderator: – University of California, Berkeley

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CDT

Public Library Tour (TICKETED)

Location: Off Site, Off Site

Presenter:

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CDT

USBBY Board Meeting

Location: Marriott Marquis, Science

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM CDT

ALA-APA Executive Board Meeting

Location: Marriott Marquis, Water Tower

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM CDT

CJCLS Presents: Reimagining Academic Support: Integrating Tutoring and Libraries in the Learning Commons Model (ACRL CJCLS)

Location: McCormick Place, W 184 D

Presenter: – Washtenaw Community College

Presenter: – Fayetteville Technical Community College

Presenter: – Porterville College

Presenter: – McLennan Community College

Moderator: – Washtenaw Community College

8:30 AM - 12:30 PM CDT

Is AI Really Gonna Take My Job?: The Impact of AI on the Work Occurring in Public Libraries (TICKETED)

Location: Marriott Marquis, Great Lakes C

Presenter: – Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - SIS

Presenter: – Deputy Director, The New York Public Library

Presenter: – OverDrive, Inc.

Presenter: – Sourcebooks

Presenter: – Denver Public Library

Presenter: – The Seattle Public Library

Moderator:

Presenter: – Chicago Public Library

Presenter: – University of North Carolina - SLIS

8:30 AM - 4:00 PM CDT

Latest and greatest - Merchandise Mart and Fulton Market Tours (TICKETED)

Location: Off Site, Off Site

8:45 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

ALA Executive Board Meeting I

Location: Marriott Marquis, Water Tower

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT

ACRL Access Services Interest Group: Begin Again: Revising the Framework for Access Services Librarianship

Location: Hilton Chicago, Boulevard AB

Moderator: – Virginia Commonwealth University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT

Built to last: How foundational skills power today’s public libraries

Location: McCormick Place, W 192 B

Speaker: – OCLC

Presenter: – OCLC

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT

Spectrum Leadership Institute: Session A

Location: Palmer House, Adams Room

9:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT

Print Archive Network (PAN

Location: Hilton Chicago, Continental A

Moderator: – University of Maine

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

Embedding Anti-Racism Practices into Program Innovations (TICKETED)

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Grant Park AB

Presenter: – Margaret Sullivan Studio

Presenter: – Placer.ai

Presenter: – MacArthur Foundation

Presenter: – World Business Chicago

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

Free Pre-Conference Session with STAR Net! Join the Science Across America Campaign

Location: McCormick Place, W 190 A

Speaker: – Space Science Institute

Moderator: – Space Science Institute

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

I'm a Teen Librarian Needing to Provide Outreach, and I Don't Know Where to Start (TICKETED)

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Regency Ballroom C

Presenter: – Boston Public Library

Moderator: – Boston Public Library

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

Jump into Reading: How Public Libraries Can Support Children Learning to Read (TICKETED)

Location: Marriott Marquis, Great Lakes E

Presenter: – Chicago Public Library

Presenter: – National Center on Improving Literacy

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM CDT

Chapter Leaders Forum (TICKETED)

Location: Marriott Marquis, 33rd Floor

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM CDT

Preservation in Action (TICKETED)

Location: Off Site, Off Site

9:00 AM - 3:30 PM CDT

Ebook Friday Meeting

Location: McCormick Place, W 190 B

9:30 AM - 3:00 PM CDT

Finding the Immigrant/Migrant Story: Resources for Genealogy and Local History (TICKETED)

Location: Off Site, Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State Street

Presenter: – Polish Genealogical Society of America

Presenter:

Presenter: – Vasa Order of America National Archives

Presenter: – FamilySearch International

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CDT

ISS School Tour (AASL) (TICKETED)

Location: Off Site, Off Site

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

American Indian Library Association Executive Board Retreat

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Boardroom 1

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

Executive Committee Meeting (ALSC)

Location: Marriott Marquis, Poetry

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM CDT

Accessible Book Building Workshop (TICKETED)

Location: Marriott Marquis, Culture

Presenter: – National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress

Presenter: – Libraries For All LLC

Presenter: – Libraries For All

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT

ACRL African American Studies Librarian Interest Group Forum

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Grant Park C

Moderator: – UNC Chapel Hill

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT

EMIERT Executive Board Meeting

Location: Marriott Marquis, Philosophy

Presenter: – EMIERT, ALA

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT

Spectrum Leadership Institute: Session B

Location: Palmer House, Monroe Room

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

OCLC Cataloging Community Meeting

Location: McCormick Place, W 184 D

Presenter: – OCLC

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

RTCA Meeting

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Jackson Park C

11:00 AM - 3:00 PM CDT

GNCRT Friday Forum: Community Building Through Comics

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Regency Ballroom A & B

Moderator: – Countway Library, Harvard Medical School

Speaker: – American Library Association

Speaker: – Graphic Novels

Speaker: – GNCRT

Speaker: – Scholastic Inc.

Moderator: – Vanderbilt University

Speaker: – Waterloo Public Library

Moderator: – Champaign Public Library

Moderator: – University at Albany

Speaker:

Speaker: – Mad Cave / Macmillan / S&S / PRH / Marvel / IDW

Speaker:

Speaker: – GNCRT

11:30 AM - 2:00 PM CDT

collectionHQ Customer Forum

Location: McCormick Place, W 193 A

Speaker: – collectionHQ

Moderator: – collectionHQ

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT

Spectrum Leadership Institute: Networking Lunch

Location: Palmer House, Adams Room

12:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT

Activating Leadership and Cultivating Your Team: Thinking Differently about Who You Are and What You Do in the Library (TICKETED)

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Field AB

Presenter: – Colorado State Library

Presenter:

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT

ALA E-Rate Task Force Meeting

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Huron

Moderator: – Ohio Public Library Information Network

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT

ALA Scholarships and Study Grants Committee

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Boardroom 1

Presenter: – Scholarships and Study Grants Committee

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT

Chapters Council Meeting (ACRL)

Location: Hilton Chicago, Continental A

Moderator: – William Paterson University of New Jersey

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT

Committee on Professional Ethics - COPE Meeting

Location: McCormick Place, W 182

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT

Fellowship of Christian Librarians (FOCLIS) Annual Meeting

Location: Marriott Marquis, Technology

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT

IRRT/IFLA/Core Panel Discussion

Location: McCormick Place, W 192 B

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT

Pokémon Club @ Your Library: Engaging Young Learners Through Play and Community (Pokemon)

Location: McCormick Place, W 185 D

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT

SHARES Roundtable .

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Ontario

Speaker: – OCLC

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT

ACRL Leadership Council and Membership Meeting

Location: Hilton Chicago, Williford A

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT

GNCRT & Booklist Comics Publishers Summit (TICKETED)

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Grant Park AB

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT

Publishing Committee Meeting

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Superior

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM CDT

Board of Directors I (AASL)

Location: Marriott Marquis, George Pullman

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT

Board Orientation (ALSC)

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Grant Park C

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT

Dive Deep into Discovery: Celebrating 25 Years of the Sibert Medal (TICKETED)

Location: Marriott Marquis, Daniel Burnham

Moderator: – MVLS

Presenter:

Moderator: – Oakland Public Library

Presenter: – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers and HarperCollins Publishers

Presenter: – Roaring Brook Press

Presenter: – Abrams

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT

Inclusive & Accessible Storytimes: Supporting All Children and Caregivers (TICKETED)

Location: Marriott Marquis, Great Lakes E

Presenter: – Mother Goose on the Loose, LLC

Presenter: – La La Librarian & Storytime Central

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM CDT

NMRT Conference Orientation

Location: McCormick Place, W 375 B Skyline

Presenter: – NMRT

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CDT

International Librarians Orientation

Location: McCormick Place, W 190 A

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CDT

Rainbow Round Table Executive Board Meeting

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Boardroom 2

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CDT

American Indian Library Association General Membership Meeting

Location: Hilton Chicago, Lake Michigan

Speaker: – University of Minnesota

Moderator: – University of Minnesota

Moderator: – American Indian Library Assocation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CDT

Committee on Legislation Meeting

Location: Marriott Marquis, Water Tower

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CDT

Digital Inclusion Working Group Meeting

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Erie

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CDT

Intellectual Freedom Committee IFC Meeting

Location: McCormick Place, W 475 a

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CDT

International Relations Committee Meeting I

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Jackson Park D

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CDT

Libraries as Dementia - Capable Hubs: Advancing Brain Health Through Design, Training, and Community Partnerships

Location: Marriott Marquis, Architecture

Presenter: – Alzheimer's Association

Presenter: – Pennsylvania Library Association

Presenter: – Alzheimer's Association

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CDT

Stories, Systems, and Selves: An Intersectional Lens on Librarianship

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Regency Ballroom C

Presenter: – EMIERT, ALA

Presenter:

Presenter: – Chicago Public Library

Presenter: – Queens College School of Information Studies

Presenter: – Islamic Library Association

Presenter:

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CDT

Professional Values Committee Forum (ACRL)

Location: Hilton Chicago, Conference Room 4A

Moderator: – University of Texas at Dallas

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CDT

Spectrum Leadership Institute: Session C

Location: Palmer House, Monroe Room

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT

ACRL Leadership Council Welcome Reception

Location: Hilton Chicago, Williford B

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT

GODORT 101: Getting to Know the Government Documents Round Table

Location: McCormick Place, W 192 B

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CDT

Opening General Session featuring Rachel Maddow

Location: McCormick Place, W 375 C D E Skyline

Speaker:

Sponsored By

5:30 PM - 5:55 PM CDT

AUTHOR SIGNING / Character Meet & Greet (6-foot-tall eagle) / RANGER BALDY AND THE DISAPPEARING WATERFALL - A YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE plus preview his new Sequoia NP book!

Location: Booth 2038

5:30 PM - 5:55 PM CDT

Author Signing, SIGN OF THE SANDMAN. BOOKLIST described as …all adventure, all the time. Middle-grade readers who enjoy fun alongside their fantasy will love this one.”

Location: Booth 2038

5:30 PM - 5:59 PM CDT

Author Signing, SIGN OF THE SANDMAN. BOOKLIST described as “…all adventure, all the time. Middle-grade readers who enjoy fun alongside their fantasy will love this one.”

Location: Booth 2038

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM CDT

Author Signing / Character Meet & Greet (6-foot-tall Eagle mascot) / RANGER BALDY AND THE DISAPPEARING WATERFALL - A YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE

Location: Booth 2038

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM CDT

Louise Borden: Thank You, School

Location: Booth 2912

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM CDT

Marcella Pixley: Neshama

Location: Booth 3012

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM CDT

Meg Anderson: The Memory of Borrowed Books

Location: Booth:3221

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM CDT

Rebecca Gardyn Levington : Finding Forgiveness

Location: Booth 2525

5:30 PM - 6:15 PM CDT

Lise Concolato: The Brave Fuzzy: A Microbiome Story

Location: Booth 2140

5:30 PM - 6:15 PM CDT

Nic Stone: Dasia Forever

Location: Booth 2612 Table 1

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CDT

June Jo Lee: Kimchi Taco Time

Location: Booth:3229C

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Library Marketplace Opening Reception

Location: McCormick Place, Exhibit Hall F

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Charles Pellicane: I Wish My Words Were Colors

Location: Booth 5147

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Collaborative Zine

Location: Zine Pavilion (Booth #2448)

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Dana Mashoian Walrath: The Book of Genocides

Location: Booth 3029

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

DC Vertigo Booth Giveaway

Location: Booth 2621

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Kadir Nelson: Basket Ball

Location: Booth 3612

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Kelly Foster Lundquist: Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage

Location: Booth 3030

5:45 PM - 6:30 PM CDT

Kristin Kobes Du Mez: Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made

Location: Booth 2925

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM CDT

Kari-Lynn Winters: Double-Up Day!

Location: Booth:3226E

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM CDT

Katie Weaver: Have You Ever Wondered?

Location: Booth:3221

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM CDT

Patricia Newman: Beatrice and the Nightingale

Location: Booth 2912

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM CDT

Raj Haldar: What Rhymes with Pterodactyl?

Location: Booth 2216

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM CDT

Valerie Bolling: The March for Hope

Location: Booth 3025

6:00 PM - 6:45 PM CDT

Tonnye Fletcher: Music Plants Hope (Book Signing)

Location: Booth 4431

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Alex Willan: MONSTERS ARE THE WORST

Location: Booth 3212

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Andrea Beaty: Billie Jean Peet, Athlete and What's That Color?

Location: Booth 3525

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give

Location: Booth 3812

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Carole Boston Weatherford and Bryan Collier: TROUBLED WATERS

Location: Booth 2529

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Charlie Donlea, BEHIND EVERY FACE

Location: Booth 2521

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Meg Cabot: The Princess Diaries: The Graphic Novel

Location: Booth 3812

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Sherri Duskey Rinker & AG Ford: Construction SIte: Firefight!

Location: Booth 3625

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Taraneh Matloob: An Invisible River to Cross

Location: Booth 3527

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Tim Seeley: Masters of the Universe/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles of Grayskull (book signing)

Location: Booth 1845

6:15 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Ananya Adya: The Brave Fuzzy: A Microbiome Story

Location: Booth 2140

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Author Signing / Character Meet & Greet (6-foot tall eagle mascot) / RANGER BALDY AND THE DISAPPEARING WATERFALL - A YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE

Location: Booth 2038

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

AUTHOR SIGNING / Character Meet & Greet (6-foot-tall eagle) / RANGER BALDY AND THE DISAPPEARING WATERFALL - A YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE plus preview his new Sequoia NP book!

Location: Booth 2038

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Jay Miletsky: Ricky the Rock That Couldn't Roll

Location: Booth:3221

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT

Rekha S. Rajan: THAT SWINGIN' SOUND

Location: Booth 3112

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM CDT

Joint Council of Librarians of Color (JCLC) Reception

Location: Off Site, The Obama Presidential Center

Moderator: – Joint Council of Librarians of Color (JCLC)

Speaker: – Joint Council of Librarians of Color (JCLC)

Moderator: – Joint Council of Librarians of Color (JCLC)

Moderator: – George Mason University

7:30 PM - 10:00 PM CDT

I Love My Librarian Award Ceremony

Location: McCormick Place, W 375 C D E Skyline