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Please see the daily program material for early planning purposes only. Details will be added as they become available and broad stroke program items are subject to change.

Full Schedule

  • Saturday, June 7, 2025
  • 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
    Off-Site Event | Students & New Information Professionals (SNIPs) Community Get Together
  • 12:00 PM – 7:30 PM ET
    Registration + Badge Pickup Desk Open
  • 12:30 PM – 4:00 PM ET
    Industry Session | S&P Global
  • 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM ET
    Industry Session | OCLC
  • 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET
    Industry Session | TDNet
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM ET
    Community Event | Engineering Community Business Meeting and Award Ceremony | Engineering Community
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM ET
    Community Event | Fellows and First-Timers | SLA Fellows Community
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM ET
    Community Event | Taxonomy Community Open Meeting | Taxonomy Community
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM ET
    Community Events | Competitive Intelligence Community Annual Board Meeting | Competitive Intelligence Community
  • 3:00 PM – 7:30 PM ET
    Exhibits Open
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM ET
    Open SLA Board Meeting
  • 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM ET
    SLA Welcome Reception
  • 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM ET
    Off-Site Event | No Host Taxonomy Community Dinner
  • Sunday, June 8, 2025
  • 7:30 AM – 8:45 AM ET
    Continental Breakfast
  • 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM ET
    Registration Desk Open - Badge Pickup + Customer Service
  • 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM ET
    Welcome + Opening Keynote Address
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    Configuring the 4Sets in the Era of GenAI
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    Sci-Tech 101: What We Learned at a Hackathon
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    SLA Chemistry Academic/Corporate Roundtable
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    The Evolution of Use Cases for Generative AI in Answering Legal/BCI Research Questions: Innovations and Improvements Since Our Last Meeting
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    Unlocking Insights: A Roundtable Discussion on Empowering Competitive Intelligence
  • 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM ET
    Lunch and Lunchtime Activities
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    Poster Presentations
  • 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    Lunch & Learn with Clarivate
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM ET
    Creative Transformation through Leadership and Management in Special Libraries of Asia
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM ET
    Mathematics Roundtable
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM ET
    Rizzing Up Your Communication Strategies: Advancing Communication Methods for the Modern Day
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM ET
    Transforming Digital Collection Stewardship with AI-enabled Solutions
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM ET
    Why It's Great to Be a Special Librarian
  • 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM ET
    PM Break
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    Effective Prompt Engineering Strategies for Market Research
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    Empowering Physics Research: Data Strategies for Science Librarians
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    From Archaic to AI: Content Migration and GenAI Assistant Development for a Sharepoint Library of Market Research
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    Lightning Presentations
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    Using the NEW Economic Census: A Workshop for Industry and Geographic Understanding
  • 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM ET
    Community Event | Asian Community Awards and Honors | Asian Community
  • 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET
    Dinner at Dining Hall (optional)
  • 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET
    Off-Site Event | SLA Competitive Intelligence Community (CIC) Happy Hour | Competitive Intelligence Community
  • 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET
    Off-Site Event | SLA Fellows Dinner
  • 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM ET
    Off-Site Event | Allegheny Observatory Private Tour | Engineering Community
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM ET
    Off-Site Event | Pittsburgh: East Coast Meets Midwest Social Event | East Coast and Midwest Communities
  • 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM ET
    Off-Site Event | Academic and Education Community Meet and Greet! | Academic and Education Community
  • 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM ET
    Off-Site Event | Military Libraries Community Dutch Treat Dinner | Military Libraries Community
  • Monday, June 9, 2025
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM ET
    Community Event | MLC Business Meeting | Military Libraries Community
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM ET
    Community Event | Transportation Community Business Meeting | Transportation Community
  • 7:30 AM – 8:45 AM ET
    Continental Breakfast
  • 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM ET
    Registration Desk Open - Badge Pickup + Customer Service
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
    Before leveraging AI, it's best to ensure your house is clean...
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
    Creative Transformations of Unique Positions: The Chronicles of Two Solo Librarians
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
    Expanding Horizons and Career Transformations
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
    Unlocking Institutional Knowledge: Leveraging Institutional Repositories to Bridge Past Knowledge to Present Application
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM ET
    Budgeting 101
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM ET
    Celebrating Lubuto@20: Celebrating Impact and Sustaining SLA Community Going Forward
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM ET
    Empowering Legal Research with Business Insights
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM ET
    Intro to Patents for Librarians and other Information Pros with a focus on Chemistry
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM ET
    PAM Astronomy Roundtable: “When do we stop listening?” (and other astronomical conundrums/challenges)
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM ET
    Standards Update 2025: Setting a New Standard!
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    AI Meets Copyright: Challenges and Opportunities for Information Professionals
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    Bias in Taxonomy Design and Application: Sources, Solutions, and Implications for AI Tools and Algorithms
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    From Concept to Reality: Implementing Generative AI in a Technical Library
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    Redefining Librarianship: Leveraging Library Skills for Innovative Roles
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    Social media listening for insights into niche markets
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    The Role of Data Science in Information Services in Asia
  • 12:00 PM – 1:45 PM ET
    Lunch and Lunchtime Activities
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
    AI Solutions - Roundtables
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
    SLA Awards
  • 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM ET
    PM Break
  • 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    AI and Intellectual Freedom in libraries
  • 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    Connecting research to real world priorities: an exploration of altmetrics, Overton Index and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    From Collection Development to Collective Action: Librarians Have the Right Skills to Make a Difference
  • 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    Navigating the World of Company Identifiers in Financial Databases
  • 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    Open science among researchers and institutions: Indian Vs US perspectives
  • 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    Update Needed - Incorporate AI in Your Information Literacy Sessions
  • 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM ET
    Community Event | SLA Fellows Business Meeting | SLA Fellow Community
  • 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET
    Dinner at Dining Hall (optional | $20 per person)
  • 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET
    Off-Site Event | Western States No-Host Dinner
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM ET
    SLA Annual Dance Party (all attendees invited)
  • Tuesday, June 10, 2025
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM ET
    Community Event | Community Administrator Meetup | Admin Community
  • 7:30 AM – 8:45 AM ET
    Continental Breakfast
  • 7:30 AM – 11:00 AM ET
    Registration Desk Open - Badge Pickup + Customer Service
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET
    Leading the Way: Leadership, Marketing, and Student Engagement in the SJSU iSchool SLA Student Chapter
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET
    PAM Industry Partners Roundtable: Publishers and the Evolving Scholarly Record
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET
    Patent Visualizations and Landscapes - Processes and Training
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET
    Supercharge Your Library Content and Services with AI: Practical Strategies for Innovation and Transformation in a Changing World
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET
    V(AI)LL in Action: Designing Your Own AI Workshop Series
  • 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM ET
    Keynote Address + Closing
  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    Lunch Boxes | Grab + Go
  • Wednesday, June 11, 2025
  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
    Off-Site Event | USAWC/USAHEC Tour