“Sustainability: Social Equity, Economics, and Environment”

Recordings

All recordings from the second day of the annual meeting are available at duke.box.com/v/2022TRLNannual.

Schedule & Program

Monday, July 11 at the Carolina Theatre

The Annual Meeting will kick off at 8:30 am with coffee and breakfast treats at the Carolina Theatre. Meet up with TRLN colleagues you may not have seen in person since 2019! We will wrap at 11:30am so you are free to grab lunch around Durham afterwards and join us for a tour of the Main Branch of the Durham Public Library at 1:00pm.

Type	Time	Description
Plenary	8:30 – 9:30am	Coffee & Breakfast
Plenary	9:30 – 11:30am	Welcoming Remarks Keynote: Keith Knight Woke episode screening
Break	11:30am – 1:00pm	Break
Tour Separate Registration Required	1:00 – 2:00pm	Tour of Durham Public Library’s Main Branch

Tuesday, July 12 via Zoom

Tuesday will be held entirely online and start with a keynote from Rebekkah Smith Aldrich followed by a selection of panels and presentations throughout the rest of the day.

Type	Time	Description
Plenary	9:30 – 10:45am	Welcoming Remarks Keynote: Rebekkah Smith Aldrich
Break	10:45 – 11:00am	Break
Concurrent Workshops Select one to attend	11:00am – 12:00pm	Exhibition Language Guidelines: A Working Document for Academic Library Exhibit Professionals Chris Tonelli (NC State); Margaret Brown (Duke); Linda Jacobson (UNC-CH); Rachel Reynolds (UNC-CH); Charles Samuels (NC State); Christopher Vitiello (NC State) Libraries’ exhibitions should be equitable, diverse, and inclusive, and the writing in them should contribute to this. Building on efforts in conscious editing and ethical description, colleagues from TRLN institutions collaborated to provide a guideline for writing with sensitivity and topical specificity about a variety of marginalized groups	You Are Welcome Here: Customer Service Training for Inclusion Jennifer Baker and Brooke Guthrie (Duke) This workshop, based on the Rubenstein Library’s internal customer service training for staff, will provide participants with the opportunity to think deeply about customer service as a concept and consider how they might rethink their own methodologies through a series of questions and real world scenarios.
Break	12:00 – 1:00pm	Break
Plenary	1:00 – 1:30pm	Lightning Talks Danielle Colbert-Lewis (NCCU) Virginia Ferris (NC State) Morgan McKeehan (UNC-CH) Colin Nickels (NC State) Brianna Nunez (UNC-CH)
Concurrent Sessions Select one to attend	1:35 – 2:00pm	The Indian Art Project: Improving Access to Materials on Indigenous Art of the Americas Denise Soufi and Sara Levinson (UNC-CH) The Indian Art Project was created to improve access to materials on indigenous art of the Americas through reclassification, subject enhancement of bibliographic records, and the transfer of books to the Art Library. We will discuss challenges and considerations for improving access, the status of the project, and future directions.	Do you see what I see? : Creating a Collaborative Workflow for making Instructional Videos Alison Edwards and Darrien Bailey (NC State) Bringing information literacy videos into the world of visual and artistic appeal requires a collaborative workflow. We used simple tools to ideate, communicate, and create. We’ll discuss the tools we used and some tips for combining skill sets and expertise to create instructional videos.
Concurrent Sessions Select one to attend	2:05 – 2:30pm	Virtual Computing for Digital Special Collections Brian Dietz (NC State); Shelly Black (NC State); Matthew Farrell (Duke) Staff at NC State and Duke will discuss our explorations of virtual Linux computers for both staff processing workflows and remote researcher access to digital archival materials. (29) We will reflect on the affordances and challenges this work presents, as well as our goals for the near- to long-term.	Integrating FOLIO into ERM workflows at Duke University Libraries Virginia Martin; Bethany Blankemeyer; Abigail Wickes (Duke) This presentation will provide an overview of how FOLIO electronic resources management (ERM) apps have been integrated into and improved Duke University Libraries’ ERM and acquisitions workflows, as well as expectations for future integrations with additional FOLIO apps as they are implemented.
Break	2:30 – 2:45pm	Break
Concurrent Sessions Select one to attend	2:45 – 3:10pm	The Future of the Library Technology Career Jumpstart Program Tori Culler, Kevin Beswick, Tarida Anantachai, and Meredith Wynn (NC State) The Library Technology Career Jumpstart Program is a free, virtual experience for LIS students designed to confront the challenge of recruiting diverse candidates for technical positions in libraries. This presentation will outline the program goals and components, cover program assessment, and offer ideas about potential future directions for the program.	Change Management – A Microcosm Bill Verner, Natalie Sommerville, Stephen Conrad, Sara Biondi, Bronwyn Cox, Dan Maxwell, and Fouzia El Gargouri (Duke) Reflecting on a recent reorganization, staff from the Duke Libraries Monograph Acquisitions and Resource Description Departments will discuss its change management process, articulating successes and challenges that might extrapolate to larger scale transition efforts in any Library.
Concurrent Sessions Select one to attend	3:15 – 3:40pm	Our OCLC Reclamation Project Dennis Christman (Duke) DUL recently finished the main phase of our OCLC reclamation project. This presentation will discuss the different stages of the project, detail some peculiar problems we ran across, and give our overall thoughts on how the project went.	Information at Your Fingertips: Developing Browser Extensions for the Library Sarah Park (Duke) Have you created your browser extensions? Browser extensions offer customizable functionalities that are otherwise not readily available with the browser. With some programming knowledge, you can develop one to improve your workflow. The presentation will share basic concepts and demonstrate working examples on Amazon and Gobi.
Concurrent sessions Select one to attend	3:45 – 4:10pm	Designing Effective Field Experiences Nancy Lovas (UNC-CH) Offering a field experience project for LIS graduate students can be a mutually rewarding endeavor, but as a site supervisor it can feel like an insurmountable amount of work. This presentation walks through the planning steps one business librarian took to design an academic libraries public services field experience project.	Here’s my number, so text me maybe: notes on a new SMS reminder service Silvia Sheffield and Mia Partlow (NC State) NC State University Libraries recently developed an SMS application that sends “due soon” and “overdue” text messages for high-demand items like tech devices and textbooks. We’ll share why we pursued this project, what we learned from user research, and how we applied those findings in the finished product.

Keynotes

Communication During the Annual Meeting

You can email events@trln.org with any questions, but we have also setup a Slack channel to allow attendees to chat with each other and receive announcements from organizers.

How to Join Slack

You can join the TRLN Slack workspace to chat with other attendees, report issues to organizers, or get updates.

To join, go to https://join.slack.com/t/trln/signup. If you already have a Slack account, you can add the TRLN workspace at https://trln.slack.com/signin#/signin. 

Once signed into Slack, join the #annual-meeting channel by selecting “Add channels” then “Browse all channels”. Select “Join” for the #annual-meeting channel.

#annual-meeting should now display in your list of channels. Select it and say hello to fellow attendees! Throughout the TRLN Annual Meeting you can chat with attendees about the sessions taking place and ask organizers questions. Organizers will also post announcements to this channel.

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