ACRL 2025 Conference Proceedings
Below are the available papers from the ACRL 2025 conference in PDF format only. If a paper you are seeking is not listed below, one was not submitted. Each article includes a BY-NC-SA Creative Commons License. © Copyright of each article belongs to the individual authors. © Copyright of proceedings as a whole belongs to the American Library Association. To view these files, Adobe Acrobat must be installed on your system. Acrobat is available for free from Adobe. If you encounter problems or are unable to access these files, please contact Dawn Mueller at dmueller@ala.org. If you wish to purchase the entire collection as a print-on-demand publication, please contact Erin Nevius at enevius@ala.org.
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A Diversity Audit of LGBTQ+ Themes and Characters in Print Graphic Novels
Madeline Ruggiero
A Framework for Flourishing with Information: Centering the Value of Academic Libraries on Student Belonging, Confidence, and Connectedness
Kathleen A. Langan
A Mixed-Race Future and What it Means for Academic Libraries
Karen E. Downing, and Marna Clowney-Robinson
An AI Community of Practice: Results and Insights
Michael Flierl and Emma Slayton
An Evidence-Based Inquiry into the Public Use of Open Access Research
Ameet Doshi
Adapting to AI: Developing Instruments to Study Changes in Information Seeking Behavior
Samuel R. Putnam, Matthew Frenkel, Hebah Emara, Amanda He, Lindsay Anderberg, and Fiona Hibbard
Addressing Physical Space Needs of Neurodivergent Students
Dr. Mary Francis
Amplifying Student Voices Engaging Marginalized Communities Through Photovoice in Academic Libraries
Michelle Mussuto and Jodi Shepherd
Assessing the Impact of Research Consultation on Patron’s Psychological Well-Being in GenAI Context
Yali Feng and Lindsay Bahureksa
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Bread and Roses: Collectively Redistributing Work Tasks for Personal Growth through Gamification
Natalie Hill and Bonnie Paige
Building a More Representative Collection: Diversity Audits at a Public Comprehensive University
Julie Setele and Christopher M. Hulsman
Building Empathy Through Storytelling: A Living Library Program Focused on Women’s Health
Jess King, Belinda Boelter, and Catherine Medici-Thiemann
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Challenges Confronting No-Fee Open Access Journals
Christopher Hollister, Colleen Lyon, and Kristi Park
Creating Change or Checking a Box?: Experiences of EDI Chairs in Academic Libraries
Liz Bellamy, Alexandra Flores Glosson, Mary K. Oberlies, and Jessica Ramey
Curriculum Scaffolding: Library Programming for Post-Secondary Education (PSE) Students
Mathew Conner and Leah Plocharczyk
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DEI in DLOs: Increasing Discoverability of Underrepresented Scholars in Online Library Resources
Heather Posey VanDyne
Democratizing Homework: Exploring Library Support for Interactive Courseware
Bryan J. McGeary, Lauren McKeen McDonald, Micah Gjeltema, Shane Nackerud, Sijie Yu, and Gina Petersen
Democratizing Research Support: a Qualitative Study about Qualitative Research
Kate Freeman, Hiva Kadivar, Joddy Marchesoni, and Hannah Rainey
Disinformation is a Heart Beating Beneath the Floorboards: The Unreliable Narrator and Fake News
Rachel Hammer
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Equal Access for All? Library Conference Websites, Accessibility, and the Failure to Launch
Krista Schmidt, Scottie Kapel, and Kristin Calvert
Espoused and Enacted Values: Library Action to Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Kara Malenfant, Sara Goek, and Elizabeth Brown
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From Bad to Worse: Gender Equity in LIS Journals During COVID-19
Jenny McBurney, Cody Hennesy, and Dr. Mariya Gyendina
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Giving Neurodiverse Students the Academic Research Skill to Succeed in College
Gretchen Dreimiller, Dr. Christopher Huff, and Emily Morgan
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Humanities Instructors and Their Multivalent User Roles: A Librarian’s Perspective
Samantha Bishop Simmons
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“I Had No Idea!”: Incoming Student Perceptions of Library Resources and Services
April Hines, Cindy Craig, and Jasmine Simmons
I Have to Pay to Keep My Job: Examining Financial Barriers to Promotion and/or Tenure
Amanda Koziura, Faith Bradham, and Maura Seale
Institutional Change as Opportunity: Advocating for Students & Information Literacy
Michele Santamaría, Melissa Gold, and Krista Higham
Interrupting the Flow: Do Libraries Create or Remove Barriers to Sources?
Hannah Gascho Rempel, Taylor Ralph, and Adam Lindsley
“It May or May Not Work Out”: The Opportunities and Uncertainties of Temporary Library Employment
Jenny Bruxvoort and Sarah Lundy
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Just Ask! Removing the Guesswork from Open Scholarship Outreach and Education
Anali Maughan Perry, Rachel Fernandez, and Matthew Harp
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Leading and Collaborating in a Complex Space: Developing and Evaluating a Course Materials Program
Catherine Fraser Riehle & Melissa Gomis
Libraries, Disability Services Offices, and Repositories: A Case Study from the Educational Materials Made Accessible Project
Kyle Rimkus and Stephanie M. Luke
Library-Led AI: Building a Library Chatbot as Service and Strategy
Sharesly Rodriguez, Nick Szydlowski and Jessie Cai
Listen First, Act Second: Utilizing User Feedback to Enhance Our Libraries for Transgender Students
Grayson Murphy and Patricia J. West
Living the Stream: Growing Student Research Skills Through Live Stream Instruction
Beth Jennings and Kerry Lohmeier
“Look to the Champions of Freedom for All”: How Libraries Can Advance Democracy Through Opening Access
Charles Watkinson and Kate McCready
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More than Style Guides: Incorporating Citation Justice within Citation Instruction
Sarah Clark and Caroline Monnin
Movin’ On Out: A Small-Scale Experiment In IDEA- Centered Decision Making Within A (Large-Scale) Collections Move
Kat Nelsen, Nicole Theis-Mahon, Sunshine Carter, Wanda Marsolek, Malaika Grant, and KL Clarke
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No SSN? No Problem.: Building a Library Fellowship Program for All Students
Amber Dierking and Gayle Schaub
Now Boarding: An Exploration of Onboarding Experiences in Libraries
DeAnn Brame, Amanda McLeod, and V. Emily Cranwell Deinert
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Partners in Kind: Collaborating with AI to Complete a Compassion Audit at the University Library
Janice Grover and Jessica Rardin
Pedagogy and Advocacy: Education Programs and 2SLGBTQIA+ Libraries and Archives
Matthew Rohweder
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Reframing Information-Seeking in the Age of Generative AI: A Critical and Humanistic Approach
Joseph Kevin Sebastian
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Squinting Through the Dawn of AI: Embedding Algorithmic Literacy Principles in Library Instruction
Lauren A. Camarillo
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Tackling Embedded Bias in Resource Descriptions through User Feedback and User-Driven Metadata
Savannah Lake and Joseph Nicholson
Terms of Inclusion: Mapping the Concepts Used to Describe Bias in the Research Lifecycle
Sheila Craft-Morgan
The Academic Library as a Caring Assemblage
Ted Chodock
The Graduate Specialist Program: Students Working in Research and Data Services
Julia Anne Maxwell, Francesca Giannetti, Triveni Kuchi, Laura Palumbo, and Ryan Womack
The Role of the Library in Institutional Accreditation Standards
Jessica J. Boyer, Ph.D.
Transitioning to Tenure-Track Librarianship: Exploring the Challenges and Changes to Practice
Jessica R. Hollister, Molly K. Maloney, Jocelyn Swick-Jemison, and Nicole Thomas
Turning Failure into Success: Accessibility Audits as a Tool for Incremental Change
Theodore Szpakowski
Two Decades of Critical Information Literacy: A Review of the Literature
Eamon Tewell
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We Are the Library: Leveraging Library Work-Study to Build Communities of Consequence
Patrick K. Morgan and Katherine Williamson
Where Belonging Meets Innovation: Building a Public Digital Humanities Center in a Joint-Use Library
Nick Szydlowski, Christina Mune, and Samantha Cramer
Who’s Asking?: Gender, Race, and Negotiation Outcomes
Amy Pham
Why Did You Choose THAT?: A Study on the Relationship Between Reading, Searching, and Synthesizing
Megan Heuer and Julia Anderson
Why Train the Trainer? Partnering with Composition Instructors for Student Success
James W. Rosenzweig, Mary Thill, and Kate Crane
