Heat waves and wildfires, global pandemics, floods and droughts. We are already experiencing the damaging impact of climate change. Natural disasters put library facilities and collections at risk, while mass migration alters who uses libraries and why. Can we envision library futures that respond to the hopes, fears, and needs of our…[Read more]

What is the role of a legacy visual resources collection in an era of ubiquitous digital images? In what ways can we think about images as data? In this presentation, the project team will demonstrate a new tool that algorithmically groups digital images into clusters based solely on visually similar characteristics, rather than traditional…[Read more]

Library events provide opportunities for patrons to connect with collections, services, and library staff in meaningful ways. However, managing these events when programming and outreach are often only a small portion of library staff work presents many challenges. Recognizing these challenges, a Programming Team at an art library created a…[Read more]

Visual literacy skills empower learners in any academic research process, and in critically navigating our networked and media-saturated lives. Teaching visual literacy can start with tools readily available to library educators and with competencies learners already possess. In this case study, two presenters from a large public university…[Read more]

The Library of Congress Classification System (LCC) and its subject headings (LCSH) are not neutral; they show the biases of the society that created them. Nor is this a new conversation in librarianship. As early as 1971, Sanford Berman argued that LCSH were deeply intrenched in white, male, Eurocentric power structures in his text, Prejudices…[Read more]