NASIG Autumn 2026: Full Schedule

NASIG Autumn 2026 will be held October 6 - 8 (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) from 2pm - 5pm Eastern for Virtual Live sessions and include several pre-recorded sessions available through the duration of the week. Visit the NASIG Autumn webpage for more information.

If you have any questions about the virtual conference, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].

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AI and APIs: Using TDM Principles to Create Cleaner Data Dashboards

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT

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Even if you have never used Claude, Python, or GitHub before… You can create a data dashboard of your faculty’s publications! Even with the free tier of Claude (although this will take longer). Learn from the presenter’s experience using used AI and APIs and TDM techniques to create a data dashboard of Arts & Sciences faculty publications. The focus of the session will be on challenges with...
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Speakers

Laura Egan

University of North Dakota

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT
Pre-recorded

Pre-recorded, Long (30 min)

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Author Choice in Open Access Agreements: A Snapshot of Uptake

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT

Pre-recorded

The Ohio State University Libraries has 15 open access agreements with journal publishers that can waive fees for authors choosing to publish open access. This session will explore outcomes over the past six years with an author’s choice lens and highlight ongoing research into agreement uptake. The snapshots shared will include: benefit uptake within and across agreements (e.g., did authors...
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Maureen P. Walsh

Scholarly Sharing Strategist, The Ohio State University Libraries

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT
Pre-recorded

Pre-recorded, Short (7 min)

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Beyond Compliance: Preparing Library Websites and Guides for the New ADA Digital Accessibility Standards

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT

Pre-recorded

As libraries prepare to meet updated federal digital accessibility requirements, ensuring that websites, LibGuides, online tutorials, and other digital resources are accessible has become a shared responsibility. This session provides a practical overview of the new ADA accessibility standards and explores strategies for evaluating and improving library web content. Through real-world examples,...
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Amy Dye-Reeves

Head, Library of Architecture, Design and Construction, Auburn University

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT
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Pre-recorded, Medium (15 min)

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Big Impact, Small Budget: Creating and Implementing Free Professional Development for Staff

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT

Pre-recorded

How can libraries provide meaningful professional development when training budgets are limited? This session presents a case study of developing and implementing a sustainable staff learning program built entirely with freely available resources. Topics include selecting high-quality open content, organizing learning pathways, encouraging participation, and assessing impact. The presentation will...
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Amy Dye-Reeves

Head, Library of Architecture, Design and Construction, Auburn University

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT
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Pre-recorded, Short (7 min)

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Brace for impact: estimating the effects of subscription cancellations to guide collaborative decision-making and outreach

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT

Pre-recorded

Most academic libraries have seen their subscription budgets remain flat or continually decrease for the past two decades. In 2026, any “low-hanging fruit” is gone, and no subscription cancellation will go unnoticed. Libraries must try to estimate the impacts of subscription cuts to guide decision-making, engage in proactive outreach and set instructional focus areas. This session will...
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Sid Devarenne

Collection Management and Assessment Librarian, Western Washington University

Mary Wegmann

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT
Pre-recorded

Pre-recorded, Medium (15 min)

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Digital and Physical Piles: Juggling Responsibilities as an E-Resources and Serials Librarian

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT

Pre-recorded

E-resources never stop changing, and serials never stop arriving. So, how do you manage both? Drawing from practical experience, this session examines the unique challenge of balancing two distinct workflows: the digital demands of e-resource management and the physical realities of serials processing. In this short session, we'll explore practical strategies for navigating both responsibilities,...
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Becca Woolsey

Electronic Resources and Serials Catalog Librarian, Southern Methodist University

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT
Pre-recorded

Pre-recorded, Short (7 min)

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Making the Invisible Visible: Advocating for Technical Services Through Staffing Challenges

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT

Pre-recorded

Library technical services are foundational to the effective functioning of the library, yet success in this work is often measured by what patrons do not notice: seamless discovery of and access to library resources. This ""invisibility"" can mean that the scope, importance and impact of technical services work is not fully understood and in times of financial constraint technical services...
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Annette Day

Director of Collections, Discovery and Scholarly Communication, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT
Pre-recorded

Pre-recorded, Long (30 min)

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Own It, License It, Lend It: Popular Reading In a Multi-Campus Academic Library

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT

Pre-recorded

At Georgia Southern University, our popular reading collections reach users across five libraries and online, from a small branch serving a campus with 1,000 students to another serving 25,000. Each selection comes with choices: a print copy we own, a perpetually licensed copy, or a metered access license. Print adds another consideration, genrefication, which shapes how readers browse and...
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James Mayes

Acquisitions Librarian, Georgia Southern University

Emily Kizina

East Georgia Librarian, Access Services, Georgia Southern University

Amber Hodges

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT
Pre-recorded

Pre-recorded, Medium (15 min)

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Peeling the Onion: An Analysis of Transformative Agreement Data at Clemson University

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT

Pre-recorded

This session provides an in-depth look at eighteen months of usage and publication data under Clemson University’s Transformative Agreements. Transformative Agreements continue to be difficult to value in terms of usage and cost savings due to a lack of standardized metrics like those used to measure traditional subscription package value. However, analyzing OA publishing and usage...
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Joni Addis

eCollections Access & Licensing Librarian, Clemson University

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT
Pre-recorded

Pre-recorded, Medium (15 min)

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They Authenticated Without Us: The Patron Exodus, Federated Access, and the Infrastructure Gap Libraries Can't Afford to Ignore

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT

Pre-recorded

Most academic patrons don't begin research inside the library's ecosystem—they start on Google, Google Scholar, and publisher platforms. When they hit a paywall there, proxy-based access is powerless to help, and the resulting login failures aren't a user behavior problem; they're the cost of infrastructure never designed for how research actually happens. This session draws on Coastal Carolina...
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Speakers

John Felts

AUL for Information Technology and Collections, Coastal Carolina University

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT
Pre-recorded

Pre-recorded, Long (30 min)

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Triage, Not Truth: AI's Role in Journal Gap Analysis

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT

Pre-recorded

Journal gap analysis can be a cumbersome process, even with modern shared library systems platforms, robust COUNTER usage statistics, and other tools. Can librarians leverage popular LLM or AI tools to facilitate more in-depth gap analysis? Or would the well-known, documented hallucination issues with these AI tools create more problems than it would solve? This presentation will speak on the...
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Speakers

Todd Rix

Collection Strategies Librarian, Coastal Carolina University

Monday October 5, 2026 12:00pm - Thursday October 8, 2026 6:00pm EDT
Pre-recorded

Pre-recorded, Short (7 min)

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Introduction and Vision Session -- Working Through the Messy Middle: AI, Burnout, and Letting Work Go

Tuesday October 6, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT

Virtual Live

My experience with AI in libraries has developed alongside persistent burnout. This presentation examines the messy middle between experimenting with AI and building sustainable practices around it. AI can reduce some forms of work, but adopting it also creates new responsibilities involving instruction, evaluation, ethics, policy, and organizational change. Drawing on my experience introducing...
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Russell Michalak

Director of Library and Archives, Goldey-Beacom College

Tuesday October 6, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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