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.
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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 the data and various solutions to help produce better quality data. Tools used include Claude, Python, OpenAlex API, Web of Science API, Excel, and GitHub.
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 choose open access via an agreement or choose to publish behind a paywall); when given a choice of open license, what Creative Commons licenses did authors choose; and what are the publishing patterns of highly prolific authors across our agreements?
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, attendees will learn common accessibility issues, tools for identifying barriers, and simple techniques for creating more inclusive digital experiences. Participants will leave with actionable recommendations and resources to help their libraries move beyond compliance toward sustainable, user-centered accessibility practices.
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 highlight successes, challenges, and practical lessons learned throughout the process. Attendees will leave with a framework, recommended resources, and actionable ideas they can adapt to create cost-effective professional development opportunities that support staff growth and organizational goals.
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 describe how collections personnel at a library in a difficult budget environment are using collections data and backend knowledge of electronic resources to estimate the impacts of subscription cuts, and demonstrate effective ways to present information for internal discussions with other library departments.
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, including identifying annual cycles, anticipating busy seasons, time-blocking tasks, communicating workload changes to colleagues, and adapting to shifting priorities. Most importantly, the session emphasizes the value of flexibility and self-compassion when juggling competing responsibilities.
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 positions may not rise to the top of the priority list.
This presentation describes how the Collections, Discovery, and Scholarly Communication (CDSC) division at UNLV Libraries navigated continuous staffing shortages from 2020 through 2026 and how these challenges created unexpected opportunities to increase awareness of the division's expertise, complexity and strategic importance across the organization.
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 discover titles. In this session, we share how we weigh these options by matching format to reach and demand, including when an expiring license fits a title better than owning it outright.
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 activity can help reveal disciplinary and strategic alignment and identify areas in need of marketing and outreach. This research also points to the need for publishers to provide standardized reports that include both usage and publishing activity to assist in making data-driven acquisitions decisions.
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 University's migration from EZproxy to OpenAthens federated access to argue that authentication must move to the point of need. CCU's migration cut access-related support requests by 80%, not through user training, but because the infrastructure finally met users where they were.
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 possible use of AI tools to assist in journal gap analysis.
