East Central College Library hosts Game Nights for students twice a semester. Starting with a handful of classic board games in 2017, it is now a collection of over 100 games. A variety of card, table, and board games for solo players to groups of ten and more. At this session you will learn about our events, assessments, funding, and growth in this overview. We will tell you about the audience, how advertised, space set up, timing, snacks, and themes. Review our assessment results and reactions of over 200 surveys conducted since 2017 and include some funding sources and best buy suggestions. Talk about the changes that have been made over the years and our plans for next Academic Year’s events. BONUS ! We will share how we box, label, count, barcode, catalog, and more!
The Enhancements Committee will present a panel discussion on the lifecycle of enhancement requests. We will briefly touch on how the requests move through the Committee, but the majority focus will be on what happens once enhancements have been greenlit. Discussions will include the various FOLIO Community SIGs and Subgroups, the involvement of product owners and other subject matter experts, and which enhancements go directly to a vendor versus those that move through the development community. Each panel member will share their personal experiences interacting with the FOLIO Community. We will take questions from the audience and introduce an upcoming Open Hours session to serve as a workshop for others to get involved.
The Sunflower FOLIO upgrade introduced a new model for assigning authorizations to users built around roles, capabilities, and capability sets. This is a significant structural change from the system of permissions and permission sets used previously. The new model requires site coordinators and other local FOLIO administrators to update their understanding of how to manage user authorizations going forward. In addition, since the old system of permissions did not map directly to the new role-based model, it is quite likely that some extra roles were created in your FOLIO tenant during the upgrade that you may wish to clean up sooner or later.
Are you hesitant to use generative AI because it hallucinates, fabricates citations, and gets things confidently wrong? That hesitation is justified—and shared by many information professionals. However, not all uses of generative AI carry the same level of risk, and some can meaningfully support day-to-day repository work when guided by professional judgment. This presentation will highlight several real-world examples of generative AI use in the day-to-day work of a digital repository librarian, including analyzing digital collections, gathering and comparing information, and creating and debugging Python automation scripts. The focus will be on how these tools were used critically and transparently, with librarians remaining firmly in control of decision-making. The session will also engage with broader ethical questions and environmental considerations surrounding generative AI. Rather than advocating for adoption, this presentation creates space for reflection, discussion, and shared learning about how—and whether—generative AI can be used responsibly in professional practice.
This presentation will recount my own personal journey as someone who is tasked with library programming but is also susceptible to "doomerism" thought. But more so, it will focus on what there is to learn and gain from what I at first considered “failed” programs. This presentation will recount a few specific events, what I consider to be their shortcomings, but also important lessons I took away from them including ways to measure success beyond numbers, the importance of gathering data and how to use it, and how partnering with other departments and organizations expands our audience and lightens our workload. While it is easy to focus on what goes wrong, it is important to focus on our serendipitous successes.
Libraries and tutoring centers often support the same students—but rarely in the same space. This session shares how a partnership at Emporia State University brought these services together through high-impact events like the Long Night Against Procrastination and embedded finals support. By combining research help, tutoring, and engaging programming, this model increased student participation and strengthened academic support. Attendees will gain practical ideas for creating their own collaborative, student-centered initiatives.
Arts & Humanities Librarian, Saint Louis University
I recently joined SLU in 2026. Prior to that, I was a FYE Librarian at Emporia State University, where I also received my MLS. I was born and raised in KCMO, and an alum of SLU as well!
