Speakers

Keynotes

North Carolina Central University

LYRASIS

Dr. Lydia Tang is an Outreach and Engagement Coordinator for LYRASIS. Previously, she held archivist positions at Michigan State University, the Library of Congress, and numerous graduate positions at the University of Illinois, where she received her MLIS and Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Passionate about accessibility and disability representation in archives, she served on the Task Force to Revise the Best Practices on Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities and spearheaded founding the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) Accessibility & Disability Section (ADS). She is the 2020 recipient of SAA’s Mark A. Greene Emerging Leader Award and was recognized in three SAA Council resolutions as a co-founder of the Archival Workers Emergency Fund, for spearheading the Accessibility & Disability Section’s “Archivists at Home” document, and for the “Guidelines for Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities.” In addition to her professional service with SAA, she has contributed to accessibility initiatives within DLF Digital Accessibility Working Group and the ArchivesSpace open source software community by leading the Staff Interface Enhancement Working Group, Development Prioritization subteam, founding the Usability subteam, and chairing the Users Advisory Council. She has written about accessible physical archival spaces, hiring and advancement practices, and is currently co-editing a book with Dr. Gracen Brilmeyer, Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession.

Talks and Workshops

Talk: Developing Scripts to Scale Out Open Access E-book Acquisitions at the Library of Congress

Talk: Implementation of KOHA ILS in Libraries: A Developing Country Perspective

Talk: International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) infrastructure redesign at Harvard Library

Talk: Beyond descriptive metadata: Using OPDS and ODL open standards to develop the Palace App, a e-reader mobile app.

Talk: Brachio: how library websites transform through time

Talk: Laws of UX and You: Applyng psychology to user interface design

Workshop: Code4AI

Talk: There’s going to be some changes: Developing support, supporting developers, and supporting development.

Talk: Responsible AI: Building Tools and Frameworks for Transparent and Ethical AI Implementations

Workshop: Belt, Suspenders, and Bowties: Revisiting Monitoring of Your Applications

Talk: Artificial Intelligence for matching MARC records

Workshop: Solr for newbies

Talk: The Oxford Common File Layout - Understanding the specification, institutional use cases and implementations

Talk: Developing Scripts to Scale Out Open Access E-book Acquisitions at the Library of Congress

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Systems Librarian

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

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Dr. Kate Deibel is a longstanding advocate for accessibility and usability in library technologies. She has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington but would much rather talk about web comics, chili peppers, her cat, technology adoption, and changing the world. She briefly left libraries for industry but is happily back working as PCOM Library's systems librarian.

Talk: Going Beyond Better Than Nothing: Accessibility and Archives