Speakers
Keynotes
North Carolina Central University
Speaker Bio for Dr. Siobahn Day Grady

LYRASIS
Speaker Bio for Dr. Lydia Tang
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
Speaker Bio for Lauren Seroka
Talk: Developing Scripts to Scale Out Open Access E-book Acquisitions at the Library of Congress
Speaker Bio for Irfan Ali
Talk: Implementation of KOHA ILS in Libraries: A Developing Country Perspective
Speaker Bio for Katie Amaral
Talk: International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) infrastructure redesign at Harvard Library
Speaker Bio for Ben Armintor
Speaker Bio for Julia Caffrey-Hill
Talk: Laws of UX and You: Applyng psychology to user interface design
Speaker Bio for David Cirella
Speaker Bio for Jason A. Clark
Talk: Responsible AI: Building Tools and Frameworks for Transparent and Ethical AI Implementations
Speaker Bio for Carolyn Cole
Workshop: Belt, Suspenders, and Bowties: Revisiting Monitoring of Your Applications
Speaker Bio for Stefano Cossu
Speaker Bio for Kristy Darby
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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Speaker Bio for Kate Deibel
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
Speaker Bio for Ryan Dubnicek
Workshop: HathiTrust Research Center Extracted Features API and Visualization Workshop
Speaker Bio for James English
Speaker Bio for Dan Field
Speaker Bio for Mike Giarlo
Talk: How to Rebuild a Jumbo Jet at 30,000 Feet: Strategies for Digital Library Migration
Speaker Bio for James Griffin
Workshop: Belt, Suspenders, and Bowties: Revisiting Monitoring of Your Applications
Speaker Bio for Arran Griffith
Speaker Bio for Margaret Heller
Talk: Documenting Movements: Mukurtu as a platform for contemporary video archive
Speaker Bio for Jackson Huang
Talk: Programmatically Assisted Approaches to Improving Digital Collections Metadata
Speaker Bio for Max Kadel
Workshop: Belt, Suspenders, and Bowties: Revisiting Monitoring of Your Applications
Speaker Bio for Vickie Karasic
Speaker Bio for Francis Kayiwa
Workshop: Belt, Suspenders, and Bowties: Revisiting Monitoring of Your Applications
Speaker Bio for Bohyun Kim
Talk: Caught between Clarity and Flexibility: How to Better Plan Development and IT Work
Speaker Bio for Brandon Klevence
Workshop: It’s Electric! (How to boogie with a soldering iron, safely)
Speaker Bio for Robert-Anthony Lee-Faison
Speaker Bio for Dr. Matt Lincoln
Speaker Bio for Justin Littman
Talk: How to Rebuild a Jumbo Jet at 30,000 Feet: Strategies for Digital Library Migration
Speaker Bio for Emily Lynema
Talk: AMPlifying AV: leveraging artificial intelligence to create metadata for audiovisual collections
Speaker Bio for Sara Mannheimer
Talk: Responsible AI: Building Tools and Frameworks for Transparent and Ethical AI Implementations
Speaker Bio for Greer Martin
Talk: Documenting Movements: Mukurtu as a platform for contemporary video archive
Speaker Bio for Ryan McCarthy
Talk: Breaking into Prison: Bringing Library Resources to Incarcerated Learners
Speaker Bio for Mike Nason
Talk: Metadata for everyone: Identifying metadata quality issues across cultures
Speaker Bio for Tyler Riley
Speaker Bio for Bess Sadler
Workshop: Belt, Suspenders, and Bowties: Revisiting Monitoring of Your Applications
Speaker Bio for Julie Shi
Talk: Metadata for everyone: Identifying metadata quality issues across cultures
Speaker Bio for Doug Simon
Talk: International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) infrastructure redesign at Harvard Library
Speaker Bio for Amelia Sutton
Talk: Lowering Technical Barriers in Open Source Systems - A Case Study
Speaker Bio for Janet Swatscheno
Workshop: HathiTrust Research Center Extracted Features API and Visualization Workshop
Speaker Bio for Elise Tanner
Speaker Bio for Daniel Verbit
Workshop: It’s Electric! (How to boogie with a soldering iron, safely)
Speaker Bio for Nosheen Fatima Warraich
Talk: Implementation of KOHA ILS in Libraries: A Developing Country Perspective
Speaker Bio for Tom Wrobel