Back In Circulation 2026

Back In Circulation 2026

9:00am CDT

Welcome + Keynote - Room 325/326 Pyle CenterBobbi L. Newman

10:15am CDT

Groundwork for a successful Seed Library Collection - Room 313 Pyle CenterBailey Adams • Caroline Simons Situational Awareness and De-Escalation for Frontline Staff - Room 325/326 Pyle CenterDustin Smaby Keeping People in Circulation: Inclusive Supervision in Access Services - Room 309 Pyle CenterMary Carmen Nyce

11:30am CDT

Better Living Through Wiki: Collaborative Strategies for Creating and Maintaining Internal Documentation - Room 313 Pyle CenterMichelle Fisher • Kestrel Gregorich-Trevor From Information to Edu-tainment: Strategies for Increasing Social Media Presence - Room 325/326 Pyle CenterShane Niland From Circulation to Curation: Bringing Student Circulation Workers Into the Exhibit Frame Pyle CenterSharin LeFevre, MA, MS, MSLS

2:00pm CDT

Community-Driven Classification and Application to Access Services Principles - Room 325/326 Pyle CenterAnastasia Hanson • Cassy Leeport Redesigning Access Services with Service Design: Turning Discovery into Direction Pyle CenterDebra Sampson Leading Together: Collaborative Change Management in User and Delivery Services - Room 309 Pyle CenterJen Mayer

3:15pm CDT

Circulation Services: Streamlining Workflows with RFID, Mobile Tools, and SharePoint - Room 325/326 Pyle CenterJasmina Lapo • Patty Lakoma Here to Help: A Customer Service Philosophy - Room 313 Pyle CenterHeather Petro Access Services - Unit Building, Current Progress, and the Future - Room 309 Pyle CenterEllen Jacks • Anastasia Hanson

9:00am CDT

Who C.A.R.E.S.? Teaching and Assessing Excellent Customer Service in the Public Library - Room 313 Pyle CenterElizabeth Bush • Andy Hamilton Involving Staff in Patron Transaction Data Analysis: The Reference Analytics and Special Projects Team Pyle CenterCaroline Meyers Training Library Student Employees: Always Evolving - Room 325/326 Pyle CenterMeredith Borchardt • Renée Barney

10:15am CDT

Adventure is Out There! Experiments in Mobile Check Out With Our Library of Things Adventure Kits - Room 325/326 Pyle CenterNathan Bezotte Accident Forgiveness: one step closer to fine free - Room 313 Pyle CenterDenise Towne Supervising Student Leaders: expectations for the advanced student worker role in academic libraries - Room 309 Pyle CenterMarcus Knoke

11:30am CDT

Cold Case Files: Inventory Investigations - Room 325/326 Pyle CenterSarah Towne Seeing the forest through the weeds: a combined approach to weeding and inventory - Room 309 Pyle CenterKristen Tait • Cameron Crawford Developing a System Wide Circulation Conference - Room 313 Pyle CenterJeff Binschus • Tammy Kearin • Joseph Stearns