NASIG 2026

NASIG 2026

Welcome to the NASIG 2026 Conference. The conference will take place at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial. Union on June 2-4, 2026. Check out the Venue Map link below to locate conference spaces. The Registration Desk is on the 2nd floor by the Annex Room. Wifi logon instructions are available here. Note: If you are registered with eduroam at your home institution you can connect to wifi using eduroam.

Please visit the NASIG website for conference details.

3:00pm CDT

Registration + Information Desk

8:00am CDT

Quiet Room Capitol View Room Registration + Information Desk

9:00am CDT

Cataloging Comics and Zines TBAHeidy Berthoud • Mandy Hurt Introduction to Serials Cataloging TBASteve Shadle OpenRefine for Library Collections Data TBAKaren Kohn

10:15am CDT

12:00pm CDT

Lunch (on your own)

1:00pm CDT

Welcome + Awards Great Hall

1:15pm CDT

Vision Session: Raina Bloom, "What Librarians Know" Great HallRaina Bloom

2:30pm CDT

Cancellations, Clicks, and Costs: Forecasting User Behavior with E-Resource Usage Data Multicultural Greek Council RoomTaylor Ralph Collecting and Managing Streaming Video from Independent Creators BeefeatersSarah Meisch-Lacombe What Librarians Can Do: Unveiling the Fictions and Failures of Metrics in the Scholarly Information Ecosystem. Old MadisonWilla Camille Liburd • Moira Marsh

3:30pm CDT

Afternoon Break

4:00pm CDT

From Transactional to Transformational: Partnership-Driven Open Access BeefeatersJohn Felts • Matthew Ragucci Slow Down for What Multicultural Greek Council RoomErica Barnett Three Lenses of Collection Intelligence: Using AI to Connect Institutional Research, Discovery, and Use Old MadisonMarlene van Ballegooie

5:30pm CDT

Evening Reception Tripp Commons

6:30am CDT

NASIG Ramble The Graduate Hotel

8:30am CDT

Quiet Room Capitol View Room Registration + Information Desk

9:00am CDT

From Assessment to Action: Using Gap Analysis to Strengthen Library Collections Old MadisonMegan Horn When the Past No Longer Serves You: Updating ER Workflows and Procedures BeefeatersTodd Enoch • Lisa Cuevas • Tracy Brewster Who Benefits? Assessing the Author Experience and Impact of Open Access Publishing Agreements Multicultural Greek Council RoomLindsey Skaggs • Rachel Scott Posters available for viewing Tripp Commons Vendor Expo Tripp Commons

10:00am CDT

10:30am CDT

Collaborative Approaches to Streamlining Print & E-Resource Cancellation and Conversion Workflows Old MadisonMissy Motl • Marissa Tartaglia • Katharine Mamrosh Understanding Wikipedia's Epistemology BeefeatersJonathan Yehuda Engel You, Me, and Productivity / Keep it 100 at the SEA: Navigating the Choppy Waters of Departmental Change Multicultural Greek Council RoomMichelle Colquitt • Jackie Blanton-Watkins

11:45am CDT

Vendor Lightning Talks TBA

1:00pm CDT

Lunch (on your own)

2:15pm CDT

Alices Adventures in NASIGland: A Musical Celebration of Forty Years of NASIG Great HallNicole Ameduri • John Felts • Heather Staines • Pappaparvathi "Bobbi" Patham Integrating student workers into e-resources projects: Where, when, and how Old MadisonAmy Pham Teaching Old Data New Tricks: Using AI to Solve Legacy Metadata Problems in Serials and Government Documents Multicultural Greek Council RoomMarlene van Ballegooie • Juliya Borie • Natalia Mykhaylychenko

3:15pm CDT

Great Ideas Showcase: poster presenters available Tripp Commons Ice Cream Social TBA

4:30pm CDT

Snapshot Sessions TBA

6:30pm CDT

8:00pm CDT

Late Night Social

8:30am CDT

Quiet Room Capitol View Room Registration + Information Desk

9:00am CDT

Beyond Collecting VPATs: Integrating Accessibility Testing into the E-Resource Acquisition Process Old MadisonZach Motts The First Cut is (Hopefully) the Deepest: Print and Electronic Continuing Resources Assessment at Clemson University Libraries Multicultural Greek Council RoomMichelle Colquitt

10:00am CDT

10:30am CDT

Access in Flux: What Librarians Need to Know About the Changing Scholarly Landscape Old MadisonJohn Felts • Michelle Colquitt • Heather Staines AI-Suggested LCSH Creation for Print Library Materials Cataloging Workflow: An Experimental Approach to Supporting Subject Analysis Multicultural Greek Council RoomAnlin Yang • Xiying Mi • Meng Qu Approving the Disapproval: Unpacking the Impact of Cancelled Approval Plans BeefeatersKeri Prelitz

11:45am CDT

User Group Meetings/Lunch on your own

2:00pm CDT

Vision Session: Mondo Vaden, Information and Intersectionality in the Digital Millennium TBAMondo Vaden

3:00pm CDT

Afternoon Break

3:30pm CDT

Impact of Transitioning from IP-Based to Federated Access: A Case Study on Reducing Support Requests Multicultural Greek Council RoomJohn Felts Migration Management: What We Learned Doing Two Migrations At Once BeefeatersSam Farley Static is not just bad for the laundry: dealing with a stable(?) budget Old MadisonGretchen Gould • Clint Wrede • Susan Moore

4:30pm CDT

NASIG Business Meeting and Closing Remarks TBA