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NASIG 2026

Welcome to the NASIG 2026 Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial. Union. Use 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.

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Davin Pate

University of Texas at Dallas

Assistant Director for Scholarly Communications and Collections

Richardson

About me

Davin Pate joined the University of Texas of Dallas in 2013. Since that time he has been the Department Head of the Acquisitions and Electronic Resource department and is the Current Assistant Director for Scholarly Communications and Collections. He has extensive knowledge in library acquisitions, licensing, transformative agreements, budgeting, analytics, statistics, and collection development. He is currently the coordinator for the Joint ELUNA/IGeLU Analytics Community of Practice (CoP).

3:00pm CDT

Registration + Information Desk

9:00am CDT

OpenRefine for Library Collections Data Old MadisonKaren Kohn

1:00pm CDT

Welcome + Awards Great Hall

1:15pm CDT

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

2:30pm CDT

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

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

9:00am CDT

Who Benefits? Assessing the Author Experience and Impact of Open Access Publishing Agreements BeefeatersLindsey 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

11:45am CDT

Vendor Lightning Talks Great Hall

1:00pm CDT

Lunch (on your own)

2:15pm CDT

Teaching Old Data New Tricks: Using AI to Solve Legacy Metadata Problems in Serials and Government Documents Multicultural Greek CouncilMarlene van Ballegooie • Juliya Borie • Natalia Mykhaylychenko

3:15pm CDT

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

4:30pm CDT

Snapshot Sessions Great HallBeth Ashmore • Dejah Rubel • Caterina Reed • Heather Staines • Teresa Thompson • Rea Devakos

6:30pm CDT

8:00pm CDT

Late Night Social

9:00am CDT

Beyond Collecting VPATs: Integrating Accessibility Testing into the E-Resource Acquisition Process Old MadisonZach Motts

10:30am CDT

Access in Flux: What Librarians Need to Know About the Changing Scholarly Landscape Old MadisonJohn Felts • Michelle Colquitt • Heather Staines

2:00pm CDT

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

3:30pm CDT

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 Great Hall