Library Insights Summit 2026: Full Schedule

9:15am CDT

Equity Embedded, Not Added On: Inclusive Standards in Action (LIB)

Friday June 26, 2026 9:15am - 10:15am CDT

Panelists will discuss and provide practical strategies for embedding equity and inclusivity into the development and application of standards—ensuring diverse communities are represented without making inclusivity feel tokenized.

Moderator

Brian O'Leary

Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group

Brian O’Leary is executive director of the Book Industry Study Group, a U.S.-based trade association that disseminates information, creates and implements standards, and conducts research to benefit the book publishing supply chain.

Speakers

Claire Holloway

Manager, Publisher Relations, OCLC

CLAIRE HOLLOWAY is Manager of Publisher Relations for OCLC and the chairperson of the Book Industry Study Group’s Metadata Committee. Before making a mid-life decision to turn her focus to the library space, Claire had worked in editorial and production roles throughout the publishing... Read More →

Analú López

Ayer Librarian and Assistant Curator of American Indian and Indigenous Studies, The Newberry Library

Analú María López (Huachichil/Xi'úi) is the Ayer librarian and Assistant Curator of American Indian and Indigenous studies at the Newberry Library. She helps steward the Indigenous studies collection while guiding library users through, connecting them with, and interpreting materials... Read More →

Alexandra Provo

Research Curation Librarian, New York University

Alexandra Provo is a Research Curation Librarian at New York University’s Division of Libraries and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, where she teaches INFO-663: Metadata Design. As a curator for NYU’s UltraViolet preservation repository, she works with researchers... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 9:15am - 10:15am CDT
McCormick Place West - Room 475A

Librarians with Focus on Supply Chain and Standards (LIB)

10:30am CDT

Misinformation, Metrics, and Meaning: Measuring Trust in the System (LIB)

Friday June 26, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am CDT

McCormick Place West - Room 475A

Which metrics matter when building trust? Panelists will discuss how library data, publishing analytics, and community reporting can be standardized to capture meaningful measures of credibility and inclusivity—not just circulation.

Moderator

Todd Carpenter

Executive Director, NISO

Todd Carpenter currently serves as Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a non-profit association that develops and maintains standards for the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information. In this role, he works... Read More →

Speakers

Qiana Johnson

Associate Dean of Libraries, Collections and Content Strategies, Dartmouth Libraries

As the Associate Dean of Libraries, Collections and Content Strategies, Qiana develops strategies for the Library’s work of acquisitions, discovery, access, preservation, and management of information resources. Qiana is also the Library’s principle liaison in regional, national... Read More →

Jodi Schneider

Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Jodi Schneider is Associate Professor of Information at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She directs the Information Quality Lab. Her Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-funded project Reducing the Inadvertent Spread of Retracted Science led to a new industry information standard for... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
McCormick Place West - Room 475A

Librarians with Focus on Supply Chain and Standards (LIB)

9:15am CDT

10:30am CDT

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