Lightning Talks - Thursday afternoon
These seven minute sessions are on Thursday, May 7, immediately before the Meet & Greet
AI Meets UDL 3.0: A Chatbot for Designing UDL 3.0 Lesson Plans
Madeline Ruggiero @ Queensborough Community College
For many schools implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is already a driving force for designing engaging and accessible learning spaces. This lightning talk will introduce you to LUDIA, the no cost AI-powered UDL thought partner. During this brief time I will demonstrate how to use LUDIA to create lessons for your credit-bearing classes or one-shots that align with the updated UDL 3.0 framework. The latest modifications to the UDL framework will also be discussed.
If You Build It, Will They Come? Measuring Student Preferences for Self-Paced Library Learning Resources
Alexis Boone and Alison Edwards @ NCSU
Libraries invest significant time and resources in creating self-paced online learning resources, yet usage and engagement often vary. As our library transitions to a new Integrated Library System and discovery layer, we must redesign instructional videos to show patrons how to use them. This lightning talk shares an ongoing user research project examining student preferences for short videos, interactive guides, and text-based resources that are on our website. Using pop-up interviews and moderated usability testing, we explore how students choose formats, how content type influences those choices, and how feedback can inform evidence-informed, sustainable instructional design.
Making Sense of Student Success Librarianship Through Shared Frameworks
Amy Melnyk @ West Virginia University
Student success librarianship is a rapidly growing area of practice, yet it remains conceptually fuzzy—positioned somewhere between traditional classroom instruction and student affairs programming. As a result, campus partners often struggle to understand what library instruction looks like outside the one-shot or credit-bearing course, and librarians struggle to articulate their instructional role within cross-campus initiatives.
This lightning talk explores that ambiguity as a starting point rather than a problem to eliminate. Drawing on collaborative work with multiple student success partners, the presenter introduces a cognitive, affective, and behavioral student success framework developed to create a shared language for collaboration, planning, and assessment. Rather than forcing library work into classroom or student affairs models, the framework helps partners understand how student success librarianship and cross-campus collaboration operates at the border of both—supporting learning, belonging, and student action through informal and co-curricular contexts.
This lightning talk explores that ambiguity as a starting point rather than a problem to eliminate. Drawing on collaborative work with multiple student success partners, the presenter introduces a cognitive, affective, and behavioral student success framework developed to create a shared language for collaboration, planning, and assessment. Rather than forcing library work into classroom or student affairs models, the framework helps partners understand how student success librarianship and cross-campus collaboration operates at the border of both—supporting learning, belonging, and student action through informal and co-curricular contexts.
Special Collections On the Road
Nancy Richey @ Western Kentucky University
This lightning talk highlights how collaborative teaching partnerships with community organizations can expand the reach of special collections libraries and make preservation knowledge and expertise more accessible. Through shared instruction and hands-on demonstrations, librarians and educators can provide practical guidance to diverse communities on caring for family and community materials such as photographs, books, textiles, and other primary source material. By addressing these issues beyond the library, we can assist the public in accessing environmental risks, and in setting preservation priorities. By working together as partners, we strengthen community engagement and help ensure that diverse histories are recognized, protected, and preserved for future generations. I offer a concise overview of a collaborative instructional model that features slides and samples of family treasures and their preservation.
The Yes Librarian: On-Demand Services and Burnout
Allison Madar @ SUNY Oswego
Burnout is not a "you problem", it's a systemic problem. Combatting the question "How can you solve your burnout?", this session will analyze systems and structures that overburden staff and lead to burnout. It will focus on on-demand services, liaison librarian models, and how a whole team can set boundaries -- together.