OK-ACRL

Register now for the
2024 OK-ACRL Annual Conference!

Friday, November 8, 2024

Our theme this year is “Success Stories: Courageous & Creative Solutions for Academic Librarians.”

Location:
Tulsa Community College Northeast Campus
First Floor, Main Academic Building
3727 E Apache St, Tulsa, OK 74115

Registration includes continental breakfast, your conference registration, lunch, and afternoon snacks. 

Keynote Speaker: Janet Brennan Croft is an Associate University Librarian at the University of Northern Iowa and previously worked at the University of Oklahoma.  She is the author of War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (recently reissued in paperback in April 2024) and has also written on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Orphan Black, J.K. Rowling, Terry Pratchett, Lois McMaster Bujold, and other authors, TV shows, and movies. She is the editor or co-editor of many collections of literary essays, most recently Loremasters and Libraries in Fantasy and Science Fiction with Jason Fisher. She edits the refereed scholarly journal Mythlore and is associate editor of Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+.

Free Virtual Pre-Conference Webinar – Creativity Panel & Lightning Talks

Monday, October 28, 1:00-3:00 p.m.

In addition to this year’s in-person conference, we are excited to also announce a free, virtual, pre-conference creativity panel and lightning talk session, on Monday, October 28 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. via Zoom. Please use this form to register for the virtual pre-conference webinar.

In the 1:00 hour we will be joined by five librarians in a Creativity Panel who will share ways they have pursued creativity with video creation, makerspaces, gamification, emerging technology, and exhibits.

During the 2:00 hour three librarians will share Lightning Talks about their creative efforts in the areas of monitoring library traffic during the pandemic, open access research, and new ways of connecting with first generation students. 

We look forward to you joining us for these inspiring and creative professional development opportunities this Fall!

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ABOUT OK-ACRL

The Oklahoma Chapter of the Association of Research and College Libraries (OK-ACRL) is a professional organization for all Oklahoma students, librarians, and individuals interested in academic librarianship. Membership in OK-ACRL is FREE.

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Land Acknowledgement

The office address of OK-ACRL occupies a portion of the traditional, ancestral lands of the HAsinai and OhCHAYtee ShaKOwi[n] nations, commonly called the Caddo and Sioux. This territory was also held for a time by the WahZHAzhe or Osage nation, and in the 1800s the OGAxpa (Quapaw) Kiikaapoi and Mvskoke were forcibly located here by the federal government.

Members of the chapter live and work on lands that belonged to these and other nations, and the means by which that land came to them is the same. OK-ACRL acknowledges the sovereignty of these nations and honors their contributions to the past, present, and future of Oklahoma and of the United States.

We encourage you to research the native history of the land on which you stand, and to reach out to those nations and take action in support of their goals. We have provided a document with resources to begin this research.

The process of knowing and acknowledging the land we stand on is a way of honoring and expressing gratitude for the ancestral people who were on this land before us.