Name: Poster Sessions
Start: 2026-05-07T14:00:00-0400
End: 2026-05-07T15:00:00-0400

Thursday May 7, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

For full descriptions of each Poster, check out this PDF!

A First Year Librarian’s Work Life in (Crocheted) Emails
Presenter: Emily Zerrenner

Assessing Open Access Publishing Agreements: User Behavior and Outreach Need
Presenter: Olivia Isaacs

Best Practices in Sharing the Story of Your Work
Presenters: Alexandra Trim and Pamela McClanahan

Building Community with an Art Showcase
Presenter: Rosalyn Rivera

From Vision to Reality: Essential Steps of Building A Library Media Program
Presenter: Theresa Bruce

Journey to Becoming SLI Certified
Presenter: Melissa A. King

Our Stories, Our Students: Developing an Engaging Environment for Student Assistants
Presenter: Caroline Haislip

Serving and Supporting LGBTQ+ Students: A Mixed-Methods Assessment of Library Services at the University of Maryland
Presenters: Franklin Ofsthun, Gary White

Small Steps, Big Outcomes: Using Universal Design to Build Access into Storytime
Presenter: Kristina Banks

Support they didn't know they needed: Creating, advocating, and implementing Interactive Online Information Literacy Tutorials in a new First Year Seminar
Presenters: James Parrigin and Katie Delezenski

Speakers

Gary White

Sr. Associate Dean, Research & Academic Services, University of Maryland Libraries

he/him

Pamela McClanahan

Head of Digital Collections, University of Maryland Libraries

Pamela A. McClanahan has been with University of Maryland Libraries since 2019 and currently serves as the Head of the Digital Collections unit overseeing digitization operations for the Libraries. She completed the Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians in 2023 and... Read More →

James Parrigin

Coordinator of Library Instruction, Salisbury University Libraries

Franklin Ofsthun

Education, Psychology and Social Work Librarian, University of Maryland Libraries

he/him

Emily Zerrenner

Research and Instructional Services Librarian, Salisbury University

she/her

Melissa King

School Library Media Specialist, Flower Hill Elementary, Montgomery County Public Schools

Melissa Anne King (she/her) is “The Creative Librarian”, an elementary school librarian in Montgomery County Public Schools. She is an active member of the Maryland Association of School Librarians (MASL) and the Montgomery County Educational Media Staff Association (MCEMSA... Read More →