upcoming
October 21, 2026
What is the current landscape of AI use and rejection in Library Instruction? How do we meet students and patrons where they are, wherever they are on this spectrum?
Join our panelists as we discuss these and related questions around critical AI library instruction.
Maria T. Accardi is the author of Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction (2013), for which she won the 2014 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Women and Gender Studies Section (WGSS) Award for Significant Achievement in Woman’s Studies Librarianship. She is also co-editor of Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods (2010), and editor of The Feminist Reference Desk: Concepts, Critiques, and Conversations (2017).
Maria is the Coordinator of Instruction and Assessment at Indiana University Southeast, a regional campus in the IU system, located in New Albany, Indiana. Maria holds a BA in English from Northern Kentucky University, an MA in English from the University of Louisville, and an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. Her primary research and writing interests address the intersections of information literacy, reference work, social justice, and feminist and other critical pedagogies. Her current project is a co-edited collection of essays for Critical Perspectives on AI in Librarianship, with Tessa Withorn, to be published by Library Juice Press in 2027.
Logan Rath is a full rank Librarian at SUNY Brockport where he focuses on instruction and student research support. He is a 2016 recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship for his efforts in many different areas of librarianship including technology, interlibrary loan, research consultations, and instruction. Logan has a PhD at in Curriculum, Instruction, & the Science of Learning at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His current research interests include the intersection of information literacy and literacy as a social practice, effective library instruction, and effective integration of technology into collegiate learning.
Tessa Withorn is the Science Librarian and an Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY. Tessa has published and presented on a variety of topics including library instruction, critical information literacy, online learning, and artificial intelligence. She is currently working on a co-edited collection of essays for Critical Perspectives on AI in Librarianship, to be published by Library Juice Press in 2027.
12pm Eastern 
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Free