Oklahoma Chapter - ACRL

The OK-ACRL 2025 Annual Conference is only a week away! Register by midnight, November 16 to receive lunch on the day of the conference. We will have a potato bar with a variety of toppings, iced tea, and chocolate or carrot cake for dessert.

2025 Annual Conference Register Now! View the brief schedule below.Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks. Detailed program will be posted soon. Theme: Unlocking Libraries: Exp…

Registration is still open for the 2025 OK-ACRL Annual Conference, to be held at OCCC Keith Leftwich Memorial Library on Friday, November 21. View the schedule and register online at https://www.okacrl.org/conference

Our keynote speaker for this year's conference is Suzette Chang, Founder & CEO of Thick Descriptions, an organization invested in science empowerment and cultural intelligence for all. As a practicing anthropologist, Suzette weaves archeology, biology, cultural understandings, and language to explain everyday experiences. Her talk is titled "Accessing and Leveraging AI within Academic Spaces from the Lens of Cultural Anthropology."

Are you afraid/uncomfortable/indifferent about AI? You are not alone. As of September 2025, over 50% of Americans are more concerned than excited regarding the growing usage of AI within our daily lives. We need to talk about it and thoughtfully embrace AI because it is here to stay. Suzette will assist attendees to peel back the layers of their AI pauses. She will take a deeper dive into the anthropology of AI, the languages and cultural understandings linked to this form of technology, address opportunities and responsibilities, and foster resiliency within our network of academic librarians. Attendees will be exposed to generative AI and ways to create and maintain frameworks regarding this ever-growing and shifting technology. Be prepared to laugh and learn!

Registration is now open for the 2025 Annual Conference, Unlocking Libraries: Expanding Access and Opportunity for All. Register online at https://forms.gle/JFMhRrTRKgWeWp74A

The conference will be held at OCCC Keith Leftwich Memorial Library on Friday, November 21. A full schedule will be released soon but we are tentatively planning for 9:00am – 3:30pm. You may register yourself and/or additional participants from your organization. Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks.

Registration is now open for the 2024 OK-ACRL Conference and Virtual Pre-Conference!

*Register for the annual conference:
https://bit.ly/okacrl2024

*Register for the virtual pre-conference:
https://bit.ly/okacrl2024webinar

This year’s conference theme is “Success Stories: Courageous & Creative Solutions for Academic Librarians” and will be held in person at Tulsa Community College’s Northeast campus on Friday, November 8. Our keynote speaker will be Janet Brennan Croft, Associate University Librarian for Content Discovery at the University of Northern Iowa. You may register yourself and/or additional participants from your organization. Registration includes continental breakfast, your conference registration, lunch, and afternoon snacks.

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. At 1:00 p.m. 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 second 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.