12th Annual Kraemer Copyright Conference

Copyright and the Future of Libraries

June 16-18, 2025
Ent Center, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Hosted by the Kraemer Family Library, University of Colorado Colorado Springs

2025 Conference Theme

The 12th annual Kraemer Copyright Conference promises to be an exciting event, delving into how libraries can bounce back stronger after facing restrictive copyright rulings and ongoing challenges to equitable access. This year’s theme is all about advocacy strategies, fostering innovative partnerships, and highlighting transformative ideas that empower libraries to uphold their mission of providing public access to knowledge, even in the face of growing information privatization. Join us for a dynamic exploration of resilience and innovation in the library world!

Conference Tracks

• Libraries in the Future Track
  This track focuses on envisioning a robust future for libraries amidst changing copyright landscapes. Topics include advocacy for copyright reform, partnerships that bolster public access, and initiatives to reinforce libraries’ vital role in equitable knowledge access.
• Open Track
  A flexible track for proposals that bring fresh perspectives to copyright, libraries, and public access, extending beyond the primary conference theme.

Presentation Formats

• 45-Minute Sessions
  In-depth presentations offering substantial exploration of ideas or case studies.
• 5-Minute Lightning Talks
  Quick, focused presentations that highlight innovative ideas, initiatives, or case studies in a concise format.
• Poster Sessions
  Visual presentations providing an interactive opportunity for sharing projects, research, or case studies.

Topics of Interest Include (but are not limited to)

• Emerging technologies (AI, data analytics) and their implications for copyright
• Innovative perspectives on copyright reform and access to knowledge
• Strategies for negotiating licenses and overcoming copyright barriers
• Copyright education and literacy initiatives for library staff and users
• Collaborations between libraries, archives, and museums to advance access
• Ethical considerations around copyright, access, and privacy
• Strategies for libraries to handle copyright challenges, including licensing shifts, emerging technologies, and evolving fair use interpretations.
• The Role of Libraries in Shaping Copyright Law
• How libraries can adapt to and thrive amid restrictive copyright rulings and increasing privatization of knowledge
• How library technology could evolve to allow libraries to better use their rights under 108, Fair Use and other areas of copyright law.

Proposal Submission Details

Deadline: January 15, 2025

Submit Your Proposal

Conference Proceedings
Selected participants will have the opportunity to publish their work in the Kraemer Copyright Conference 2025 Proceedings, curated by the Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship (JCEL).

Proposals Submissions

The committee must receive all proposals through the submission form by midnight (MST) January 15, 2025.

The submission form requires the following information:

• Primary presenter’s contact information: name, title, affiliation, email address
• Additional participant(s): name, title, affiliation, email address
• Presentation format (Presentation, Lightning Talk, Poster Session)
• Presentation track (Future of Copyright and Libraries, Open Track)
• Presentation/Poster Title
• Brief description for the conference program (up to 300 words) 

Proposal Review and Notification
The conference organizer will review proposals, evaluating each on quality and clarity of content, relevance to conference themes, and ability to engage the audience. 

The conference organizer will start notifying presenters of selection decisions after the submission deadline has passed.

Additional Requirements
Once selected presenters confirm attendance, they will be registered for the Kraemer Copyright Conference. Presentation and digital poster materials will be required for non-peer reviewed conference proceedings via the Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship.

Conference workshops, presentations, and other documentation/media may be collected by the conference organizer via email at kcc@uccs.edu and preserved in the Kraemer Family Library institutional repository or another appropriate and accessible platform.

Non-Commercial Policy
The Kraemer Copyright Conference programs are non-commercial educational learning experiences. Under no circumstances should a speaker promote their product, service, or other self-interest.

Questions
Please email questions to the Kraemer Copyright Conference Planning Committee at kcc@uccs.edu. 

Introduction 

The 2025 Critical Pedagogy Symposium (CPS), now in its 3rd iteration since 2021, seeks to provide space for library workers and information professionals of all kinds to collaborate in critical pedagogical thought and critical practice. We want to build community, and to imagine new ways of doing our work by naming and dismantling oppressive systems and imagining new worlds. In this biennial symposium, our overarching aim is to collaborate in growing creative, generous, and mutually supportive intersectional and anti-oppressive work within Library and Information Science (LIS) so that we hone a sharp language for interrogating and dismantling inequities of all kinds and for doing justice work together. 

2025 Critical Pedagogy Symposium 

The 2025 Symposium will examine global barriers and their impact on library and archival pedagogy. This year’s Symposium is inspired by the pedagogies and practices of those thinking about colonialism, imperialism, transnationalism, epistemic injustice, and other frameworks for Decentering the West. With this in mind, we have created three broad tracks through which to consider Decentering the West in our critical pedagogy and practice.

Knowledge practices (diasporic, Indigenous, or ancestral): this track focuses on the ways libraries, archives, and their workers are pulling from historical knowledge banks to provide new ways of knowing, learning, and disseminating knowledge. Prompts for this track may include, but are not limited to: 

• How can traditions, folklore, artifacts, etc. be integrated into information skills programs, our services, and courses in a critical way?
   
• What are methods for teaching that engage users with ancestral connection?
   
• How do we decenter Western or Global North perspectives in our instruction, collections, cataloging, and/or archival work? What does it mean to decenter these perspectives? 
   
• How do we source collections with materials that are not available via mainstream publishers?
   

Community Building (as Critical Pedagogy): this track focuses on the co-creation or re-creation of knowledge with communities both inside and outside the formal library, archives, or institution. Prompts for this track may include, but are not limited to: 

• How do we work in community with those facing challenges to their communities and materials, ie, censorship, funding, institutional access, etc.? 
   
• How do libraries further anti-oppressive work given their relationships with oppressive (corporate, imperialist, etc.) institutions including vendors and parent organizations (universities, municipalities, etc.)?
   
• What would “successful” community building look like?
   
• What are examples of community-engaged art and/or service work, and what are the implications of the library’s roles in these often under-resourced projects?  

Information Access (and Global Capitalism): this track focuses on the issues surrounding information access, the commodification of information, and the role of libraries in pedagogy. Prompts for this track may include, but are not limited to: 

• How have digital inclusion and open access projects been successful in providing access to information, services and technology in different countries or geographic regions?
   
• How does the conglomeration of publishers and the shift from owning to renting information impact librarianship? 
   
• How does the proliferation and expansion of generative AI and related AI tools impact access to information? 
   
• How does the use/collection of Big Data and surveillance impact information access? 
   
• How do we teach in the classroom in a way that is critical of global capitalism?

Call for Proposals

We invite imaginative thinking with no boundaries that may focus on prefigurative, thought-provoking, and imagined worlds. Proposals may be panels, individual presentations, workshops, peer-review sessions, or facilitated discussions that consider ideas you are working through (and want to discuss), and/or encourage community building. Review the 2023 and 2021 symposium schedules to get a sense of previous offerings.

Submit your proposal! Complete this form by the dates below with the option for a preliminary submission for feedback prior to the final deadline. You may send any questions to criticallibrarysymposium@gmail.com.

Timeline:
Early deadline for feedback on your proposal – December 4th, 2024
Final deadline for proposals – January 15th, 2025
Notification of acceptance – February 15th, 2025
Symposium Date – Week of June 9th – 13th, 2025

We invite proposals from the perspective of reference, instruction, technical services, library administration, leadership, collection development, design, digital scholarship, open education, and archives. Additional areas of interest include work that extends to other parts of the information community, related to outreach, liaison work, research dissemination, scholarly communications, and programming. We are excited to hear from people from countries outside of the West, specifically outside of the United States, to present in English. Proposals will be accepted for presenting during the following times: 7am – 9pm EST (New York); 3pm – 5am in UAE (Abu Dhabi); 7pm – 9am CST (Shanghai).

To submit your proposal, complete this form by March 21st (or Feb 21st for feedback which is encouraged). If there are any questions, email criticallibrarysymposium@gmail.com.

The Critical Pedagogy Symposium is co-sponsored by: Barnard Library, NYU Libraries, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Library Information Library Council of CUNY, Metropolitan Library Council, Association of Library and Information Science Educators Innovate Pedagogies Special Interest Group, The Faculty Resource Network, and growing.

2025 Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge
(Sunday through Wednesday in 2025)
Sunday, May 18 – Wednesday, May 21, 2025 
Timberline Lodge: One hour east of Portland, Oregon on the slope of Mt. Hood
www.acquisitionsinstitute.org

Greetings!

We’re excited to announce the call for proposals for AITL 2025: our small, informal, and stimulating gathering in a convivial and glorious Pacific Northwest setting, focused on the methods and innovation of building and managing library collections.

Additionally, to help attendees budget and plan for AITL 2025 we have updated the cost estimates on our website. Last year, the AITL organization operated at a financial loss to run the conference. While we wish we could maintain our pricing from previous years, inflation has increased the cost for all services related to the institute. We are increasing our registration rates to ensure that we are able to offer a high-quality institute for years to come. Please see the “Costs” section on our FAQ webpage for transparency of costs and ballpark costs for lodging. For the 2025 conference, registration (including all meals) is $675. Discounted presenter registration is $475.

Cost saving strategies:

• Book alternative lodging and travel to the Lodge each day. Although the “experience” of staying at the Lodge is unique and special, we take pride in the high quality of presentations as the major value of our conference. In the past, self-organized carpools have offered a positive experience for attendees not staying at the Timberline Lodge. Rates for the Best Western in Government Camp are generally lower than those at the Lodge. If you do choose to stay down the mountain at Government Camp, be prepared for the six-mile winding mountain road each way.
• Conference room share. We understand the appeal of having your own room, but sharing lodging cuts costs, and we always try to match individuals looking for room shares.

As always, we value the engagement and participation of our attendees and look forward to your continued interest! Please read on for the call for proposals.

Proposals due December 30, 2024. 

2025 proposal submission form

WHAT IS The Acquisitions Institute?

• Since 2000, the pre-eminent conference located in Western North America on acquisitions and collection development, held at the Timberline Lodge. 
• A three-day conference focusing on the methods and innovation of building and managing library collections. 
• A small (capped at 80 attendees), informal and stimulating gathering in a convivial and glorious Pacific Northwest setting.
• WHAT TOPICS are we looking for?

The planning committee is seeking submissions on all aspects of library acquisitions and collection management. Presenters are encouraged to engage the audience in discussion, whether the presentation leans more toward the practical “here’s what we did” sessions or toward the more abstract “here’s what we think” sessions. The committee may also seek to achieve balance in the program by bringing individual proposals together to form panels, or by recommending that a proposal be converted to a table talk. We invite you to indicate whether or not you’d be interested in these opportunities on the submission proposal form.

Topics we and/or prior year’s attendees are interested in include (in no particular order):

• Assessment tools, methods, and projects (e.g., linking collections with learning outcomes; usage studies)
• Collection strategies including new models for selection and managing liaison programs 
• Government, special, or academic library perspectives in acquisitions and collection development 
• Sustainable models for publishing/pricing 
• Effective management of collections with constrained resources 
• Vendor and publisher evaluation, including business skills to determine financial viability 
• Diversity, inclusion, representation, and social justice in acquisitions and collections 
• Negotiation skills and how to use them, including during library-vendor and library-publisher meetings 
• Innovative vendor-librarian relationships and/or partnerships 
• Staffing, training and development, and recruiting issues, challenges, successes (e.g., onboarding new acquisitions and/or collections staff) 
• Using data visualization techniques to tell our stories (e.g., budget, collections, staff successes, etc.) 
• Impacts of Open initiatives on acquisitions and collection development 
• Data curation, including Big Data, and management and other new roles for subject and technical services librarians 
• How Generative AI impacts our work

The DEADLINE for submitting a proposal is December 30, 2024. NOTE: Maximum of three presenters per proposal.

Please use our 2025 proposal submission form.

COVID-19 Policy: In the interest of keeping everyone safe, the Institute will adhere to local, state, and federal health and safety protocols related to COVID-19. 

Important Dates

Fri 12/30/24: Proposals due
Mon 1/20/25: Review of proposals complete, and presenters notified
Fri 1/24/25: Presenters confirm commitment to present
Early February: Registration scheduled to open

 ________________________________________
The 2025 Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge Planning Committee is:
Damon Campbell, University of Oregon
Selena Chau, University of California, Santa Barbara
Randyn Heisserer-Miller, Colorado State University
Elsa Loftis, Portland State University
Kasia Stasik, Harrassowitz

planning@acquisitionsinstitute.org

The 5th Jubilee Polish Memory Conference will take place from November 26–28, 2025, at the Silesian University in Katowice in a stationary format. This event provides an opportunity to present the current state of the discipline, review the latest research, and reflect on practical aspects within various research trends and topics. We encourage submissions for panels and individual presentations (in both Polish and English) that will allow for contemplation on the state and new trends in memory studies (both in academic and museum contexts, as well as in social activism) in Poland and the broader context of global research. The main theme of the conference will be INDUSTRIAL MEMORY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE. 

We invite submissions for panels and individual presentations related to collective memory, focusing on topics such as:

– Concepts of industrial memory: the history of technology and its transformations in response to changing energy needs, including projects, practices, and the revitalization of post-industrial spaces.
– Post-industrial heritage: wastelands and edgelands, the role of post-industrial refuges in the context of global environmental changes, and discussions on revitalization versus forgetting.
– Interdisciplinary aspects of industrial memory: topics that incorporate various fields of science, such as architecture, history, or sociology, as well as differences in industrial memory between highly industrialized and less industrialized countries.

Panel submissions: November 30, 2024
Panel submissions should include the name, email address, and biography (up to 100 words) of the panel organizer, along with (if applicable) a list of speakers that should contain their names, biographies (up to 100 words), email addresses, and abstracts (up to 300 words).

 List of open panels: December 10, 2024

Individual submissions: January 10, 2025
Individual submissions should include name, email address, biography, and abstract (up to 300 words).

Conference fees: 400 PLN (full); 300 PLN (PhD students and independent researchers).

Contact and submissions: vkonferencjapamiecioznawcza@gmail.com

Organizing Committee

Faculty of Humanities at Silesian University in Katowice:
Dr. hab. Marta Tomczok, Silesian University
Mgr Klaudia Węgrzyn
Dr. hab. Paweł Tomczok, Silesian University
Dr. hab. Lucyna Sadzikowska, Silesian University
Dr. Marcin Buczyński
Mgr Sylwia Zazulak

Polish Memory Studies Group:
dr Kamilla Biskupska, University of Wrocław
dr Bartłomiej Krzysztan, Polish Academy of Sciences
dr Anna Kurpiel, University of Wrocław
dr Małgorzata Łukianow, University of Warsaw

Contact Information

For organizational information, deadlines, and other matters related to the conference, please contact the organizing team at vkonferencjapamiecioznawcza@gmail.com. 

For all other inquiries, you can reach out to the Polish Memory Studies Group at msapoland@gmail.com.

Radio and Audio Media Area

April 16-19, 2025, NEW ORLEANS

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:  NOVEMBER 30, 2024

We invite papers and presentations on all aspects of radio and audio media, including but not limited to: radio and audio media history; radio and audio media programs and content (music, drama, talk, news, public affairs, features, interviews, sports, college, religious, ethnic, community, low-power, pirate, etc.); podcasting (news, public affairs, commentary, audio drama, branded content); new audio media (internet radio, streaming audio, etc.); audio social media (Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, Reddit Talk, etc.); radio literature studies; media representations of radio and audio media; rhetorical research; legal and regulatory policy; economics of radio and audio media; and radio and audio media technology. We welcome U.S., international, or comparative works and media presentations and are catholic regarding method, theory, or approach. Papers or presentations should be planned for no more than fifteen minutes. We encourage you to emphasize audience involvement and elicit stimulating questions and discussion.

Recent papers have included “Radio Adaptations of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca,” Remediating Narrative Experience: The Symbolic Work of Actual Play Podcasts,” and The Viral Orality of Hate: Right-Wing Radio in [Jordan Peele’s] Quiet Part Loud” . 

Paper or presentation proposals must include an abstract of 200 words and paper or presentation title, and author’s institutional affiliation and email address. We do not accept undergraduate student submissions. Submit your paper or presentation proposal to: https://www.aievolution.com/pcaaca/

The proposal will include an abstract of 200 words and paper or presentation title, institutional affiliation, and email address. In order to submit a paper or presentation proposal, your PCA membership must be valid for 2024-2025.

Address paper or presentation proposals or inquiries via email to: Matthew Killmeier, PCA/ACA Radio and Audio Media Area Chair, Dept. of Communication and Theatre, Auburn University at Montgomery, mkillmei@aum.edu 

November 30, 2024    Deadline for Paper Proposals

December 15, 2024     Travel Grant Applications Due

December 31, 2024     Early Bird Registration Ends for Presenters

January 31, 2025         Regular Registration Ends for Presenters

February 15, 2025       Late Registration Ends for Presenters

*Presenters not registered by Feb. 15 will be dropped from the program.

Contact Information
Matthew Killmeier
Contact Email: mkillmei@aum.edu

Biographies Area

The Biographies Area of the Popular Culture Association (PCA)  is soliciting papers for the 2025 conference that examine the connections between biography and popular culture. Papers and full panel presentations regarding any aspect of popular culture and biography are encouraged. Potential topics might include:

– Biography and entertainment, art, music, theater
– Biography and film
– Biography and criminal justice
– Television programs about biography
– Biography and urban legends
– Biography and folklore
– Biography and literature
– Scholarly Biography
– Controversial Biography
– Psychoanalysis and Biography
– Historical Biography
– Political Biography
– Autobiography

The conference will be held April 16-19, 2025 at the New Orleans Marriott, 555 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana  70130. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per standard session.  Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. 

Below are some recent titles of presentations in the Biographies Area panels:
·Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll: Celebrity Biography through the Lens of Autopsy
·Will Rogers: American Folk Hero or Elitist Fraud
·Manufacturing “Soupy Sales:” Biographical Insights in the Emergence of a Comic Entertainer

If interested in submitting for the conference, please provide the title and abstract of your presentation.

Please see this link for details and guidelines on submitting to the conference:
https://pcaaca.org/general/custom.asp?page=submissionguidelines  

Deadline for Paper Proposals: November 30, 2024.

Please direct any queries to the Biographies Area Chair:

Susie Skarl
Associate Professor/Urban Affairs Librarian
UNLV Libraries
Las Vegas, NV 89154
702-895-2141
susie.skarl@unlv.edu OR susieskarl@gmail.com

Contact Information

Susie Skarl
Associate Professor/Urban Affairs Librarian
susie.skarl@unlv.edu
702-895-2141

Contact Email

susie.skarl@unlv.edu