2025 annual conference

2025 Conference Program

Lightning Talks | Steering Collections and Spaces

Study for Development of Library Resources for Off-site Graduate Programs in Architecture

Ann Baird, University of Florida Art and Architecture Library

From Foundation to Future: Hejduk's Renovation and 21st Century Innovations at The Cooper Union

Mackenzie Williams, Cooper Union Library 

Steven Hillyer, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive, The Cooper Union

Revitalizing a Branch Library - A Space In-between

Jenna Rinalducci, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Presentations | Collaborative Instruction 

Repair After Shock and Awe: Critical Pedagogy and Zine Libraries as Tools to Rebuild and Maintain Communities 

Holly Wilson, Pratt Institute 

Romel Espinel, Pratt Institute 

Collaborating to Create: Red Oak Reuse

Ann Holderfield, Clemson University and Joel Brown, Clemson University

Panel | Transformative Projects

Transformative Projects: Evidence of University-Community Partnerships from the Rudy Bruner Award Collection

Carl Siegel, University of Buffalo

Dan Pitera, University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture + Community Development

Camden Miller, University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning

Robert G. Shibley, Director of the Rudy Bruner Center for Urban Excellence, University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning

Presentations | Inclusive Collections

Women Architects Worldwide: Building a Diverse and Inclusive Canon

Aubree Tillett, University of Minnesota

Black Built Environment: Expanding the Canon, Expanding the Audience

Carol Choi, New York University

Would you Call Me a Diva if I Were a Man?: Repairing the Narrative of Women in Architecture

Stefanie Hilles, Miami University

Sara Mautino, Oklahoma State University

New Voices | New Contexts: Expanding Representation in the Architecture Archives

Lynn Kawaratani, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

Meeting Students Where They Are: Cross-Pollination Conversations

Marcella L. McGowan, Texas A&M University Libraries

Christina Flores, Palo Alto College

Session | Collaborative Instruction

The Color Film Emergency Project: Legacy Image Collections and Coaxing Value from the Otherwise Obsolete

Sonja Sekely-Rowland, University of California, Riverside

Jackie Spafford & Maureen Burns, IMAGinED Consulting

A Curator in the Humanities Lab: Reuniting and Recontextualizing Mosaic Floors from Ancient Antioch

Lael Ensor-Bennett, Johns Hopkins University

Defend Corner Stores: Preserving the Vanishing Culture of Vernacular Hand-Painted Signage in the Commercial Settings of the Post-Katrina Landscape of New Orleans

Anthony DelRosario, Tulane University Libraries and NOLA 'Nacular 

Session | Cultivating Visual Collections

The Color Film Emergency Project: Legacy Image Collections and Coaxing Value from the Otherwise Obsolete

Sonja Sekely-Rowland, University of California, Riverside

Jackie Spafford & Maureen Burns, IMAGinED Consulting

A Curator in the Humanities Lab: Reuniting and Recontextualizing Mosaic Floors from Ancient Antioch

Lael Ensor-Bennett, Johns Hopkins University

Defend Corner Stores: Preserving the Vanishing Culture of Vernacular Hand-Painted Signage in the Commercial Settings of the Post-Katrina Landscape of New Orleans

Anthony DelRosario, Tulane University Libraries and NOLA 'Nacular 

Panel | Prepare / Repair 

Prepare / Repair panel

Paris Whalon, University of Tennessee Knoxville
James Sobczak, Columbia University
Amy Trendler, Ball State University
Gilda Santana, University of Miami
Rebecca Price, University of Michigan

Lightning Talks | Expanded Literacies 

Can you Copyright a Bridge?
Sara Schumacher, Texas Tech University

Empowering Content Creators: Equitable Outreach in Architecture Education
Paris Whalon, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Presentations | Building, Planning, and Recovery 

Building an In-House Materials Library: An Accessible and Sustainable Approach for Architecture Programs
Sara Mautino, Oklahoma State University
Amy Hunt, Oklahoma State University

Repair, Rethink, Reconnect: The Frank Lloyd Wright Digital Archive at Avery Library 
Margaret Smithglass, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
Katherine Prater Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University

Crisis and Care: Rewriting Disaster Response for the People Behind Recovery
Lauren Gottlieb-Miller, University of Houston