Submission deadline: 30 Oct 2025
CMSs & Websites
What have you done to improve the user experience? Help patrons navigate your collection? Learn new digital literacy skills? Participate or learn from a distance? Engage in a virtual activity? What website platforms do you use, and how have you implemented, adapted and improved them? What are you doing to protect patron privacy and maintain online security?
ILS/Discovery/Search
Talk about your experience with popular library ILSs, discovery layers, and integrated library platforms. How have you selected, migrated, and adapted them? How are they performing for you? What would you recommend? How have you documented your system, and what do you do to help users find what they are looking for?
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Published articles
Forty Years of Computers in Libraries: Cycles of Technology and Progress
Marshall Breeding
Research on Library youth education based on Scaffolding Theory
Weiyi Hu