ULA Annual Conference 2025

ULA Annual Conference 2025

Join us at the Dixie Convention Center in St. George, Utah for the 2025 Utah Library Association Annual Conference! Registration is now open. Soon after registering, you will receive a Sched invite to this event so you can plan your conference schedule. See you in St. George!

Maralee Carlin

Southern Utah University

Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science

Cedar City, Utah

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Maralee Carlin is an Assistant Professor and the Learning Engagement Librarian at Southern Utah University. She develops instructional materials and designs courses to teach information literacy skills at a college level and teaches the Technology for School Librarians course in the School Library Media Endorsement Program.

11:00am MDT

Registration North Lobby

1:30pm MDT

Tell Your Story With Data Entrada CJosh Johnson • Heidi Fendrick

3:20pm MDT

Afternoon Break North Lobby

7:30am MDT

Registration North Lobby

8:30am MDT

Silent Auction Ballroom CDEF ULA President's Address & Cindy Hohl Keynote: "Inspiration, Found. Celebrating Our Humanity During Times of Change" Ballroom ABErin Warnick • Cindy Hohl

9:40am MDT

Morning Break & Exhibit Hall Opens Ballroom CDEF Poster Sessions Ballroom FoyerMaggie Marchant • Kori Robbins • Katie Yeo • Michael Gates • Sandra Joseph • Cheri Bush • Rebekah Dizes

10:10am MDT

What They Don’t Tell You About Outreach: A Practical Testimony from Outreach Librarians at Academic Institutions Entrada AKatie Luder • Erica Gudiño

11:10am MDT

Budget Escape Rooms for All Ages: Making Escape Rooms for Kids Ages 5 - 95 Sunbrook BKatherine Quigley

12:00pm MDT

Lunch & ULA Awards Presentation Garden Room

1:30pm MDT

Rightsizing the 5th Floor: Perspectives on Collection Assessment in the Humanities Entrada BMegan Gurney • Cassandra Belliston • Adam Griggs • Mikayla VanDyke

2:20pm MDT

Afternoon Break & Exhibit Hall Ballroom CDEF

2:50pm MDT

ABC—It’s Not Easy as 123: Revitalizing Your Academic Library Collection Development Strategy (20 minute session) Entrada ALiz Woolcott • Stephanie Western

3:20pm MDT

A Comprehensive Collection Analysis of a Multi-Campus Medical Library (20 minute session) Entrada ADianne Aldrich • Emily Brennan

3:50pm MDT

An Educational Approach to the Reference Interview Entrada BBrittany Maloy Empowering Students Through AI: The UVU Fulton Library’s Innovative Response Entrada AAngela Beatie • Ben Wilson

4:20pm MDT

Networking Social Ballroom CDEF

9:00am MDT

James LaRue Keynote: Courage and Conviction or How to Lose Your Job Ballroom ABJamie LaRue

10:15am MDT

Morning Break & Exhibit Hall Ballroom CDEF Poster Sessions Ballroom FoyerMaggie Marchant • Kori Robbins • Katie Yeo • Michael Gates • Sandra Joseph • Cheri Bush • Rebekah Dizes

10:45am MDT

Refitting, Redesigning and Refreshing: Mid to Late Career Academic Librarians Panel Discussion AuditoriumLeticia Camacho • Dale Larsen • Erin Davis • Wendy Holiday • Emily Swanson Integrating Experiential Learning Principles at Your Library Entrada AMarissa Bischoff • Kathryn Ottosson • Michelle Forstrom • Matt Armstrong

11:45am MDT

Lunch & Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Author Keynote: What Inspires Me Garden RoomKimberly Brubaker Bradley

1:00pm MDT

Leading from Within: Building Community and Self-Awareness Sunbrook ADianne Aldrich • Kathleen Broeder

1:50pm MDT

Afternoon Break North Lobby

2:10pm MDT

Full Stack Library: A Process for Reorganizing a Collections-focused Academic Library Department Entrada ALiz Woolcott • Becky Skeen • Carol Kochan

3:10pm MDT

Artificial Intelligence and its Translations from Minority Languages Entrada AMilan Pohontsch