8:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

2025 Learning Summit (ARL Fellows and invited guests only)                    

11:45 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Board of Directors Meeting (Board members only)

7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast Available (Grand A/Terrace)  

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

MORNING SESSION (Grand Ballroom B/C)                                                              

9:00 a.m.

Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:30 a.m.

In Conversation with Holden Thorp
María Estorino (M)
Dr. Holden Thorp, Editor and Chief of Science and the tenth chancellor of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill will join María R. Estorino, Vice Provost for University Libraries and University
Librarian at UNC Chapel Hill in a fireside chat. Dr. Thorp writes and speaks extensively about trust in
science and higher education in Science and in his newsletter Science Forever. He will engage in
conversation with Vice Provost Estorino and the audience on the past year of tumult in higher
education and the research enterprise, and what the future could hold.

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.       

BREAK

11:00 a.m. 

Committee Conversations: BLOCK I

• Advocacy & Public Policy Committee: Working with Government Affairs (Aria)
• Learning Network Committee: Making it Stick: Bringing Back and Applying Program Insights
  in Your Institution (Beau Rivage)
• Research & Analytics Committee: Scaling Impact (Mandalay Bay)

12:15 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.

NETWORKING LUNCH (Grand Ballroom A/Terrace)

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

New/Interim ARL Member Representatives Lunch (Aria)
Hosted by the Member Engagement and Outreach Committee [Invitation Only]

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

ARL-LIS (iSchool) Meet-up Lunch (Beau Rivage)
Hosted by the ARL iSchools Affinity Group [Invitation Only]

1:45 p.m. 

Committee Conversations: BLOCK II

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee: Candid Conversations: Unpacking Our Current
  DEI Landscape (Mandalay Bay)
• Member Engagement & Outreach Committee: Change Management & Supporting Library
  Faculty and Staff in the Wake of Staff Reductions (Aria)
• Scholars & Scholarship Committee: What Makes Research Trustworthy? Reexamining the
  Indicators We Use (Beau Rivage)

3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.

BREAK

3:20 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

ARL BUSINESS MEETING [Member Representatives & Proxies] (Grand Ballroom B/C)

6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

NETWORKING RECEPTION—MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. LIBRARY ROOFTOP
Sponsored by our partner, EBSCO

4:30 p.m.

Daily Programming Ends

8:00a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Breakfast Available (Grand A)

9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

MORNING SESSION (Grand B/C)                                                             

9:30 a.m. 

Morning Welcome

9:35 a.m. 

Panel—National Narratives: Libraries, Archives, and Museums as Stewards of Public Trust
Carla Hayden ■■ Louise Mirrer ■■ Sarah Thomas (M) ■■ Leslie Weir

Entrusted with national collections and national narratives, leaders of libraries, museums, and archives
in the US and Canada will discuss making their institutions more inclusive and accessible to all communities
and providing trusted information for education and research. In both private and public settings, these
leaders have navigated profound changes in both the culture and policy environment and how their
institutions have responded.

10:35 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.          

BREAK

11:10 a.m. 

Interactive Session—Library Leadership on AI: An Updated Picture of ARL Libraries
Leo Lo & Natalie Meyers

Leo Lo, University of Virginia Dean of Libraries and Natalie Meyers, ARL/CNI Artificial Intelligence
Researcher in Residence will engage the audience through presentations on aggregated insights
into ARL and CNI members' engagement in and use of AI. They will reflect on major themes of
procurement, search, discoverability, and decision-making. After these brief presentations they'll guide
the audience in small table discussion and real-time interactive contributions to update our collective
picture of research libraries and AI with respect to workforce, infrastructure, and policy needs with
an aim to identify opportunity spaces. 

12:10 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

NETWORKING LUNCH (Grand A)

12:10 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Program Strategy Committee Lunch Meeting [Invitation Only] (Aria)

12:10 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

ARL Land-grant Meet-up Lunch (Beau Rivage)
Hosted by the ARL Libraries at Land-Grant Universities Affinity Group [Invitation Only] 

1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

CLOSING SESSION (Grand B/C)

1:15 p.m.

Panel—Trust in the Research Enterprise: Vice Presidents for Research
Stacie Grossman Bloom ■■ Leah Cowen ■■ Arthur "Skip" Lupia ■■ Sarah Shreeves (M)

Upheaval in the research enterprise, including steadily growing concerns about research security and
administrative burden in both the US and Canada and a recasting of the relationship between the
federal government and university research in the US, have made the relationship between libraries
and research offices even more critical. Partners in ensuring that research is trustworthy, secure, and
accessible, libraries and research offices comprise critical service and consultative services for investigators.
Panelists will discuss recent challenges from the lens of trust, including the importance of communicating
and sharing knowledge with the public.

2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks 

2:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

BREAKOUTS—MEMBERS ONLY

1. Navigating Austerity: Library Leadership, Resource Prioritization, and Radical Solutions (Mandalay Bay)
   Facilitator: John Culshaw
   This session offers a candid look at the immediate and long-term impacts of library budget reductions.
   We'll discuss how leaders are prioritizing their teams, including through cuts to collection budgets, and
   the wider crisis impacting university presses. With increasing pressure to centralize campus services,
   "radical solutions" are needed. Join us to brainstorm strategies, including forming alliances with
   VPs of Finance & Administration to tackle vendor costs, and effectively managing the fallout of
   budget reductions, all aimed at securing the future in challenging times.
2. Social Unrest and the Institutional Neutrality Moment: Library Policies and Practices (Aria)
   Facilitator: Irene Herold
   More and more institutions are embracing a posture of neutrality and looking at policies to address
   protest and other forms of expression. This breakout will look at libraries, including as a site of protest,
   and at our role in fostering and documenting community expression.
3. MEOC Hot Topic—Navigating Austerity: Library Leadership, Resource Prioritization, and Radical Solutions (Beau Rivage)
   MEOC will hold a concurrent session of "Navigating Austerity: Library Leadership, Resource Prioritization,
   and Radical Solutions" to accommodate the large number of registrants for this breakout topic.

4:15 p.m.

187th Association Meeting Adjourns

6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Executive Institute
Cinema al Dente: A Night of Pasta and Popcorn (Grand B/C)
Join or Die Film Screening—Featuring a Q&A with Directors Pete Davis & Rebecca Davis

To accompany the film and discussion, curators from the Library of Congress will be displaying 
select materials from its recent exhibition, Join In: Voluntary Associations in America, on the history of
voluntary associations and self-organization in America. Publications from the exhibit will also be 
available for interested participants.