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  • Friday, July 17, 2026
  • 8:00am - 4:00pm EDT
    AALL Executive Board Meeting (Current/Incoming Board Members and Current Council Chairs)
  • Saturday, July 18, 2026
  • 8:00am - 3:00pm EDT
    CONELL (Conference of Newer Law Librarians) (Sponsored by Thomson Reuters) Separate Registration Required
  • 8:30am - 4:00pm EDT
    PLLIP Summit: Turn It Up! Amplify Your Practical Skills & Processes (Separate Registration Required)
  • 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT
    Libraries, Copyright & Fair Use (Separate Registration Required)
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
    Leadership Lunch (By Invitation) (Sponsored by Thomson Reuters)
  • 1:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
    Re-Focusing in the Attention Economy: Strategies for Law Librarians and Legal Educators (Sponsored by LexisNexis) (Separate Registration Required)
  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
    Library Tour: Case Western Reserve University Law School Library (Separate Registration Required)
  • 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
    Chapter Council Meet and Greet (Chapter Presidents and Vice Presidents)
  • 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
    Library Tour: Cleveland Public Library (Separate Registration Required)
  • 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
    SIS Council Meet and Greet (SIS Chairs and Vice Chairs)
  • 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
    Newcomers Networking Kickoff (By Invitation)
  • 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT
    Opening Reception in the Exhibit Hall (Ticketed Event; Full Conference/Saturday Single-Day Registrations Include One Ticket)
  • 5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT
    AALL Award Recipients Reception (By Invitation)
  • 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT
    AALL VIP Reception (By Invitation)
  • Sunday, July 19, 2026
  • 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
    Opening General Session (Co-Sponsored by LexisNexis & Thomson Reuters)
  • 10:15am - 11:15am EDT
    Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break
  • 10:15am - 4:00pm EDT
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
    Being New & Alone: Newer Law Librarians on Being a Solo and Small Team Savant
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
    Cool Tools Café
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
    See It, Fix It, Open It: ADA Assessment for Every Law Library
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
    Strategic Planning 101 for Law Libraries
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
    The Talent Equation: Recruitment, Training, and Retention in Law Firm Libraries
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
    What’s in a Name? Investigating the Law, Research, and Culture Behind a Major League Rebrand
  • 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
    PLLIP-SIS Business Meeting & Lunch (Separate Registration Required)
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
    Cultivating Positivity & Connections in the Workplace
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
    Improving Legal Reference Services for Incarcerated Patrons
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
    The Fight to Preserve Legal Texts
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
    Toward Best Practices in Law Library Services for Online Students
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
    Transform Your Staff Manual
  • 2:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
    Deep Dive: Say "Aloha" to Subject Analysis and Classification
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
    Diversify Your Case Law: Using Foreign, International, and Indigenous Law to Teach Lateral Thinking
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
    Diversity Symposium: From DEI to UD: How Universal Design Can Create a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Environment
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
    Intranets with Intention: Designing Law Library Portals That Connect, Inform & Engage With Users
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
    Losing Space, Losing Funds, Not Losing Our Minds
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
    Welcome Aboard!: Navigating the Rough Waters of Onboarding
  • 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT
    Diversity Symposium Reception
  • 5:00pm - 5:45pm EDT
    AALL Business Meeting
  • Monday, July 20, 2026
  • 7:00am - 8:15am EDT
    ALL-SIS Directors’ Breakfast (Separate Registration Required)
  • 7:00am - 8:15am EDT
    ALL-SIS Middle-Managers’ Breakfast
  • 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
    Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break
  • 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
    Meet the AALL Executive Board Candidates
  • 8:30am - 4:00pm EDT
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 9:45am - 10:45am EDT
    Choose Your Own Management Adventure: Stories from the Professional Trenches
  • 9:45am - 10:45am EDT
    How to Investigate Private Companies Using Public Records
  • 9:45am - 10:45am EDT
    Spreading Your Wings as a Law Librarian: Monetizing Your Skills for Purpose, Profit & Professional Power
  • 9:45am - 10:45am EDT
    The Next Generation of Law Library Research Assistant Programs
  • 9:45am - 10:45am EDT
    We Teach That Too! Law Librarians Beyond Legal Research
  • 9:45am - 12:00pm EDT
    Deep Dive: Storytelling for Change: Increasing Access to Justice by Uplifting the Unheard
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
    AI Law and Policy Across Borders: Impact on Legal Research and Libraries
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
    Cataloging Curiosities: Classifying and Describing the Quirky and Rare in Your Library
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
    Catch the Vibe: What Law Librarians Need to Know About Vibe Coding
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
    From Burnout to Brilliance: Empowering Teams Feeling Overlooked, Overworked, or on the Edge
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
    Preserving Transparency: Federal Information Policy in the Wake of the "Great Takedown"
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
    Library Tour: Cleveland City Hall and CPL Public Administration Library (Separate Registration Required)
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
    Library Tour: Cuyahoga County Courthouse & Law Library (Separate Registration Required)
  • 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT
    Automating Institutional Repository Workflows: From Repetition to Efficiency
  • 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT
    Beyond Anecdotes for Beginners: Getting Started with Empirical Research
  • 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT
    Budgie Bills and Byrd Baths: Understanding, Tracking, and Researching Federal Appropriations
  • 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT
    Ducks in the Library! More Examples of Passive Outreach in Law Libraries
  • 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT
    LAWPods: Promoting a Futuristic Solution to Present-Day Problems?
  • 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT
    License to Lead: Managing Contracts and License Agreements for Transparency Across Your Organization
  • 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT
    Training for a Lawyer Audience: Strategies That Stick
  • 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
    Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break
  • 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
    Aloha Management
  • 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
    Code Meets Code: Benchmarking Statutory Research by GenAI
  • 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
    Fighting for the Freedom to Read: Law Library Edition
  • 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
    Inclusive Outreach Now: Practical Playbooks to Serve Patrons with Disabilities
  • 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
    Librarians as Changemakers: Approaching the Implementation of Publishing Best Practices for Legal Journals
  • 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
    Tracking with Aloha: Comparing Usage Tools for Law Library Insights
  • 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
    Using Legal Research Performance Task Questions: From Creation to Implementation
  • Tuesday, July 21, 2026
  • 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
    Democracy Demands Disclosure: Legal Barriers to Public Information
  • 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
    FCIL 101: Learn the Basics of Foreign, Comparative & International Law Research
  • 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
    It's Storytime: Advocacy Storytelling Tools to Promote Your Library
  • 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
    Litigation in the Age of AI Slop: Best Practices, Ethics, and Education
  • 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
    Mapping the Law: How a 10-Day Road Trip to Discover County Law Library Services Built a Community
  • 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
    Personal Safety for Librarians: An Intro to Basic Skills
  • 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
    Touchable in Cleveland? Eliot Ness and the Kingsbury Run Torso Murders
  • 8:30am - 12:00pm EDT
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 9:45am - 11:15am EDT
    Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break
  • 9:45am - 11:15am EDT
    Poster Session Presentation and Review Period
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
    Alternative Teaching: How to Reach Students Outside of the Traditional Classroom
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
    Banning Book Banning: Librarian-Led Advocacy and the Rhode Island Freedom to Read Coalition
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
    Increasing Access to Justice with Public Libraries
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
    Negotiating Contracts: A Conversation Between Information Vendors and Librarians on Issues, Strategies, and ADA Changes
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
    Save Our Now: Preserving the Institution's History for Tomorrow's Users
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
    Utilizing Free GenAI Programs to Prepare Profiles of People and Companies
  • 12:45pm - 2:00pm EDT
    Association Luncheon (Ticketed Event)
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
    Library Tour: Cleveland Police Museum (Separate Registration Required)
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
    Library Tour: Cleveland State University Law Library (Separate Registration Required)
  • 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
    AALL Informal Executive Board Meeting (2026-2027 Board Members)