The complete schedule of RUSA programs and room locations are listed below. Full program descriptions are available on the Annual Conference website.
RUSA @ ALA Annual Conference
Friday, June 28, 2024
HS Preconference – The History and Heritage of the Asian Cultures Who Call San Diego Home, 8:15 am – 4:45 pm – Marriott Marquis, Grand Ballroom Section 1
BRASS Preconference – The Business of Vice: A Discussion about reference work concerning business often described as vices, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm – SDCC, Room 7B
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Shared Collections Interest Group Meeting, 8:30 – 10am – Marriott Marquis, Grand Ballroom Section 10
STARS All Members Meeting, 8:30-10 am – SDCC, Room 10
BRASS All Members Meeting, 8:30-11 am – SDCC, Room 01 A
Breaking Boundaries: Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT to Transform Library Services, 9-10 am – SDCC, Room 30 A B C D E
History Librarians Discussion Group, 9-10 am – Marriott Marquis, Presidio Room
Accessibility Assembly, 10-11 am – SDCC, Room 14 A
Charting First-Year Library Experiences: An Open Discussion on Student Initiatives, 10:30-11:30 am – SDCC, Room 13
Networks and Networking in Business Librarianship, 11:00 am -12:00 noon – SDCC, Room 11 B
Empowering the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, 1-2 pm – SDCC, Room 32 A B
You’ve Got Their Attention Make It Count: Micro-Learning for Adult Learners in the Library, 1-2 pm – SDCC, Room 9
BRASS Discussion Group and Awards, 1-2:30 pm – Marriott Marquis, Grand Ballroom Section 05
High-Impact Practices: Identifying Meaningful Mentoring Constellations in Libraries, 2:30 – 3:30 pm – SDCC, Room 2
Accessible Method Librarians Can Use to Identify the Authorship of Archival Anonymous Texts with Computational-Linguistics, 4:00-5:00 pm – SDCC, Room 28 D E
History Section All-Section Meeting, 4:00-5:00 pm – Marriott Marquis, Grand Ballroom Section 11
Meetup for Federal and Military Librarians, 4:00-5:00 pm – Marriott Marquis, Carlsbad
2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Award Ceremony and Reception, 7-10 pm – San Diego Public Library, 330 Park Ave, Neil Morgan Auditorium
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Literary Luminaries: Celebrating The Best Reading of the Year (RUSA), 8-10 am – Marriott Marquis, Grand Ballroom Section 5
Collaboration as the Strength of RSS Retreat, 9-10 am – SDCC, Room 01 B
Optimizing Resource Sharing: Evidence-Based Approaches for Improving the Efficiency of Borrowing Networks, 9-10 am – SDCC, Room 5 A
Genealogy & Local History Discussion Group Meeting, 10-11 am – Marriott Marquis, Catalina
RUSA Coffee and Conversations, 11-12 noon – SDCC, Room 01 B Sponsored by Bloomsbury
Supporting All Learners by Debunking the Learning Styles Neuromyth, 11 -12 noon – SDCC, Room 9
RUSA President’s Program “Back to the Future: Predictions from Library 2035”, 1-2 pm – SDCC, Room 28 A B C
RUSA Huddle, 2:30 – 3:30 pm – SDCC, Room 06 D
The 30th Annual Reference Research Forum, 2:30-3:30 pm – SDCC, Room 24 A B
ALA Trivia Championship 7-9 pm – Marriott Marquis, Grand Ballroom Section 5 Cosponsored with GameRT, NMRT, RUSA and SustainRT
Monday, July 1, 2024
Demystifying AI for Business and Libraries, 9-10 am – SDCC, Room 03
Telling our Story: Career Paths in Resource Sharing, 10:30 -11:30 am – SDCC, Room 5 A
BRASS Leadership Council, 1-2 pm – SDCC, Room 10
The African American and Ethnic-American Press: Newspaper Collection Development and Access in the 21st Century, 1 -2 pm – SDCC, Room 5 A
Beyond Borders: Beyond Basics: the value of International Resource Sharing, 2:30 -3:30 pm – SDCC, Room 28 D E
Paddling the Canoe Together: Three Pacific Island Librarians Share Ways to Serve Indigenous Communities, 2:30 -3:30 pm – SDCC, Room 24 A B
Fill the Gap at Your Library: Justify Hiring a Second Business Librarian, 4-5 pm – SDCC, Room 11B
*San Diego Convention Center-SDCC
Register today at https://2024.alaannual.org/
