ACRL 2025 Registration is OPEN!
ACRL 2025: Democratizing Knowledge, Access, and Opportunities
Minneapolis, Minnesota or Virtual
April 2-5, 2025
- Connect with your community
Join us for this unique professional gathering where we will recognize the significant shifts impacting our communities and embrace the extraordinary opportunities they present. This conference isn’t just about our important work ahead; it’s an opportunity to strengthen your connections and rejuvenate passion for your career.
- Keep up and adapt to change
At the heart of our mission is the once-in-a-century chance to pave new paths forward, democratizing information access in an intricate, ever-changing, diversely dynamic and interconnected student body. In a world marked by so much challenge and change, we stand at the forefront of shaping the future of higher education.
- Find new approaches and solutions
We will delve into complex topics and engage in critical conversations, addressing challenges like embedded bias with solution-centered approaches. Discover how our academic libraries are resiliently committed to inclusive excellence, navigating the complexities of our evolving landscape and communities.
Keynote speakers:
Ruha Benjamin is Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, Founding Director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and author of the award-winning book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code among many other publications. Her work investigates the social dimensions of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power. Ruha earned a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Spelman College, MA and PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley, and completed postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA’s Institute for Society & Genetics and Harvard’s Science, Technology & Society Program. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Marguerite Casey Foundation 2020 Freedom Scholar Award, and the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton. For more information please visit www.ruhabenjamin.com
Saeed Jones is a critically acclaimed author and literary activist known for his poignant exploration of identity. Born in Memphis and raised in Texas, his debut poetry collection Prelude to Bruise was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His memoir How We Fight for Our Lives (2019) garnered widespread praise, winning the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the Lambda Literary Award. In 2022, Jones released his latest poetry collection, Alive at the End of the World, which earned the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He also co-hosts the podcast Vibe Check, which has been named one of the best podcasts of the year by major outlets like The New York Times. For more information please visit: www.readsaeedjones.com
