Annual Conference 2025
MiALA 2025 Annual Conference
Driving Excellence: Navigating the Challenges & Opportunities
University of Michigan-Flint
Planning is underway for the 2025 Annual Conference Driving Excellence: Navigating the Challenges & Opportunities.
The conference will be held at Riverfront Conference Center on the University of Michigan-Flint campus on May 19 & 20, 2025, with pre-conference events taking place on Sunday, May 18.
Over the next few months, watch for regular updates, including calls for presentation and poster proposals, and scholarship opportunities.
The planning committee includes representatives from the conference co-hosts, the University of Michigan-Flint and the University of Michigan-Dearborn, as well as MCLS and academic libraries from around the state, including Hope College, Grand Valley State University, Kettering University, Lansing Community College, Michigan State University, Oakland University, University of Detroit Mercy, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and Western Michigan University. If you have questions for the committee or ideas you’d like to share, please email conference@miala.org.
See you all in Flint next May!
Health Sciences Pre-Conference
The MiALA / MHSLA pre-conference will be held on Sunday, May 18, 2025, from 12 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Riverfront Conference Center on the University of Michigan-Flint campus. To register for the pre-conference, go to MHSLA Website.
Do you plan on attending the MiALA Conference, please register below.
Registration
Registration will open in 2025. Please see the conference rates below.
· $175 for MiALA, ALAO, and MHSLA members,
· $100 for MiALA members who are library support staff and/or part-time librarians
· $50 for LIS students,
· $250 for all others
Conference Schedule
Conference schedule is now available.
Conference Scholarships
Scholarship opportunities are now open!
We are excited to welcome Barbara McQuade as our conference keynote speaker. McQuade is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, where she teaches criminal law and national security law. She is also a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. She has been recognized by The Detroit News with the Michiganian of the Year Award, the Detroit Free Press with the Neal Shine Award for Exemplary Regional Leadership, Crain's Detroit Business as a Newsmaker of the Year and one of Detroit's Most Influential Women, and the Detroit Branch NAACP and Arab American Civil Rights League with their Tribute to Justice Award.
McQuade is the author of Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America. The book breaks down ways that disinformation has become a political tool, shows us ways to identify disinformation in our society, and strategies for countering disinformation when we encounter it. Copies will be available for purchase at the conference, courtesy of Comma Bookstore in Flint.
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Funding is provided in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library of Michigan. See the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), Library of Michigan, website for further information.