ENUG 2026 Summary Schedule

Thursday, October 15th

8:00-9:00 Coffee / Networking (Room 111)
8:00-9:00 Registration (Room 111)
9:00-9:15 Welcome and ENUG Business Meeting (Room 206/209)
9:15-10:15 Keynote Address 
Dr. Bridget Whearty, Binghamton University
with Anna Siebach-Larsen and Ronald Martin-Dent
Room: 206/209
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:15 Break Out Session #1 (45 minutes)

Fake it, Ask for Help, or Let it Go: Surviving the Transition to Primo NDE by Centering User-Driven Discovery
Sebastian Black
Room: 206/209
Better than Excel: Building a No-Code App for Tracking a Large Deselection Project
Lori Stethers
Room: 215
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15 Plenary Address – Ex Libris Update
Tate Nunley, Senior Director, Product Sales, Americas
Katy Aronoff, Senior Director, Solution Consulting
Room: 206/209
12:15-1:30 Lunch (Room 111)
1:30-2:15 Breakout Session #2 (45 Minutes)

Discovery, Divided: One Alma, Three Primos, One Deadline
Jessica Brangiel and Andrea Baruzzi
Room: 206/209
Implementing Serial Prediction Patterns
Lee Collings
Room: 215
The Great Demerit Experiment
Rebecca Hyams
Room: 202
2:15-2:30 Break
2:30-3:15 Breakout Session #3 (45 Minutes)

From Data to Discovery: Building Primo’s Person Info Cards Through a Community of Practice
Sasha Frizzell and Marcy Strong
Room: 206/209
Using ALMA to Evaluate Legacy ILL Software Tools and Workflows
Conan Helein
Room: 215
3:15-3:45 Coffee Break (Room 111)
3:45-4:30  Breakout Session #4 (45 Minutes)

This Time with Data! Assessing Primo Relevancy Rankings at Stony Brook Libraries
Matthew Hartman and Robert Gerath
Room: 206/209
Beyond the Migration: Streamlining a Workflow for One-Off Streaming Media Requests at NYU Libraries
Chelsea L. Gizzi and Fernando Aguirre
Room: 215
4:30-4:35  Break
4:35-5:30 ELUNA Steering Committee Update
Lightning Talks
Room: 206/209
5:30- Dinner on your own or networking with peers

Friday, October 16th

8:00-9:00 Coffee / Networking (Room 111)
8:30-9:00 Registration (Room 111)
9:00-9:45 Break Out Session #5 (45 minutes)

Bringing Archival and Special Collections into Alma
Megan E. Fox
Room: 206/209
The Mysteries of the Central Discovery Index
Barrett Jones
Room: 215
Leveraging CrossLink, IRIS, and EMMA to Automate Accessibility Workflows
Mark Sullivan
Room: 202
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-10:45 Break Out Session #6 (45 minutes)

Enhancing Discovery of Digitized Archival Collections in Alma and Specto: User-Centered Metadata, AI-Driven Entity Identification, and Leveraging Specto for Improved Access
Lori Fuller and Carrie McClain
Room: 206/209
Getting Started with E-Resource Autoholdings
Kelly Shea
Room: 215
Learning from Others to Update Our Alma Usage Dashboard
Anne Larrivee
Room: 202
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Break Out Session #7 (45 minutes)

SUNY’s Canary in the Resource Sharing Coal Mine: Rapido at the University at Buffalo
Paul Whiting and Timothy Jackson
Room: 206/209
Building Practical Alma Analytics for E-Resources: From SUSHI Harvests to COUNTER Reports
Marcie Boutwell
Room: 215
11:45-1  Boxed Lunch (Room 111)
1  Library Tour(Starting Location TBA)