“She Got Garfield: Bat-Sheva Wachtfogel - the unsung trailblazer of Comics in Israel”

Gabi Tartakovsky, Beit Ariela Library, Tel-Aviv

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Consuming Manga: Cake as a Symbol of Sexual Orientation and Gender Fluidity

Joelle Mellon, Middlebury Institute of International Studies

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Enriching comic book and graphic novel metadata using Linked Open Data; a pilot study for comics about mental health

Sean Petiya, Kent State University

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Stretch Goals: Launching Crowdfunded Comics Collections in Academic Libraries

Mara Thacker, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jason Larsen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Women in Comics: Off and On the Page.

Laurin Paradise, Manhattan College

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Government Issued Comics: The Online Comics Collection at the University of Nebraska Libraries

Richard Graham, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Interrogating Visual Representations of Transgressive Women: Information Literacy and Comics in the Shakespeare Classroom

Susanne Paterson, University of New Hampshire, Manchester
Carolyn Gamtso, University of New Hampshire, Manchester

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Falcons, Butterflies, and Milestones: Assembling and Cataloging a Black Studies Research Comic Book Collection at a Mid-Atlantic University

Steven Holloway, James Madison University
Brian Flota, James Madison University

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Graphic Medicine and Critical Librarianship

Ariel Pomputius, University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries
Matthew Noe, Harvard Countway Library

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Review of Best Practices for Cataloging Comics and Graphic Novels

Kayla Kuni, Pasco-Hernando State College
Steven Holloway, James Madison University
Allison Bailund, San Diego State University

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Behind the Scenes: Archival Research in Comics

Susan Kirtley, Portland State University

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Breaking and Remaking the Myths: History, Legacy, and the American Dream in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Captain America and Black Panther

Bryan Carr, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Clif Ganyard, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Crafting a comics Wikidata project

Allison Bailund, San Diego State University
Kathleen Boyd, San Diego State University

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

“Making Sense of the Fragments: Using Comics Structure to Give Form to Chaotic Text”

Mary Ruge, Hackley Public Library

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Shang-Chi's Journey from Comics to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Karl Martin, Point Loma Nazarene University

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM