Schedule – JCDL 2026

Conference Schedule

📅 Dates: October 13–16, 2026

📍 Location: Dallas, Texas, USA — check-in each morning is in the Hotel Lobby; sessions on October 13–15 run in rooms Frisco 2–5; October 16 runs in Ranger, Sea Biscuit, and Traveller plus two online rooms

💻 Format: Hybrid. All times are Central Time (CDT, UTC−5). Each room has its own Zoom meeting, linked under the room name in each table. The passcode is built into every link, so clicking it joins the meeting directly.

📘 For session details, including papers, presenters, and session chairs, see the Program page.

Day 1 — Tuesday, October 13

Workshops, Doctoral Consortium, and the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Online, the WADL and AI4SciSci workshops use their own Zoom meetings rather than the Frisco 4 and Frisco 5 room links: WADL Zoom, AI4SciSci Zoom.

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Rooms Frisco 2–5, Tuesday, October 13, 2026
TimeSlotFrisco 2Zoom 864 2945 1805Frisco 3Zoom 870 3493 4733Frisco 4Zoom 847 0624 8616Frisco 5Zoom 865 0851 7921
8:00 – 9:00 amCheck in — Hotel Lobby
9:00 – 10:30 amSession 1Doctoral ConsortiumUndergraduate Research SymposiumWADL WorkshopAI4SciSci Workshop
10:30 – 11:00 amBreak
11:00 am – 12:30 pmSession 2Doctoral ConsortiumUndergraduate Research SymposiumWADL WorkshopAI4SciSci Workshop
12:30 – 1:30 pmLunch — the AI4Lib Workshop starts at 1:00 pm in Frisco 3
1:30 – 3:00 pmSession 3Doctoral ConsortiumAI4Lib WorkshopStarts at 1:00 pmWADL WorkshopAI4SciSci Workshop
3:00 – 3:30 pmBreak
3:30 – 5:00 pmSession 4Doctoral ConsortiumAI4Lib WorkshopWADL WorkshopAI4SciSci Workshop

Day 2 — Wednesday, October 14

Main conference opens: keynotes, paper sessions, and the industry session.

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Rooms Frisco 2–5, Wednesday, October 14, 2026
TimeSlotFrisco 2Zoom 864 2945 1805Frisco 3Zoom 870 3493 4733Frisco 4Zoom 847 0624 8616Frisco 5Zoom 865 0851 7921
8:00 – 9:00 amCheck in — Hotel Lobby
9:00 – 9:15 amOpening remarks — Frisco 2
9:15 – 10:30 amSession 1Keynote 1: ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignThe Future of Digital Libraries: Serving Humans and Artificial Intelligence AgentsPlenary in Frisco 2. Session chair: Haihua Chen, University of North Texas
10:30 – 11:00 amBreak
11:00 am – 12:30 pmSession 2Paper session 1AI Agents and LLMs in Digital LibrariesPaper session 2Information Extraction and Named Entity RecognitionPaper session 3Knowledge Graphs and Knowledge ExtractionPaper session 4Metadata and Knowledge Organization
12:30 – 1:30 pmLunch
1:30 – 3:00 pmSession 3Keynote 2: Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers UniversityDigital Libraries and Their Technologies: A Look Back and a Peek ForwardPlenary in Frisco 2–5. Session chair: Jiqun Liu, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeOnline: join the Frisco 2 Zoom
3:00 – 3:30 pmBreak
3:30 – 5:00 pmSession 4Paper session 5Scientific Document ProcessingPaper session 6Search, Retrieval, and Question AnsweringPaper session 7Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage, and Research DataIndustry sessionHow do libraries move from physical collections to usable, searchable, AI-ready digital knowledge?Speakers: Dilo Wijesuriya, ARC Document Solutions; Stephen Welp, Microbox

Day 3 — Thursday, October 15

Keynote 3, paper sessions, the panel, the in-person poster and demo reception, and the evening banquet and award ceremony.

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Rooms Frisco 2–5, Thursday, October 15, 2026
TimeSlotFrisco 2Zoom 864 2945 1805Frisco 3Zoom 870 3493 4733Frisco 4Zoom 847 0624 8616Frisco 5Zoom 865 0851 7921
8:00 – 9:00 amCheck in — Hotel Lobby
9:00 – 9:15 amOpening — Frisco 2
9:15 – 10:30 amSession 1Keynote 3: Leif Azzopardi, Microsoft / University of StrathclydeDesign for Information Farmers: Digital Libraries as Seeds for Cultivating KnowledgePlenary in Frisco 2. Session chair: Jiangping Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
10:30 – 11:00 amBreak
11:00 am – 12:30 pmSession 2Paper session 8Historical, Web, and Multimedia ArchivesPaper session 9ETD Discovery, Accessibility, and ProvenancePaper session 10Science of Science and Scholarly CommunicationPanelExploring AI as Normal Technology for Library Automation and Information Organization
12:30 – 1:30 pmLunch
1:30 – 3:00 pmSession 3Paper session 11Research Integrity and Scholarly RecordsPaper session 12Text and Language ProcessingPaper session 13Recommendation and User EngagementPaper session 14User Communities, Accessibility, and Responsible Information Services
3:00 – 3:30 pmBreak
3:30 – 5:00 pmSession 4Poster and demo session (in person)Frisco 2–5. In person only, no Zoom
6:00 – 9:00 pmEveningBanquet and Award CeremonyFrisco 2. Online: join the Frisco 2 Zoom

Day 4 — Friday, October 16

Tutorials, resource sessions, the SESAME workshop, the online poster and demo session, and closing remarks. Afternoon sessions are online only.

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Ranger, Sea Biscuit, Traveller, and online rooms, Friday, October 16, 2026
TimeSlotRangerZoom 824 5069 9334Sea BiscuitZoom 865 2862 2225TravellerZoom 817 1320 1154Online room 1Zoom 681 3473 7221Online room 2Zoom 839 1197 8294
8:00 – 8:30 amCheck in — Hotel Lobby
8:30 – 10:00 amSession 1TAWAF TutorialLLM4Cat TutorialResource session 1Knowledge Graph & Research InfrastructureSESAME WorkshopPoster and demo session (online)
10:00 – 10:30 amBreak
10:30 am – 12:00 pmSession 2TAWAF TutorialLLM4Cat TutorialResource session 2Open Data & Digital CollectionsSESAME WorkshopPoster and demo session (online, continued)
12:00 – 12:15 pmClosing remarks — Ranger
12:15 – 1:30 pmLunch
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Online only		Session 3SESAME Workshop
3:00 – 3:30 pmBreak (online)
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Online only		Session 4SESAME Workshop

Session types

  • Workshop or tutorial
  • Doctoral Consortium
  • Undergraduate Research Symposium
  • Paper
  • Poster and demo
  • Resource
  • Panel
  • Keynote
  • Industry session
  • Social event

Workshop and tutorial abstracts, organizers, and websites are listed on the Workshops and Tutorials page. Keynote speakers are listed on the Keynotes page.