Name: 2C LIGHTNING TALKS: Session 1
Start: 2026-06-03T10:15:00-0500
End: 2026-06-03T11:15:00-0500

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2C LIGHTNING TALKS: Session 1

Wednesday June 3, 2026 10:15am - 11:15am CDT

Lil Tex

Read the abstracts for the lightning talks listed below here.

Passing the Baton: A Cross-Institutional Collaboration Developing a Digital Student Handbook for Professional Publication Standards
By: Kelly Drifmeyer

Optimizing Springshare’s Spaces for Enhanced User Experience
By: Damith Perera

Meeting ADA Title II through WhisperX AI
By: Corina Barr

From Shadow Workflows to Standard Practice: Making FAIRness Real and Repeatable
By: Andrew French

The Road to Joy is DAMmed: Managing the Bot Flood
By: Gio Gottardi

Moderators

Millicent Weber

Data Science Librarian, Baylor University

Newer to the profession. My focus is on research data management, statistics, data analysis, data science.

Speakers

Kelly Drifmeyer

Core Faculty Research & Instruction Librarian, Antioch University

Damith Perera

Research Professional, Oklahoma State University Edmon Low Libraries

Corina Barr

Digital Collections Librarian, Texas A&M University Libraries

Andrew French

Vice President, TIND

Andrew French has spent nearly two decades helping libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions find better ways to manage and preserve their collections. For the past five years at TIND, he has worked alongside teams evaluating new technologies and navigating the move... Read More →

Gio Gottardi

Programmer, Software Development Unit, University of North Texas

Hi, I'm Gio Gottardi, a software developer in the Digital Libraries division at UNT. My role mainly involves maintaining websites like The Portal to Texas History, the UNT Digital Library, etc., where I work on features, bug fixes, and desperately try to keep the servers humming... Read More →

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Wednesday June 3, 2026 10:15am - 11:15am CDT
Lil Tex 10100 Burnet Rd Building 137, Austin, TX 78758

Lightning Talks

TCDL 2026

Millicent Weber

Kelly Drifmeyer

Damith Perera

Corina Barr

Andrew French

Gio Gottardi

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TCDL 2026

Millicent Weber

Kelly Drifmeyer

Damith Perera

Corina Barr

Andrew French

Gio Gottardi

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