November 4th 2026

 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM

 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

 Conference Kick-off 

 Presentation Session I

 💡 Introducing the UK's National Searching Guidance

Adam Tocock

🔍 Introducing the UK's Health Libraries Group, part of the Chartered Information of Libraries and Information Professionals (CILIP)

Adam Tocock

⚡ They've Already Published That: Topic Saturation May Predict Journal Rejection

Marijane White

💡 So You Want to Author a Peer Reviewed Open Access Book? The Many Joys and Some Challenges

Jon Eldredge

 10:20 AM - 10:45 AM

 Sponsor Presentations

• UpToDate Expert AI: Transparent AI for Evidence-Driven Librarians

            Stephanie Larmon, UpToDate Customer Success Manager

• Bringing trusted content into the workflow with ClinicalKey AI
  

            Neal Kinariwala, MD, BE, Physician Executive, Elsevier

 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

 Break

 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

 CE: Rural Health, Libraries, and Alaska: Perspectives from the Far North (Registration is required. This is a separate registration from the conference with no additional fee.) 

This presentation will detail the lessons learned from managing a statewide outreach program with a small staff. Attendees will gain insights into effective strategies for relationship-building with tribal health organizations, navigating the logistics of rural travel, and utilizing asynchronous tools to reach high-pressure clinical environments. By sharing these "Last Frontier" experiences, the presenters aim to provide a roadmap for libraries serving geographically isolated and information-underserved populations.

Presenters:

Professor Jennifer McKay is the nursing and WWAMI librarian at the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Consortium Library and Head of the Alaska Medical Library.

Professor Anna Bjartmarstdottir is the Public and Allied Health Librarian at the UAA Consortium Library’s Alaska Medical Library. 

They support UAA’s health science students while also providing evidence-based resources to Alaska’s healthcare workforce with long-standing support from the NNLM Region 5 with their work as part of a grant titled: “Bringing the Best Health Information to Alaska's Distant Communities”.

This webinar is eligible for 1 CE credit from the Medical Library Association and the Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS), Level 1

 12:00 PM -12:55 PM

 1:00 PM -1:30 PM

 MLA Updates

Lisa Marks

 Presentation Session II

⚡ Libraries with Heart: Implementing a Blood Pressure monitor into a hospital library space

Sarah Viscuso & Heather J. Martin

⚡ More Than Thanks: Dissertation Acknowledgements as Artifacts of Doctoral Socialization

Breanna Caruso

⚡ Library Outreach Party: DPS, Rogue, Magician, Tank. Who Are You in the Quest for Engagement?

Tiffany Follin (co-authors Errel Horn, Patricia Fiorillo, and Audri Pabustan)

⚡ Craft Your Calm:  Sharing Mental Health Resources with College Students through Workshops

Cindy Goode & Danyelle Williams

⚡ Showing Up, Reaching Out, Building Trust: Strategies that Encouraged Health Sciences Students to Seek Support

Ying Yu

 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM

 Roundtable Session I

Exploring Career Pathways Across Health Sciences Library Environments

Embodying this year's conference theme, bridging distances and building connections, the roundtable sessions provide an opportunity for community building through discussion. Utilizing Zoom breakout rooms, these sessions will be moderated by PNC board and committee members and include thoughtful prompts, creation of a digital ideas repository, and fostering of future connection across our diverse and vibrant library community. 

These sessions will not be recorded. Information gathered in the repository will be available to PNC members after the conference has concluded. 

 November 5th 2026

 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

 Roundtable Session II

Too much information, too little funding: sharing concerns, ideas, and solutions

Embodying this year's conference theme, bridging distances and building connections, the roundtable sessions provide an opportunity for community building through discussion. Utilizing Zoom breakout rooms, these sessions will be moderated by PNC board and committee members and include thoughtful prompts, creation of a digital ideas repository, and fostering of future connection across our diverse and vibrant library community. 

These sessions will not be recorded. Information gathered in the repository will be available to PNC members after the conference has concluded. 

 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

 NNLM Updates

Carolyn Martin & John Bramble 

 HEAL-WA Updates

Patricia Devine

 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

 Presentation Session III

🔍 Mayer’s Ten Principles for Designing Multimedia Instruction for Medical Education

Michelle Knecht

⚡ Undergraduate EBP Writing in the age of AI

Ekaterini Papadopoulou

⚡ Cancer Patients, Clinical Trials, & You: Supporting Patients in Leaving No Stone Unturned

Rachel Raymond

⚡ Where Are Third-Party Vendors in Our Privacy Policies?

Anne Jenkins

⚡ Building Traditional Chinese Medicine Information and Knowledge from Scratch

Raymond Pun

💡 Deep Clean your DOCLINE Library

Emily Hamstra

 12:00 PM - 12:55 PM

Lunch 

 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Presentation Session IV

🔍 How to Overcome Succumbing to Cognitive Biases in Professional Practice- An interactive workshop

Jon Eldredge

 PNC updates and business 

Heather Hawley

Closing Remarks