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Howard University

Speaker Bio for Brandon Nightingale

Brandon Nightingale is the Senior Project Manager of the Black Press Archives Digitization Project at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University and a PhD student in the Department of History. He holds a BA in History from the University of Central Florida, an MA in Public History from UCF, and an MS in Information Science from Florida State University. At MSRC, he leads a multi-year effort to digitize, preserve, and expand access to one of the largest and most significant collections of Black newspapers in the world. His work focuses on Black print culture, archival preservation, digital access, and the role of technology in shaping historical memory. His dissertation examines the institutional history of the Black Press Archives, its connections to Pan-African thought, and its impact on public understanding of Black life.

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Cornell University

Speaker Bio for Dr. J. Nathan Matias

Dr. J. Nathan Matias (@natematias@social.coop, @natematias.bsky.social) is a computer scientist and social scientist who organizes citizen behavioral science for a safer, fairer, more understanding Internet. A Guatemalan-American, Nathan is founder of the Citizens and Technology Lab and an assistant professor in the Cornell University Department of Communication. Matias has worked with online communities around the world to test effective ways for people to come together to create, maintain, and protect public goods online. He also studies the science of freedom of expression and diversity in knowledge-making endeavors. His work in design has received awards from FastCompany, and his research and advocacy has received awards from the Association for Computing Machinery and the Mozilla Foundation. Matias has published scholarship in journals including Nature, Science, and PNAS. His journalism has been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Adventure Cyclist Magazine, and many others.

Talks and Workshops

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Talk: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Mode)

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Systems Librarian

PCOM

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Speaker Bio for Katherine "Kate" Deibel

Dr. Kate Deibel (aka metageeky) is a longstanding advocate for accessibility and usability in library technologies. She has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington but would much rather talk about comics, chili peppers, her cat, platypuses, technology adoption, and changing the world. She briefly left libraries for industry but is happily back working as PCOM Library's systems librarian in Philadelphia.

Talk: New (and Old-Fangled) HTML Elements: What is Accessible Really?

Speaker Bio for Birkin James Diana

Talk: Happy devs and happy patrons: the wonders of "uv".

Speaker Bio for Seth Erickson

Talk: Offering On-Demand Virtual Machines to Library Users

Speaker Bio for Natasha Fisher

Talk: Digital Preservation From Scratch

Speaker Bio for Corey Halpin

Talk: Doing more with SSH

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Senior Library Application Developer

Lehigh University

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Speaker Bio for Maccabee Levine

Maccabee Levine is a senior developer at Lehigh University Libraries, focusing on open source bibliographic systems. He's a frequent contributor to VuFind and serves on project governance groups for FOLIO, VuFind and ReShare. Maccabee has presented recently at WOLFcon, Charleston, FOLIO Mid-Atlantic, Code4Lib, and the VuFind Summit. His mother still reminds him about an OSS award for a Voyager enhancement he won back in 2010, so now you get to know about it too.

Talk: Supporting the Hidden Work: OSS Projects for Inventory and Weeding

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Systems Librarian

California College of the Arts

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Speaker Bio for Eric Phetteplace

Eric Phetteplace is a Systems Librarian with over a decade of experience developing, maintaining, and supporting web applications. His responsibilities include not only traditional library systems (ILS, discovery layer, electronic resources, instititutional repository), but teaching and learning technologies as well (LMS, video platform, digital whiteboard). Outside of work, he enjoys reading literary fiction and cuddling with his copious pets.

Talk: On Searching for Library Standards that Align with Library Values

Speaker Bio for Wilhelmina Randtke

Talk: Artificial Intelligence Ethics Regulation in the United States

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Lead Software Developer/Analyst

The University of Texas at Austin Libraries

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Speaker Bio for Kyle Reiley

Based in San Francisco, Kyle Reiley works remotely for the University of Texas at Austin Libraries and outside of work spends a lot of his time playing volleyball. He is a lead software developer and analyst and works across the stack, untangling complex legacy systems, and turning them into modular, maintainable platforms. He believes systems should be easy to expand and improve, and that software design should focus foremost on the user experience of the product.

Talk: Modularity: doing it all isn’t a good thing

Speaker Bio for Summer Shetenhelm

Talk: Not Just the Data: Holistic Frameworks for AI Use

Speaker Bio for Meredith Wynn

Talk: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Mode)

Speaker Bio for Julia Corrin

Workshop: Building GenAI Projects for Research

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Speaker Bio for Mark Eaton

Workshop: Hybrid: Future of Code4Lib Journal

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Eric is a librarian who works at the University of Notre Dame.

Librarian

University of Notre Dame

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Speaker Bio for Eric Lease Morgan

Eric Lease Morgan is a librarian working in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame where he provides text mining and natural language processing services to the University community. He does data science with words.

Workshop: Modern Alchemy: Hands-On with the Distant Reader

Speaker Bio for Jeremy Nelson

Workshop: Technical Introduction to Blue Core

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Speaker Bio for Kim Nguyen

Workshop: Introduction to Omeka S Theming

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Lead Librarian for UX Strategy

NC State University Libraries

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Speaker Bio for Andreas Orphanides

Andreas Orphanides is the Lead Librarian for UX Strategy at the NC State University Libraries. His work focuses on developing high-quality, thoughtfully designed technology solutions to support teaching, learning, and information discovery. His professional interests include systems analysis, human factors, and information design. Outside of work, he has too many cats.

Workshop: Fail4Lib 2026

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