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Eleven scholarly papers and six abstracts comprise the content of the twenty-fourth annual Brick & Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The 2024 paper and abstract titles include:(1) Love it or Leery? Rapid AI Aided Instructional Design for Library Learning (Sean Cordes); (2) What to Do When You're New: Lessons for New Managers of People or Programs (Amanda B. Albert); (3) Lessons Learned: Nurturing Student-Led Initiatives for Enhanced Library Engagement and Learning (Sarah McCall and Amber Ovsak); (4) Elevate Your Online Instruction: Developing Engaging Student-Centered Information Literacy Tutorials (Katherine Arndt and Claire Bowling); (5) Fostering Belonging and Community Building with a Wellbeing Collection (Megan Ballengee and Jill Kline); (6) You Want Me to Do What? But I Can't Read That...Cataloging Soviet Russia Space Exploration Books (Katherine Loving and Phillip Fitzsimmons); (7) Hallucinated Sources: An Analysis of Student-Submitted AI-Generated Citations at the University of Mississippi (Alex Watson); (8) Hosting a Mini ComicCon at Your Academic Library (Jessica Omer); (9) Cataloging a Collection of Unusual Things Creating a Library of Things Collection from Conception to Circulation (DeAnn Isenhower); (10) Retrain, Retrain and then…Retrain! (Kayla Reed and Ellsi Mertens); (11) Creating Partnerships with Instructional Designers to Facilitate Online Learning (Danielle Theiss and Camille Abdeljawad); (12) Building Committed Curiosity with Valentine's Day and Books (Kelsey Baxter and Todd Jensen); (13) A New Chapter: Our Library's Change in Citation Management Tool Support (Danielle Westmark and Teresa Hartman); (14) Targeted Research Guides to Improve Student Engagement (Joseph Taylor); (15) Oh, the Noise! Facing the Challenges of Exponential Growth in Student Population (Christopher Edwards and Travis Goode); (16) When the Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Statewide Consortia Collection Development (Rob Ross and Jennifer Brosek); (17) Did Video Kill the Text-Based Tutorial Star? Creating a Video Research Tutorial for University Students (Rachel Hammer and Todd Jensen).

Eight scholarly papers and seven abstracts comprise the content of the twenty-third annual Brick & Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The 2023 paper and abstract titles include: (1) The Reliability and Usability of ChatGPT for Library Metadata (Jenny Bodenhamer); (2) A Balancing Act in the Archives: Increasing Access to the Great Plains Black History Museum Collections (Wendy Guerra and Lori Schwartz); (3) Developing Info Students Where They Are: Personalizing Instruction to Increase Literacy Skills to Meet Engagement (Jorge A. León); (4) Empowering Undergraduates: Building Confidence in Primary Source Literacy (Jaycie Vos and Jess Cruz); (5) Quest for the Best: An Info Lit Strategy for First Year Seminars (Stephanie Hallam, Mary Bangert, and Michael Bezushko); (6) Are We Putting Our Values into Practice? Chat Reference Assessment (Mardi Mahaffy); (7) A Pilot Workshop on AI Art and Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Alex Watson); (8) New Expansions of Open Access to Benefit Research and Researchers (Barbara Pope); (9) Zettelkasten Note-Taking in Zotero for Grounded Writing (Rachel Brekhus); (10) Building Community: Library Leadership of a Common Book Program (Jill Becker); (11) Digital Media and Innovation Lab: A Must Have for Academic Libraries (Navadeep Khanal and Joseph Sabo); (12) Digital Libraries as Digital Third Place: Virtual Programming in the Age of Loneliness (Craig Finlay and Jenny Haddon); (13) Community Engagement: Academic and School Library Partnerships (Melissa Dennis); (14) Launching a Ticketing System With Asana (Hong Li); and (15) Meeting the Needs of Student Parents (Sarah Hebert). [For the 2022 proceedings, see ED623765.]

Fourteen scholarly papers and eight abstracts comprise the content of the twenty-second annual Brick & Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the conference, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. The 2022 paper and abstract titles include: (1) Starvation Feedback Loop: Examining a Looming Danger to Academic Libraries (Eric Deatherage); (2) Minding The Gap: Creating Connections Between Secondary and Post-Secondary Librarians for Student Success (Stephanie Hallam, Elizabeth Rudloff, and Mary Bangert); (3) Libraries Collaborate Across the State: Using Metadata to Make a Portal Work for Our Researchers and Our Content (Amanda Harlan and Lora Farrell); (4) Understanding Creative Commons to Help Promote Open Educational Resources on Your Campus (Isabel Soto-Luna, Craig Finlay, and Lona Oerther); (5) Library Renovation: One Library's Perspective (Tisha M. Zelner); (6) Spot The Clues: Reference Interviewing at the Digital Desk (Christopher Edwards); (7) Librarian as Composition Instructor (Anthony Kaiser); (8) Capitalizing On Your Students' Talents for the Betterment of Your Library: Creating a Student Internship (Camille Abdeljawad); (9) Disinformation, Misinformation, Bias News, Propaganda, and Credible Sources: Do Librarian, Teaching Professors, and Student Definitions Align? (Lindsay Brownfield); (10) It Takes a Village: Building a Born Digital Processing Workflow from the Ground Up (Erin Wolfe, Letha Johnson, Marcella Huggard, and Molly Herring); (11) Moving Beyond the One-Shot Instruction Session (David Arredondo and Taekyung Park); (12) Libguides with Standards: Working Across Campus to Create Best Practices for Accessible Libguides (Monica Maher); (13) We Here: Meeting International Student Needs for a Better Library Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Fu Zhuo and Sarah Winston); (14) Virtual Reference: What's in a Name? (Victor Dominguez Baeza and Beth Fuchs); (15) Connecting Research to Real-Life: Examples from a Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Class (Jennifer Joe); (16) The Razor's Edge: Intellectual Freedom in Libraries and Beyond (Sean Bird); (17) The Unreliable Narrator and News Veracity and Bias: Can Literary Techniques Enhance Information Literacy Instruction? (Rachel Hammer); (18) Muscling Through Study Room Maintenance (Danielle Westmark); (19) Weeding in an Hour a Day (Charissa Loftis); (20) The Whole is Greater than the Sum of the Parts… Creating a Team to Tackle the Impossible (Martha Allen); (21) Fat-Cat Giveaway: Finding Community Collaborators for a Library Giveaway (Jennifer Gravley); and (22) Little Scrappy's Search: Collaborating on a Library Breakout (Jo Monahan). [For the 2021 proceedings, see ED618455.]

Ten scholarly papers and twelve abstracts comprise the content of the twenty-first annual Brick & Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The twenty-first Brick & Click Libraries Conference was held virtually. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the conference, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. The 2021 paper and abstract titles include: (1 Designing a Library Exhibition Program On an International Scale for Outreach and Research (Danielle De Jagger-Loftus and Sarah Hanson-Pareek); (2) It's Not Busy Work (Veronica Denison and Tara Coleman); (3) Leading from Anywhere (Rebecca Croxton, Anne Cooper Moore, and Sherri Saines); (4) Intentional Design: Crafting a Mutually Beneficial Internship Program in a University Archives and Special Collections (Wendy Guerra, Claire Du Laney, and Lori Schwartz); (5) The Plot Thickens: Writing the Next Chapter for Access Services (Anna Hulsenberg, Michelle Twait, and Leah Zacate); (6) Get on Track, Jack: Library Assessment Strategies (Nancy Marshall, Linda Kott, and Kristin Echtenkamp); (8) Arguing in the Comments: Using Social Media Interactions to Teach the Rhetoric Of Research (Lane Wilkinson); (9) Migrating an Integrated Library System: A Framework for Fulfillment (Janelle Sander); (10) Defending Wonder: Adapting an Archival Tour in a Digital Environment (Laura Michelson, Allison Haack, and Christopher Jones); (11) Mapping Libguides to Students' Learning (Dipti Mehta and Xiaocan (Lucy) Wang); (12) An Uncommon Partnership: Special Collections and Advanced Art History Classes at Missouri State University (Anne M. Baker); (13) OER on Campus When Everyone Else is Off Campus: Strategies to Keep Your OER Program Momentum During a Pandemic (Susan M. Frey and Natalie Bulick); (14) Evaluating Library Resource Subscriptions: A Case Study (David L. Alexander); (15) Preparing Generation Z Student Employees for Productivity: Examples in Academic Library Virtual Training (Michael Straatmann and Kathryn Brockmeier); (16) Ask Them: Improving the International Student Library Experience (Carolyn Johnson); (17) Using an Advisory Board for Student-Driven Assessment (Cori Wilhelm); (18) Bridging the Gap Between The Library and International Students (Leila June Rod-Welch); (19) If I Were the Boss of You… This is How All Meetings Would Be Run (Tara Coleman); (20) Google Sheets in Library Instruction: A Simple Search Activity (Morgan Sederburg); (21) Utilizing Virtual Mini-Escape Rooms to Increase Awareness of Services at an Academic Health Sciences Library (Jessica King); (22) "Good Enough:" Preserving Born-Digital Content on Removable Media with Limited Resources (Dillon Henry). [For the 2020 proceedings, see ED608791.]

Seventeen scholarly papers and twelve abstracts comprise the content of the twentieth annual Brick & Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The twentieth Brick & Click Libraries Conference was held virtually. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the conference, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. The 2020 paper and abstract titles include: (1) From the Wild West to Teamwork: Faculty Driven Acquisitions (Randyn Heisserer-Miller, Stephanie Hallam, and Brad Reel); (2) Student Engagement: Exploring Primary Sources in the Library of Congress in an Online Course (Peggy Ridlen); (3) Object Oriented vs Functional Programming - Library Instruction in a Bite-Sized Functional Model (Billy Moore); (4) When People Count: Leveraging Internal Resources to Develop a Program for Tracking Building Usage (Terra Feick); (5) Interactive Introductions for International Students: Reworking How We Teach Information Literacy Skills (Kelly Hovinga); (6) Fostering Success for New Faculty Librarians (Karen Bleier); (7) We Did It, You Can Do It, Too: In-House Digital Preservation (Samantha Henning); (8) Stacking it Up: A Textbooks on Reserve Program (Katharine Baldwin and Jenise Overmier); (9) Teaching into the Gray Areas: Designing Learning Activities That Encourage Higher Order Thinking and Research Skills (Virginia L. Cairns); (10) Building a Teaching Strategy Toolkit to Engage Learners (Courtney Mlinar); (11) Cracking the Code: Building an Assessment Plan with Student Discussion Boards (Anthony Rodgers and Courtney Strimel); (12) Making the Most of LibApps (Kayla Reed); (13) Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Gloom of Night: Maintaining Library Services During a Medical State of Emergency (Rob Withers); (14) Psychological Safety and Building Effective Teams (Kara Whatley, Deborah Caesar, Amanda Watson, and Molly Nystrom); (15) Summer in the Stacks: A Weeding Experience Between Faculty and Library (Kayla Reed and Hong Li); (16) Puppies and Kitties Oh My!: Partnering with a Local PETPALS Organization (Leila June Rod-Welch and Jordan A. Newburg); (17) Unlocking Online Escape Rooms for Library Instruction (Sean Cordes); (18) Spectral Tales: Lessons Learned from Being Ghosted by Faculty (Tammi M. Owens, Meghan Salsbury, and Heidi Blackburn); (19) The Librarian's Guide to Zines for Classroom and Community (Claire Du Laney, Monica Maher, and Amy C. Schindler); (20) Professionalizing Student Employment: The Library Associates Program at Hendrix College (Janice Weddle); (21) Making It Easy to Read Harder: Implementing a Reading Challenge at Community College (Amy Fortner, Anthony Rodgers, and Gwen Wolfe); (22) Beyond the Humanities: Archives Instruction for Science and Medicine (Laurinda Weisse); (23) Library Collaboration with the Smithsonian: World War I Lessons and Legacies Exhibit (Leila June Rod-Welch and Julie Ann Beddow); (24) The Genesis of a Conduct Policy in a Medium-Sized Academic Library (John Baken); (25) Universal Design and Accessibility: A Checklist for LibGuides and Online Tutorials (Courtney Mlinar); (26) Anti-vaxxers, Sasquatch DNA and Other "Scientific" Findings: Actively Engaging Distance Students in Media Literacy (Joanna Nemeth); (27) All Good Things Must Come to an End: When Library Staff Pass Away (Rob Withers); (28) If "They" Build it, "They" Will Come (Martha Allen); and (29) Save the Earth - Earth Day Game Drive: Small Steps, Big Impact (Leila June Rod-Welch). [For the 2019 proceedings, see ED600185.]

Twelve scholarly papers and eighteen abstracts comprise the content of the nineteenth annual Brick & Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the conference, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. The 2019 paper and abstract titles include: (1) Universally Accessible: Practical Methods for Digital Accessibility for Ordinary Librarians (Rebeca Peacock and Sean McCann); (2) Developing Student Agency through Personalized Learning (Elizabeth Stephan and Shevell Thibou); (3) Students of the Stacks: The Fellowship of Experience (Christina Prucha and Sabrina Davis); (4) Library Assessment: How High the Mountain! (Cheryl L. Blevens, Shelley Arvin, and Valentine K. Muyumba); (5) The Tool We Never Teach: The Good, the Bad and the End (Point) of Google's Usefulness in First-Year Experience Assignments (Lindsay Brownfield); (6) Mentoring and You: Providing Meaningful Experiences for Student Employees (Ruth Harries); (7) Spending Miss Alice's Money: Practical Applications for Evolving Libraries (Phillip Jones); (8) Using Data Visualization to Analyze Topic Development by Business Communication Students in a One-Shot Setting (Heidi Blackburn and Jason Heppler); (9) Collaborate for Student Success: Long Night against Procrastination (Carolyn Johnson); (10) Using Acquisitions: A Library's Steps for Ordering Books to Tracking Funds (Natasha Young); (11) Smart Spending -- Affordable Programming (Amber Carr and Kayla Reed); (12) Be a Leader, Not a Boss: Creating a Unified and Fulfilled Student Employment Team (Courtney Gard and Adrianna Bennett); (13) Revitalization of the Liaison Program (Amber Carr, Kayla Reed, and Nancy Crabtree); (14) Maintaining Training (Kayla Reed); (15) Understanding the Basics of Serials...and Beyond (Carol Doms and Stephanie Spratt); (16) Off the Web and Into the Fishing Hole (Carmen Orth-Alfie and Natalie Mahan); (17) Open Educational Resources: Build a Lesson Using Free Government Resources (Stephanie Hallam, Pat Willingham, and Kris Baranovic); (18) Old Acquaintance -- New Friend...Library and IT Partnerships (Martha Allen); (19) Display and Exhibit Design: Maximizing Existing Spaces for Outreach and Stakeholder Engagement (Alyssa Denneler); (20) Cross-Training Student Workers in a Learning Commons Environment (Meredith Knoff); (21) Deciding, Documenting, and Disseminating Library Policies and Practices: A Case Study from a Newly-Created Library Unit (Alea Henle and Rob Withers); (22) Reference Remodeling: Adapting and Promoting Reference Services (Cyndi Landis); (23) The Reference Interview Beyond Reference: Putting it to the E-Resource Troubleshooting Test (Angela Rathmel and Greta Valentine); (24) Town-Town-Gown Relations: Managing a County-Wide Collaborative Digital Community Archive (Christopher Jones, Allison Haack, Monique Shore, and Julia Bauder); (25) "The Library is Home for a Lot of Us Engineers:" How Engineering Majors Experience Library Space (Noël Kopriva); (26) Creating Library FAQ Guidelines Using Query Spy (Danielle M. Drummond); (27) A Reprieve for Sisyphus: How a Rotating ILL Task Schedule Provides Full Task Coverage and Variety for Staff (Gail Williams); (28) Hosting Comic Book Club in an Academic Setting (Mara Inge); (29) We Need Diverse Digital Resources (Jo Monahan); and (30) Accessible & Active eLearning Game Plan (Monica Maher). [For the 2018 proceedings, see ED590389.]