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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.]

This Proceedings document begins with the text of the keynote by Dr. Michelle Caswell, followed by seven papers, representing a sampling of the symposium presentations from the 2022 Digitizing Hidden Collections (DHC) Symposium, a capstone event for the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives program. This program was funded by the Mellon Foundation and issued calls for new applicants between 2015 and 2020. The two-day symposium brought together over 135 participants, with presenters from 23 grant-funded projects, both past and current. Their contributions addressed the symposium's theme: "We digitized it--what's next? Learning from and making use of digitized hidden collections." An appendix lists all Symposium content and those who presented and contributed.

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.]