2026 Conference
The ANZREG 2026 conference was held online from 25th to 27th August, including a best practice / developer’s day. The 2026 Conference program is available here.
Thanks to all our presenters for sharing your excellent ideas, initiatives, and experiences.
Session recordings are now available on our YouTube channel.
Developers Day/Best Practice Day: Tuesday 25th August 2026
| Time (AEST) | Session |
|---|---|
| 11:30 | Welcome & Housekeeping Karakia & Acknowledgement of Country |
| 11:35 | Kate Allen (Monash University) CAVAL Shared Collection – how we increased usage at Monash University View the recording |
| 12:05 | Patricia Velasquez & Sara Sladwick (The University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau) When Legacy Becomes Liability: Migrating Early New Zealand Books to Alma Digital View the recording |
| 12:35 | Break |
| 12:50 | Stuart Yeates (Victoria University of Wellington) Complete beginners guide to linked data View the recording |
| 13:50 | Break |
| 14:20 | Alan Oliver (Director of Community Engagement) & Yaniv Levi Korem (Vice President, Discovery and Digital Products Clarivate) Update from Clarivate and Specto overview and roadmap View the recording |
| 15:20 | Close and Karakia |
Day One: Wednesday 26th August 2026
| Time (AEST) | Session |
|---|---|
| 11:30 | Welcome & Housekeeping Karakia & Acknowledgement of Country |
| 11:35 | Terry Reese (Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and Services at Arizona State University) Opening librarian collections: why cultural heritage organizations need automated tools to create better metadata View the recording |
| 12:35 | Break |
| 12:50 | Cathy Slaven (Queensland University of Technology) Using AI tools to find scholarly sources: student survey findings View the recording |
| 13:20 | Ryan McLean (RMIT University) RMIT experiments with Ithaka’s AI tool Seeklight View the recording |
| 13:35 | Break |
| 14:05 | Sally Culver (Curtin University) Stocktake using the Super Shelf Inventory Cloud App View the recording |
| 14:20 | David Witteveen (RMIT University) Merging Alma instances – how it’s going so far View the recording |
| 14:50 | Lorraine Ackroyd (ANZREG Committee Chair) ANZREG General Meeting/Committee Update |
| 15:00 | Break |
| 15:10 | Stacey van Groll (The University of Queensland) When a citation isn’t a record: Adding an advisory message to the Primo Services Page View the recording |
| 15:40 | Louise Carson (Curtin University) Using MarcEdit to upgrade metadata View the recording |
| 15:55 | Close and Karakia |
Day Two: Thursday 27th August 2026
| Time (AEST) | Session |
|---|---|
| 11:30 | Welcome & Housekeeping Karakia & Acknowledgement of Country |
| 11:35 | Kat Cain (Lead Outreach & Experience and Co-Lead Library AI Lab at Deakin University) Curiosity over certainty: Experimenting and learning with AI in libraries View the recording |
| 12:35 | Break |
| 12:50 | Kendall Bartsch (Third Iron) Best practices for LibKey integration with NDE plus new feature spotlight View the recording |
| 13:10 | Sara Sladwick & Fiona Lamont (Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland) The Interloans Glow Up: How We Retired VDX, Survived Reclamation, and Built a Friendlier Future with Rapido View the recording |
| 13:40 | Break |
| 14:10 | Craig Murray (Lincoln University) The silent demise of MARC/The rise of BIBFRAME View the recording |
| 14:40 | Patricia Velasquez (The University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau) When the Vendor Changes the Rules: Building an AI-Assisted Workflow to Migrate QuickCite to Bootstrap 5 View the recording |
| 14:55 | Break |
| 15:05 | Kael Driscoll (University of Western Australia) Leganto Product Working Groups – Who, What, Where, When, and Why? View the recording |
| 15:20 | Martin Büscher, Customer Care Director, Ex Libris and Innovative Customer Care update session from Clarivate View the recording |
| 15:50 | Close and Karakia |
