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Slow Library Work
(2026-09-26) Guingrich, Natalie
This presentation was presented to the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Staff Organization. It is intended to provide a basic introduction to concepts and vocabulary surrounding Slow Library Work and open discussions about how Slow Library Work can be a strategy for survival and quality of life in the ever-increasing workloads of library work.
Evaluation Report for PEARC26: Resilient Roots + Empowered Communities
(Indiana University, 2026-10-06) Wernert, Julie A.
This report presents the external evaluation of PEARC26, drawing on multiple assessment streams including the General Conference, Tutorials and Workshops, Student Program, Protégé-Mentor Program, Exhibitor Program, and two focus groups. The evaluation examines participant experience, professional and educational value, networking and community engagement, student integration and workforce development, mentoring, exhibitor engagement, submission and review processes, scheduling, accessibility, and conference logistics. Findings indicate strong overall value across major constituencies, with community, networking, applied learning, and workforce-development pathways emerging as consistent strengths. The report also identifies targeted opportunities for refinement related to program density, technical readiness, mentoring structure, affordability, reviewer consistency, and selected workflow and communication processes. Cross-cutting findings and recommendations are supported by a synthesis matrix linking evidence across assessment populations. The report also documents examples of PEARC’s use of prior evaluation findings to inform programmatic changes and subsequent reassessment, illustrating an ongoing evaluation-to-action cycle.
The Human Subjects Research Submission Process at IU
(Indiana University Workshop in Methods, 2026-09-25) Mumaw, Casey
This session will cover information that will make the submission, as well as review and approval process, of human subjects research protocols at Indiana University. The presentation will cover various regulatory topics to provide clarification, as well as providing information about the review and approval process at IU, including specific directions and guidance for using the Kuali Protocols system.
Week 1: Introduction to Copyright
(2026-10-01) Stoll Farrell, Karen; Liburd, Willa
This presentation delivers a foundational overview of United States and international copyright law as the opening session of an eight-week course. Structured around a critical lens that asks what is protected, who benefits, who is excluded, and what assumptions the legal system makes, the session establishes the U.S. constitutional foundation (Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 8) and statutory requirements under 17 U.S.C. § 102, emphasizing that copyright protection requires independent creation fixed in a tangible medium with a minimal creative spark. It touches on the following topics: -Difference between copyright, trademarks, patents -Licensing -Foundational US Cases -Geographic Factors
Welfare Litigation, State Courts, and Social Citizenship
(2026) Hammond, Andrew
For half a century, federal courts have stood at the center of welfare rights enforcement. That era is ending. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s historic cuts to Medicaid and SNAP will generate an avalanche of benefit terminations, work requirement sanctions, and overpayment actions from state agencies. And with a federal judiciary increasingly hostile to the private enforcement of public law, state courts will become not just a concurrent forum for welfare litigation, but an increasingly important one. Understanding how state courts have handled welfare litigation over the past three decades, then, is essential to anticipating what comes next. This Article is the first to offer a typology of state court review of welfare administration across the United States over the last thirty years. Cases decided since the 1996 Welfare Reform Act reveal three distinct categories of state court welfare litigation—challenges to agency decisions brought by claimants, overpayment actions brought by states, and reimbursement disputes brought by providers. Each of these three types of cases follow different doctrinal patterns and raise distinct access-to-justice concerns. The resulting picture challenges scholarly understandings of the federal courts as the premier fora for civil rights, and state courts as mere sites of routinized dispute processing. State courts regularly adjudicate public-benefit controversies, often involving unrepresented claimants, and have developed distinctive approaches to reviewing agency action. Beyond doctrine, this Article considers what it would take for state courts to become meaningful sites for anti-poverty advocacy. State courts, unbound by much of federal doctrine and empowered by distinctive constitutional traditions, could become crucial fora to vindicate claims of social citizenship. This Article points the way with reforms tailored to each category of litigation, from expanded legal representation in eligibility disputes to heightened scrutiny of overpayment procedures to intervention rights for claimants in provider litigation. Realizing this potential, however, requires more than doctrinal reform. It demands investment in legal representation and organizational infrastructure capable of transforming individual grievances into systemic and affirmative litigation challenges and advocacy strategies. The welfare rights tradition need not end, but it may need to find a new home.

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