Hello, everyone.

The ELUNA 2026 Annual Meeting<https://el-una.org/meetings/eluna-2026-conference/> Program Planning Committee is excited to open the Call for Proposals for sessions in the AI/Emerging Technologies & Standards track.

We invite you to submit your 45-minute breakout session ideas for the 2026 Annual Meeting by January 15, 2026.

This year’s conference theme is “Libraries Always Changing.” By implementing new and emerging technologies, libraries create stronger connections with patrons and provide fresh ways to discover, use, and interact with information and resources.

If you have a topic in mind already, but it doesn’t emphasize the changing nature of libraries, that’s fine. Virtually everything in libraries is changing these days, and it won’t be hard to find points of connection. Don’t let the theme block you from submitting a great presentation idea.

While presentations have lately tended toward artificial intelligence and linked data, we encourage you to present on the topic(s) of your choice, including blockchain and even quantum computing (if you have ideas!). The audience will be interested to know how they pertain to a Ex Libris products or to library services more generally.

Here are some examples of presentations in this track from 2025:


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The next wave of GenAI: AI Agents and beyond at Clarivate<https://documents.el-una.org/id/eprint/2609/>
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Adapting to Change: The Role of AI in Literature Search<https://documents.el-una.org/id/eprint/2646/>
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Linked Data and AI: Harnessing the power of both for transforming Library Services<https://documents.el-una.org/id/eprint/2658/>


You can find the full proceedings of past conferences in the ELUNA document repository<https://documents.el-una.org/id/eprint/2658/>.

Once again, we are using the Dryfta platform to collect proposal submissions.

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Visit our https://elunaconf2026.dryfta.com/event page
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Log in with your credentials used last year (or create a new account if you didn't create an account previously)
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Click your name menu > My Submissions

[Name Menu for ELUNA 2025 Conference to get to My Submissions, includes conference logo]

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Click "New Submissions" on the My Submissions page

[My Submissions part of Dryfta - New Submission button]

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On the Submission form, click once on the Event Name in the Submission Type field to show the Annual Meeting proposal fields - even if Annual Meeting is already displaying

[Submission Type section of submission form showing the three options for submission type: ELUNA Annual Meeting, Developers Day+, and Analytics Afternoon]

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Enter your proposal information (you can save and complete the presentation proposal later if needed)
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Submit your session proposal(s) by the January 15, 2026 deadline
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Want to review the proposal form fields for the Annual Meeting without logging into Dryfta? Or would you like some guidance filling them in? Visit the ELUNA Proposal Tips<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/el-una.org/meetings/proposal-tips/__;!!MWueTNF2!Q2Zn3dSo4vbGmwgZTR1DLm8z5E12joMpjPT5mjlgDX7hDyyk90tbmr4LCcAo-N46MB3fUqW9vVvB3t9glb3gjggUdtktahr0Ow0Z$> page for more information.


Thanks for considering.

Jason Cabaniss, Daniel Lovins, and Bonita Pollock
Co-leads for the ELUNA 2026 AI/Emerging Technologies & Standards track



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Daniel Lovins
Director of Resource Discovery Services
Yale University Library
344 Winchester Ave, Room B146
New Haven, CT 06511
(203)  432-2312