MLA ’26 TEC Retrospective

Submitted by: Emme Lopez

During the July 2026 TEC (Technology in Education) MLA Retrospective, contributors from MLA ’26 in Milwaukee gave brief overviews of presentations of interest for TEC members who had not been able to attend. We had a lot of fun and learned a lot very quickly.

Presentations:

• The Culture of Research: AI-Facilitated Catalog Searching for Health Sciences Queries
  • Jessica Koos, Laurel Scheinfeld, Sunny Chung
• A Pie Walks into a Bar: Visual Storytelling with Data 
  • Eric Lease Morgan and Peace Ossom
• Comparing AI Chat Tools and PubMed for Medical Literature Searches
  • A’Llyn Ettien, Kathleen Downing, Rebecca Drouhard, Bridget Gunn, Megan McNichol, Kate Silfen, Allie Tatarian
• A Library-Led Model for Open Educational Resources in Academic Health Science Centers
  • Clara Fowler
• Eliciting Opinions: Using and Assessing a Generative AI Tool for Clinical Inquiry
  • Lori Kennedy, Lynn Kysh, Sadie Davenport, Sarina Fazio, Sherry Allen

Thank you so much to all our presenters and participants! If you missed it, see below for a recording link and a link to the brief event slides with TEC info and a survey to share your ideas and interests in TEC.

Interested in what was shared? Take a look at the presentation slides and recordings.

See you at the next TEC meeting or event!

Your TEC Leadership,