The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is a premier international forum focused on research and practice in digital libraries, bridging technical, practical, and social dimensions. JCDL brings together researchers and practitioners from computer science, information science, librarianship, archival and museum studies, and diverse domains including technology, medicine, social sciences, law, and the humanities.

As the digital landscape evolves, JCDL is increasingly engaging with emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models, particularly in the context of information organization, discovery, accessibility, and preservation. JCDL provides a venue for exploring how these advances, alongside long-standing methods, support innovation in managing, accessing, and understanding complex digital collections across disciplines.

JCDL 2026 will be held as a hybrid conference from October 13–16, 2026, with in-person participation in Denton, Texas, USA, as well as opportunities for virtual attendance. In addition to the main conference, JCDL 2026 will feature workshops, tutorials, panels, and a doctoral consortium. The program will also include opportunities to share a wide range of contributions, including posters for early-stage work, demonstrations of working systems, and a resource track dedicated to highlighting datasets, software, and collections that benefit the digital library community. We welcome participation from academia, government, industry, and other sectors, reflecting the broad and interdisciplinary nature of the digital library community.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full Research Papers (up to 10 pages, excluding references): Mature, well-developed work with significant contributions to digital library research and practice.
• Short Research Papers (up to 4 pages, excluding references): Early-stage research, novel ideas, smaller studies, or concise contributions valuable to the community.
• Posters (2-4 pages, excluding references) are suited for presenting late-breaking results, preliminary findings, or thought-provoking concepts that would benefit from open discussion and feedback.
• Demonstrations (2-4 pages, excluding references) show interactive systems, tools, or applications, emphasizing tangible contributions through live presentations and walkthroughs.
• Resource submissions (2-4 pages, excluding references) that facilitate new research and advance the state-of-the-art in managing, accessing, analyzing, and curating digital collections
• Workshops and Tutorials (2-4 pages, excluding references) that will foster learning and build community among our global audience of researchers, practitioners, and educators.
• Panel proposals (2-4 pages, excluding references) that will stimulate critical debate, foster deep reflection, and generate actionable insights across the evolving landscape of digital libraries. 

List of Topics

• Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Analytics for Digital Libraries
  • Machine learning and deep learning methods for digital libraries
  • Large language models, generative AI, agent-based systems, and foundation models in information access
  • Data mining, data analytics, and visualization of library collections
  • Knowledge graphs, semantic web, ontologies, and graph-based knowledge representation
  • Natural language processing, information extraction, and semantic search
  • Predictive analytics, neural retrieval, and data-driven innovation
• Search, Retrieval, and Recommendation Systems
  • Information retrieval, indexing, and ranking for large-scale digital collections
  • Personalized search, user modeling, and recommender systems
  • Semantic search, question answering, and conversational interfaces
  • Navigational and exploratory search, interactive retrieval, query understanding, and multimodal retrieval (text, images, audio, video)
  • Knowledge discovery, entity-centric retrieval, and cross-lingual retrieval
• Human Interaction, Communities, and Collaboration
  • User experience (UX) design, usability, and accessibility in digital library systems
  • Collaborative and social information environments, including crowdsourcing and citizen science
  • Social networks, social tagging, folksonomies, and community curation of content
  • Human-centered design, interactive visualization, and user behavior analysis
  • Community building, scholarly communication, and engagement with digital content
• Content, Collections, and Digital Humanities
  • Digitization, transcription, and analysis of cultural heritage and multimedia collections
  • Digital humanities methods, computational social science, and arts-based informatics
  • Metadata standards, linked data, semantic annotation, and interoperability in digital collections
  • Document genres, scholarly content management, and digital exhibits
  • Multilingual and multicultural digital libraries; inclusion of diverse voices and resources
  • Domain-specific applications of digital libraries
• Infrastructure, Preservation, and Data Management
  • Digital preservation, long-term archiving, and sustainability of digital collections
  • Data curation, stewardship, and repository infrastructure
  • Linked open data, metadata integration, and semantic interoperability
  • Cloud computing, distributed architectures, and scalable library systems
  • Open science, open data initiatives, and reproducibility of digital library research
• Policy, Ethics, and Societal Impact
  • Intellectual property, copyright, and licensing issues in digital collections
  • Privacy, security, and trust in digital library systems and AI applications
  • Ethics of AI, algorithmic fairness, bias, and accountability in information access
  • Accessibility, inclusion, and equitable access to knowledge for diverse communities
  • Social, cultural, and legal implications of digital preservation and access

Committees

Organizing committee

• General Chairs
  • Junhua Ding, University of North Texas, USA
  • Mark V. Albert, University of North Texas, USA
  • Jiangping Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Program Chairs
  • Haihua Chen, University of North Texas, USA
  • Jim Jansen, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
  • Jiqun Liu, University of Oklahoma, USA 
• Financial Chairs
  • Ting Xiao, University of North Texas, USA
  • Jeonghyun (Annie) Kim, University of North Texas, USA
• Local Chairs
  • Sagnik Ray Choudhury,University of North Texas, USA
  • Mark Phillips, University of North Texas, USA
• Publicity Chairs
  • Le Yang, University of Oregon, USA
  • Yuhan Zhou, University of North Texas, USA
• Website Chairs
  • Mat Kelly, Drexel University, USA
  • Haoxuan Zhang, University of North Texas, USA 
• Proceedings Chairs
  • Bipasha Banerjee, Virginia Tech, USA
  • Yinlin Chen, Virginia Tech, USA 
  • Sawood Alam, Internet Archive, USA
• Volunteer Chair
  • Komala Subramanyam Cherukuri, University of North Texas, USA
• Workshop/Tutorial Chair
  • Lingzi Hong, University of North Texas, USA
  • Jian Wu, Computer Science, Old Dominion University, USA 
• Panel Chair
  • Hamed Alhoori, Northern Illinois University, USA 
  • Ingo Frommholz, Modul University Vienna, Austria
• Posters/Demos Chairs
  • Yi Bu, Peking University, China
  • Kwan Hui Lim, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
• Doctoral Consortium Chairs
  • Yunfei Du, University of North Texas, USA
  • Manika Lamba, University of Oklahoma, USA
  • Yi Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Student Support Chairs
  • Yang Zhang, University of North Texas, USA
  • Haiming Liu, University of Southampton, UK
• Award Chairs
  • Xiaozhong Liu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
  • Preben Hansen, Stockholm University, Sweden
  • Yuan Li, The University of Alabama, USA
• Resources Chairs
  • Akhil Pandey Akella, AllSci CorpDr., USA 
  • Mingwei Tang, Nanjing Audit University, China
  • Ana Krahmer, University of North Texas, USA
• Registration Chair
  • Daniel Alemneh, University of North Texas, USA
  • Jingye Qu, Beihua University, China
• Steering Committee Chair
  • J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Invited Speakers

• Speaker 1: Chengxiang Zhai, Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering, ACM SIGIR Gerard Salton Award Winner (2021), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Speaker 2: Nicholas Belkin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Science, ACM SIGIR Gerard Salton Award Winner (2015), Rutgers University
• Speaker 3: TBD

Publication

JCDL'26 proceedings will be published in ACM Digital Libraries by ACM.

Venue

JCDL 2026 will be held as a hybrid conference from October 13–16, 2026, with in-person participation in Denton, Texas, USA, as well as opportunities for virtual attendance.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr. Haihua Chen (Haihua.chen@unt.edu) and Dr. Jiqun Liu (jiqunliu@ou.edu) and the coresponding track chairs.