This collection of papers represents conference presentations as proceedings from the “Querying the Library: Digitization and Its Impact” Conference hosted by the James P. Adams Library at Rhode Island College on May 31, 2013. Conference presenters were selected for their innovative, future-oriented thinking, work and advancement of the library and information science profession: transformative information carriers; engagement of writers and readers; collection stewardship; networked, interdependent distributed computing environments; and transformative, social, knowledge creation infrastructures and ecosystems. Includes contributions from Mark J. Caprio, Christiane Marie Landry, Brendan Ryan, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher, Barbara Adams Hebard, Chelsea Gunn, Emily Powers Souza, Chris Tanguay, Kate Thornhill, Emily Toner, and Kieran Ayton.