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Affiliated Organization News, March 2026

Build AI Literacy in Your Community, in Your Classroom, or at Home

 

AI literacy is the ability to understand, interact with, and evaluate the accuracy of AI tools and the content that they produce. It's important to understand both the potential and the limitations of AI tools, so that we can make informed decisions based on the information they provide. Building AI literacy is key to using these digital tools productively and responsibly.

Discover AI literacy resources at InformationLiteracy.gov, a website from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Whether you're looking to teach AI literacy skills, plan AI literacy programming, or boost your own knowledge of AI tools, InformationLiteracy.gov has something for everyone. You can:

Check it out and get inspired at bit.ly/AILitDayIMLS.

Call for Bids to Host ISIC 2028, The Information Behaviour Conference

The Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) conference is the academic home of the Information Behaviour research community. The biennial conference focuses on contextualized information activities, expressed in different forms such as 'information behavior', 'information practice', 'information seeking', 'information experience' and others. ISIC conferences promote the interdisciplinary study of information research influenced by fields such as information science, information studies, library studies, communication studies, computer science, education, information management, information systems, management science, psychology, social psychology, sociology, and other disciplines. ISIC is a conference for research papers exploring information as a rich site of study, going beyond a sole focus on technological aspects and exploring a wide variety of contexts.

The ISIC Steering Committee solicits proposals to host ISIC 2028.

The ISIC Steering Committee expects the organizers to be active members of the information behaviour research community and participants in past ISIC conferences. Bids may come from more than one institution within the same bid. For those interested in hosting ISIC 2028, please submit an email bid letter to the ISIC Steering Committee (care of Leanne Bowler, Chair of the ISIC Steering Committee: lbowler@pratt.edu). Please see the ISIC website or the website for ISIC 2026 at McGill University in Montréal, Canada, for more details on what the bid document should contain.

The bid should be submitted by April 30, 2026.

Ready to lead your institution? Strengthen your information skills with UMD

If you're ready to lead your information institution, the Doctor of Information Science in Information Science Leadership and Community Engagement (D.Inf.Sci.), known as the Info Leader Doctorate, from the University of Maryland College of Information (INFO), was designed for working professionals like you.

This practitioner-oriented program helps aspiring leaders strengthen research, leadership, and organizational skills-without stepping away from their careers. You'll work on real challenges from your own organization and community, graduating with solutions you can put into practice immediately.

Applications for Fall 2026 are now open.

Final deadline: July 15, 2026

Learn more on the website, attend an info session, or apply today.

UNC-CH SILS: New School Name
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science and School of Data Science and Society will join forces to form a new school – the School of Data and Information Sciences – which will launch on July 1.

The work of creating the new school has been underway since last October. The process of selecting a name for the school was a collaborative endeavor and included gathering input from multiple stakeholders.

All existing programs, including the BSIS, MSIS, MSLS, and PhD will remain, and their commitment to libraries, archives, and the information professions will continue. This new configuration will allow the school to expand the services, support, and educational opportunities they provide to students, faculty, and alumni, and enhance the educational experiences they offer to next generation information professionals.

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