Upcoming Webinars and Events
ASIS&T Webinars, your source for online live and on-demand content created by the Association for Information Science & Technology, are free to ASIS&T members. Our webinars connect you with experts and global thought leaders in information science, management, and business on relevant professional issues.
Welcome Wednesday - June 2026
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM) (EST)
Learn more about ASIS&T and your membership benefits by attending a New Member Welcome Wednesday. If you are not yet a member of ASIS&T and wish to learn more about the organization, please contact membership@asist.org.
Information Science Summit & Special Libraries Conference
June 6-9, 2026 | Albuquerque, New Mexico
This meeting will be the second Information Science Summit and the first Summit combining the ISS with the Special Libraries Conference which carries on the tradition of the very successful SLA Annual Conference. The meeting will explore new frontiers of information science and librarianship through the lens of both practicing information scientists and academic researchers. It will bring together the people who tackle wicked information challenges every day with those who study the best practice in solving wicked information challenges.
Dublin Core Academy: Metadata and AI: Navigating Opportunities, Risks, and Skills Gap
Wednesday, June 17, 2026 (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM) (EDT)
In the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is widespread anticipation of AI's transformative impact across the global information landscape. The enthusiasm for AI-driven metadata solutions is genuine, but it is tempered by unresolved questions over their practices. This panel brings together practitioners and researchers for a conversation about where AI is delivering (or not), why some metadata professionals feel that they are being left out of implementation decisions that directly affect them, and what the field needs to do to move from cautious observer to active participant. Panelists will address three questions: 1) Where is AI proving its value, and what would genuinely change that assessment? 2) Who owns the training and competency gap and are we preparing for the future? And 3) what responsibilities metadata librarians carry around bias and ethics that others do not? The conversation is grounded in a moment when major institutions like the PCC, IFLA, OCLC and ACRL are actively defining what responsible AI practices and their integration into metadata workflows look like.
Webinar: Result Assessment Tool (RAT): An Open-Source Toolkit for Conducting Studies based on Search Results
Thursday, June 18, 2026 (12:00 PM - 1:00 PM) (EDT)
In the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is widespread anticipation of AI's transformative impact across the global information landscape. The enthusiasm for AI-driven metadata solutions is genuine, but it is tempered by unresolved questions over their practices. This panel brings together practitioners and researchers for a conversation about where AI is delivering (or not), why some metadata professionals feel that they are being left out of implementation decisions that directly affect them, and what the field needs to do to move from cautious observer to active participant. Panelists will address three questions: 1) Where is AI proving its value, and what would genuinely change that assessment? 2) Who owns the training and competency gap and are we preparing for the future? And 3) what responsibilities metadata librarians carry around bias and ethics that others do not? The conversation is grounded in a moment when major institutions like the PCC, IFLA, OCLC and ACRL are actively defining what responsible AI practices and their integration into metadata workflows look like.
Webinar: Meet the Author: Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
Thursday, June 25, 2026 (12:00 PM - 1:00 PM) (EST)
In recent years, dreams about our technological future have soured as digital platforms have undermined privacy, eroded labor rights, and weakened democratic discourse. In light of the negative consequences of innovation, some blame harmful algorithms or greedy CEOs. Behind the Startup focuses instead on the role of capital and the influence of financiers. Drawing on nineteen months of participant-observation research inside a successful Silicon Valley startup, this book examines how the company was organized to meet the needs of the venture capital investors who funded it. Investors push startups to scale as quickly as possible to inflate the value of their asset. Benjamin Shestakofsky shows how these demands create organizational problems that managers solve by combining high-tech systems with low-wage human labor. With its focus on the financialization of innovation, Behind the Startup explains how the gains generated by these companies are funneled into the pockets of a small cadre of elite investors and entrepreneurs. To promote innovation that benefits the many rather than the few, Shestakofsky compellingly argues that we must focus less on fixing the technology and more on changing the financial infrastructure that supports it.
Europe Chapter: Information Science Trends (IST) 2026: Celebrating Theory and Practice
Friday, June 26, 2026 (4:00 AM - 11:00 AM) (EDT) | Universitat de Barcelona, Spain and viewable on Zoom
The Europe Chapter (EC) of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) seeks participation in this year’s IST conference on Celebrating Theory and Practice. The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain, and presentations will also be viewable on Zoom. For this event, themed Celebrating Theory and Practice, we invite submissions within information science/studies (broadly construed) covering research (completed or in progress), practical projects or examples, and conceptual work. Inspired by the addition of SLA members to the Europe Chapter, the theme encourages a celebration of the nexus of theory and practice; this includes for example ongoing changes in digitality and digital environments, benefits and risks of emerging information technology and functionality, and information seeking and use as it can help (or hinder) people in meeting their information-related needs in the information society (including but not limited to the European region).
Webinar: How Does Information Literacy in the First Language Contribute to the Development of Information Literacy in the Second Language?
Thursday, July 2, 2026 (3:00 PM - 4:00 PM) (EDT)
This webinar presents a study examining the mechanisms through which multilingual students’ information literacy (IL) experiences in their first language contribute to their perceived ability to engage in IL practices in a second language. Drawing on translanguaging theory, social cognitive theory, and research on cross-linguistic literacy transfer, the study investigates the interplay among first-language IL experiences, translanguaging self-efficacy, transpositioning self-efficacy, and second-language IL self-efficacy. In addition to variable-centered analyses, a person-centered approach is employed to identify distinct learner profiles based on students’ first-language IL experiences, translanguaging self-efficacy, transpositioning self-efficacy and examine the differences regarding their second-language IL self-efficacy. Findings highlight the critical role of multilingual resources in shaping IL development, offering implications for more inclusive, asset-based pedagogies in multilingual and higher education contexts.
Webinar: Perceptual Learning and Rational Learning: Situating Knowledge Organization in the Age of AI (SIG-CMR)
Thursday, July 9, 2026 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM) (EDT)
Knowledge organization systems (KOS) traditionally are developed for representing knowledge in publications for information discovery and retrieval. Advances in semantic technologies since the beginning of 21st century and the emergent AI technologies have brought great shocks to KOS as well as KO research. Are KOS still needed and useful as information search is being replaced by AI-driven conversational style search? Where does KO research is situated in the wave of AI? What vision can we offer for KO as a research field in the years to come? This presentation will first set a context of perceptual learning and rational learning for a discussion of the KO paradigms, which will then be connected to the knowledge representation paradigms in AI. Through examples of KOS-facilitated AI/ML applications, this talk will try to address these questions.
Webinar: Navigating Early Career Uncertainty in Information Professions: The Research Conundrum
Thursday, July 16, 2026 (12:00 PM - 1:00 PM) (EDT)
Early career researchers and information professionals face increasing uncertainty as professional roles, required skills, and career pathways continue to evolve across academic and practice settings. This webinar explores how early career individuals can make informed decisions about research directions, publishing, professional identity, and skill development within the changing landscape of information professions. The session will discuss practical strategies for building a sustainable career trajectory, identifying relevant competencies, and leveraging mentoring and professional networks to support long-term professional growth.
Webinar: Smart Information Systems: Leveraging AI for Knowledge Discovery and Decision Support (SIG Edu-Learn)
Thursday, July 30, 2026 (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM) (EDT)
The purpose of the event “Smart Information Systems: Leveraging AI for Knowledge Discovery and Decision Support” is to explore how emerging artificial intelligence technologies can be effectively integrated into information systems to enhance knowledge management processes. It aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss innovative approaches for extracting meaningful insights from complex data, improving information retrieval, and supporting evidence-based decision-making across various domains. The event also seeks to foster collaboration, share best practices, and highlight the transformative potential of AI-driven systems in addressing contemporary information challenges.
DCMI26
Monday, August 3, 2026 - Friday, August 7, 2026
DCMI 2026, the twenty-fourth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, invites researchers, practitioners, and experts from diverse domains to explore the dynamic landscape of metadata in the theme of Meaning-Driven AI: Using Metadata to Align Systems with Human Values. The fast-paced advances in artificial intelligence (AI) create new research opportunities for metadata. While AI has the potential to enhance metadata quality through systematic tasks like error detection and data standardisation, meaning-driven AI explores how structured data can capture human preferences, beliefs, and experiences to create intelligent systems that truly understand what people value.
Thursday, August 20, 2026 (9:00 AM - 10:00 AM) (EDT)
This event and guest lecture on *“Information Literacy and Generative AI Literacy: Relationships and Pedagogy for the Future,”* delivered by Sheila Webber, aims to explore the evolving intersection between traditional information literacy and emerging generative AI competencies in contemporary education. The session will highlight how the rapid integration of AI tools is reshaping the ways learners access, evaluate, and create information. In this talk, Sheila Webber will look at the relationship between Information Literacy (IL) and generative AI Literacy (genAI), and then explore the pedagogic implications both for faculty educating LIS students, and for library and information professionals educating their communities to effectively live, learn, and work with IL and genAI. The event seeks to emphasize the importance of critical thinking, ethical awareness, and responsible engagement with AI-driven technologies. It will also provide practical pedagogical insights to support educators and information professionals in integrating these literacies into teaching and learning practices, preparing learners for a digitally augmented future.
Webinar: Passing it On: What Does the Dean Do All Day?
Thursday, September 10, 2026 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM) (EDT)
As part of the "Passing it On" series, Emily Knox will discuss her experiences moving through academia with a special focus on combining research, teaching, and service effectively. Learning objectives include taking on administration, linking service to research, & managing teaching.
Webinar: AI-Driven Metadata Workflows, Professional Competencies, and the Future of Metadata Governance (South Asia Chapter & DCMI Education Committee)
Thursday, September 17, 2026 (8:30 AM - 9:30 AM) (EDT)
The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the practices of metadata creation and management. Drawing from two survey studies of perceived impact of AI on metadata practices (n=752) and academic librarians’ perceptions about new skills and competencies (n=155), this presentation will explore the complex relationships among metadata tasks, metadata workflows and AI tools, identify the new skills and competencies needed for academic librarians and provide implications for metadata governance.
2026 Annual Meeting
November 6-9, 2026 | Bangkok, Thailand
Information scientists and practitioners have critical roles to play in “leading reflection, debate, and respectful balance” as we consider the global future of AI. Information science should play a greater role in creating policy, theories of ethical information use, and insightful models of information use that can be part of a better solution for Human-AI interaction in these turbulent and complex times.
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