SUNDAY, 31 OCTOBER 2021
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Mountain Daylight Time
Community Resilience Through Diversity (European Chapter)
Crystal Fulton, University College Dublin, Ireland; Isto Huvila, Uppsala University, Sweden; Olívia Pestana, University of Porto, Portugal; Anna Maria Tammaro, University of Parma, Italy; Ying-Hsang Liu, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark; Sümeyye Akça, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Conceptualizing Relevance of Information as a Social Justice Issue: An Interactive Panel Discussion
Joseph Winberry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; LaVerne Gray, Syracuse University, USA; Jean Hardy, Michigan State University, USA; Baheya Jaber and Bharat Mehra, University of Alabama, USA
North-South Scholarly Collaboration: Opportunities and Experiences in Africa (ASIS&T Africa Chapter and SIG-III)
Diane Sonnenwald, UCD, Ireland; Ina Fourie, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Abebe Rorissa, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; Heidi Julien, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA; Jaya Raju, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Daniel Alemneh, University of North Texas, USA
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Mountain Daylight Time
Motivation, Building Relationships, and the Role of Belonging in Distance Learning (SIG-ED)
Rachel Williams and Danielle Pollock, Simmons College, USA; Agnes Mainka, Michael Brinkmeier, and Elisaweta Ossovski, Institute for Computer Science Universität Osnabrück, Germany
Racial Attacks During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Politicizing an Epidemic Crisis on Longstanding Racism and Misinformation, Disinformation, and Misconception
Miyoung Chong, University of Virginia, USA; Thomas Froehlich, Kent State University, USA; Kai Shu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Mountain Daylight Time
Antiracism in the LIS Profession: Not Just Lip Service
Rong Tang, Simmons University, USA; Xan Goodman, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA; Rebecca Davis, Simmons University, USA; Jia Tina Du, University of South Australia, Australia; Bridgett Pride, New York Public Library, USA; David Leonard, Boston Public Library, USA
Welcome to Information Science (SIG-HFIS)
Jenna Hartel, University of Toronto, Canada; Marcia Bates, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Vishma Bhattarai, Enoch Pratt Free Library, USA; LaVerne Gray, Syracuse University, USA; Patrick Keilty, University of Toronto, Canada
Youth Information Interaction Research in the Pandemic: Adjustments, Innovations, Implications
Vanessa Figueiredo and Eric Meyers, University of British Columbia, Canada; Dania Bilal, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; Sophie Rutter, University of Sheffield, UK; Rachel Magee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
MONDAY, 1 NOVEMBER 2021
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Mountain Daylight Time
Collaborative Efforts and Success Story of an Open-Learning Program: Partnership Growth of the Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA)
Rong Tang, Simmons University, USA; Ceilyn Boyd, Harvard University, USA; Andrew Creamer, Brown University, USA; Adam Kriesberg, Simmons University, USA; Elaine Martin, Harvard Medical School, USA; Rebecca Morin, Tufts University, USA; Zhan Hu; Simmons University, USA; Ashley Thomas, Harvard Medical School, USA
Conducting and Publishing Research in Developing Countries: Challenges and Solutions (SIG-III and ASIS&T Africa and South Asia Chapters)
Devendra Potnis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; Bhakti Gala, Central University of Gujarat, India; Edda Tandi Lwoga, College of Business Education, Tanzania; Md. Anwarul Islam, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; Nosheen Fatima Warraich, University of the Punjab, Pakistan; Humphrey Keah, FAO of the United Nations, Kenya; Abebe Rorissa; University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
What’s Next for Information World Mapping? International and Multidisciplinary Uses of the Method
Devon Greyson, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA; Tien-I Tsai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Vanessa Kitzie, University of South Carolina, USA; Konstantina Martzoukou, Robert Gordon University, Scotland; Millicent Mabi, University of British Columbia, Canada
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Mountain Daylight Time
Expanding Our Conceptions of Embodied and Affective Information Interactions with Queer Theory
Diana Floegel, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA; Travis Wagner, University of South Carolina, USA; Daniel Delmonaco, University of Michigan, USA; B.M. Watson, University of British Columbia, Canada
History and Heritage Update (SIG-HFIS and SIG-STI)
Robert Montoya, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Deanna Morrow Hall, Corporate Information Resources, Inc., USA; Michael Buckland and Paul Daguid, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Information Injustice and Intellectual Freedom: Polarizing Concepts for a Polarizing Time
Shannon Oltmann, University of Kentucky, USA; Ana Ndumu, University of Maryland, USA; Emily Knox, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; John Burgess, University of Alabama, USA
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Mountain Daylight Time
Data Discovery and Reuse in Data Service Practices: A Global Perspective
Ying-Hsang Liu, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark; Hsin-liang (Oliver) Chen, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA; Makoto Kato, University of Tsukuba, Japan; Mingfang Wu, Australian Research Data Commons, Australia; Kathleen Gregory, University of Ottawa, Canada; Scholarly Communications Lab, Ottawa/Vancouver, Canada; and Data Archiving and Networked Services, Netherlands
Search a Great Leveler? Ensuring More Equitable Information Acquisition
Stephann Makri, City, University of London, UK; Dana McKay, George Buchanan, and Shanton Chang, University of Melbourne, Australia; Dirk Lewandowski, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany; Andy MacFarlane and Lynne Cole; City, University of London, UK; Sanne Vrijenhoek, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Andrés Ferraro, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Updates of Information Standards and Standardization Efforts (ASIS&T Standards Committee)
Marjorie Hlava, Access Innovations, USA; Marcia Zeng, Kent State University, USA; Timothy Dickey, Kent State University, Columbus Metropolitan Library, USA
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Mountain Daylight Time
At the Margins of Epistemology: Amplifying Alternative Ways of Knowing in Library and Information Science
Beth Patin, Syracuse University, USA; Tami Oliphant and Danille Allard, University of Alberta, Canada; LaVerne Gray, Rachel Clarke, and Jasmina Tacheva, Syracuse University, USA; Kayla Lar-Son; University of British Columbia, Canada
Career Development in Knowledge Management (SIG-KM)
Jeff Allen, University of North Texas, USA; Lu An, Wuhan University, People’s Republic of China; Darra Hofman, San Jose State University, USA; Md. Anwarul Islam, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; Heather Pfeiffer, New Mexico State University, USA
Foundations of Information Science (SIG-HFIS, SIG-ED, and SIG-STI)
Michael Buckland and Marcia Bates, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Wayne de Fremery, Sogang University, Korea; Lin Wang, Hangzhou Dianzi University, People’s Republic of China
TUESDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 2021
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Mountain Daylight Time
Endurance and Coherence: The Post-2020 iSchool
Leslie Thomson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Ben Kaden and Michael Kleineberg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; Di Wang, Wuhan University, People’s Republic of China; Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; Lihong Zhou; Wuhan University, People’s Republic of China; Gobinda Chowdhury and Maryam Bugaje, University of Strathclyde, UK; Michael Seadle, iSchools Organization, Inc.
Examining Concepts of the Public: Who is Served by Information Services? (SIG-HFIS and SIG-CR)
Jeremy Abbott, Michelle Caswell, Gregory Leazer, Robert Montoya, and Safiya Noble; Carlin Soos, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Mountain Daylight Time
Growing the iFederation: Leveraging the ASIS&T, ALISE, and the iSchools Collaboration to Advance Information Science
Brian Detlor, McMaster University, Canada; Sandra Hirsh, San Jose State University, USA; Michael Seadle, iSchools Organization, Inc., USA
“Unity in Diversity”: A Conversation Around the Interdisciplinary Identity of Information Science
Abebe Rorissa, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; Hemalata Iyer, University at Albany, SUNY, USA; Devendra Potnis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto, Canada; Daniel Alemneh, University of North Texas, USA
Quality, Reuse, and Governance of Open Data (SIG-OIM)
Fang Wang and Hongzhi Zhu, Nankai University, People’s Republic of China; Yejun Wu, Louisiana State University, USA
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Mountain Daylight Time
Documenting Information Processes and Practices: Paradata, Provenance Metadata, Life-Cycles, and Pipelines
Isto Huvila, Uppsala University, Sweden; Jane Greenberg, Drexel University, USA; Olle Sköld, Uppsala University, Sweden; Andrea Thomer, University of Michigan, USA; Ciaran Trace, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Social Media, Vaccines, and Partisan Division of Health Information (SIG-SM)
Loni Hagen, University of South Florida, USA; Devon Greyson, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA; Ashley Fox, University at Albany, SUNY, USA; Kolina Koltai, University of Washington, USA; Catherine Dumas, Simmons University, USA