ISS-SLC27 Submission Instructions & Policies

Instructions Meeting Format Presenter Policies Limits Scope Topics Submission Site

Instructions

General Instructions

To submit a Panel / Presentation / Poster / Roundtable / Lightning Talk, please provide the requested information in the ConfTool Site (coming soon). Please be sure to provide information on all presenters, and confirm that all presenters are a) aware that they are included in the submission, and b) intend to participate if accepted.
To submit a Pre-Conference Workshop, download the and complete the Workshop Submission Form. Please complete the required information in ConfTool. Be very clear in your proposal how the workshop will be conducted and what the learning objectives will be and how those will be accomplished. It’s important that workshops be interactive and allow for audience participation. These are not intended to be panel discussions. Add workshop form and wording in Conftool.
In considering whether and/or how to use generative AI tools, we encourage authors to educate themselves on the nature, affordances, and limitations of generative AI technologies prior to their use. These technologies may produce content containing incorrect statements and fictional citations and exhibit bias due to the content on which they are trained. A generative AI tool should not be treated as or listed as an author. Thus, it is the responsibility of authors to assess the validity and relevance of any AI output that is submitted.
There are privacy and intellectual property concerns with the use of generative AI tools. For example, if sensitive information is uploaded to a generative AI tool, there is potential for the AI tool to reproduce this information in its output. Further, there is the potential for unattributed intellectual contributions to be included in AI generated content. Thus, we encourage authors to refrain from uploading sensitive information to a generative AI tool and to take responsibility for citing prior intellectual contributions in their work.
All submissions and presentations must be in English.

Important Dates and Deadlines

January 5, 2027 – Submissions Close
February 15, 2027 – Proposal Decisions Announced
March 15, 2027 – Early Registration Deadline

Meeting Format

Meeting Format

The Information Science Summit and Special Libraries Conference 2027 remains a face-to-face gathering, and no virtual or recorded presentations will be permitted during the meeting. However, ASIS&T recognizes that there are circumstances that prohibit an individual who might otherwise want to attend the in-person meeting to be unable to attend. In the event that an individual is unable to attend due to a disability, accomodations may be possible. A request for such accomodation must be sent via email to meetings@asist.org upon receipt of acceptance of your proposal to present.

Presenter Policies

Presenter Policies

A presenters must attend the Annual Meeting in person (unless granted a disability waiver) and all must register by the Early Bird Deadline (March 15) at the full registration rate.
If a person has contributed to the submission, but will not be attending the meeting, do not check the box indicating the person is a presenter.
If your submission is endorsed by a special interest group (SIG), verification of this endorsement will be required. Please reach out to SIGs early so they have time to seek approval(s) as needed.
Please keep in mind that online and prerecorded presentations will not be permitted at the face-to-face meeting. Withdrawing your submission after acceptance may make you ineligible to present at the future meetings.

Limits

Submission and Presentation Limits

Posters: A lead author may submit a maximum of two posters and present a maximum of one poster at the meeting.

Other Formats: A lead author may submit a maximum of four proposals and present a maximum of two times at the meeting.

Overall Submission and Presentation Limits: One individual may not be the lead submitter on more than five submissions. One individual may not be the presenter on more than three presentations, and one must be a poster. In the event that there are co-authors attending the meeting, they may present additional accepted papers/posters so consider changing the presenter should you be making multiple submissions.

Scope

Scope

Submissions should be related to information science which is defined by ASIS&T as:

A discipline that investigates the properties and behavior of information, the forces governing the flow of information, and the means of processing information for optimum accessibility and usability. It is concerned with the body of knowledge relating to the origination, collection, organization, storage, retrieval, interpretation, transmission, and utilization of information.[i]

Submissions related to the conference theme - “Trust, Expertise and Value in a Post-AI World” - are encouraged but not required.

We are keen to receive contributions of any type that pertain to Information Science and align with the main conference theme. These presentations should have the potential to stimulate discussion at the conference and produce transferable lessons to others.

Topics

The following are the primary topic groupings for the meeting. You will be asked to indicate the most closely aligned topic(s) to your proposal when you submit.

Career Skills & Management
Outreach & Impact
Market Research & Competitive Intelligence
Knowledge & Records Management
AI & Emerging Technologies
Research & Data Science
Leading and Responding to Change
Measuring and Communicating Library Value
Skills and Competencies of the Modern Information Professional
Building Stakeholder Trust
Ethics and Policy

Submission Site

SUBMIT NOW (coming soon)