The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) held its 78th annual conference in St. Louis, from November 6 to November 10. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community”, with a special emphasis on the ways in which research can be applied to real-life information problems. Presenters and speakers included individuals from all over the globe (among foreign countries, particularly Canada and the United Kingdom) with a wide range of experiences working with individuals, community organizations, government agencies, businesses and industries, and other entities. This year’s keynote speakers were the University of Minnesota’s Aaron Doering, who discussed the impact that educational innovation can have on society; and Sarah Morton, an information-sciences leader from the UK who spoke about ensuring that information research has a positive and meaningful impact on various communities of users.
The following librarians or library-science students from Illinois (all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) presented at the conference. To see the full program, go here. If I omitted anyone, please let me know. Also, sorry I didn’t get this list out before the conference.
(For the instances in which one or more of the participants in a presentation were not from Illinois, the names of only the Illinois presenter or presenters are included.)
Panel Discussions
- “Standing Out in the Academic LIS Job Market: An Interactive Panel for Doctoral Students”–Nicole A. Cooke
- “Education in the Cyberlearning Era: New Challenges, Opportunities and Applications”–Michael Twidale
- “Envisioning Our Information Future and How to Educate for It: A Community Conversation”–Linda C. Smith
- “Library Assessment and Data Analytics in the Big Data Era: Practice and Policies”–Jen-chien Yu
Papers
- “Learning User-Defined, Domain-Specific Relations: A Situated Case Study and Evaluation in Plant Science”–Ana Lucic and Catherine Blake
- “Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: Contextual Privacy Predicament”–Hsiao-Ying Huang and Masooda Bashir
- “Online Privacy and Informed Consent: The Dilemma of Information Assymetry”–Masooda Bashir, April D. Lambert, Carol Hayes, and Jay P. Kesan
- “Patron Privacy in Jeopardy: An Analysis of the Privacy Policies of Digital Content Vendors”–April D. Lambert, Michelle Parker, and Masooda Bashir
Poster Sessions
- “What’s Your Epistemology? Quiz Design as a Pedagogical Tool in Library & Information Science Doctoral Education”–Beth Strickland and Emily Lawrence
- “Making Dataset Ingest Decisions: A Data Archive’s Appraisal and Selection System Implementation”–Chung-Yi Hou
- “Online Question Answering Practices: Supporting Data Re-use”–Catherine Blake, Caryn L. Anderson, and Michael Twidale
- “Significant Features of Thematic Research Collections”–Katrina Fenlon
- “A Gutenberg Moment: The Do-It-Yourself World of Online Literary Publishing”–Harriett Green
- “Mapping Significance Properties in OAIS: A Case Study with Video Games”–Rhiannon Stephanie Bettivia
- “Building Data Expertise into Research Institutions: Preliminary Results”–Cheryl Annette Thompson