The following GSLIS faculty, students, and staff will participate in iConference 2015, which will be held March 24-27 in Newport Beach, California. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the annual conference, which is presented by the iSchools, a worldwide association of information schools dedicated to advancing the information field. The event brings together scholars, researchers, and information professionals to share insights on critical information issues. The theme of this year’s conference is “Create, Collaborate, Celebrate.”
Wednesday, March 25
Completed Papers 3: Extracting, Comparing and Creating Book and Journal Data, “A Method to Automatically Identify the Results from Journal Articles,” 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., presented by doctoral students Henry A. Gabb and Ana Lucic and Associate Professor Catherine Blake
Poster Session 1, “Authentic Learning in the Research Data Curation Classroom,” 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m., presenters include doctoral candidate Karen S. Baker
Poster Session 1, “Conceptualizing worksets for non-consumptive research,” 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m., presented by doctoral student Jacob Jett, data analysis consultant Chris Maden, master’s student Colleen Fallaw, senior project coordinator Megan Senseney, and Professor J. Stephen Downie
Poster Session 1, “The Social Justice Imperative in Library and Information Science,” 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m., presenters include doctoral students Myrna Morales and RaShauna Brannon
Thursday, March 26
Completed Papers 8: Designing Crowdsourcing Applications, “Design Facets of Crowdsourcing,” 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., presented by doctoral candidate Peter Organisciak and Professor Michael Twidale
Completed Papers 12: Using Mobile Health Applications, “Why do mobile phone-based smoking cessation interventions struggle and how can we make them more effective?,” 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., presenters include doctoral candidate Shameem Ahmed
Preliminary Papers 8: Knowledge Management in Academia, “Evidence-based discovery,” 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., presented by Associate Professor Catherine Blake
SIE 7: Pipelines and Pathways (Diversity), “Pipelines and Pathways into the Information Professions,” presenters include doctoral candidate Melissa Villa-Nicholas
Friday, March 27
Completed Papers 16: Organizations: Learning, Growing, Changing, “LIS Programs and Data Centers: Integrating Expertise,” 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m., presenters include doctoral student Cheryl Annette Thompson
Colloquium 3: Doctoral Colloquium, “Computer Supported Cooperative Curation: Supporting natural history informatics,” 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m., presented by doctoral student Andrea Karoline Thomer
