Join iSchool faculty, staff, and students for the annual conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), which will take place from October 2-5 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The theme of ALISE 2023 is "Bridge the Gap: Teaching, Learning, Practice, and Competencies."
Monday, October 2
Associate Professor and MSLIS Program Director Maria Bonn will speak at the 2023 ALISE Academy session, "Open Resources and Pedagogies as a Bridge to Practice in LIS," at 1:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 3
Assistant Professor JooYoung Seo, Associate Professor Kyungwon Koh, and doctoral student Morgan Lundy will serve on the panel, "Advocating for Disability Access: The Bridge We Need," at 10:30 a.m.
Affiliate Professor Clara M. Chu will serve on the panel, "The IFLA Guidelines for Professional LIS Education Programmes: Competencies Toward Excellence in Professional Practice," at 1:00 p.m.
Doctoral student Andrew Zalot will serve on the panel, "The Contested Nature of the Public in Policy: Implications for Educators," at 2:45 p.m.
Adjunct Lecturer Melissa Wong will serve on the panel, "Multiple Means of Engagement: Connecting with Students Across Modalities through Choice, Flexibility and Authentic Assessment," at 2:45 p.m.
Assistant Professor Jessie Chin and doctoral students Smit Desai and Morgan Lundy will present their paper, "Bridging the Gap Between Designers and Users: Co-designing Health-Related Voice User Interface Experiences with Older Adults," at 4:30 p.m.
Affiliate Professor Clara M. Chu will serve on the panel, "Decolonizing LIS Journal Publishing in International Context: Addressing the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Development Gap," at 4:30 p.m.
Adjunct Associate Professor Merinda Hensley will serve on the panel, "You Know It When You See It: A Conversation About Rigor," at 4:30 p.m.
Affiliate Professor Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe will present her co-authored poster, "Privacy, Intellectual Freedom, and Learning Analytics: An Open Curriculum for Bridging the Gap Between Professional Values and Professional Practice," at the Works in Progress Poster Session at 6:00 p.m.
Adjunct Lecturer Barbara Alvarez will present her poster, "'Impart Information Unsparingly': Exploring how abortion information is shared in a post-Roe country," at the Works in Progress Poster Session at 6:00 p.m.
Doctoral student Chris Wiley will present his poster, "Visualizing Racism within Medicine," at the Works in Progress Poster Session at 6:00 p.m.
Postdoctoral Research Associate Rexwhite Enakrire will present his co-authored poster, "Understanding the Global Problem of Technostress for Librarians," at the Works in Progress Poster Session at 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 4
Adjunct Lecturer Sarah C. Johnson will present her paper, "Teaching Social Work Concepts to LIS Students," at 10:30 a.m.
Assistant Professor Melissa Ocepek, Affiliate Associate Professor Sara Benson, Adjunct Professor Tomas Lipinski, and doctoral student Siyao Cheng will serve on the panel, "The Importance of Learning the Difference Between Copyright and Wrong: Empowering Programs to Teach Copyright Education," at 3:00 p.m.
Assistant Professor Rachel M. Magee will serve on the panel, "Youth Services: Inclusion, Community, & Resilience," at 3:00 p.m.
Doctoral student Courtney Richardson will present her poster, "Art as Information: Re-reading Quicksand," at the Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition at 5:00 p.m.
Doctoral student Morgan Lundy will present her poster, "A Grounded Theory and Collaborative Design Approach to Disability Storytelling on TikTok," at the Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition at 5:00 p.m.
Doctoral student Wenyi Shang will present his poster, "Moving Between Scales: Computationally Modelling Social Dynamics in the Elite Society of Premodern China," at the Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition at 5:00 p.m.
Postdoctoral Research Associate Sang Hoo Oh will present his poster, "The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Future Workforce: The Case of Advanced Manufacturing," at the Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition at 5:00 p.m.