Join the iSchool at ALISE 2024

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 14-17 in Portland, Oregon. The theme of the 2024 conference is "Ethics and Evolution of Truth and Information." At the conference, Associate Professor Emily Knox will receive the 2024 ALISE Excellence in Teaching Award, and Assistant Professor Travis L. Wagner will be recognized for their coauthored paper that won the 2024 ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition. In addition, the iSchool is proud to sponsor Amanda Harrison, 2024 ALISE Leadership Development Intern.

Tuesday, October 15

Rexwhite Enakrire, associate professor at the University of Johannesburg, will present the poster, "You are not Alone: Confusion with Software Applications in African University Libraries," which he coauthored with Professor Michael Twidale and Professor Christopher Lueg during his time as a postdoctoral researcher at the iSchool, at 6:00 p.m.

Doctoral candidate Morgan Lundy will present the poster, "Welcome to #SpoonieTok: Understanding and Supporting Disability Expertise Storytelling Abilities and Collective Information Practices on TikTok and Beyond," at 6:00 p.m.

Assistant Professor Travis L. Wagner will co-present the poster, "‘Life is Too Short Not To Speak the Truth’: Framing Accountable Community Collaboration Within HIV/AIDS Archival Work," at 6:00 p.m. 

Wednesday, October 16

Associate Professor Kyungwon Koh, Associate Professor Emily Knox, PhD student Gowri Balasubramaniam, and doctoral candidate Andrew Zalot will present their paper, "Evaluating The Value and Impact of Makerspaces on Public Libraries," at 8:30 a.m. 

Assistant Professor Rachel M. Magee and Zalot will serve on the panel, "Youth Services: Culture, Community, and Learning," at 10:30 a.m.

Assistant Professor Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo and Postdoctoral Research Associate Sang Hoo Oh will present their paper, "University Governance for Responsible AI," at 3:00 p.m.

Interim Executive Associate Dean and Visiting Professor Jiangping Chen will serve on the panel, "Emerging Topics, Challenges, and Strategies for Library and Information Science Education," at 3:00 p.m.

Wagner will co-present "’In Many Ways, You’re This Person Who’s Providing Light’: Theorizing Embodied Responses to Information Absence within LGBTQIA+ Communities," winner of the 2024 ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition, at 3:00 p.m.

Zalot will present his poster, "’Tweet of the Town:’ Synthesizing Local and Social Media Discourse on Book Bans," at 5:00 p.m.
*Won 2nd place in the doctoral student poster competition