Protecting and maintaining collections and materials in archives
Studying the construction of scientific arguments, including the use of information, evidence, and persuasion
Researching the models, methods, uses, and impact of intelligent systems design for processing data and information
Understanding how local communities and people in their everyday lives use and might use information technology, in libraries and elsewhere
Using computational methods to study and model social systems and user behaviors
Understanding computing's potential for good (and harm), including the role of computing and technology in responding to social, ecological, political, and other challenges
Understanding the role of information technology in preserving, transmitting, and shaping human culture and heritage
Using computational methods to transform both structured and unstructured data into actionable knowledge; and to understand and enable humans to explore and gain insight from vast data sets
Active and on-going management of data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education
Using statistical and computational techniques to discover and extract knowledge from structured and unstructured data.
Understanding the problems with existing information systems and services, and making them more effective and easier to use
Applying computing or using digital media in the humanities disciplines
Studying how to most effectively store, structure, retrieve, interpret and preserve collections of digital objects to serve a particular community or communities
Addressing challenging, but necessary, topics such as racism, privilege, power, etc., and coupling them with critical theory in an effort to develop compassionate, proactive, and culturally competent information professionals
Evaluating the content of curricula and the methods for educating information professionals
Assessing principles and standards that govern access to information
Researching the complex social implications of AI, machine learning, data science, large-scale experimentation, and increasing automation; and developing computational techniques that draw on the deeper context surrounding these issues from sociology, history, and science and technology studies
Asking and answering the most basic and fundamental questions on the nature and uses of information resources
Collecting and analyzing biological, medical, and health information
Exploring the long history of information helps us understand the effects of information technologies, systems, and practices on society and their implications for the future
Investigating the use of computers to support individual use; and investigating the use of computers and networked technologies to support small-group and human-to-human communication and its impact on collaboration
Recognizing the issues with information access and the methods in which individuals and groups access information
Information literacy is an important skillset that enables individuals to locate, contextualize, evaluate, effectively use, and appropriately communicate information in a variety of different formats
Examining the set of rules, laws, or regulations that affect the creation, process, use, and destruction of information
Discovering and explicating how people seek, use, avoid, and share information to advance knowledge, aid in decision making, solve problems, and engage in everyday life activities
Finding relevant documents and other information resources to satisfy an information need or desire
Studying the visual representation of abstract data
Studying the quantitative aspects of information and the quantitative features and characteristics of science and scientific research
Research related to semantic networks, formal logic, frame-based systems; and how the beliefs, intentions, and value judgments of an intelligent agent (AI) can be expressed in a transparent, symbolic notation suitable for automated reasoning
Research related to the assessment, management, development, and delivery of services provided by professional librarians in libraries and similar information institutions
Examining the process of transforming unstructured text into structured data for use
Representing, analyzing, and modeling the structure and dynamics of complex social, scientific, and technological systems as networks or graphs; and using computational tools for identifying, explaining, and understanding the patterns they contain
Bringing structure to the record of human culture and our accounts of the natural and social world
Studying the intersection of privacy, security, and trust with information systems
Analyzing the challenges to and environments favorable to fostering reproducible research
Using data to study, understand, and quantify the mechanisms underlying scientific research
Studying the structure, design, and manipulation of computer content and technologies (e.g., AI, natural language, software engineering) to better satisfy the needs and intentions of users and to create a more meaningful user experience
Understanding the intersection between social networks and information networks
Examining the social aspects of information technology and how social issues affect the organization of information
Understanding how and why people use social media, and how it impacts access and dissemination of information
Analyzing library and information practices, preferences, and play for children, youth, tweens, and teens