Program schedule

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See the schedule for Monday, February 9

See the schedule for Tuesday, February 10

See the schedule for Wednesday, February 11

Sunday, February 8

Noon - 5 pm

Monday, February 9

8:00 am - noon
Conference Registration Opens

Participants will pick up their conference packets, final agenda, and name badges.

9:00 - 10:30 am
Welcome and Introduction : : Grumman Auditorium

José-Marie Griffiths, dean, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Plenary Presentation

Holden Thorp, chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

10:30 - 11:00 am
Morning Break : : Atrium


11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 1 : : Information Sharing : : Redbud

  • Local-Global: Reconciling Mismatched Ontologies in Development Information Systems
  • Information sharing across multiple knowledge systems in a FLOSS community
  • Software Informatics?

Roundtable Sessions 1 & 2 : :

  • Diversity Roundtable: : Dogwood
  • iSchool Health and Medical Research Initiatives and Opportunities: : Sunflower

Wildcard Sessions 1 & 2 : :

  • A Bridge to Somewhere: Alternative Perspectives on Reviewing Internet Research and e-Research: : Bellflower
  • Geeks in the Archive: iSchools and the future of Archival Technology: : Windflower
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Lunch : : Trillium Room


1:30 - 3:00 pm
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 2 : : Information Practices : : Redbud

  • A Conceptual Analysis of Disinformation
  • Future of Information Seeking on the Internet and Web Advertising: How Can We Guide Web Advertising for Users’ Information Seeking on a Website?
  • Overcoming Language Barriers on Library Websites: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Using Dyslexia to Explore the Cognitive Characteristics of Illustrations and Text; Using Illustrations and Text to Explore the Cognitive Characteristics of Dyslexia

Paper Session 3 : : Research Agendas : : Dogwood

  • Online Social Reference: A Research Agenda Through a STIN Framework
  • Promoting Reflexivity and Inclusivity in Archival Education, Research and Practice
  • HIB and HCI: Common Interests in Different Communities
  • The FCC’s “White Spacesâ€? decision and its implications for iSchools

Roundtable Sessions 3 & 4 : :

  • Alternative Approaches to Educating Medical Informationists : : Sunflower
  • Feasibility Discussion on Identifying Possibilities for a National Behavioral Anomaly Detection Platform : : Bellflower

Wildcard Session 3 : :

Little eScience, Big eScience: : Windflower

3:00 - 3:30 pm
Afternoon Break : : Atrium


3:30 - 5:00 pm
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 4 : : Information Organization : : Redbud

  • Informating in a Demi-global World
  • Musical facets, tags, and emotion: Can we agree?
  • Folksonomy: Organization of User Information for the Users by the Users in the Flat World
  • Theories of Evolution and Cultural Diffusion: The Dryad Repository Case Study for Understanding Changes in Organizing Information Practices

Roundtable Sessions 5, 6 & 7 : :

  • ASIS&T’s Information Professions Project: An Update: : Dogwood
  • Inclusivity, Diversity and Convergence: the CiSAP (the Consortium of i-Schools of Asia-Pacific) Story : : Sunflower
  • iSchools and Philosophy: “I think, therefore iSchoolâ€? : : Windflower

Wildcard Session 4 : :

Teaching Research Methods in iSchools (fishbowl format) : : Bellflower

5:00 - 6:00 pm
Poster Session and Reception : : Atrium


6:00 - 8:00 pm
Dinner : : Trillium Room

Tuesday, February 10

8:30 - 10:00 am
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 5 : : Privacy and Trust : : Redbud

  • Why is Evaluating Usability of Privacy Designs So Hard? Lessons Learned from a User Study of PRISM
  • Balancing User Privacy Concerns in the Adoption of Location-Based Services: An Empirical Analysis across Pull-Based and Push-Based Applications
  • A Socio-Technical Approach to Theorizing on Perceived Trustworthiness in Virtual Organizations

Roundtable Sessions 8 & 9 : :

  • Junior faculty engagement at iSchools: Personal experiences during the first several years: : Dogwood
  • Engaging Across Disciplines: : Sunflower

Roundtable Session 10 : :

Gaming in the iSchools: Continuing the Discussion: : Bellflower

10:00 - 10:30 am
Morning Break : : Atrium


10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 6 : : Intellectual Property : : Redbud

  • Shifting Boundaries of Book Authorship, Publishing, Discovery, and Audience in an I-Society: Authors as their Own Publishers: an Empirical Study
  • Media Downloading, Uploading, and Sharing Among College Students
  • Normative Notions of Authorship and Participation in the iSociety

Roundtable Sessions 11 & 12 : :

  • Extreme Events and iSchools: : Sunflower
  • Challenges and Opportunities for Ph.D. Education in iSchools: : Dogwood

Wildcard Sessions 5 & 6 : :

  • Engaging Community: Methods and Values in Community Informatics: : Bellflower
  • I-dentity stories: An exploration of identification practices and policies through everyday experience: : Windflower
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Lunch : : Trillium Room


1:00 - 2:30 pm
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 7 : : International : : Redbud

  • iSchools in developing countries: Developing a telecommunications program for the Republic of Kosovo
  • Opening to the world
  • eGovernment & ICTs: An Examination of Spain’s Information Infrastructure

Wildcard Session 7 : :

Towards a Postcolonial Information Studies: : Dogwood

Wildcard Sessions 8 & 9 : :

  • Online Data Collection: The Current State of “Clickâ€? Research: : Bellflower
  • Making and doing: critical and cross-disciplinary engagement within interdisciplinary iSchools : : Windflower
2:30 - 3:00 pm
Afternoon Break : : Atrium


3:00 - 4:30 pm
Plenary Presentation : : Grumman Auditorium

Edward Seidel, director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation and the Floating Point Systems Professor in LSU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy

4:30 - 6 pm
Final Poster Reception : : Trillium Room

Wednesday, February 11

8:30 - 10:00 am
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 8 : : Methodology : : Redbud

  • Examining Together Social and Technological Research in Library and Information Science
  • Effect of Early Requirements Analysis and Participative Design on Staff in an Urban Health Clinic: Civic Engagement through Collaboration
  • Contextuality and Information Systems: how the interplay between paradigms can help?

Paper Session 9 : : Futures : : Dogwood

  • Access to Information as a Human Right
  • Ethos and the Construction of a Believable Character for Information Systems
  • Wireless Information Systems in Support of Green iSchools
  • Life-Cycle Thinking: What can IT do to be Green?

Roundtable Sessions 13 & 14 : :

  • Online teaching experiences: : Sunflower
  • Navigating multi-disciplinary spaces: : Bellflower

Wildcard Session 10 : :

Developing a Joint EU-US Digital Library Curriculum : : Windflower

10:00 - 10:30 am
Morning Break : : Atrium


10:30 - 11:45 am
Plenary Presentation : : Grumman Auditorium

Andrew Campbell, director of Prometheus and lecturer in psychology at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Sciences, the University of Sydney, Australia


11:45 am - 12:30 pm
Conference Feedback - Closing Thoughts : : Grumman Auditorium

John Unsworth, dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

12:30 - 1:30 pm
Lunch : : Trillium Room