Total virtual participants: 524
Total participants onsite in Edinburgh: 340
Full Papers: 35 (acceptance rate 25%)
Short Papers: 68 (acceptance rate 42%)
Chinese Research Papers: 39
Spanish Portuguese Research Papers: 8
Posters: 35 (acceptance rate 64%)
Workshops & Panels: 28 (acceptance rate 72%)
Colloquia & Symposia: 53 (acceptance rate 87%)
Reviewer: 546
Participants per Region
Conference Chairs
Frances Ryan
Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Iain McGregor
Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Yvonne Lawrie
Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Debbie Meharg
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Organizers
Full Research Papers Chairs: Hanna Carlsson (Linnaeus University, Sweden), Yuxiang (Chris) Zhao (Nanjing University, China) and Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland, United States)
Short Research Papers Chairs: Jennifer Campbell-Meier (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), Heinz Pampel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) and Jessica Barfield (University of Kentucky, United States)
Posters Chairs: Misita Anwar (Swinburne University, Australia), Carla Teixeira Lopes (University of Porto, Portugal) and Rachel Flaming-May (The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, USA)
Spanish-Portuguese Research Papers Chairs: Julián D. Cortés (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia), Fernanda Ribeiro (University of Porto, Portugal), Eduardo Vendrell Vidal (Universitat Politècnica de València, UPV, Spain) and Brasilina Passarelli (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Chinese Research Papers Chairs: Jiangping Chen (Simmons University, United States), Yuenan Liu (Renmin University of China, China) and Marcia Lei Zeng (Kent State University, United States)
Workshops & Panels Chairs: Leo Appleton (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), Iyra Buenrostro-Cabbab (University of the Philippines, Philippines) and Kate McDowell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
Doctoral Colloquium Chairs: Leslie Abbott (Europe & Africa, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom), Emi Ishita (Asia Pacific, Kyushu University, Japan) and Mónica Colón-Aguirre (University of South Carolina, United States)
Early Career Colloquium Chairs: Jeff Hemsley (Syracuse University, United States), Ming Ren (Renmin University of China, China), Rhonda Rathburn (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom) and Debbie Meharg (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom)
Student Symposium Chairs: Rachel Salzano (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom), Claire Timpany (University of Waikato, New Zealand) and Rebecca Frank (University of Michigan, United States)
Additional Conference Chairs: Slava Sterzer, Vera Hillebrand, Ulrike Liebner (iSchool staff)
Proceedings Chair: Isaac Sserwanga, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
The Organizing Committee was responsible for the program.
Program Committee
Sponsors & Partners
⋆ University of Iowa
⋆ NEO4MAX
⋆ Polity
⋆ Nanyang Technological University
⋆ University of California, Berkeley
⋆ University of Toronto
⋆ University of Tennessee Knoxville
⋆ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
⋆ Renmin University of China
Awards
Best Full Research Paper Award sponsored by UC Berkeley School of Information, the Award is presented to the author(s) of the conference’s most outstanding full research paper. The 2026 award included a prize of $1,000 U.S.
RUNNERS UP
Title: Immersive quality control for 3D data curation
Author(s): Matt Cook, Hannah Hok Kim, Helen He and Zack Lischer-Katz
Title: Digital Citizenship and Student-Teacher Readiness: Insights from Malaysia
Author(s): Rini Azrina Zabri
Title: Revising the research data lifecycle: evidence from oceanography
Author(s): Yubing Tian, Thomas Struett, Amelia Acker, Megan Finn
Title: Defining the ‘Good’ in Educational TikTok Videos: Authenticity, Literacies, and Digital Enlightenment.
Author(s): Joe Sánchez, Kayla Booth, Isabel Karolczak
Best Short Research Paper
Sponsored by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Science. The 2026 award included a prize of $500 U.S.
RUNNERS UP
Title: Her cycle, its logic: information practices and gendered governance in MCT apps
Author(s): Yanli Zhou, Yunjie Tang
Title: From Human to AI: University Students’ Trust in Generative AI as Reference Librarians
Author(s): Di Wang, Xizhou Deng, Xinyu Lu, Jianting Guo
Title: Illuminating Connections and Contexts: Building an Ontology for Chinese Ration Coupon Archival Resources based on RiC-O
Author(s): Linqing Ma, Ruohua Han, Xiaoyan Yang, Yina Wu, Jiaqi Shi
Title: Artificial Intelligence in Libraries: A Systematic Review of Upskilling, Challenges, and Future Research Directions
Author(s): Erezi Ogbo-Gebhardt, Agnes G. Pearcy, Joseph B. Wiggins, Yerika Jimenez
Best Poster Award sponsored by University of Iowa, School of Library and Information Science. The 2026 award included a prize of $300 U.S.
RUNNERS UP
Title: Preserving the Legacy of a Space Training Facility through Digital Storytelling
Author(s): Junshan Liu, Danielle Willkens, Jeff Kim, Scott Kramer
Title: Annotated Portfolios as a Tool for Education and Research through Design in LIS
Author(s): Ladislava Zbiejczuk Suchá, Roman Sellner Novotný
Title: Centering the Care of Refugees and their Service Workers through Archival Community Informatics
Author(s): Merrion Frederick
Title: Sharenthood: A Qualitative Study of Children's Online Privacy Parental Disclosure Behavior
Author(s): Ping Wang, Hang Su
The Best Chinese Research Paper award 2026 included a prize of $1000 U.S.
RUNNERS UP
Title: 中国图书馆学话语体系的百年建构及其时代路径 (The Centennial Construction and Era Path of China’s Library Science Discourse System)
Author(s): Qinggong Shi, Wei Feng, Ximing Xiao
Title: 我国省域数字鸿沟的多维致因与供给侧治理路径——基于TOE框架的组态分析
Author(s): Chunyan Liu, Shi Yin, Tong Zhou, Haiqun Ma
Title: Research on the Formation Mechanism and Prevention Path of "BrainRot" Phenomenon of Social Media Users in the Digital Age
Author(s): Wenming Xing, Ziyan Chen, Jili Chen
Title: Research on Chinese-English Entity Recognition for Ancient Texts Based on Fusing LLM Multi-Task Learning and GraphRAG
Author(s): Xiyu Wang, Wei Zhang, Wenhua Zhao, Si Shen, Dongbo Wang
The organizing team of the iConference 2026 included members from 13 countries.
