“iSchools Got Talent” is a vibrant showcase series that highlights bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and forward-looking work from across the iSchools community. Back to European/African Region iSchools Got Talent! Be Inspired. Be Energised. Be Part of “iSchools Got Talent” – A new showcase series Discover a burst of creativity in thirty-minute presentations. “iSchools Got Talent” is a vibrant showcase series that highlights bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and forward-looking work from across the iSchools community. We invite emerging scholars (including postgraduate students and postdoctoral students), along with contributions from eminent scholars, to take the spotlight in sharing innovative and exploratory directions. Each session will feature short, engaging presentations on creative research, experimental teaching, or emerging topics or tools in information, technology, and society. Open to all iSchool members and invited guests, this series is designed to energise your thinking, spark new connections, and celebrate the passion that drives our field. It serves as a reminder that we move forward when we learn from one another and that every voice contributes to the collective brilliance of our field. Come be part of a community that inspires, uplifts, and grows together, and discover the talent that is shaping the future. Contact Anika Meyer University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Contact Upcoming Events The iSchools Got Talent Series takes place every second month. Multiple Dates iSchools Got Talent 2026 Thu, Sep 17 More info Learn more Multiple Dates iSchools Got Talent 2026 Thu, Nov 19 More info Learn more Presentation at the iSchools Got Talent Series Are you an iSchools member school faculty or student and would you like to present at the iSchools Got Talent Series? Please fill out the form below and we will find a slot for you! Last Name* First Name E-Mail-Address* Country* University* Department* Proposed Presentation Topic I would like to present at one of the following dates 17 September 19 November In case you have questions or annotations, please feel free to add them here. Submit

iSchool leadership from each region meets regularly to discuss challenges and opportunities common to their area. Regional approaches to education, research and other matters are described in the regional subpages. Regions iSchool leadership from each region meets regularly to discuss challenges and opportunities common to their area. Regional approaches to education, research and other matters are described in the regional subpages. Dr. Kinshuk North America Regional Chair University of North Texas USA Contact North American Region The North American Region include Canada and the United States, to which the iSchools Organization trace their roots. The region also spans countries in Central and South America. View European / African Region The European region includes countries inside and outside the EU, and also extends into the Middle East and Africa. View Laura Sbaffi Europe / Africa Regional Chair University of Sheffield United Kingdom Contact Lihong Zhou Asia Pacific Regional Chair Wuhan University China Contact Asia Pacific Region The Asia Pacific region is the most geographically broad of iSchools regions, spanning from China in the northern hemisphere to Australia in the southern hemisphere. View

View all communities Indigenous Research Collective The Indigenous Research Collective is designed to foster collaborative, intersectional, interdisciplinary, and impactful research within the iSchools, with a specific focus on Indigenous Research and Indigenous Data Sovereignty. This Collective will serve as a platform for iSchools researchers who are concentrating on or have an interest in the care and management of Indigenous Knowledges and recordkeeping practices. The Collective aims to facilitate the exchange of transdisciplinary work among iSchools and other disciplines, thereby enhancing our comprehension of and ability to address the challenges of embedding Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Indigenous Governance frameworks across data collection and information management practices. Moreover, the Collective will undertake research and spread knowledge about how our research can contribute to and facilitate changes in organisational processes, policies, and standards. These changes are crucial for societal, governmental, and global shifts that support Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Indigenous Data Governance, Self-determination and the rights of Indigenous peoples. The Collective will also encourage communication, cultivate new partnerships, and stimulate fresh ideas among researchers through a variety of activities. These include iConference sessions, online seminars, and the development of collaborative projects and research outputs. The iSchools organisation invites all members interested in Indigenous Data Sovereignty to join through research, education, networking, and policy advocacy. A dedicated listserv is available for members of the Indigenous Research Collective to maintain communication and share opportunities. Meet the Officers Narissa Timbery Co-Chair Monash University Australia Contact Rebecca Lyons Co-Chair Monash University Australia Contact

The ViP (Venues for i-Field Publications) list as a community reference of widely recognized international conferences in the information field (i-Field). View more resources ViP Conference List A Community Reference for International Conferences in Information Science and the i-Field About Scope Criteria Important Notes ViP List Contributors The ViP List (Venues for i-Field Publications) is a community reference list of widely recognized international conferences in the i-Field, an interdisciplinary information field encompassing information science, library and information science (LIS), and human-centered informatics. In the ViP List, “conference” is used as an umbrella term that also includes major annual meetings and similar scholarly gatherings that publish peer-reviewed full papers. In interdisciplinary fields such as the i-Field, it is not always easy to understand which international conferences are widely recognized as important, especially for researchers, schools, and evaluators working across disciplinary boundaries. The ViP list is intended to provide a shared reference point to help identify such conferences with indexed publications. Here, the i-Field is understood broadly as an interdisciplinary field concerned with information, people, technology, and society , and grounded in information science, LIS, and human-centered informatics. It is not limited to iSchools alone. 1. Scope, Use Cases, and What the List Is Not For The list is designed to accommodate the fact that important conferences in the i-Field often emerge across disciplinary boundaries , rather than within a single established academic tradition. The conferences in the list satisfy the core expectations for scholarly conferences in the field, including peer-reviewed full-paper publication, international scope, and sustained academic presence. The list focuses on international conferences with indexed scholarly publications and is not intended to comprehensively represent all important domestic or country-specific conferences, or those whose significance lies primarily in professional practice, community-building, or other forms of impact beyond archival publications. Such conferences may be considered through complementary efforts in the future. Use cases . Typical uses include: (i) helping researchers identify widely recognized international conferences in the i-Field; (ii) supporting researchers in explaining the significance of their conference publications across disciplinary boundaries; and (iii) encouraging broader cross-disciplinary participation by making important international conferences in the i-Field more visible and easier to navigate. What the List Is Not For : (i) The ViP list is not designed to rank conferences. (ii) The ViP list is not intended to assess the quality of individual papers published in those conferences. (iii) The absence of a conference from the list should not be interpreted as a negative judgment on its value or quality. (iv) The list is not intended to replace local, disciplinary, or case-specific judgment in research evaluation. 2. Criteria for Inclusion A conference is considered eligible for ViP when it satisfies the following core criteria: C1. Relevance to the i-Field The conference is clearly relevant to the i-Field, broadly defined, and attracts work that is recognized as part of the field or its closely related interdisciplinary domains. C2. Scholarly significance The conference is recognized as having clear scholarly value to the i-Field, even when it may also serve professional, practitioner, or community-building functions. C3. Peer-reviewed full papers The conference includes full research papers as a meaningful and recognized part of its scholarly output, and these papers are subject to peer review. C4. Stable scholarly publication record The conference has a stable record of indexed scholarly publications, typically through proceedings or a comparable archival record. C5. Internationality The conference demonstrates meaningful international reach in participation, leadership, visibility, or community recognition. A conference that satisfies C1–C5 may be included in ViP . Additional notation within ViP: ViP+ Within the ViP list, a conference may be marked as ViP+ when, in addition to satisfying C1–C5 , it also satisfies the following more specific criteria: C6. Review practices The conference is recognized as having comparatively rigorous review practices for full papers, typically involving multiple reviewers and a structured selection process. C7. Recognized role within its area The conference is widely recognized as playing a central scholarly publication role within its thematic area. 3. Important Notes The ViP list is intended as a community reference resource and should not be interpreted as a definitive judgment about conference quality. The i-Field is broad, international, and evolving. No list can perfectly represent all communities, regions, publication cultures, and interdisciplinary boundaries. The list should therefore be understood as a living community resource , to be refined over time through continued discussion and feedback. Updates and feedback . We welcome feedback and suggestions for future revisions. Proposed additions (with a brief rationale and supporting information) may be submitted to the ViP Committee, and will be considered in subsequent updates as the framework evolves. 4. ViP List The list below is presented in alphabetical order and does not imply ranking. ViP — ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) ViP — AMCIS (Americas Conference on Information Systems) ViP — AP-iConference ViP+ — ASIS&T Annual Meeting (Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting) ViP+ — CHI (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) ViP — CHIIR (Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval) ViP+ — CIKM (ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management) ViP — CoLIS (International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science) ViP+ — CSCW (ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing) ViP — DCMI Conference (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Conference) ViP+ — ECIR (European Conference on Information Retrieval) ViP — ECIS (European Conference on Information Systems) ViP+ — ICADL (International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries) ViP+ — ICIS (International Conference on Information Systems) ViP+ — iConference ViP — ISIC (Information Seeking in Context) ViP+ — ISSI Conference (International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics) ViP+ — JCDL (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) ViP — PACIS (Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems) ViP+ — SIGIR (ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval) ViP+ — TPDL (International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries) 5. Contributors The ViP list initiative emerged through extensive discussions within AP iSchools to advance the interdisciplinary i-Field. The framework was developed by the ViP Committee and the proposed conferences were further reviewed by external advisors from inside and outside the iSchools community across different regions. External advisors are not responsible for the completeness of the list; final decisions and overall coverage remain the responsibility of the committee. 5.1 ViP Committee Atsuyuki Morishima, University of Tsukuba (co-chair) Lihong Zhou, Wuhan University (co-chair) Gaohui Cao, Central China Normal University Jun Deng, Jilin University Joanne Evans, Monash University Norhayati Hussin, Universiti Teknologi MARA Emi Ishita, Kyushu University Lele Kang, Nanjing University Youngseek Kim, Sungkyunkwan University Chei Sian Lee, Nanyang Technological University Lan Thi Nguyen, Khon Kaen University Chunxiu Qin, Xidian University Ming Ren, Renmin University of China Lihua Wang, Shanghai University Joseph Yap, University of the Philippines Diliman 5.2 External Advisors Lu An, Wuhan University Jennifer Campbell-Meier, Victoria University of Wellington Songphan Choemprayong, Chulalongkorn University Gobinda Chowdhury, University of Strathclyde Anind K. Dey, University of Washington J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Koraljka Golub, Linnaeus University Adam Jatowt, University of Innsbruck Tingting Jiang, Wuhan University Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore Yuenan Liu. Renmin University of China Sam Oh, Sungkyunkwan University Benedict Salazar Olgado, University of the Philippines Gillian Oliver, Monash University Natalie Pang, National University of Singapore Michael Seadle, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba Daryl L. Superio, Northern Iloilo State University Chengzhi Zhang, Nanjing University of Science and Technology Qinghua Zhu, Nanjing University Questions Feel free to contact us anytime if you have questions: admin@ischools-inc.org

View all communities Digital Memory Group Digital memory is an emerging and fast-growing research field. The community can not only draw the attention of researchers in the information field around the world, but also build a resilient and democratic community where researchers can collaborate, communicate, and learn from each other. The group is committed to the following activities: Collaborative research on a global scale; Frequent workshops, panels, talks both at iConferences and online; Monthly research meetings; Special issues at journals, and tracks at iConferences, ASIS&T, etc. The Digital Memory Group welcomes new community members and will actively strive to involve students and early career researchers! If you are interested in joining the group please contact digital_memory@whu.edu.cn or contact the community chairs. Meet the Officers Jun Deng Co-Chair Jilin University China Contact Ina Fourie Co-Chair University of Pretoria South Africa Contact Lihong Zhou Co-Chair Wuhan University China Contact

View all communities Black Coalition The purpose of the Black Coalition is to connect and support Black information researchers and professionals (in the iSchools organisation). We aim to build a coalition formed and directed by Black information professionals’ needs and interests. Black Coalition Officers 2025 iConference Symposium on Algorithmic Bias and Racial Health Equity Black Coalition Panel Discussion at iConference 2025 Date: March 13th, 2025 Time: 8 PM London, 4 PM New York, 3 PM Milwaukee/Minnesota via Zoom Overview: The Black Coalition of the iSchools organization held a virtual session to discuss Algorithmic Bias and Racial Health Equity. We discussed current research on algorithmic bias and cultural appropriateness of Chatbots. We solicited from the attendees input concerning emerging research and gaps in our understanding of how to detect and measure bias. Agenda Welcome to iConference by Dr. Devan Donaldson , Associate Professor, Indiana University Introduction and Brief account of Black Coalition, mission and vision. Black coalition’s theme: Algorithm Bias and Racial Health Equity by Professor Lionel Robert Introduction of the keynote speaker by Dr. Rebecca Stallworth, Assistant Professor Keynote Address: Algorithmic bias and cultural appropriateness in Chatbots - Dr. Charles Senteio, Associate Professor Question and answer session with the keynote speaker Forum comments and contributions Closing Remarks by Dr. Rebecca Stallworth Watch the Recording Meet the Officers Rebecca Stallworth Black Coalition Co-Chair Simmons University United States of America Contact Charles Senteio Black Coalition Co-Chair Rutgers United States of America Contact Lionel Robert Black Coalition Co-Chair University of Michigan United States of America Contact

You can find registration and access information for iConference 2026 here. Back to iConference Registration & Access Program Overview Registration Rates Registration Platform iConference App Virtual iConference Platform Program overview iConference 2027 will again be hosted in hybrid format: The virtual academic program will take place from 22 - 25 March 2027 and the on-site academic program will take place from 5 - 9 April 2027 in Wellington. iConference tracks Virtual Physical Full Research Papers ✔ ✔ Short Research Papers ✔ ✔ Posters ✔ ✔ Chinese Research Papers ✔ ✔ Indigenous Research Papers ✔ ✔ Workshops & Panels ✘ ✔ Doctoral Colloquium ✔ ✔ Early Career Colloquium ✘ ✔ Registration Rates The virtual part of conference is included in all registrations. You can choose between virtual only and full conference (including the onsite part in Wellington, New Zealand. All accepted Paper and Poster submissions must be presented virtually to enable participants who cannot travel to attend their preferred sessions. Authors who would like to additionally present on-site, should register for the full conference option. For insurance purposes, everyone at the iConference venue in Wellingston must be registered. If you would like to bring a guest or children to the on-site iConference, please read the guest policy for more details. Guest Policy Virtual only Dates through 31 Jan. 2026 1 Feb. - 28 Feb. 2026 1 Mar. - 16 Mar. 2026 Regular Registration 280 USD 330 USD 380 USD First Time Regular Registration¹ 260 USD 310 USD 360 USD Ph.D. Student Registration² 100 USD 120 USD 140 USD Bachelor / Master Student Registration² 50 USD 70 USD 90 USD ¹ This rate applies to participants who register for the iConference the very first time. ² Proof of enrollment is required during registration (e.g. student ID). Full conference Dates through 31 Jan. 2026 1 Feb. - 28 Feb. 2026 1 Mar. - 16 Mar. 2026 Regular Registration 650 USD 750 USD 900 USD First Time Regular Registration¹ 630 USD 730 USD 880 USD PhD Student Registration² 320 USD 355 USD 390 USD Bachelor / Master Student Registration² 270 USD 305 USD 340 USD Registration Platform Please register to participate in iConference 2027. Registration is now open on the ConfTool website. Register now! Registration Terms & Cancellation Policy iSchools member schools are eligible to claim their free iSchools iConference Membership package including one free virtual iConference registration. Please contact iSchools Staff for more information. iConference Features 1 2 13 1 1/13 Download the iConference App Accessing the virtual platform The virtual part of iConference takes place on the virtual event platform SCOOCS. Virtual iConference Platform Virtual iConference Platform Guide Virtual iConference First Step: Invitation Second Step: Login Third Step: Join A Session You will receive an invitation email in March 2027, sent to the email account you used for registration on ConfTool . The link in the email leads directly to your personal page for setting a password. Please check your spam folder if you do not see the invitation email in your inbox. For best experience, please join the platform as soon as possible. Zoom test rooms will be available until the start of the conference to test access and equipment. A Join button will appear 15 minutes prior to the start of the session. We advise presenters to join early, the Zoom hosts will give you co-host rights. You can always request a new invitation email yourself. After navigating to the virtual conference venue, please click on the Lost your invitation email? link. If you have issues accessing the platform, contact iSchools staff . How to join the virtual iConference? Important Links Conference Home Travel Information & Hotels SCOOCS Submission Tracks Letters of Invitation

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On most second Thursdays of the month, the NA iSchool heads meet in a virtual cocktail hour. There is usually no agenda, but we always welcome someone suggesting an item to discuss ahead of time. We use these meetings to share our experiences, problems, and initiatives. Back Cocktail Hour On most second Thursdays of the month, the NA iSchool heads meet in a virtual cocktail hour. There is usually no agenda, but we always welcome someone suggesting an item to discuss ahead of time. We use these meetings to share our experiences, problems, and initiatives. This event is per invitation only. Meet the Officers Keith Marzullo Contact

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