Up < Back to TDO TDO Case Studies Chapter 12 of TDO contains a diverse collection of nineteen case studies that embody Chapter 2’s framework for designing or analyzing an organizing system. Most of the case studies were written by students as “mini term papers” to demonstrate their mastery of TDO. We have collected over 100 of these case studies and they can be freely used to illustrate the broad applicability of the organizing system concept. Please note: The collection is being updated periodically. Select category Select first letter Select keyword Reset selection A Sandwich by any Other Name… Ivette Flores Food And Drink Download Alternative Font Picker for Microsoft Word Kakkar Information / Document Management Download An Analysis of Fraternities as an Organizing System Jonathan Jayaprakash Organizing People Download Android Code Libraries Hossein Information / Document Management Download Apple Stores Claire Wang Resource Arrangement / Location Download Architectural Signage at the Li Ka Shing Center, UC Berkeley Laura Desmond-Black Resource Arrangement / Location Download Astronomical Observatory Sites Rachel Thorp Resource Arrangement / Location Download Autonomous Cars Jason Danker Resource Arrangement / Location Download Bharatanatyam Dance Vedha Santhosh Music Download CalBug Project Gracen Brilmyer Animals Download Campus Residential Living Abigail Palmquist Organizing People Download Carving up the world at its political joints Robert J. Glushko Resource Arrangement / Location Download Cheese Board Restaurant Nisha Pathak Food And Drink Download Chemical Data Management at Tesla Haya Halabeih Business Processes Download Chinese Medicine Cabinet Sophie Shang Resource Arrangement / Location Download Choral Ensembles Jordan Nguyen Organizing People Download City Planning and Organization of Indus Valley Civilization Divya Garg Organizing People Download Classification of Single Malt Scotch Whiskey Jinwoo Hong Food And Drink Download Coffee Production Kaan Yucel Business Processes Download Cognitive Neuroscience Ian Griffith Academic Disciplines Download Cookbooks Raina Park Information / Document Management Download Customer Relationship Management as an Organizing System Rohit Raghavan Organizing People Download Deconstructing a Screenplay with Yoric Molly Mahar Information / Document Management Download Dementia Villages Emily Zheng Organizing People Download Design Systems Michelle Tran Information / Document Management Download Dutch Parliament Fien van Westreenen Governmental / Institutional Organization & Classification Download Effectiveness and Elaboration Spare-Parts Organization Yannick Noel Phillipe Marie Schyns Resource Arrangement / Location Download Eusociality Meghana Murthy Animals Download Extreme families of warehouses Joep van den Bogaert Resource Arrangement / Location Download Facebook: Organizer of Friends Rena Coen Resource Description Download Federal Election Commission Disclosure Database Shomik Sarkar Information / Document Management Download Gaming Keyboards Nicholas Bonnifield Resource Arrangement / Location Download Geostationary Satellites Daniel Brenner Resource Arrangement / Location Download Golf Round Management Zilu Wang Sports Download Guide Dogs for the Blind Anna Cho Animals Download High-end, Professional Kitchens (Chez Panisse) Jackie Zou Food And Drink Download Highways In The Sky Naqvi Resource Arrangement / Location Download Indian Classical vs. Western Jazz Vikram Reddy Music Download Indian Lunchbox System: Delivered on-Time, Each Time Pratibha Rathore Resource Description Download Indian Pharmacy Anubhav Gupta Resource Arrangement / Location Download Indian Wedding Guest List Patki Organizing People Download Information Organization and Retrieval - Digital Art Gallery April Dawn Kester Resource Description Download International Development Org Emily Witt Information / Document Management Download Interpersonal Relationships Carina Sauter Organizing People Download Khan Academy Alec Hubel Information / Document Management Download Knowledge Management for Competitive Intelligence Jordan Shedlock Information / Document Management Download Latin America Anny Moreira Organizing People Download Lending Institutions as Organizing Systems Monicah Wambugu Business Processes Download Lettuce Production Sarahi Munoz Business Processes Download Line of Succession in Royal Families Vivian Youkana Organizing People Download Major League Baseball Box Scores on ESPN.com Philip W. Braddock Sports Download Medical Emergencies Angelica Delzompo Business Processes Download Mormon Missionaries Samuel Meyer Organizing People Download Moving Towards One China: The Chinese Communist Party as an Organizing System Angela Liu Governmental / Institutional Organization & Classification Download Music Production as an Organizing System Rocky Lubbers Music Download Musical Ensembles Eric Xue Music Download Netflix Organizing System Konrad Lewszyk Resource Description Download New Resource of Cities: The Digital Layer Nadia Demilly Otteson Information / Document Management Download Non-Profit Book Publisher Emily Paul Information / Document Management Download Old and New: Christianity as an Organizing System Sebastian N. V. Mirano Governmental / Institutional Organization & Classification Download On-Nala: Administrative Documents Organizing System of the Korean Government Sung Joo Son Governmental / Institutional Organization & Classification Download Online Lottery Gambling System Hu Information / Document Management Download Orchestra Seating Arrangements Nicole Hsu Resource Arrangement / Location Download Organising a Song Amanna Music Download View more

Basic Members Directory Waikato University School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences Basic New Zealand Asia Pacific Member Since 2016 Visit School About The School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences was formed in 1987, renamed the Faculty of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the beginning of 2010, and has now returned to being called the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. As in 1987, the School has two departments - the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. With the formation of the School, a new four year honours degree, the Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, was offered. The School also offered the Bachelor of Science, a three year degree. In 2002, the School started offering two additional degrees: the Bachelor of Engineering with Honours (BE(Hons)) and the Bachelor of Computer Graphic Design (BCGD). In the BE (Hons) degree, students can enrol in the Software Engineering programme. Other engineering programmes are offered by the School of Engineering. In 2018, the Bachelor of Design was introduced, replacing the BCGD. This degree has the four majors of Communication Design, Industrial Design, Interface Design and Media Design. In 2014 we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the internet in New Zealand - an achievement made possible in 1989 with the help of the School. We also launched New Zealand's first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) in 2013 and have introduced the country's first Cyber Security Lab and Master of Cyber Security. In 2016, the School was accepted as a member of iSchools, making it the first iSchool in New Zealand. iSchool Contacts Nicholas (Nic) Vanderschantz Representative Information Behaviour, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Architecture, Information Visualisation Contact Annika Hinze Head of School Contact Contact

The Discipline of Organizing embodies a novel book design to enable its broad applicability. View more resources The Discipline of Organizing First published in 2013, and named the ASIST information science “book of the year” in 2014, The Discipline of Organizing is widely used in the iSchools as a primary or supplemental text for courses in Information Organization, Knowledge Management, Digital Collections, Information Architecture, Information Systems Design, Data Science, and other related fields. The Discipline of Organizing embodies a novel book design to enable its broad applicability. Starting with the idea that organizing is an important and ubiquitous challenge in our personal and professional lives, TDO unifies the diverse perspectives of library and information science, informatics and computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy, business, law, and other fields for concepts and methods that guide us in organizing. In particular, TDO ’s content is organized with a core of transdisciplinary concepts with supplemental content (additional text, sidebars, endnotes, etc.) that is tagged by discipline. The 4th edition (2016) of The Discipline of Organizing is freely downloadable here in three versions that differ in the amount of supplemental content. The “Professional” version contains everything, the “Informatics” version omits content tagged as “LIS”, “Museum”, or “Archives”, and “Core Concepts” omits all supplemental content. A collection of case studies that apply TDO concepts to diverse domains is maintained. To case studies Core Concepts Edition Download Informatics Edition Download Professional Edition Download

iCaucus Members Directory San Jose State University School of Information iCaucus United States of America North America Member Since 2018 Visit School About The San José State University (SJSU) School of Information (iSchool) is a global leader in graduate and undergraduate education, offering a comprehensive suite of programs that prepare students for impactful careers in the information, technology, and education sectors. Its flagship Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program has the largest enrollment of any MLIS program in the United States—if not the world—and is consistently ranked as the most diverse, holding the #1 position nationally in total enrollment and in the percentage of students across all major racial and ethnic groups. The iSchool also offers the Master of Archives and Records Administration (MARA), Master of Science in Informatics, and Master of Science in Instructional Design and Technology (MSIDT); a Bachelor of Science in Information Science and Data Analytics (BSISDA); the Gateway PhD in Library and Information Management in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University; and the California Teacher Librarian Services Credential. To support professional advancement and lifelong learning, the iSchool also provides a range of certificates—including Digital Assets, Human-Centered AI, and Post-Master’s—as well as Open Classes accessible to the broader community. iSchool Contacts Kristen Radsliff Director of School Community-based technology integration and human and autonomous learning design Contact Darra Hofman Representative Contact Mehrdad Aliasgari Dean of College of Information, Data and Society Contact

All iSchools member-institutions are welcome to provide news stories for publication on our iSchools News webpage, to be viewed by our followers worldwide. Submit a News Story All iSchools member-institutions are welcome to provide news stories for publication on our iSchools News webpage, to be viewed by our followers worldwide. Where appropriate, we may also promote these announcements in social media, including the iSchools Twitter and iSchools Facebook accounts. All news stories are expected to be of general interest to the greater information community. News submissions must include a link to a corresponding story on your school’s website (a generic link to your school’s home page is not sufficient); this link will be used for fact-checking, and to provide readers a means of getting more information. To accommodate our broad membership we aim for a balance in our news section. If you submit multiple simultaneous posts, they will be parsed out over time so as to avoid having one school’s news dominate the department at any given time. For iSchools members this is a free service as part of the membership benefits. To submit a news story, please fill out our form: Submit a News Story Contact Email Name of Submitter Name of University Name of School Suggested Headline Link to Story on Website To give you the most design freedom for your news story (formatting, images, etc.), please submit a .docx document or a PDF containing your news story. News Story .docx file Upload File Upload supported file (Max 15MB) Comment (optional) Submit Thank you! We will contact you about posting your news story. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us! Contact

The iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding work in the information field. Nominations are solicited from all members of the iSchools organization and judged by a selection committee drawn from leading international schools. Back to Doctoral Dissertation Award Doctoral Dissertation Award Application Form Please fill out the following form by 30 April 2027 to nominate a candidate for the 2026 Doctoral Dissertation Award. The candidates should have successfully completed their Ph.D. according to the rules of their university between 01 January 2026 and 31 December 2026. The research can be on any topic in the information field, and use any methodology. Submissions must be made by the official doctoral advisor. Individuals cannot self-nominate. First Name Supervisor Last/Family Name Supervisor* E-Mail-Address Supervisor* Position (e.g. Prof.,...) University* Department* First Name Nominated Candidate Last /Family Name Nominated Candidate* Current E-Mail-Address Nominated Candidate* Date of the Dissertation Defense* Title of the Dissertation* Please name up to 5 keywords describing the Dissertation.* Please provide a short abstract of the Dissertation (200 words max.).* Please upload an anonymized dissertation summary in English. Up to 10 pages including tables & figures, preferably in 12 pt Arial font, with one-inch margins (excl. references). (PDF)* Upload Summary Please upload a recommendation letter of the supervisor. (PDF)* Upload Recommendation Letter Please upload the complete dissertation in its original language. (PDF)* Upload Complete Dissertation Any other information you would like to add... E-Mail-Adresse Submit Nomination Thank you for your interest in the Doctoral Dissertation Award. The submission deadline for the 2026 application period has already expired. For more information on the award in general please visit the Doctoral Dissertation Award website. Questions Feel free to contact us anytime if you have questions: admin@ischools-inc.org

The iSchools Organization maintains a Travel Fund and a Research Grant to support our community with important research travel to the annual iConference. All donations will fully support the global iSchools community. Donations Together, we can make sure that access to opportunity is not limited by geographical or budgetary boundaries — but powered by generosity. Why it Matters Your donation directly fuels innovation and inclusivity in the information science community. With your help, we can ensure that groundbreaking ideas do not go unheard — and that passionate minds have a place to gather, grow, and lead. The iSchools Organization maintains a Travel Fund and a Research Grant to support our community with important research travel to the annual iConference. All donations will fully support the global iSchools community. Travel Fund Together we can help early career colleagues and PhD students to gather valuable experience and build networks. The Travel Fund will support our community with travel arrangements to the iConference. Frequency One time One time Monthly Monthly Yearly Yearly Amount $20 $20 $50 $50 $100 $100 $200 $200 Other Other 0/100 Comment (optional) Donate $20 Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp Copy link iSchools Research Grant The iSchools Research Grant has been carefully designed to support groundbreaking and innovative research projects of early career faculty and PhD students that investigate the complex and dynamic intersection of information science, evolving educational technologies, and emerging research methodologies within our rapidly changing digital landscape. The iSchools organization awards a total of 20,000 USD in research grants each year. Every additional donation enables us to increase the number of projects we can support. Frequency One time One time Monthly Monthly Yearly Yearly Amount $50 $50 $100 $100 $200 $200 $500 $500 Other Other 0/100 Comment (optional) Donate $50 Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp Copy link

iConference invites renowned researchers and scholars to share their vast experience and outstanding achievements. Back to iConference Keynote Speakers Each year the iConference invites renowned researchers and scholars to share their thought-provoking experiences and outstanding achievements. Ina Fourie Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa From Competence to Consciousness: Embedding Mindfulness, Reflection, Social Responsibility, Agency, and Adaptive Thinking in Digital Literacy On-Site Keynote On-Site in Edinburgh, UK: Monday, 30 March 2026, 10:30am - 12:00pm Contemporary societies confront students with growing cognitive, emotional, and ethical demands, requiring them to develop capacities for coping, sense-making, and responsible participation in their studies, future workplaces, and everyday life. They face increasing pressure to balance self-care and mental health with competitiveness, creativity, and an ethical responsibility to confront historical and ongoing injustices, including decolonisation, inclusivity, and the countering of marginalisation. Contemporary digital literacy must respond to such societal complexity and personal pressures by supporting sense-making in a world that prioritises success, competitiveness, and constant change. Coping, complexity, social responsibility, humanness, mindfulness, and authentic reflection are, therefore, core concepts. Reading and literacy, information literacy, critical evaluation and ethical use of information, and metacognitive awareness have long shaped discussions in library and information science, education, and discipline-specific digital literacy initiatives. In many contexts, such training has become compulsory and even credit-bearing. Yet accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) environments, widening socio-digital divides, and the emotional turbulence of digital life make expanded forms of literacy more urgent than ever. While technological developments have intensified pressures, they have also created new possibilities for learning, participation, and empowerment. Despite these opportunities, much digital literacy training remains focused on procedural skills, tool mastery, or compliance, often neglecting the emotional, ethical, and relational dimensions that shape how people engage with information. Digital literacy thus needs to go beyond technical training to support human resilience, agency, and reflective capability. This keynote examines how critical 21st-century capacities can be meaningfully integrated into digital literacy training—beyond technical proficiency and discipline-based content. It highlights the potential of embedding mindfulness, authentic reflection, and social responsibility to cultivate more grounded, ethically aware, and socially responsive digital citizens. Several theoretical lenses will be used, including human agency, transformative learning, and theories of coping. The intention is to position digital literacy not merely as a skillset, but as a reflective, human-centred, and value-driven practice that attends to global and local inequities, historical harms, and the need for digital practices that support decolonial, inclusive, and socially just information environments. Mindfulness and authentic reflection are presented not as abstract ideals but as practical capacities for cultivating presence, intention, and ethical discernment in fast-moving digital ecosystems. In reimagining digital literacy as a conscious, value-driven practice, we are challenged to recognise that the future of information work depends not only on what we know, but also on how we understand ourselves—and on who we choose to become as responsible digital citizens in a complex society. Murray Pittock School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom From Analogue Edinburgh to Digital Futures: Enlightenment and the Smart City legacy and brand On-Site Keynote On-Site in Edinburgh, UK: Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 10:00am - 12:30pm The increasing wealth and cultural capital of major global cities and their hinterlands, based on diversity, infrastructure and the knowledge economy, is recognized as both an opportunity and a threat to political consent and civic engagement in Europe and the US. This keynote demonstrates that the ‘Smart City’ concept belongs to an analogue as much as to a digital era, and explores the circumstances of its development in early modern Edinburgh (the same modelling can be applied to other C18 and C19 cities providing enough data survives). Focusing on two areas, creativity and innovation (cf the work of Florida and Rogers), the keynote concludes with an examination of digital innovation in the creative economy in today’s Paris and Vienna, and its effect on income and economic growth. Heidi Julien Graduate School of Education, State University of New York at Buffalo, United States Reflections on Moving Towards a Digitally Enlightened Society On-Site Keynote On-Site in Edinburgh, UK: Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 10:00am - 12:30pm Heidi Julien, Professor of Information Science at the University at Buffalo, has been thinking about information and digital literacy for 30 years, exploring these concepts and investigating efforts to develop information skills. The conference theme, “Moving Towards a Digitally Enlightened Society” is appropriately future-oriented but also, perhaps ironically, evokes the optimism and values of the enlightenment era. Her iConference talk will explore the idea of “digital enlightenment” and the challenges she sees to achieving that goal, particularly in our AI-obsessed context. Intentionally provocative, Julien will tackle the assumptions we may bring to notions of digital enlightenment and will consider the so-called solutions we are pressed to accept. She will (re)consider what it means to be digitally literate at this moment in time, focusing on implications for information seekers, creators, and users across a range of contexts. Bringing a social and environmental justice lens to these concerns, this keynote will reflect upon the contested futures before us. Tom Mackey Department of Arts and Media in the College of Arts and Sciences Empire State University, United States From Information Literacies to Metaliteracy: Learner Agency in an AI-Mediated World Virtual Keynote Virtual: Monday, 23 March 2026: 9:00am - 10:30am (UTC-4 - New York) The Enlightenment established enduring commitments to reason, education, and the ethical use of knowledge. These ideas continue to shape how literacy, learning, and public inquiry are understood in libraries, universities, and democratic discourse. They have also carried forward assumptions about whose knowledge was valued and whose voices were included. In today’s AI-mediated information environment, these tensions are intensified as algorithmic systems increasingly influence how knowledge is interpreted, circulated, and taken as credible. This keynote argues that evolving approaches to information literacy, AI literacy, and digital authenticity require a shift beyond discrete or skill-based methods toward a more comprehensive and reflective model of learning. Rather than positioning AI as a standalone competency, metaliteracy operates as a holistic pedagogical approach that centers the self-aware learner. It is grounded in metacognition, ethical reasoning, and active participation in AI and emerging technology environments. The talk explores key components of metaliteracy, including learner roles, learning domains, and characteristics that emphasize reflective and social learning. Particular attention is given to the learner as producer, not only as a consumer or evaluator of information, but as an ethical creator of knowledge whose choices shape meaning, authority, trust, and authenticity within complex digital systems. Ultimately, this keynote presents metaliteracy as a lens for rethinking how plural information literacies respond to complex, AI-mediated problems. In doing so, it offers a pathway toward more inclusive, active, and human-centered learning grounded in learner agency, intentionality, and responsibility. Carlos Alberto Ávila Araújo Escola de Ciência da Informação da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Promoting Information Integrity Virtual Portuguese Keynote Virtual: Tuesday, 24 March 2026: 11:00am - 11:45 am (UTC-4 - New York) In recent years, new dynamics of information production, circulation, and use have generated a new information regime on the world stage. A significant volume of totally or partially false information, in addition to decontextualized information, and the amplification of hate speech and conspiracy theories have affected various dimensions of human life, such as public health, democracy, culture, science, and human rights. Several terms have been used to describe these dynamics, such as disinformation, fake news, post-truth, and infodemic, among others. In this scenario, the concept of information integrity has been proposed in recent years, promoted by the United Nations and the G20, as a way to combat the harmful effects of such dynamics and promote a safe and healthy informational ecosystem. The idea of information integrity is based on three principles. The first is accuracy, that is, the connection of informational content with facts, with reality. The second is consistency, in which information is evaluated in terms of its alignment with basic civilizational values, such as democracy and human rights. The third is reliability, which relates to guaranteeing that informational content has not been tampered with. The idea of information integrity is also related to the involvement of different actors in its promotion, such as multilateral international organizations, governments, legislative branches, research centers and universities, mass media, digital technology companies, social movements, and others. Recently, the popularization of generative artificial intelligence tools has posed a new challenge to combating disinformation and promoting information integrity. While representing advances in the conditions of information production and optimization of tasks and procedures, AI also brings new risks related to copyright infringement, determination of content authorship and accountability, biases and criteria for data production, digital sovereignty, and many others. Thus, just like other elements of the digital environment, such as search engines and social media, AI also presents itself as a challenge to be studied and considered in actions to promote information integrity. Claudia Noemi Gonzalez Brambila Department of Business Administration, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Assessing the impact of collaborative authorship in Business Economics in Latin America Virtual Spanish Keynote Virtual: Tuesday, 24 March 2026: 11:45am - 12:30 pm (UTC-4 - New York) In this paper we analyze the evolution of Latin American (LATAM) Business Economics (BE) publications in international journals from 2005 to 2019. Using publications in Web of Science Core Collection (WoS), we analyze which characteristics of collaboration result in higher impact, i.e., total number of citations, and journals’ WoS impact factor. Our find- ings show that the number of publications in journals indexed in the WoS by researchers in LATAM have been rising in terms of the number of publications and impact measured by citations. Moreover, researchers in the region are publishing in journals with higher impact factor. The analysis shows that the main drivers of impact are multilateral and bilat- eral collaboration, number of countries, number of authors, and the number of categories of knowledge. Specifically, multilateral collaboration is a key factor of influential papers. Other aspects that increase the impact of publications are publishing in English and col- laborating with authors from the United States. Our results also suggest a slight decrease in the impact as the number of coauthors increase. Important Links Conference Home Submission Tracks Past Proceedings SCOOCS Submission System Travel Information & Hotels Letters of Invitation

As an ALA-Accredited degree program, University of Southern California's online Master of Management in Library and Information Science (MMLIS), offers a unique experience in the constantly evolving field of library and information science. The MMLIS allows students to explore leadership and management strategies to prepare them for a variety of creer paths while learning information science fundamentals. The MMLIS program is offered through the USC Bovard College, a leading academic unit in professional education. < Back As an ALA-Accredited degree program, University of Southern California's online Master of Management in Library and Information Science (MMLIS), offers a unique experience in the constantly evolving field of library and information science. The MMLIS allows students to explore leadership and management strategies to prepare them for a variety of creer paths while learning information science fundamentals. The MMLIS program is offered through the USC Bovard College, a leading academic unit in professional education. Master's Programs Master of Management in Library and Information Science offered entirely online. Students complete 36 credits across 12 courses, including a capstone course. Program's web site: https://bovardcollege.usc.edu/mmlis/ Content Areas Archives, Preservation, and Special Collections, Cataloging & Metadata, Collection, Acquisition, and Circulation, Information Ethics & Values, Information Management, Leadership, Management, and Administration, Librarianship, Reference and Reserach Want more information? Visit Website Contact Us https://bovardcollege.usc.edu/contact-us/

View all communities Climate Action Coalition The purpose of the Climate Action Coalition is to promote collaborative, intersectional, interdisciplinary, and impactful climate action-oriented information research within the iSchools organization. The Climate Action Coalition will bring together researchers from iSchools focusing on climate change adaptation, climate resilience, climate justice, and climate change mitigation. The coalition will provide opportunities for sharing transdisciplinary work across iSchools and other disciplines to enrich our understanding and address climate action challenges. Furthermore, the coalition will research and disseminate ways in which our discipline can support and enable the change in organizational processes, policies, and standards that are necessary for societal, governmental, and global change to avert climate disaster. The Coalition will facilitate communication as well as foster new partnerships and ideas among these researchers through a broad range of activities including iConference sessions, online seminars, collaborative projects & research output development. The iSchools Climate Action Coalition welcomes all members who are interested in climate action through research, education, networking, and policy advocacy. A dedicated listserv is available to members of the Climate Action Coalition to stay in touch and share opportunities. Forming the Climate Action Coalition With an aim to promote climate action-oriented information research and collaboration within the iSchools organization, the iSchools Climate Action Coalition was formally formed on 29 March 2023 in Barcelona during iConference 2023. The discussion to form this new Coalition was initiated in 2022 and a group of academics from different iSchools member universities joined together virtually to discuss the formation of the Coalition. It was decided that iConference 2023 would be the best platform to get insights from iSchools leaders and academics to form the coalition and identify its initial tasks to create a membership base. At the formation meeting, iSchools past Chair Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Executive Director Dr Michael Seadle, iSchools Chair-Elect Dr Gillian Oliver, iSchools Business Manager Slava Sterzer and Program Manager Katharina Gudat and academics from different iSchools member universities were present. The idea of forming the Climate Action Coalition was welcome at the meeting and iSchools Staff committed to support the Coalition. Dr Khalid Hossain from Monash University, Dr Hui Chen from Central China Normal University, and Isabella Corieri from Syracuse University assumed the roles of initial chairs from the Asia-Pacific and North American regions with a decision to have more chairs from the European, African andSouth American regions. Upcoming Event Meet the Officers Khalid Hossain Climate Action Coalition Co-Chair Monash University Australia Contact Isabella Lena Corieri Climate Action Coalition Co-Chair Syracuse University United States of America Contact Daniela Markazi Climate Action Coalition Co-Chair University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign United States of America Contact Allan A. Martell Climate Action Coalition Co-Chair Indiana University Bloomington United States of America Contact Hui Chen Climate Action Coalition Co-Chair Central China Normal University China Contact Misita Anwar Climate Action Coalition Co-Chair Swinburne University Australia Contact Lisa Nathan Climate Action Coalition Co-Chair The University of British Columbia Canada Contact

Basic Members Directory Sun Yat-Sen University School of Information Management Basic China Asia Pacific Member Since 2014 Visit School About The School of Information Management at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), founded in 1980, focuses on the fundamental task of nurturing virtue and talents. Its goal of talent cultivation is to nurture students who have both ability and moral integrity, are able to cultivate charisma, and are eager to serve their country. Its basic guiding philosophy is to be oriented toward academic frontiers, oriented toward national major strategic needs, and oriented toward national and regional economic and social development. After forty years of development, our School is now the only teaching and research unit in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area that has a complete first-level discipline of Information Resource Management, as well as a comprehensive talent development system with continuous education layers of bachelor, master and doctor degrees, scientific disciplines and professional degrees, together with a postdoctoral research station. Our three undergraduate courses (namely, Library Science, Archives Science, and Information Management and Information System) and three master courses (namely Information Science, Library Science, and Archives Science) have gained CILIP accreditation. The School is also part of the iSchools movement and voting member of IFLA and ICA, and so has a strong international academic influence. Overall, as one of the top iSchools both nationally and internationally, we are keen to establish long-term partnerships and collaborations with colleagues and leading researchers in both academia and industry. iSchool Contacts Yang Zhang Dean of School Contact Qiong Tang Associate Dean of School Contact Contact

Basic Members Directory Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Departamento de Ciencia de la Información Basic Colombia South America Member Since 2018 Visit School About The Department of Information Science is an academic unit of the Faculty of Communication and Language that has a teaching community of high academic quality. Its orientation seeks the development of research, teaching, continuing education, and the teaching services it provides to the Information Science, Library Science Career, to the postgraduate courses of the faculty and to other programs of the University. Also, the advice and consultancies offered to public and private institutions, attended by an interdisciplinary work team. The Department, since 1985, has worked on the development of Information Science because of further evolution of the disciplines that study information and documents. This evolution that is perceived from the consideration of Information as a practical or empirical problem, represented in the management of supports, the transfer of information, the refinement of instruments for the efficient retrieval of information in the Bibliography, Library Science and Documentation, to a vision of information as part of the problem of development and construction of knowledge in the different areas of knowledge. The Department of Information Science is a unit where the processes of acquisition, organization, preservation, conservation, increase and availability of recorded human knowledge are investigated, evaluated, and developed. Likewise, it reflects on the incidence of emerging technologies and information flows in the oscillating and cultural environment. iSchool Contacts Diana Lucio Arias Director of Department Scientometrics Contact Contact Contact