Conference Agenda (All times are shown in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) unless otherwise noted)

Alison Phipps is UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow and Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies. She was De Carle Distinguished Visiting Professor at Otago University, Aotearoa New Zealand 2019-2020, Thinker in Residence at the EU Hawke Centre, University of South Australia in 2016, Visiting Professor at Auckland University of Technology, and Principal Investigator for AHRC Large Grant ‘Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the body, law and the state’; for Cultures of Sustainable Peace, and is now co-Director of the Global Challenge Research Fund South Migration Hub. She is Ambassador for the Scottish Refugee Council. She is an academic, activist, educator and published poet.

Tawona Sitholé is a poet, playwright, mbira musician, educator and facilitator. His ancestral family name, Ganyamatope, is a reminder of his heritage, which inspires him to make connections with other people through creativity, and the natural outlook to learn. As co-founder of Seeds of Thought arts group, Tawona’s work involves supporting and facilitating access to the creative arts. Tawona is Poet in Residence for GRAMNet and works in a variety of settings and institutions. He is Research Associate with the Migration for Development and Equality (MIDEQ) research project. As he continues to write, teach and perform, mostly he appreciates his work for the many inspiring people it allows him to meet. For a taste of Tawona's work, watch him perform A Guide to the Traveller.

Have a voice in where we are going…Join the ASIS&T Board in a discussion about the future of the profession and your vision of the ideal infrastructure to support it. Buffet lunch to be served.

The Product Theater will include a demonstration of two online professional development programs, the Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA) and the Data Services Continuing Professional Education (DSCPE), where the RDMLA/DSCPE team will review how to use the programs and what potential students will learn and the skills they will take away by participating in these programs. The RDMLA is a global, free online professional development program for librarians and other information professionals who work in research-intensive environments. The curriculum, which includes eleven self-paced learning units and two mini-modules, focuses on the essential knowledge and skills needed to collaborate effectively with researchers on data management. As of May 15, 2023, RDMLA has more than 7600 learners from all around the world. The course is also available in a Traditional Chinese translation thanks to a translation partnership with National Taiwan University (NTU) Library. The DSCPE is a ten-week online intensive learning experience geared toward preparing early-to-mid career working librarians to provide needed data services. The curriculum consists of live sessions, remote self-paced learning, and capstone with a partner site. The objective of this professional education is to train and develop a community of practice for data services librarians.

Presenters:

Rong Tang, School of Library and Information Science, Simmons University; Co-Leader, RDMLA; Elaine Martin, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Co-Leader, RDMLA; Ashley Thomas, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; RDMLA Librarian