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Paper Session 04: Professional Training and Identity
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2:00pm - 2:30pm
ID: 123 / PS-04: 1 Long Papers Confirmation 1: I/we acknowledge that all session authors/presenters have read and agreed to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting Policies Topics: Archives; Data Curation; and Preservation (archives; records; cultural heritage materials; data curation; digital libraries; digital humanities) Keywords: Professional competencies, Archival processing of records, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Competencies for the Archival Professions 1University of British Columbia, Canada; 2University of British Columbia, Canada; 3Northern Illinois University, USA This article presents qualitative research aimed at deriving key competencies for archival students and professionals to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to support the ongoing availability and accessibility of trustworthy public records. Methodology and findings are presented. Our primary source of data were interviews conducted between January and July 2023 with 10 archivists, record managers, and digital archives researchers from the UK, Canada, USA, Australia, and New Zealand. All our interviewees had practical experience applying AI and ML to the processing of records in archives or record management offices. Findings from the qualitative data analysis from the interviews are presented and organized in three areas of competencies: knowledge, skills, and attitudes. 2:30pm - 3:00pm
ID: 146 / PS-04: 2 Long Papers Confirmation 1: I/we acknowledge that all session authors/presenters have read and agreed to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting Policies Topics: Information Behavior (information behavior; information-seeking behavior; information needs and use; information practices) Keywords: Member engagement, Information practice, Professional associations, ASIS&T, SIG-III Factors Influencing Professional Associations' Member Engagement Online: An "Information Practices" Approach 1University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA; 2Central University of Gujarat, India; 3University of Birjand, Iran; 4University of the Punjab, Pakistan; 5University of Oklahoma, USA; 6East Carolina University, USA Member engagement can benefit professional associations, their members, and the profession. Rarely any studies adopt the "information practices" approach to identify the factors influencing professional associations' member engagement. The experiences, epiphanies, and the frequency of 11 information practices of six SIG-III officers and volunteers when planning and implementing 184 activities of eight initiatives from 2020 to 2023 helped this autoethnography study identify 99 sub-factors influencing the member engagement online. Information production, dissemination, recording, use, and discovery emerge as the top 5 information practices of officers and volunteers, in the same order, for influencing the SIG member engagement. Managing member attendance, Sharing knowledge, Managing member attention, Meeting member needs, and Building trust serve as the top 5 factors, in the same order, for affecting the member engagement. We propose a theoretical model and provide guidance to associations to enhance and sustain member engagement. 3:00pm - 3:30pm
ID: 170 / PS-04: 3 Long Papers Confirmation 1: I/we acknowledge that all session authors/presenters have read and agreed to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting Policies Topics: Information Theory (history of information and information science; theory and philosophy of information; social study of information) Keywords: Women in science; feminist epistemology; information science; American Society for Information Science; American Documentation Institute “There’s a Big Difference Between Going Through Life with the Wind at Your Back, and Going Through Life Leaning into the Wind”: Feminism in Post-World War II Information Science Drexel University, USA This paper centers on feminism in post-World War II information science, namely in the context of the American Documentation Institute (ADI) and the subsequent American Society for Information Science (ASIS). We focus on the years between 1962, when ADI elected its first woman president, and 1988, when it celebrated its 50th anniversary. We make three scholarly interventions in this research. First, we contribute to the history of information science, particularly to the history of women in information science. We bring, moreover, a feminist epistemology lens to bear on information science. This involves considering both women’s participation, representation, and marginalization, and the ways in which information scientists approach women’s lives, experiences, and bodies and by extension, what they view as legitimate scholarly questions and methods. Finally, we situate information science in the broader history of science, juxtaposing ADI/ASIS with other scientific societies’ engagement with feminism. In focusing on women’s empowerment and feminism’s investment in effecting systemic change, this paper aligns with the annual meeting theme, “Putting People First: Responsibility, Reciprocity and Care in Information Research and Practice." | ||