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Date: Sunday, 16/Nov/2025
8:00am - 8:30am	Continental Breakfast Location: Regency ABCD Foyer
8:30am - 10:00am	Opening Plenary Keynote Address Location: Imperial Ballroom 4, 6, 8
10:00am - 10:30am	Coffee Break Location: Regency ABCD Foyer
10:30am - 11:30am	Awards & Honors Committee Meeting Location: Tidewater III
10:30am - 12:00pm	Paper Session 1: Data Management, Retrieval, and Policies Location: Conference Theater 10:30am - 11:00am Justifying Biodiversity Data Access Restrictions: A Global Comparison of Data Policies M. Kaehrle, K. Eschenfelder 11:00am - 11:15am “Unnecessarily cumbersome”: Researchers’ Opinions on Restricted Data Access Systems M. A. Brown, A. Thomer, L. Hemphill 11:15am - 11:30am Interactive Graph Visualization and Teaming Recommendation in an Interdisciplinary Project’s Talent Knowledge Graph J. Xu, J. Chen, Y. Ye, Z. Sembay, S. Thaker, P. Payne-Foster, J. Chen, Y. Ding 11:30am - 11:45am How Data Reuse Leads to Citation Performance: The Mediating Role of Coauthorship in ICPSR-Based Author Data Coupling H. Kim, S. Bratt	Paper Session 2: The AI Revolution in Libraries Location: Potomac I 10:30am - 11:00am Artificial Intelligence, Misinformation, and Libraries: A New Frontier for Information Professionals O. Salubi 11:00am - 11:15am Putting Information Professionals on the Map of Human-Centered AI: An Analysis using the Artificial Intelligence Act S. Xie, I. Song 11:15am - 11:45am Evolution of Reference Services in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence J. Aguiñaga, N. Mooradian, S. Ghosh, D. Hofman 11:45am - 12:00pm Assessing Large Language Models: Architectural Archive Metadata and Transcription H. C. Moutran, D. Murphy, K. Sanchez, K. Pierce Meyer, W. Borkgren, J. Conrad	Paper Session 3: Making the Invisible Visible: Cultural Heritage and Curation Location: Potomac II 10:30am - 11:00am An Embodied Cultural Heritage Semantic Mining Approach Driven by Bidirectional Collaborative Mechanism K. Shi, Q. Duan, X. Wang, H. Wang 11:00am - 11:15am Engaging with AI in Crowdsourced Digitization of Ancient Texts: User Perception and Interaction C. Zhang, W. Li, Z. Luo, P. Zhang 11:15am - 11:30am An Investigation of Searching Behavior for Open Dataset: Insights from Cultural Heritage Data Curation Competitions J. Lian, Y. Zhao, X. Li, Q. Zhu 11:30am - 12:00pm “There’s a Kind of Comfort in Identifying, But Visibility is a Double-Edged Sword”: Framing LGBTQIA+ Finding Aid Work Within Queer Theory T. Wagner, E. Allgood	Relational Accountability in Indigenous Data Stewardship and Archival Practices S. Littletree, J. O'Neal, V. Begay, A. Soto, D. Marsh, K. Thorpe, C. L. Palmer Location: Potomac V	Safeguarding Research Integrity: Information Science Journal Editors’ Perspectives J. {. Kim, A. Yoon, J. Abbas, S. Sawyer, R. Reynolds Location: Potomac III	The Future of Academic Writing in the Age of Generative AI M. Holmner, A. Rorissa, A. Meyer, A. Mierzecka, S. Hirsh Location: Potomac IV
12:15pm - 1:45pm	Business Meeting and Group Lunch Location: Regency ABCD Ballroom
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Education Committee Meeting Location: Tidewater III
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Libraries in the Age of LLMs: Perceptions, Practices, and the Future of Scholarly Work Y. Li, H. Chen, B. Lund, R. Ma, L. Yang, S. Miriam Location: Potomac V	Paper Session 4: Political and Ethical Concerns Around AI and Informatics Location: Potomac I 2:00pm - 2:30pm News Deserts as Information Problems: A Case Study of Local News Coverage in Alabama J. Wang, T. B. Gundogdu, R. K. Ivic, B. S. Butler, M. Lee 2:30pm - 2:45pm Bridging the Divide: AI enabled Sensemaking Tools to Foster Civic Dialogue and Mitigate Political Polarization C. Naumer 2:45pm - 3:00pm The Datafication of Elder Care Services in China: A Policy Analysis T. Liu, Q. Zhu	Paper Session 5: Human-AI Relationships Location: Conference Theater 2:00pm - 2:30pm Context, Script, Cue: Extending the CASA Paradigm to Understand Human-AI Intimate Relationships F. Yang, M. Du, N. Li, Q. Yan 2:30pm - 2:45pm “It Helps Me Find Poetic Comfort in My Busy Life”: A Multimodal LLM-Based Classical Chinese Poetry Therapy System Framework Y. Zhang, L. Zhao, J. Xu 2:45pm - 3:15pm Video-Mediated Emotion Disclosure: Expressions of Fear, Sadness, and Joy by People with Schizophrenia on YouTube J. ". Liu, Y. Zhang 3:15pm - 3:30pm Unpacking College Students' Mental Health Discourse through YouTube Comments: Insights from Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis H. Kim, B. Choi, J. Huh-Yoo	Paper Session 6: Information Behavior, Design, and Analysis for Aging Location: Potomac II 2:00pm - 2:30pm When Chatman Meets Chinese Rural Older People with Health Anxiety: From Life in the Round to Concentric Life Circles L. Wang, X. Wu, H. Zhu 2:30pm - 2:45pm Exploring the Impact of AI-generated Image, Story and Song Creations on AI Literacy and Well-Being Among Older Adults: A Mixed-Methods Study P. Peng, L. Xu, D. T. K. Ng, C. S. Y. Lee, S. K. W. Chu 2:45pm - 3:00pm Designing for Older Users: A Theoretical Framework for Information Seeking and Evaluation in AI Systems L. Alon, M. Krtalić	Qualitative Research in the AI Landscape D. Charbonneau, K. Dali, V. Kitzie, P. Kizhakkethil, L. Velez Location: Potomac III	Sustaining Open Infrastructures in Changing Times K. Gregory, L. Kellam, I. Pasquetto, K. Skinner, M. Wofford Location: Potomac IV
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Coffee Break Location: Regency ABCD Foyer
4:00pm - 5:00pm	Membership Committee Meeting Location: Tidewater III
4:00pm - 5:30pm	A Difficult and Necessary Conversation on Abuse in Our Work M. G. Ocepek, L. T. Dudak, D. McKay, J. Rubin, K. Wickett Location: Potomac V	Fostering and Cultivating Human-AI Collaboration and Partnerships in an Evolving Workplace J. Allen, A. Rorissa, D. Alemneh, N. Agarwal, H. Suliman Location: Potomac IV	Paper Session 7: AI and the Museum Experience Location: Conference Theater 4:00pm - 4:15pm Is AIGC Technology Useful? A Comparative Analysis of Search Technologies for Online Museum Y. Zeng, C. Yan, J. Li, J. Yao, Z. Sun 4:15pm - 4:45pm Linked Data Workflows for Community Collections: Experiments with Open Access AI K. Fenlon, L. Havens, D. E. Marsh, N. Wise, U. Smoke, C. Navarrete, J. Sioui, D. Mantle, A. Sorensen 4:45pm - 5:00pm How to Get Enriched Metadata? A Multi-modal Model Fusion Strategy for Automatic Metadata Enhancement in GLAM Art Collections Z. Sun, C. Yan, Y. Zeng 5:00pm - 5:30pm Crowdsourced Cultural Heritage Transcription Data Management: The Next Piece of the Puzzle V. Van Hyning, M. Jones 5:30pm - 5:45pm The Culturally Similar Design of Virtual Guides Matters for Museum Experience: Perceived Compatibility as a Mediator L. Zhao, Z. Li, B. Chen, Y. Wang	Paper Session 8: Get Real: Identifying Misinformation Location: Potomac I 4:00pm - 4:30pm Emerging Adulthood and Brazilian College Students’ Experiences with Misinformation in Social Media C. C. Gonzaga, S. Smith Budhai, P. Pinto, D. Agosto 4:30pm - 4:45pm The Role of Self-Efficacy, Critical Thinking, and Media Literacy in Human Deepfake Video Detection C. {. Chen, D. H.-L. Goh 4:45pm - 5:15pm Community-Driven Fact-Checking on WhatsApp: Who Fact-Checks Whom, and Why? K. Garimella 5:15pm - 5:30pm Generation Zs’ Fight Against Deepfake Videos: A Survey on Identification Strategies C. {. Chen, D. H.-L. Goh, H. Qiu, C. Neo	Paper Session 9: AI on Campus Location: Potomac II 4:00pm - 4:30pm AI Aversion or Alternative? How Dissatisfaction and Grade Outcomes Shape Fairness Perceptions S M. Jones-Jang 4:30pm - 4:45pm Reshaping Teamwork: Understanding AI usage in student group projects Z. Tang, P. Zhang 4:45pm - 5:15pm Understanding Students' Perceptions of Ethics in ai Use Through the Lens of Floridi's Unified Framework of Ethical Principles for ai M. Colón-Aguirre, K. Bright 5:15pm - 5:30pm On-Campus Generative Artificial Intelligence Deployment as a Socio-Technical Information Practice: Evidence From Interviews With Students J. Zhang, Y. Zhao, D. Wang	Training Future LIS Faculty in AI and Data Science through a Library Rotation Education Model S. Y. Rieh, Y. Choi, Z. Guan, H. Triem, H. Xu Location: Potomac III
5:45pm - 6:45pm	Welcome Reception Location: Independence AB