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Session Overview
Virtual location: Virtual
Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025
12:00pm
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4:00pm
Best Practices for Ethics of Care When Engaging Vulnerable Communities (VIRTUAL)
N. Caidi, T. Du, A. Meyer, C. Grisales, M. Costa, C. Ekmekcioglu
Virtual location: Virtual
 
Date: Thursday, 11/Dec/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Opening Session
Virtual location: Virtual
11:00am
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12:30pm
Virtual Paper Session 1: Ethics in AI
Virtual location: Virtual
 
11:00am - 11:30am

Reconcilable Differences: Comparative Analysis of EU and US Ethical AI Frameworks with focus on Divergent Ethical Aspects

C. Pierson, E. Hildt



11:30am - 12:00pm

When Distal Duty Prevails, Does Misconduct Follow? A Latent Profile Analysis of Confucian Duty Ethics and Cyberdeviant Behaviors

X.-L. Shen, Q. Qian



12:00pm - 12:30pm

Towards an Ethical Framework of Metadata for Repatriation

R. L Martinez, K. Wickett

Virtual Paper Session 2: Generative AI and Large Language Models
Virtual location: Virtual
 
11:00am - 11:15am

Can LLMs Talk 'Sex'? Exploring How AI Models Handle Intimate Conversations

H. Lai



11:15am - 11:45am

Can Large Language Models Grasp Concepts in Visual Content? A Case Study on YouTube Shorts about Depression

J. ". Liu, Y. Su, P. Seth



11:45am - 12:15pm

Information Needs and Practices Supported by ChatGPT

T. Gorichanaz

Virtual Paper Session 3: Large Language Models and Discovery
Virtual location: Virtual
 
11:00am - 11:30am

The Influence of Music Discovery approaches and Music Diversity on User Preference: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Subjective and Objective Measures

P.-Y. Chen, M.-C. Tang



11:30am - 12:00pm

Leveraging Large Language Models for Dataset Discovery

T. Chen, K. Schott, B. Mathiak, D. Kern



12:00pm - 12:15pm

Construction and Representation Learning of Social Heterogeneous Information Networks Based on Multimodal Fusion and Enhanced-HGCN

W. Zhou, L. An, R. Han, G. Li

Virtual Paper Session 4: Current Problems in Archival Studies
Virtual location: Virtual
 
11:00am - 11:30am

Tracing the Past, Predicting the Future: A Systematic Review of AI in Archival Science

G. Shinde, T. Kirstein, S. Ghosh, P. Franks



11:30am - 11:45am

When the Story Falls Flat: An Exploration of Provenance Failures

R. Bettivia, Y.-Y. Cheng, M. Gryk



11:45am - 12:00pm

Collective Moral Motivation in the Shadow of War: Cues from Large-scale Newspaper Corpus in Chinese Modern History

Z. Zeng, L. Zhao, Y. Wang, F. Yu



12:00pm - 12:15pm

Humanities-in-the-Loop: Using Close Reading as a Method for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

J. Zhou, L. Si, W. Hou

1:00pm
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2:30pm
Researching Health Information Behaviors: Landscape, AI’s Role and Its Impact
X. Yu, Y. Zhang, W. Choi, A. T. Chen
Virtual location: Virtual
 
3:00pm
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4:30pm
Virtual Paper Session 5: AI and Digital literacy
Virtual location: Virtual
 
3:00pm - 3:30pm

Unlocking Smartphone Digital Literacy: A Participatory Study with Ethiopian Immigrants

K. Belay



3:30pm - 3:45pm

Mapping the Landscape of Artificial Intelligence Engagement in Academic Libraries: Evidence from 130 Institutions Worldwide

Z. Tu, J. Shen



3:45pm - 4:15pm

Think Creatively Outside the Search Box: Divergent and Convergent Thinking Using Creativity Support Search Tools

Y. Choi, S. Y. Rieh, C. Chavula, S. Yi

Virtual Paper Session 6: Health and Health Information Behaviors
Virtual location: Virtual
 
3:00pm - 3:30pm

Paradigm Shift in Online Health Information Search in the Era of Generative AI? – A Bibliometric Literature Survey and Sentiment Analysis

F. Yu, X. Peng, R. Carlson



3:30pm - 3:45pm

“I Post Because I’ve Been Down This Road for so Freaking Long… I Have a Lot to Offer!”: Reading and Sharing of Personal Narratives Among COVID Long-Haulers

B. St. Jean, B. F. Liu, K. Raymond, D. Shi, T. Hodge, M. Downey, J. Behre, J. N. Miller



3:45pm - 4:15pm

Assessing the Credibility of Health Information from Social Media Influencers: A Systematic Review and a Model of Young Adults’ Evaluation Behaviors

O. Lawal, B. Stvilia



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Mothers' Use of Social Media as a Health Information Source About Child Autism in Saudi Arabia

B. Alasmari, A. M Cox, S. Rutter, S. Vannini

Virtual Paper Session 7: AI: to trust or not?
Virtual location: Virtual
 
3:00pm - 3:15pm

Third-Person Perception of Deepfake Harms: Comparing Seniors and Young Adults

S. Huang, L. Huang, D. H.-L. Goh



3:15pm - 3:45pm

LLM-Supported Content Analysis of Motivated Reasoning on Climate Change

Y. Kim, Q. Liu, J. Hemsley



3:45pm - 4:15pm

“Saying is believing": Exploring the importance of AI-Generated Content Disclosure and User Trust

R. Wang, B. Jia, P. Yan

Virtual Paper Session 8: LIS Education
Virtual location: Virtual
 
3:00pm - 3:30pm

“I’m not confident in debiasing AI systems since I know too little”: Designing and Evaluating Hands-on Gender Bias Tutorials for AI Practitioners and Learners

K. Z. Zhou, J. Cao, X. Yuan, D. E. Weissglass, Z. Kilhoffer, M. R. Sanfilippo, X. Tong



3:30pm - 3:45pm

Whiteboards as a Tool for Active Learning: Insights from an Undergraduate Information Science Course

L. Alon, S. Sung, M. Friebroon-Yesharim



3:45pm - 4:00pm

Generative AI Use at the iSchools: An Analysis of Policies

A. H. Poole, A. Ahmed, H. Mentis

5:00pm
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6:30pm
Brenda Dervin’s Sense-Making Methodology: What has been achieved and why it matters now?
N. K. Agarwal, C. Urquhart, M. Olsson, D. Snowden, B. Cheuk, C. Reinhard, A. Zalot, G. Massara, H. Mooney
Virtual location: Virtual
 
Date: Friday, 12/Dec/2025
8:00am
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9:30am
Virtual Poster Session
Virtual location: Virtual
 

Academic Libraries in the Age of AI: The Importance of Information Literacy Education

A. Crabtree



Toward agency-centered AI literacy: A scoping review

T. Maeda, H. Anderson, A. Quan-Haase, K. Willis, S. Gignac



The Information Behavior of Theatre Performers: Embodiment, Precarity, and Body Capital

J. A. Maxwell



Introducing Collections as Data in Postgraduate and Professional Education

M. Dobreva



Copy, Paste, Innovate: Leveraging Sentiment Analysis and Interviews to Uncover AIGC Literacy Among China’s Youth

B. Jia, Y. Pu, Y. Liu



In the Weeds: Entity Detection for Plant Based Foods

C. Blake, R. Wang, Z. Madak-Erdogan



Contribution of Wind Energy Research towards the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals

S. Aytac



Cross-Social Media Platform Emergency Knowledge Collaboration Based on Multimodal Heterogeneous Information Networks

W. Zhou, L. An, R. Han, G. Li, C. Yu



Technological Mediation of Trust in Grassroots Organizations: A Case Study of Social Networking Platforms (SNPs)

D. Delgado Ramos



How Artists Translate Image Needs on Social Media: Preliminary analysis of interaction

H. S. Lee



“Hard Drives are the Tip of the Iceberg”: Using r/datahoarder to Understand Conceptions of Data Risk

E. Tither, T. Wagner



Transforming Perspectives on Data Ethics through Collaborative Game Design

S. Yoon, S. Evans, C. Aragon, B. Herman, L. Yang, L. Molina



How Privacy Notifications Shape Privacy Management Strategies Among Quantified Self Users

R. Geng, S. Li, K. Yao, Z. Liu



Academic Library and Public School Partnerships to Foster K–12 Professional Development and Learning Opportunities

N. Grimes



Beyond the Canvas: Exploring the Information Seeking Behaviour of Painters in the Creative Process

T. Hussain, S. W. Hussain, N. Akram



Navigating AI Literacy: High School Students’ Perspectives on AI Tools in a Human-Centered Information Landscape

L.-M. Huang, T.-Y. Wu, T.-I. Tsai, W.-L. Cheung



Navigating Barriers: Disability, Healthcare Information Seeking, and AI-Enabled Chatbots

M. Gray, M. Threats



Navigating Health Information Poverty: International Students' Challenges and Strategies

X. Pan



Five Tools for Workshopping Humanitarian Responses to Harmful Information in Conflict Settings

E. Tither



A Holistic Understanding of Chinese Children's Artificial Intelligence Literacy: An Exploratory Study

P. Wang, S. y. Wang, H. Su



Designers as Co-Creators: Reconfiguring Workflows and Creative Agency in AI-Augmented Design

R. Zhang, S. Sung



Why Unequal AI Access Enhances Team Productivity through Negative Socio-emotional Reactions and Cognitive Diversity

J. Han, R. Ren

10:00am
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11:30am
Exploring Critical Issues in AI with the AI Agnostics Reading Group
A. Hands, L. Gray, H. Julien, G. Marchionini, M. Posner, V. Van Hyning
Virtual location: Virtual
 
12:00pm
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1:30pm
Virtual Paper Session 9: Science, AI, and scholarly publishing
Virtual location: Virtual
 
12:00pm - 12:30pm

Knowledge breadth and depth measurement of Large Language Models (LLMs)

X. Peng, Q. Lu, K. Liu



12:30pm - 1:00pm

Chinese Large Language Models Evaluation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Information

L. Xiaosong, L. Zenghua, Z. Keran, L. Yifei, T. Shanhong, G. Qiang, Z. Yingxiao, G. Guotong

Virtual Paper Session 10: AI and Libraries
Virtual location: Virtual
 
12:00pm - 12:30pm

Exploring Public Perceptions of Generative AI in Libraries: A Social Media Analysis of X Discussions

Y. Li, T. Mandaloju, H. Chen



12:30pm - 1:00pm

Public Library Workers, IT Identity Threats, and Implications for Artificial Intelligence

D. Freeburg, K. Klein

Virtual Paper Session 11: Business and Finance
Virtual location: Virtual
 
12:00pm - 12:30pm

Modeling the Predictors of Fake Financial News Sharing on Social Media Using Behavioral Reasoning Theory: Evidence from Retail Investors of USA

M. Rashid, L. Hong, S. Ryan, M. Malik, J. Philbrick



12:30pm - 1:00pm

Identifying Information Needs to Enhance a Customer Engagement System

H. Al-Thani, B. Jansen

Virtual Paper Session 12: Enabling Inclusion
Virtual location: Virtual
 
12:00pm - 12:30pm

Practice of Information Seeking on Dementia and the Positioning of Public Libraries in Japan

M. Takeda, S. Donkai



12:30pm - 1:00pm

Using Digital Interventions from a Sustainability Perspective: Capabilities and Needs of Deaf People in Bangladesh

M. K. Hossain, M. J. Islam, M T. Hasan



1:00pm - 1:30pm

Same Same, but Different: An Examination of Different Student Groups’ Information Behaviors

R. Bahl, D. McKay, S. Chang, M. Cheong, G. Buchanan

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Scholarly Productivity in Contentious Times: Future Considerations for Early Career Information Scholars
M. Threats, R. D. Frank, A. D. Smith, K. Fenlon, A. Thomer
Virtual location: Virtual
 
4:00pm
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5:00pm
Virtual Paper Session 13: User Experience
Virtual location: Virtual
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

User Experience in Metaverse Libraries: Lessons from Four Cases

Y. Kim, Y. Kim, N. Kwon, H. Choi, H. Kim



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Are They Getting What They Expected? User Confirmation and Satisfaction with Generative AIs

B. Ju, J. B. Stewart



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Empowering Reading Engagement through Big Data Analytics in Taiwan

W.-H. Hung, H.-C. Wang, H.-R. Ke

Virtual Paper Session 14: Governing AI
Virtual location: Virtual
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Research on Collaborative Governance of AIGC Applications in the DeepSeek Era

S. Deng, F. Wang, R. Xiang, J. Chen



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Towards advancing AI governance, Innovation, and Risk Management: US Government Agencies’ Reflections

J. Khisro

Virtual Paper Session 15: Scholarly Publishing 2
Virtual location: Virtual
 
4:00pm - 4:30pm

“It’s like some weird AI ouroboros”: Artificial Intelligence Use and Avoidance in Scholarly Peer Review

A. H. Poole, A. Todd-Diaz

 
5:30pm
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7:00pm
Co-Creation in Context: Participatory Approaches to Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Work
R. Ma, A. T. Chen, J. Bossaller, C. Boyles, D. Donaldson
Virtual location: Virtual