Program-at-a-Glance

NOTES:

  • All times are ET.  Events and times are subject to change.
  • Location for all events will be online. Details are available via the virtual conference platform, Home Base.
  • Access to Home Base is restricted to conference registrants. All registrants received login credential via email (from Map Dynamics). The login credentials are not the same as your credentials for www.alise.org.
  • Speaker information is available via the virtual conference platform, Home Base.
  • Breakout Session Key:
    • Track A Sessions = Juried Papers and Awards
    • Track B Sessions = Juried Panels
    • Track C Sessions = SIGs

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

 Time

 Event

 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

School Library Media SIG Meeting

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Equity and Social Justice SIG Meeting

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Technical Services Education SIG Meeting

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Curriculum SIG Meeting

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Information Ethics SIG and Information Policy SIG Meeting

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

 Time

 Event

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Youth Services SIG Meeting

10:00 am- 11:00 am

International Library Education SIG Meeting

10:30 am - 11:30 am

ALISE/Norman Horrocks Leadership Award Committee Meeting

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Gender Issues SIG Meeting

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Archival/Preservation Education SIG Meeting

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Leadership Orientation

2020-2021 committee leaders strongly encouraged to attend

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

ALISE/Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Competition Committee Meeting

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

ALISE/ProQuest Methodology Paper Competition Committee Meeting

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

ALISE Excellence in Teaching Award Committee Meeting

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

ALISE/Connie Van Fleet Award Committee Meeting

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Service to ALISE Award Committee Meeting

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Health SIG Meeting

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

ALISE/Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award Committee Meeting

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Nominating Committee Meeting

Thursday, October 15, 2020

 Time

 Event

 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

School Representative's Meeting

Designated School Representative for each ALISE institutional member invited to attend

Monday, October 19, 2020

 Time

 Event

 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Breakout Session B.1. - Panel

LIS Education in a Pandemic Era:  Innovative Teaching Methods, Strategies, & Technologies

 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Breakout Session C.1.- SIG Information Policy

The Intersection of Information Ethics and Policy:  Challenges and Opportunities for LIS Educators

 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

First Timers Meeting

All first time ALISE annual conference attendees are invited to attend

 12:50 pm - 2:20 pm

Breakout Session B.2. - Panel 

Preparing Librarians to Research in an Interdisciplinary and Interconnected World: Perspectives on Teaching Research Methods, Evaluation, and Assessment

 1:20 pm - 3:20 pm

Breakout Session C.2.- SIG Gender Issues 

Gender Issues SIG: Seeking Information Between and Beyond Binaries: Exploring How Queer Theory Can Inform LIS Theories

 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm

Breakout Session A.1. - Theory to Practice

a. Ensuring that Library Faculty Know what it’s Like to Work in a Library

b. Bridging the gap: Employer, librarian, and educator perspectives on instructional librarianship

c. Submission Withdrawn

d. The Potential to Transform: Information Behavior Theory and Reference Service Professional Education

 2:40 pm - 4:10 pm

Breakout Session B.3. - Panel

Session Withdrawn

 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm

Breakout Session A.2. - Health & Equity in LIS

a. Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and LIS: Educating for Service to the Forgotten Patrons

b. Barriers to the adoption of EHR in GCC Countries: Exploratory Study

c. Chat Reference in the Time of COVID-19: Transforming Essential User Services

 3:40 pm - 5:40 pm

Breakout Session C.3. - SIG Innovative Pedagogies

Innovative Teaching Strategies and Conventional Approaches for Enhanced Learning in a Global Information Environment

 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Breakout Session B.4. - Panel

Submission Withdrawn

 5:00 pm - 6:20 pm

Breakout Session A.3. - LIS in an Interconnected World

a. A Decolonial Curricular Approach to LIS Education

b. Indigenous Digital Inclusion: Interconnections and Comparisons

c.Instructional Design in LIS Education: Preparing for New Educational Roles in an Interconnected World

d. Asian Informatics:  Integrating Cultural Perspective in the iField

 Tuesday, October 20, 2020

 Time                   

 Event

 11:00 am - 11:30 am

President's Welcome and Award Announcements 

 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Plenary Session w/Keynote and Q&A

Dr. William Alba

"Truth and Trust in 2020"

 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Breakout Session B.5. - Panel

Connecting Rural Public Libraries to LIS Education and Research: The Case of Health Services, Programs, and Partnerships

 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Breakout Session C.4. - SIG. Equity and Social Justice

Racism and Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching

 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Breakout Session A.4. - DEI in Education

a. New ways of teaching library service to immigrant communities

b. Navigating the Cultural Landscape: A Strategy for Enhancing Self-Awareness in Information Professionals

c. Research-Practice Partnerships: Reaching Underserved Students in the School Library

 2:20 pm - 3:50 pm

Breakout Session B.6. - Panel

Crisis Management, COVID-19, and Libraries: Implications for LIS Education

 2:50 pm - 4:50 pm

Breakout Session C.5. -  SIG. Disabilities in LIS

Transforming LIS Education through Disability Inclusion

 3:20 pm - 4:40 pm

Breakout Session A.5. - Research & Innovation

a. Library as Research Lab: New Research Engagement Model for LIS Students and Professionals

b. Expanding Scholarly Research from Print to Video

c. Simulated Person Method for Teaching Soft Skills in the Information Professions: A Pilot Qualitative Study

d. Student Contributions to Research on Rural and Small Public Libraries

 4:10 pm - 5:40 pm

Breakout Session B.7. - Panel

Preparing Emerging Professionals: Whether and How LIS Faculty Teach “Soft Skills”

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Virtual Speed Networking

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

WIP Poster Session & Virtual Networking

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 

Time

Event

11:00 am - 11:30 am

President's Welcome and Award Announcements 

11:30 am - 12:50 pm

Breakout Session A.6. - Instructional Practices and Design

a. Digital Humanities Among LIS Programs: An Analysis of Courses

b. Skill-Building in Online Graduate-Level Metadata Instruction through the Prism of Quality Evaluation of Student-Created Metadata Records

c. In the Shadow of the ACRL Framework: Current Instructional Practices of Community College Librarians

d. School Librarian’s Questions About Remote Instruction:  Opportunities for LIS Educators

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Breakout Session B.8. - Panel

Poetry and the “Voice” of LIS Educators: Transforming the Fabric of Lives and More

11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Breakout Session C.6. - SIG. Information Ethics

Where do we stand? Working toward an ALISE position statement on learning analytics in higher education

1:10 pm - 2:30 pm

Breakout Session A.7. - Innovative Pedagogies

a. Metaphors, critical incidents, and librarian professional identity in LIS pedagogy: Research methodology as pedagogical tool embedded in reflexive practice

b. Collaborative Authorship in an LIS Setting: Plugging into Best Practices for Doctoral Students

c. Transforming Reference Education through Improv Comedy

d.  Interdisciplinarity in Students’ Research Papers: The Impact of Assignment Requirements on Students’ Use of Interdisciplinary Sources in an LIS Research Methods Course

1:20 pm - 2:50 pm

Breakout Session B.9. - Panel

Library and Information Science across disciplines

1:50 pm - 3:50 pm

Breakout Session C.7. - SIG. Technical Services Education

Technical Services Education: Transformation and Advocacy

2:50 pm - 4:10 pm

Breakout Session A.8. - Creative Approaches in LIS Education

a. Exploring Data Science Learning Objectives in LIS Education

b. Designing the MLIS: How Design Thinking Can Prepare Information Professionals

c. Connecting for Successful Transition: Postgraduate Distance Library and Information Studies Students’ Transition Experiences

d. Using Investigative Video Games to Teach Reference Transaction Skills in Interconnected Classrooms

3:10 pm - 4:40 pm

Breakout Session B.10. - Panel

Podcasts and Partnerships:  Learning Through Listening and Content Creation

4:10 pm - 6:10 pm

Breakout Session C.8. -  SIG. Curriculum

What About Librarianship in LIS Curricula?

4:30 pm - 5:50 pm

Breakout Session A.9. - Accessibility & Inclusion

a. Using Universal Instructional Design to Teach Fundamentals of Library and Information Science

b. Withdrawn

c. Graduate student use of and preference for unlimited-use e-books as textbooks in a library science master’s degree program

d. Neurodiversity in Higher Education: Library and Information Science Educators Address the Learning Needs of Students with Intellectual Disabilities

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Breakout Session B.11. - Panel

Critical Data Approaches to the Interconnected Library

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Doctoral Poster Session & Virtual Networking

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Time

Event

 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Virtual Breakfast with a Vendor

 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Breakout Session B.12. - Panel

Introducing The Tree of Contemplative Practices

 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Breakout Session C.9. - SIG. School Library Media

Transforming Learning: Challenges and Opportunities through School Libraries

 12:50 pm - 2:20 pm

Breakout Session B.13. - Panel

Wait, what college are you from? The innovative, interdisciplinary approach to LIS education through the lens of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity

 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Annual Business Meeting

 1:20 pm - 3:20 pm

Breakout Session C.10. - SIG. Archival/Preservation Education

Transforming the Archival Classroom for a Connected Reality

 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm

Breakout Session A.10. - Educating for the Future

a. (Before Covid): Roles and Services of Libraries throughout Disasters

b. Community-led librarianship demands community asset-building: one step towards a re-envisioned MLIS

c. New Methods, New Needs: Preparing Academic Library Practitioners to Address Ethical Issues Associated with Learning Analytics (ALISE Best Conference Paper Award)

d. Librarians as natural disaster stress response facilitators: Building evidence for trauma-informed library education and practice (ALISE Best Conference Paper Award)

 2:40 pm - 4:10 pm

Breakout Session B.14. - Panel

Informing First Generation MLIS Experience: Challenges & Resources

 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm

Breakout Session A.11. - ALISE Research Award Winners

a. ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition

b. ALISE/ProQuest Methodology Paper Competition

c. ALISE/Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Competition

d. The ALISE Connie Van Fleet Award

 3:40 pm - 5:40 pm

Breakout Session C.11. - SIG. Youth Services

What Do Youth Service Librarians Need? Reassessing Goals and Curricula in the Context of Changing Information Needs and Behaviors of Youth

 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Breakout Session B.15. - Panel

Mentoring Go 'Round: Interconnected Mentoring to Advance the LIS Research

 5:20 pm - 6:20 pm

Breakout Session A.12. - Information Literacy

a.  Overconfident and Underprepared?: Assessment of First-Year Undergraduate Students’ Information Literacy Skills

b. Information Literacy in Transition: Self-perceptions of Community College Students

c. Transforming Information Literacy Education: Information Literacy Landscapes

Friday, October 23, 2020

Time

Event

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

iFederation Panel Session

The panel session is available complimentary, however registration is required. Register Here

 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

ALISE Academy

Separate registration fees apply, visit ALISE Academy for details

 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Council of Deans, Directors, Chairs Meeting