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Sheng-Hsiang Lance Peng

Roots to Routes: Community Resilience through Ancestral Knowledge

In a world where progress and innovation are often prioritised, I highlight the need to reconnect with the past, drawing on the wisdom passed down through generations. Mnemohistory, which focuses on how societies remember and reinterpret their history, shows that communities don’t just preserve events but also pass on cultural practices, stories, and shared experiences that shape their identities, and by tracing developmental paths through this historical knowledge, we can see how communities use their past to deal with present challenges and plan for the future.

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Jeff Allen

Leveraging Social Networking to Combat Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking

Human trafficking remains a pernicious, pervasive, and multifaceted global issue, demanding innovative approaches to raise awareness and intervene to prevent its occurrence. Social networking platforms present a powerful yet underutilized tool to increase efforts. Existing research underscores the promise of these platforms in amplifying awareness and intervention efforts.

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Keren Dali

The Inclusion of Disabled and Neurodiverse Ph.D. Students: Embracing Care and Kindness

Theory- and experience-grounded contemplations about the impact of the COVID-19 global health crisis were reflected in the recent study of disabled and neurodiverse Ph.D. students in information science programs in Canada and the U.S. that we conducted. Ph.D. students present a unique demographic in academia, blending the characteristics of students, researchers, and often teachers as well. Responses from 42 participants revealed a wide range of experiences in their doctoral programs that were both pandemic-specific and transcending the pandemic period.

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Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin

How Information Objects Can Create Information Inequity

Information plays an important role in helping people make informed decisions and advocate for themselves socially, economically, and politically. However, not everyone has fair or equitable access to information. Information science scholars term this information inequity—the individual and societal factors that limit an individual, group, or nation’s access to information. Addressing information inequities by identifying and rectifying their causes is essential to helping all people fully participate in our society and democratic system.

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Lilach Alon

Overcoming Language Barriers with Innovative Design for Multilingual Digital Platforms

Managing personal information in multiple languages is not just a convenience, it is a necessity. Personal Information Management (PIM) involves the organization, storage, retrieval, and use of personal data to support daily tasks and long-term goals. Yet, for many multilingual users, digital platforms fail to meet their needs, creating barriers to effective personal information management. Our study sheds light on these challenges and offers a vision for more inclusive, user-centered platforms.

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Timothy J. Dickey

Dementia-Friendly Library Services & Sustainable Communities

We are in a global epidemic of persons living with dementia (PLWD), but libraries are already serving this growing and vulnerable population. More than 55 million people around the world live with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias. The estimated total global societal cost of dementia exceeds $1.3 trillion per year. 88% of PLWD report experiencing stigma and discrimination and dementia is more prevalent in minority communities, so dementia-friendly library services also support social justice.

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Xiaoyu Chen

From Attraction to Subscription: Decoding How Knowledge Influencers Monetize Expertise

In an era where digital platforms dominate the exchange of ideas and services, knowledge influencers have emerged as a distinct phenomenon, blending expertise with online engagement to create and monetize knowledge-intensive content. Unlike conventional influencers who primarily endorse consumer goods, knowledge influencers focus on delivering value through educational and professional insights, shaping user behaviors and driving subscriptions to self-created knowledge products.

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Azeez Adeoye

Librarians Do Not Take a Break from Research

Librarians are the polymaths of this century. They are voracious readers, consuming information from all fields. As information gatekeepers, their engagement in knowledge classification, cataloging, and organization grants them a birthright to know more than others. Librarians help create all professions, but no other profession creates librarians. This is a unique quality that makes librarians stand out and excel among other fields. The secret lies in the fact that librarians never take a break from research.

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