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Oluyemi Ayanbode

The Negative Impacts of Misinformation on Knowledge Economy: Implications for Academic Libraries and Knowledge Infrastructures

Misinformation poses a significant threat to the knowledge economy, undermining trust, distorting markets, hindering innovation and eroding the credibility of scientific research. The knowledge economy relies on the free flow of credible information, but misinformation and disinformation can disrupt this process, leading to measurable welfare losses. We conducted a semi-systematic literature review of 11 scientific articles on misinformation and knowledge economy. Findings reveal that misinformation has negative impacts on: epistemic trust, markets and productivity, innovation systems, human capital formation, and higher education. Furthermore, academic libraries play a crucial role in mitigating these effects by promoting information literacy, defending their role as trustworthy intermediaries, and collaborating with other knowledge-producing institutions. By recognizing libraries as core infrastructures of the knowledge economy, we can work towards sustaining the integrity and productivity of the global knowledge economy. This study concludes by highlighting the role of academic libraries in promoting information literacy and combating misinformation, particularly in emerging knowledge economies.

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Zhuoren Jiang

Simulating Social Perceptions with LLMs: From a Policy Case to a Full-Pipeline Benchmark

People can experience the same public policy very differently. Some feel their lives are improving; others feel left behind. This is not simply disagreement, it reflects a core part of policy impact that is hard to capture with objective indicators alone: public perception. Traditional social surveys are designed for this purpose, but they are often slow, expensive, and hard to adapt quickly. They also face challenges such as fixed question formats, limited flexibility, and cross-cultural comparability.

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Zhuoren Jiang

Heterogeneous Graphs: A New Language for Understanding and Enhancing the Dynamics of Smart Societies

In modern societies, many of the hardest problems are not “single-point” problems. They are system problems. A rumor jumps across communities in hours. A public service reaches some groups quickly but misses others. Platform risks reappear in new forms even after repeated governance actions. In education, healthcare, and emergency management, we have plenty of data—yet decision-makers still struggle to pinpoint which connections, pathways, and bottlenecks truly drive outcomes. What is missing is often not data, but a way to represent multi-actor, multi-relationship, and multi-context complexity in a form that computers can learn from and humans can interpret. This is where heterogeneous graphs come in.

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Ceren Bilge Seferoğlu

Standing Strong After the Earthquake: Why Public Libraries Are Vital Nodes of Resilience

On 6 February 2023, the Kahramanmaraş-centered earthquakes reduced large parts of southern Türkiye to rubble. Countless buildings collapsed or became uninhabitable. Yet one public building remained standing: the Adıyaman Provincial Public Library. Amid the devastation, this fact was impossible to ignore. This observation became the starting point of my master’s thesis, which examined the earthquake risk of public libraries in Türkiye using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It also raised a more immediate and human question: what can a library that remains standing actually do after a disaster?

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Rebecca D. Frank

The Transparency Gap: What’s Missing from Qualitative Research Reporting in Information Science?

How do Information Science researchers describe their use of qualitative methods? What do they say about their approach to different steps in the research process such as dates of data collection, people involved in the research process, and whether they’ve obtained ethics board approval for their work? What information gets left out? These questions lie at the heart of ongoing conversations around trust in research and the reusability of research data across the academic landscape.

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Jeff Allen

Collaborative Intelligence: Partnership, Not Replacement

Most of us now work alongside artificial intelligence (AI), whether we think of it that way or not, and whether our organizations have formally announced or addressed it. Productivity applications such as e-mail or word processing now suggest what to write, how to address tone, and can recommend next steps and summarize a document. The convenience of AI is immediately apparent, but the risk can run deep without ethical guidance and sound human judgment.

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Sujin Song

Why Is Design Ethics Still Stuck?

Designers shape far more than products or interfaces. They shape how people act, decide, and relate to the world around them. From recommendation systems to account settings, design quietly guides everyday behavior. Because of this, design is never neutral. It always carries ethical consequences, whether designers intend them or not. This article reworks selected ideas from the author’s research, Rethinking Design Ethics from the Perspective of Spinoza, for a general audience.

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Anoma Weerakoon

University Libraries: Your Gateway to Citizen Science Success

Are you tired up of travelling across the country to various sites for data collection?  Imagine having thousands of eager, geographically distributed volunteers ready to contribute to your research project, and what if these volunteers are people who are already engaged learners, information seekers, and capable of following standard data collection protocols. This resource exists right now in every university library across Sri Lanka.

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