bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Methodological features of monitoring the long-term dynamics of low levels of tritium in the environment
Authors: Repin V. S. , Varfolomeeva K. V. , Zelentsova S. A. , Arkhangelskaya G. V. , Sednev K. A.
Published: October 2023

The article considers the methodological features of long-term observations of the dynamics of changes in low levels of tritium in water bodies of the environment located in places of potential contamination by tritium. The еxperience of measurements of tritium on the low-background liquid scintillation alpha-, beta-radiometer “Quantulus 1220-003” has shown, that the accuracy of estimating the absolute values of the specific activity of tritium in the samples under study at its low levels is significantly related to the counting rate of the background sample. When planning long-term dynamic observations of changes in low levels of tritium in water bodies, it is necessary to foresee a number of factors that affect the accuracy of the estimates. One of the most significant factors is the presence of a background sample with a count rate of not more than 0.6 imp/ min, which makes it possible to measure the activity concentration of tritium at a level of 1 Bq/l for 12 hours. The stability and reproducibility of the results can be monitored using a reference solution, which must be used throughout the entire period of dynamic observation. Calibration of the device using the reference solution should be provided each time the scintillation cocktail is changed, since there may be differences in efficiency up to 10% when using the same type of scintillators with different shelf life. For the preparation of counting samples, rooms with minimal levels of tritium in air moisture and at a significant distance from rooms where work with elevated levels of tritium activity is carried out should be chosen. When reusing vials, it should be borne in mind that the efficiency of tritium detection may decrease, therefore, when using such vials, calibration measurements of standard solutions should also be carried out.
Pengembangan Multimedia Pembelajaran Cahaya Dan Alat Optik Berorientasi Keterampilan Berpikir Kreatif Siswa
Authors: Auliyak Pajrina , Ernawati Dwi Wiwik , Syahri Wilda
Published: October 2023

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengembangkan multimedia pembelajaran pada materi cahaya dan alat optik berorientasi keterampilan berpikir kreatif siswa yang dapat digunakan dalam proses pembelajaran baik secara daring atau luring. Penelitian pengembangan ini menggunakan model pengembangan Hanaffin and Peck. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan menggunakan instrument angket dan soal pretest-posttest berpikir kreatif terhadap 19 siswa di MTS Nurul Islam Batang Hari. Hasil validasi ahli menunjukkan bahwa multimedia pembelajaran yang dikembangkan sangat layak untuk digunakan pada proses pembelajaran pada taha uji coba. Respon guru dan tanggapan siswa terhadap multimedia yang dipelajari adalah sangat baik untuk digunakan. Hasil uji coba menunjukkan bahwa multimedia yang dikembanga sangat baik dan layak digunakan. Sedangkan untuk keterampilan berpikir kreatif siswa mengalami peningkatan dengan nilai N-Gain yang diperoleh 0,84 yang berada pada kategori tinggi. Hal ini berarti bahwa multimedia yang dikembangkan efektif dapat meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kreatif siswa. Penelitin selajutnya diharapkan dapat mengembangkan multimedia pembelajaran ini pada materi lainnya yang berorientasi pada keterampilan berpikir kreatif atau keterampilan abad 21 lainnya.
Construct the Validity of STEM and Project-based Critical Thinking Skills Test Instruments Using the Rasch Model
Authors: Setyawati Rina Dwi , Prasad Binod , Kathmandu University, Nepalramasdyahsari Agnita Siska , Aini Sindi Nur
Published: October 2023

Abstract. Students' critical thinking skills are very important abilities in the 21st century. To measure critical thinking skills, a valid and reliable instrument is needed. This article uses the Rasch model to construct an instrument for critical thinking skills on number pattern material whose learning uses STEM PjBL. The development method uses the analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation (ADDIE) stages. Data processing uses the Rasch model assisted by the Winstep program. The instrument was tested on 33 public junior high school students in Semarang. The research results include validity, namely the validity test by experts with an average percentage of 92.4% in the very valid category, the quality of the questions in the instrument reliability aspect is good, and the average critical thinking ability of students who use STEM-based and Project Based instruments Learning was 61.46, higher than other classes at 49.79. The critical thinking test instrument is based on STEM and the project needs to be further developed on other materials.
Legal Entity in Criminal Law: Purposes of Punishment
Authors: Ershova Kseniya
Published: October 2023

The current concept of criminal liability offers a very vague idea about the purposes of punishing a legal entity. This research featured the existing purposes of punishment, as well as contemporary theoretical foundations behind the criminal liability and sentencing of legal entities. The authors developed a theoretical understanding of the purposes of punishment specified in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to adapt them to the introduction of a criminal liability institution aimed specifically at legal entities. The research objective was to substantiate the possibility of implementing the existing purposes of criminal punishment in relation to legal entities. The study methods included formal-logical and comparative-legal methods of scientific cognition, as well as conventional analysis and synthesis. The authors believe that legal entities could face such purposes of punishment as the restoration of social justice, the correction of the offender, and general or specific prevention, depending on the activity of the legal entity. Legal entities involved in organized crime should be subjected to specific prevention. Legal entities that violate their statutory activities could be subjected to all the purposes of criminal punishment, which may lead to their eventual correction.
Evaluation of Anxiety and Depression Levels in High-Risk Pregnancies During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Approaches to Vaccination: A Case-Control Study
Authors: Yılmaz Ergani Seval , Güvenç Sacinti Huriye , İbanoğlu Müjde Can , Yakut Yücel Kadriye , Köse Caner , Vanlı Tonyali Nazan , Diktaş Elif Gülşah , Karadeniz Rahmi Sinan , İskender Can Tekin , Üstün Yaprak
Published: October 2023

OBJECTIVE: Anxiety and depression are associated with the interaction of many social factors, but pregnancy and puerperium are periods when patients are particularly sensitive to depression and anxiety. Assessing the level of anxiety and depression in high-risk pregnancies during the pandemic process and their attitudes toward vaccination.
STUDY DESIGN: In a case-control study, the Beck Depression and Beck Anxiety Scales were administered to 62 high-risk pregnant women and 296 normal pregnant women who registered at our hospital. At the end of the entire quarantine period and the use of the vaccine in our country, all patients were called and asked whether they had been vaccinated.
RESULTS: Anxiety and depression scores of normal patients were higher than those of patients in the risk group (p=0.002 and p<0.001, respectively). The anxiety and depression scores of the normal pregnant patients who were treated as outpatients were higher than those of the patients who were treated as inpatients (p=0.003 and p<0.001, respectively). Depression scores of patients in the last trimester of pregnancy were higher than those of patients at a smaller gestational age (p=0.009). Looking back to the pandemic period after vaccine discovery, depression scores of high-risk pregnant women were found to be higher and those who had a normal pregnancy had higher anxiety and depression scores (p=0.002, p<0.001, p<0.001).CONCLUSIONS: Hospitalization had different effects on high-risk and normal pregnant women; while hospitalization increased anxiety in high-risk pregnancies, outpatient follow-up increased anxiety and depression in the normal group.
Heterogeneous Catalysis under Continuous Flow Conditions
Authors: Gupta Ashu , Gupta Radhika , Arora Gunjan , Yadav Priya , Sharma Rakesh Kumar
Published: October 2023

Heterogeneous catalysis using continuous flow processing is one of the most demanding
subjects from the viewpoint of manufacturing industrial-scale organic compounds.
An amalgamation of the two areas of technology, i.e., heterogeneous catalysis and flow
chemistry, has opened new avenues for green synthetic chemistry. These processes are particularly
convenient in terms of short diffusion paths and improved mixing due to the sensing
of high local concentration of catalytic species on solid catalytic surface when the liquid/
gaseous reagents pass through the column, ultimately resulting in quicker and more efficient
reaction with increased reaction rates and higher turnover numbers. It imparts several
key benefits over conventional batch systems, such as time and energy-saving methodologies,
better productivity, reproducibility, economic viability, waste reduction, and ecofriendly
nature. Also, it eradicates the need for any intermediate isolation, separation of catalysts,
and use of excess reagents. The present review article focuses on heterogeneous catalysis
under continuous flow conditions. Various key reactions, for instance, carbon-carbon bond formation, hydrogenation,
condensation, and oxidation, are presented well, along with their recent developments in the manufacturing
of active pharmaceutical ingredients and platform chemicals. Asymmetric catalysis has also been discussed
with its applications in the synthesis of complex organic molecules. It is anticipated that the review article
will proliferate significant interest in modernizing chemical syntheses through continuous flow processes.
Therapeutic Management and New Upcoming Approaches for Age Related Macular Degeneration
Authors: Shetty Srishti , Singh Kavita , Barve Kalyani
Published: October 2023

Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is a severe eye illness that is going to lead
in the race for incurable blindness globally among the elderly population. AMD is the third
common reason responsible for affecting the quality of life globally. The macula and the retinal
layers are adversely affected during AMD and are responsible for the loss of vision eventually.
Numerous genetic variables, lipid metabolism, ageing and oxidative damage are the causative
factors in the genesis of AMD. Lack of antioxidants, smoking and excessive alcohol intake contribute
to increasing the risk of AMD. Management of dry AMD involves the use of nutritional
supplements like zinc and antioxidants, along with conventional treatment, however, the use of
nutritional supplements can only give minor benefits on the progression of dry AMD. Later
stages of AMD need to be managed by cell-based interventions where the damaged or lost cells
are replaced with fresh donor cells. A plethora of treatment methods are used in the management
of AMD, such as nutrition, antibody-based treatments, stem cell management and nanotherapeutics.
The available expensive treatments come with a number of adverse effects and
future developments require the involvement of risk factor modification approaches, personalized
therapy, targeting the disease specific pathways, exploring better anti-vascular endothelial
growth factor (VEGF) inhibitors and many other regenerative approaches, that will broaden
techniques to diagnose, control and treat AMD. This review provides an overview of the progression
of AMD and the causative factors, with considerable emphasises on the current and
potential prospects.
Carving Up Community
Authors: Adkins Karen
Published: October 2023

Gentrification presents a political problem for cities. Practicing democracy requires a commitment to and preservation of meaningful public space so as to support community voice. Democracy as a political institution requires the ability for diverse publics to gather and encounter one another in order to flourish. Gentrification threatens democratic practices by withering away of public space, and its effects particularly impact communities of color. Gentrification's negative spatial effects reduce the cumulative impact of voices of communities, reduce the diversity and availability of public space, and results in a thinner concept of urban community.
A Classification Scheme for Hostile Design
Authors: Rosenberger Robert
Published: October 2023

A discussion is emerging over what is called “hostile design,” among other names, i.e., the construction of public-space objects in ways that exclude particular usages, and with an alleged effect of discrimination against already vulnerable populations.  Critics outline various examples, from spikes added to a ledge to deter loiterers from sitting, to armrests added to a bench to discourage the unhoused from using it as a place to sleep.  In an effort to sharpen the notion of hostile design as a critical tool, I develop an original typology, one in which the various examples are organized in terms of the mechanisms through which their hostility is enacted.  This sets up reflections on some variables of hostile design—such as their level of “conspicuousness,” and their “domain of effect”—that cut differently across these categories.
Philosophy of the City and Transdisciplinary Possibilities
Authors: Epting Shane
Published: October 2023

Philosophy of the city has increased in popularity over the last decade, emerging as a subfield with multiple research foci. This paper explores it and some of them, showing how some are positioned to influence real-world decisions. It exhibits the pattern behind such works and, in turn, reveals what defines the philosophy of the city as an area of rigorous and socially applicable research. Due to its inherent usefulness for dealing with urban affairs, philosophers of the city could also employ their research findings for other purposes, such as being members of governmental committees, similar to researchers in environmental ethics and the philosophy of technology. Moreover, several philosophy professors have been teaching courses in this area, providing students with the critical-thinking skills to make sense of the city and helping them examine urban life and its numerous dimensions. With this view laid out, the attention turns to the possible future for the philosophy of the city by comparing it to neighboring subfields.
Closing the Gap
Authors: Ghalioungui Jameson
Published: October 2023

Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) plans and initiatives are at the forefront of many libraries’ strategic planning (Mallon, 2019). Efforts, big or small, such as mandatory all-staff EDI training sessions (Downers Grove Public Library, 2021), EDI focused patron programming, or simply promoting the local library as a place of opportunity for all (ALA, 2019), demonstrate the American Library Association (ALA)’s Core Values in practice (ALA, 2006). In fact, Diversity is one of eight key action areas that are used as guiding principles for investment of energies and resources (ALA, 2007). These key action areas represent priorities and clear focuses within the ALA’s own strategic plan (ALA, 2017), which serves to outline the organization's long-term goals and high-level outcomes (Hirsh, 2022). The ALA has historically promoted themselves as supporters, allies, and anti-racists, playing an important role in many libraries’ strategic plans and philosophies. But, despite libraries being regarded as the ‘most inclusive’ institutions in the United States (Jaeger, 2018), there appears to be internal and external gaps in truly achieving these EDI goals. It is necessary to further explore where these gaps are and propose solutions to ensure clearer action is being taken to support and highlight these strategies.
A Role for Emerging Technology in Dismantling Biases in Library and Information Science Education?
Authors: Lund Brady , Teel Abbie , Wang Ting
Published: October 2023

When considering the implications of emerging technology in the field of library and information science, it is important to consider that the implications of future technological advancements may expand beyond simple problem-solving and task completion. These technologies possess the potential to dismantle biases and barriers prevalent in academia. Unfortunately, academia is not immune to biases and barriers, and the COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated racial and gender-based attacks. Unfair treatment can plague individuals throughout their academic journey, starting from the application process and extending to graduation. Despite universities' efforts to promote diversity, equality, and inclusivity, unconscious biases persist within these institutions. While many fear the impact that emerging technology may have in perpetuating biases, these innovations also have the capacity to prioritize the needs of marginalized groups. For example, artificial intelligence and adaptive learning could help neurodivergent students by providing more individualized instruction. This idea is important when considering students’ intellectual freedom. The removal of bias and barriers could give more students the right to “receive information from all points of view without restriction” (ALA, 2007). This poster presentation explores the ways that emerging technologies, specifically recent AI innovations like large language models may help ameliorate biases that persist in higher education in general and specifically within library and information science. It presents a positive perspective on how ethical AI and responsible innovation may promote the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion on our college campuses and how we, as library and information science students and/or educators can promote these developments.
YouTube Expectations in a Canvas World
Authors: Burek Pierce Jennifer , Theisen Colleen
Published: October 2023

How do students’ previous experiences with online educational video shape their expectations of online learning in higher education?  Through this exploratory project, we look for ways to bridge the gap between student expectations and the norms of faculty practices in online instruction, which often include recorded video lectures.  Our literature review indicates the prevalence of online video in students’ lives before they enroll in master’s programs, and we argue that these prior encounters with online education form an understudied context for student learning in higher education.  Expert studies of U.S. online activity indicate the frequency with which users turn to YouTube for answers, and recognized online educational video companies from Complexly to Khan Academy to PBS Studios figure strongly in the resources that people turn to for online learning outside the academy.  By analyzing the norms of prominent online educational videos and the production companies that create them, we identify the rhetorical norms of this media.  One notable feature of online video production that students see before higher ed is that it is team-produced.  We direct attention, through practices identified in the literature and in our experiences in online educational settings, to ways that faculty can respond to this cultural gap to improve learning and instruction.  Understanding students’ preceding experiences with online informational videos, collaboration, and drawing on university resources that support media production are among strategies faculty can use to bridge the expectations gap.
Academic Libraries and COVID-19
Authors: Aguiñaga José
Published: October 2023

Since March 2020, academic libraries and higher education have demonstrated the modification of services and strategies supporting student success and research initiatives for all involved. Data will be presented showcasing themes from a recent mixed-methods study focused on the academic library profession and the pandemic. These themes include technology, information providers, assisting library users, student experience, leadership, empathy, disruption, accepting change, misunderstandings, and moving forward. COVID-19 has transformed how academic libraries became cognizant and discovered new ways of providing information and service to their respective communities. In many examples, academic libraries became the change agents at their institutions. The changes experienced with academic libraries and librarians provide a snapshot of what else may soon occur in the higher education landscape. What is disseminated via this poster illustrates the various opportunities that academic libraries may consider learning from the past and apply to the present and future regarding sharing information and services to higher education in multiple formats.
Moving Between Scales
Authors: Shang Wenyi
Published: October 2023

This dissertation employs the perspective of library and information science (LIS) to inform and guide methodological reflections in two interdisciplinary fields, computational social science (CSS) and digital humanities (DH). However, CSS often prioritizes recent digital trace data over archival material from earlier periods, and the large-scale methods used in DH face criticism from humanists for their incapability to capture perspectival and interpretative nuances.

This dissertation blends humanistic and social-scientific approaches to study premodern China, emphasizing the importance of “moving between scales.” It bridges different scales of analysis by transitioning dynamically between them, examines small-scale structures to uncover how they reflect large-scale dynamics, and explores mid-range social phenomena by investigating prosopography of elite society members. Four research questions are posed: (1) What are the challenges and opportunities in investigating a social network based on biased text? (2) How can prosopographical data lead to conclusions about the shifting center of political power? (3) How can structural characteristics in multiple networks reveal changes in political culture? (4) What can bibliographic metadata reveal about the particularity of publishing history of 16th-to-19th-century Chinese books?

By addressing these questions, this dissertation intends to leverage theories and practices of LIS to develop computational models unveiling historical trends. It seeks to contribute to CSS by enhancing social scientists’ understanding on how societies and cultural systems evolve over time, to DH by revealing the historical changes in the longue durée in premodern China, and to LIS by fulfilling its mission of providing an information perspective to traditional academic disciplines.
Data Science Education in iSchools across the Asian-Pacific Region
Authors: Tang Rong , Jiang Jie , Maurici-Pollock Danielle
Published: October 2023

In this poster, we report preliminary findings of our investigation of data science education in iSchools around the world. For our analysis, we randomly sampled 20 iSchools within the regions of Asian-Pacific, European, and North American. We report here the findings from the 20 iSchools in the Asian Pacific region: these iSchools come from 9 different countries/areas, including China (n=9), Korea (n=3), New Zealand (n=2), Australia (n=1), Malaysia (n=1), Thailand (n=1), Indonesia (n=1), Philippines (n=1), and Taiwan, China (n=1). Of 20 iSchools, 15 had DS course information, with an average of 8.13 per program, range 1-21, and mode 4. The majority of the programs offered DS courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels (n=11, 73.33%), three (20.00%) offered at the graduate level only, one (6.67%) only offered at the undergraduate level.

In terms of the course coverage, there were 30 unique topics, with 15 topics included in multiple iSchools’ curriculum, and the remaining 15 were uniquely offered by one iSchool. The most common course topics were Data Structure or Data Organization (n=10, 66.67%), Data Mining & Data Warehouse (n=9, 60.00%), Data Visualization (n=6, 40.00%), Introduction to Data Science (n=6, 40.00%), Machine Learning (n=6, 40.00%), and NLP Text Analysis/Text Mining (n=5, 33.33%). Other repeated topics include Research Data Management, Big Data, AI, Programming, Data governance, Data Analytics, and more. Examples for unique course topics were blockchain, Data Asset Management, Data Security, UX, and more. Further coding and analysis for all three regions are in progress.
Expanding the Core Competences of Librarianship through Designing a Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Course for Social Work
Authors: Deng Liya
Published: October 2023

In contemporary knowledge society, the impact of library and information professions has expanded to practical workforce preparation in many adjacent fields, including social work, that heavily rely on information competencies to promote community well-being and public good.This poster adds a practitioner perspective to the ongoing conversation about the need to reimagine LIS education to better align curricular priorities with the demands of the increasingly interconnected information landscape. Through a tale of a subject librarian and Social Work faculty partnership to develop a tailored credit-bearing information literacy course for Social Work pre-majors, the author illuminates the evolving role of librarians who are called upon to educate members of other information-intensive professions in the use of general and subject-specific resources essential for their field. The poster highlights the shared values that inform the practice of both librarianship and social work in response to the issues faced by communities in times of uncertainty and change. Built around the ALA’s Core Competences of Librarianship and the Social Work Competencies established by the Council on Social Work Education, the project reflects on the challenges and opportunities associated with integrating information literacy education into a domain where advanced information literacy skills are an indispensable component of the current professional practice. Finally, the project discusses several implications for LIS programs keen on creating a better connection between the LIS foundational values and other professional competency frameworks today’s librarians lean on, particularly in such vital areas as user services, lifelong learning and continuing education, and social justice.
The Query Search Method
Authors: Irvin Vanessa , Nakashima Sarah
Published: October 2023

This paper presents an inquiry-based pedagogical approach to teaching the reference interview and query search process for the reference course in the library and information science (LIS) curriculum. The Query Search Method (QSM) is a methodology grounded within a theoretical framework that synthesizes the tenets of literacy studies, critical librarianship, and librarian practitioner inquiry. In the reference course at two ALA-accredited library science programs, the QSM was employed as an iterative search process that actively applies advanced search techniques with online public access catalogs, subscription databases, bibliographic networks, web-based search engines and other online resources. The QSM can be taught in reference courses to fortify pre-service librarians with strong search skills that incorporate social skills that are socio-culturally competent with a critical lens and are immediately usable across various platforms, bridging the gap between library users’ access to and use of contemporary technologies as literate citizens in an interconnected digital world.
Pathways to Librarianship
Authors: Roylance Tay , Clarke Rachel , Furgal Tim , Scretching Desiree
Published: October 2023

Pathways, a joint project between the New York Library Association (NYLA) and the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool), is guided by four essential research questions: What are people’s current experiences of pathways into and within the library profession? What are the challenges or barriers people face along their pathways? How, if at all, do those challenges vary among library types and settings? How can we reduce or eliminate these barriers with the goal of increasing diversity and representation in New York’s library workforce? These four questions are multifaceted in their potential answers. In order to attempt addressing the problem holistically, Pathways consists of a three-phase plan in which we have dedicated a year to each phase. We are currently on the first phase: Identify.  In this phase, we are seeking answers to the first three research questions laid out above via journey mapping sessions held throughout the state of New York. A team of research assistants, two from each regional library consortia, will be trained on research ethics and methods, as well as qualitative data collection and analysis. After training, they will be connected to interview participants within their district in order to conduct in-person journey mapping sessions. Participants will be able to self-identify personal barriers they’ve individually faced, and then can extrapolate based on the overall data trends what the most prevalent roadblocks are for our second phase, in which we will be recruiting stakeholders to brainstorm viable solutions we can then pilot in year three.
Privacy, Intellectual Freedom, and Learning Analytics
Authors: Hinchliffe Lisa , Jones Kyle
Published: October 2023

Academic libraries are increasingly participating in the collection and analysis of student data and engaging with campus learning analytics programs. The intent is to understand how libraries contribute to student experiences, learning, and success and to design effective and efficient programs toward these ends. Our earlier research established that academic library professionals recognize the ethical issues that learning analytics raise, particularly with respect to privacy, and that they need specific training related to these ethical issues in the learning analytics context. Though addressable through continuing education, those findings also pointed to the need to strengthen LIS education to prepare graduates for that work. This poster reports on efforts to adapt a proven-effective continuing education program, Prioritizing Privacy, to the LIS classroom through the development of an Open Education Resource curriculum packet and related student learning assessment resources. The poster will present the curriculum and identified LIS course contexts in which the curriculum might be enacted. Additional information is available on the project website (https://prioritizingprivacy.org).
"People Have Died To Get Us To Where We Are"
Authors: Winberry Joseph
Published: October 2023

We live in an aging society, but lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender plus (LGBT+) people often lack equitable access to aging-related information and services. Systematic barriers to information, or information marginalization, has been described as affecting various populations including LGBT+ people; organizations perpetuate it, but research often ignores their role in addressing it. The purpose of this study is to combat aging services information marginalization in partnership with LGBT+ older adults and community-based organizations. Utilizing concepts from Information Marginalization Theory and a community-based participatory research design, this study asks LGBT+ older adults what they see as their aging-related needs, what barriers they see to getting those needs met, and what practices they would like to see providers use to help remove those barriers. Thematic analysis of interviews with 25 LGBT+ older adults 50 years and older in East Tennessee produced 5 need, 7 marginalization, and 4 practice themes which served as the basis for a strategic plan to improve aging services to this population. Nineteen of those 25 interviewees discussed and finalized the strategic plan across 5 focus groups. A constructivist grounded theory analysis of all of the interviews, focus groups, and the author’s participant researcher data resulted in an 8 point model for combating information marginalization that may be implemented with marginalized people in various contexts. This study contributes to a social justice understanding of action and design theory, expands action research methodology, and brings attention to a fast growing population that is understudied in library and information science.
Pedagogical Trends in Librarian Support for Open Science Practices in Higher Education
Authors: Gidakovic Sanja
Published: October 2023

Librarians have an opportunity to collaborate with faculty and students in supporting and teaching transparency in research. Much of the focus in librarianship has been on supporting research practices, for instance, open access publishing, research data management and guidance on pre-registration of studies (Sayre & Riegelman, 2018; Sayre & Riegelman, 2019) or finding and using open access resources for instance, demonstration of Open Educational Resources (OER). However, there is a shift to embed the research practices of open science (OS) and transparency into teaching in higher education. Since open science practices focus on making research processes and data open accessible to the public, librarians can help to educate students and faculty on the benefits of OS practices and provide resources on how to incorporate OS into teaching.

This poster describes the results of an exploratory study focusing on the trends in librarian teaching support for OS practices in higher education. A mixed methods sequential exploratory design was used where a semi-structured interview and survey were administered to describe the current trends in librarian support for teaching OS at higher education institutions. The results indicate that academic librarians have varied approaches to teaching OS and different opportunities to collaborate within institutions. There were common pedagogical OS topics and perspectives on teaching OS practices in higher education.
Toward a Pedagogical Framework for Integrating Experiential Learning Into Preparation for Data Librarianship Roles
Authors: Du Yunfei , Lund Brady
Published: October 2023

This paper proposes a pedagogical framework for integrating experiential learning into the preparation for data librarianship. The framework is centered around practicum experiences and utilizes principles of the learner-centered paradigm in educational practice. Experience learning theory serves as a cornerstone of the framework, with students contextualizing their experiences within a broader understanding of trends in the librarianship profession. The proposed framework emphasizes the importance of practicums as a deep and critical learning experience for developing competent and compassionate information professionals. It addresses the need for a data-savvy workforce in libraries, including the adoption of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and augmented, virtual, and mixed reality experiences. Through this approach, students can develop the practical skills and critical thinking abilities required for success in the modern, rapidly evolving library environment, promoting principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Spectrum Fellows
Authors: Colón-Aguirre Mónica , Cooke Nicole
Published: October 2023

Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an intellectual framework intended to explain the day-to-day situations that affect the lives of members of minoritized groups. Its main goal is to help bring about revised social and systemic structures, which in turn can ameliorate the detrimental effects of racism and racist systems for historically marginalized and excluded groups. As a framework, CRT stands on a set of principles which serve as a foundation. Although the wording and structure of these principles varies among scholars, some of the ideas presented are stated throughout. For example, some of the main principles for CRT is that racism is ordinary and not aberrational, that race is a social construct which is not objective, inherent, or fixed on any genetic or biological reality, making it a purely social phenomenon, and that CRT due to differences in their historical experiences with oppression, Black, American Indian, Asian, and Latinx individuals are better equipped to communicate their experiences than their white counterparts (Delgado and Stefancic, 2017).
The volatile and increasingly resistant environment serves only to highlight the importance of centering CRT, especially for a field such as Library and Information Science (LIS), but particularly for LIS pedagogy. The LIS field has lagged behind on many aspects related to bringing about racial equality, despite a generalized idea that the field is a pioneer of social equality and egalitarianism (Cooke and Colón-Aguirre, 2021; Ettarh, 208; Honma, 2005). As LIS educators, we must focus not only on preparing our students for the work they will perform but also to present the challenges faced by their chosen career.
Buy in from the field at all levels is required in order to bring LISCrit to the future generations of information professionals, and one of the ways to do that is to clearly and consistently demonstrate how CRT undergirds and informs the profession and its teachings. The tenets are CRT are baked into LIS, one only need to look closely and critically through a lens of intellectual and cultural competence and humility.
In this presentation the panelists will discuss their efforts to infuse CRT into graduate LIS curricula (LISCrit). The discussion will focus on three main initiatives geared at bringing about more discussions and enabling the field’s multiple facets to benefit from the contexts and discussions which CRT facilitates. The panel will take place in three parts, including:

Colón-Aguirre and Cooke (2022) will discuss their article that introduces the LISCrit framework and its main propositions,
Colón-Aguirre and Cooke will share their scholarly efforts to produce an edited collection (Advances in Librarianship) and special journal issue (Library Quarterly), which have been designed to enable LIS educators to better include this content in their LIS classrooms,
Harris will present and demonstrate a digital CRT in LIS toolkit developed through an American Library Association Carnegie Whitney Grant.
Art as Information
Authors: Richardson Courtney
Published: October 2023

“Art as Information: Re-reading Quicksand” is a micro-study of an African American cultural narrative through artmaking. My subject is the autobiographical and fictional novel, Quicksand by Nella Larsen (1928). Larsen’s life and creative storytelling provide paths for how we may attend to cultural heritage knowledge gaps about Black womanhood by engaging with the informing processes of art. This especially highlights artwork concerning self-definition and self-determination while navigating life within a racialized, classed, and gendered body. I re-present Quicksand as an autobiographical artifact and living artwork to explore how we may produce an ever-emerging archives on Black womanhood from rereading cultural auto/bio/fiction. This critical and cyclical exploration involves making artworks that reiterate and interpret knowledges that emerge from reading Larsen’s narrative—modeling a framework of how Art as Information (AAI) may be engaged to reexamine personal narratives.

This dissertation also reintroduces AAI as a subfield of Information Sciences that engages artmaking as an information technology. It involves the study of arts’ roles within knowledge production: how we craft, document, process, and circulate information through making art. I intertwine Information Sciences with art pedagogy and auto/bio/fiction studies. I also lean on cultural-attentive lenses, such as Black Feminist Material Culture and Culturally Situated Reader Response Theory, to examine how we may tend to cultural knowledges that are historically silenced and disfigured—exploring the liberatory aspects of artmaking to intercept and dismantle exploitative depictions (i.e., visual violences) historically committed against marginalized groups under the guise of neutral documentation and curiosity.
Autism Knowledge, Awareness, Misinformation and Stigma
Authors: Pampapura Madali Nayana
Published: October 2023

Recent research has indicated a notable increase in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders. Alongside this trend, concerns have grown regarding the shifting perceptions, behaviors, and understanding of autism, primarily due to the proliferation of misinformation on social media. This study aims to examine the dissemination of autism-related information over time, addressing a significant research gap regarding autism knowledge, awareness, misinformation, and stigmatization. The knowledge, attitudes, and behavior (KAB) model is employed to establish a deeper understanding of the interrelationships among various autism variables such as knowledge, awareness, and stigmatization. Additionally, this research explores the relationship between cultural beliefs, social norms, and misinformation on autism knowledge, awareness, and stigmatization. Employing a mixed-methods approach involving a systematic literature review and a web-based survey, the study utilizes the systematic review to gain insights into the diffusion of autism knowledge, awareness, stigma, and misinformation. The survey serves to validate the findings from the systematic review and to examine the correlations between these autism variables. By adopting an evidence-based approach, this research endeavors to shed light on various aspects of autism via dissemination of autism-related information. Findings from this study might potentially aid to identify the sources of autism misinformation and offer strategies to mitigate autism misinformation, thereby fostering a more positive environment for the autism community.
Relationships between Variables Related to College Students' News Literacy in Korea
Authors: Bak Hyerin
Published: October 2023

This study examines the variables that are college students’ ability to discern fact from opinion, critical thinking skills, and need for cognition. The ability to differentiate between fact and opinion appears to be a key part of being able to evaluate fake news. In addition, critical thinking plays an important role in the process of fact-checking or determining the credibility of news outlets. According to the dissertation study on college students’ fake news discernment in the U.S. (Bak, 2022), critical thinking was a variable that was positively correlated with the fact and opinion discernment, as well as the need for cognition respectively. Based on the dissertation study, the researcher will collect the survey data from college students in Korea with further developed measures. The scale that measures the ability to discern fact and opinion will include borderline statements that have both factual and opinion statements. In addition, the survey will collect information about their general news reading practices. The researcher will discuss differences in statistical models between students in the U.S. and Korea.
Bridging Qualitative Methods Research and Practice in Information Studies Education
Authors: Appedu Sarah , Modrow Sebastian , Erickson Ingrid
Published: October 2023

Information studies education has perennially adapted to changes in the information landscape, shifting recently toward an apparent privileging of data-centered and computational skill building (Raju, 2020; Tait & Pierson, 2022; Wang, 2018). While it is widely acknowledged that information and technology are biased and socially mediated, the question remains how research methods pedagogy should evolve to best equip graduate students with the holistic understanding needed to critically engage with emerging technologies (Galliers & Huang, 2012). This poster presents a research project exploring how qualitative methods play a role in the information studies education. We are conducting a baseline analysis of existing methods courses from various information schools in North America. We are also analyzing syllabi from some of the qualitative methods courses identified, which may reveal key paradigms and practices covered and how they relate to larger trends in information studies education. Using an interpretive analytical approach, we have induced a set of two main preliminary findings. First, pure qualitative methods courses are potentially underrepresented in information schools. Second, qualitative methods course syllabi represent valuable but limited resources for understanding how graduate students are prepared to confront complex information problems from multiple perspectives. In the future, we will also conduct semi-structured interviews with the instructors who provided their syllabi for analysis. Through this poster, we hope to invite our colleagues into conversation about some existing disparities and opportunities in information studies education, bridging the gap between qualitative methods research, practice, and teaching.
Body Utilization, Body Grief
Authors: Dudak Leah
Published: October 2023

This interactive poster involves a shawl that participants are encouraged to put on to explore how the body is lost to different systems, especially public-facing, capitalist, work systems. It is easy to lose oneself to the larger institution and those who are served. In this poster, viewers will be encouraged to engage with the piece and even take it and wear it for a period of time to reflect on the loss of self to the piece. This interactive art piece is tied to an ongoing exploratory study to look at library worker’s bodies at work, which can be built upon to study issues like trauma in the library workplace.

The study asks participants to complete a draw and write prompt (Hartel, 2014; Hartel et al., 2018), which allows for explanation of the self beyond just the written or verbal. As the study focuses on the body both in drawing and words, the drawings will be added to this shawl to fully share the experiences and feelings that have been expressed. In having a tactile research output through the art of the shawl, readers and participants will be able to directly reckon with the drawings and the feeling of putting on the identities people assume while working at the library.
Building Expertise with Technical Information in Support of Computational Literacies
Authors: Dodson Samuel
Published: October 2023

This developing research project aims to both widen and deepen future library and information science professionals’ participation in computational literacies through a genre-based approach. Computational literacies include the knowledge of computational tools and methods, and how these are changing the ways in which librarians and archivists work. To develop and apply computational literacies, MLIS students must interact with technical information communicated through genres, such as documentation, instructions, manuals, reports, and specifications. Knowledge of technical genres is a crucial, but understudied, aspect of computational literacies. The project will consider to whom, why, and when technical genres enable or constrain students’ transitions from newcomers to emerging professionals. The project will investigate students’ experiences within technical MLIS courses, and their motivations for developing computational literacies. Technical courses require students to code with a computer programming language (e.g., JavaScript or Python). A goal of the project is to explore the challenges that students of different ages, gender identities, races, and curricular backgrounds encounter in technical courses, and to provide implications for the design of differentiated instruction. Findings will offer theoretical contributions regarding the relationship between genre and computational literacies, in addition to practical contributions to the design of curricula. Intended outputs of the project aim to better support students’ development of computational literacies. In turn, MLIS graduates will be able to engage in the lifelong learning required to respond to ongoing technical change involving the representation, management, and retrieval of information, and consider the ethical implications of new and emerging technologies.