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Schedule

8:00–8:30

Check-in
Room 2423

8:30–8:45

DR. GARY MARCHIONINI, DEAN
Opening remarks
Room 2423

9:00–11:00
CONCURRENT

Poster sessions
Atrium / Art gallery

  • “So Real It’s Scary – Deep Fake and Voice Mimicry Technology”
  • AI’s Impact on Ghost Work
  • AI and the Future of Work: Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in the Use of Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning
  • Breaking Barriers: Information Literacy for Underrepresented Communities
  • Is AI Stealing from Artists?
  • Do smartphones improve or reduce workplace productivity?
  • Visual and Audio Deep Fakes: A Manipulation of Reality
  • Exploring Informed Consent through the lens of Terms & Conditions
  • NSA Surveillance: Is it Really Worth It?

9:00–9:45

Panel session 1
In-person & online

  • Room 3205 – AI and decision making
  • Room 3206A – “What You Don’t Know May In Fact Hurt You” – Increasing Access to Health Information
  • Room 3206B – Digital Literacy: Privacy, Policies, and User Empowerment
  • Room 3408 – Censorship in School Libraries
  • Room 3409 – R Way Forward: Reparative Justice in Archives and Cultural Heritage Institutions
  • Room 3411 – The Impact of Policies on Information Environments
  • Zoom A – Working as students
  • Zoom B – Ethical Considerations in Developing AI Chatbots

10:00–10:45

Panel session 2
In-person & online

  • Room 3205 – AI Biases and Assistive Technologies
  • Room 3206A – Shadow Librarians and Dungeon Masters: Exploring Ethical Questions Around the Democratization of Information
  • Room 3206B – Health (Mis)Information: Ethics, Outcomes, and Consequences
  • Room 3408 – Current controversies in collection development for youth services
  • Room 3409 – Decolonizing Language
  • Room 3411 – Examining Power Dynamics: Cataloging, Digital Archiving, Public Libraries, & Health Sciences
  • Zoom A – Beyond Scholarly Publishing: Open Access is Not So Open-and-Shut
  • Zoom B – Data Ethics and User Privacy

11:00–11:55

DR. Tonia Sutherland
Keynote: Resurrecting the Black Body
Auditorium

12:00–1:00

Lunch
Room 2423

1:15–2:00

Panel session 3
In-person & online

  • Room 3205 – AI for Social Good
  • Room 3206A – How Information Institutions Can More Equitably Serve Disabled Populations
  • Room 3206B – It’s for Your Safety, or is It? The Ethical Dilemma of Using Biometric Data
  • Room 3408 – Libraries and archives as “third place”
  • Room 3409 – Nothing Lasts Forever: Ownership, Access, and Preservation of Ephemera in the Archives
  • Room 3411 – Metadata on the Margins
  • Zoom A – Library & Information Access: A Collaborative Examination of How UNC-CH Addresses Access Across the Field of Library and Information Science
  • Zoom B – Misinformation in Social Media

2:15–3:00

Panel session 4
In-person only

  • Room 3205 – Podcast on Racial Bias In AI
  • Room 3206A – Data accessibility: issues and implications
  • Room 3206B – Surveillance and the Making of the ‘Productive Citizen’
  • Room 3408 – Policy and Punishment in the Public Library
  • Room 3409 – What Lives on and Who Tells the Story
  • Room 3411 – When the Community Leads It Succeeds: The Necessity of Community-Led Research (CLR) in Academia
  • Room 2420 – Causes and Effects of Information Overload

Room Themes

Each room at the symposium has a theme which reflects the content of its panels throughout the day.

  • Room 3205 – Artificial intelligence
  • Room 3206A – Information access
  • Room 3206B – Surveillance, privacy & misinformation
  • Room 3408 – Public & school libraries
  • Room 3409 – Archives
  • Room 3411 – Policy & power
  • Zoom A – Academics
  • Zoom B – Digital ethics

Abstracts

Use the links below to access more detailed info.