When: Thursday, July 2, 2026 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Where: virtual

Cost: Free for ASIS&T members; $25 for non-ASIS&T members

Registration

This webinar presents a study examining the mechanisms through which multilingual students’ information literacy (IL) experiences in their first language contribute to their perceived ability to engage in IL practices in a second language. Drawing on translanguaging theory, social cognitive theory, and research on cross-linguistic literacy transfer, the study investigates the interplay among first-language IL experiences, translanguaging self-efficacy, transpositioning self-efficacy, and second-language IL self-efficacy. In addition to variable-centered analyses, a person-centered approach is employed to identify distinct learner profiles based on students’ first-language IL experiences, translanguaging self-efficacy, transpositioning self-efficacy and examine the differences regarding their second-language IL self-efficacy. Findings highlight the critical role of multilingual resources in shaping IL development, offering implications for more inclusive, asset-based pedagogies in multilingual and higher education contexts.

About the Presenter

Chengyuan Yu is an incoming Assistant Professor in the School of Information Science at the University of Kentucky. He recently completed a PhD in Communication and Information at Kent State University and previously earned a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Macau. His research focuses on information literacy, writing, multilingual learners, and translanguaging. His work has appeared in journals such as Reference Services Review, the Journal of Academic Librarianship, and Applied Linguistics Review. He also serves as a guest editor for a special issue in the Journal of Second Language Writing and is co-editing a book on emotions in teaching writing in multilingual and multicultural contexts with Multilingual Matters.

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ISO/DTR 23081-4.2, Information and documentation – Metadata for records – Part 4: Report on metadata element sets

With the following comment:

We have some basic comments. Are these based on some focused domains/applications? Looks like standards included/used by this Part 4 are not really ‘standards’. [See the list in 5.1 Collection of metadata element sets.] They should consider the ones already adopted by communities and societies, especially the ISO standards (including DCMI terms. See https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/). 

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2026 James M. Matarazzo Rising Star Award Recipients Announced

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Erin Gray, Dilhani Munasinghe, Lingzi Hong are the recipients of the 2026 ASIS&T James M. Matarazzo Rising Star Award.

This award recognizes individual members of the Association who show exceptional promise of leadership and contribution to the association and profession.

Erin Gray has been an active member of SLA and now ASIS&T since attending the SLA Conference in 2024. Her leadership has greatly influenced the growth of the Students & New Information Professionals (SNIPs) group in SLA, and she has been the driving force in ensuring that SNIPs survived the transition over to ASIS&T and continues to gain momentum. She values community and is valued for her quiet determination and dedication to SLA and now ASIS&T, serving on the conference committee for two years. She has a wealth of knowledge about working in an academic library and uses anecdotal experiences to inform larger ideas and issues in the academic library field. She is always willing to share her time and energy to see a project through to the end and to step up and take on additional responsibilities, while also knowing how to set professional boundaries so that the value of involvement in a professional organization is not lost. This comes through in her engagement with SNIPs, on the conference committee, and with the individuals who have been lucky enough to work alongside her and get to know her as a passionate and reliable peer.

Upon learning of her selection as the award winner, Gray said,  “Receiving this award is an incredible honor, and I’m especially grateful for the recognition from my colleagues. My work with ASIS&T’s Students and New Information Professionals, along with two years of conference planning for ASIS&T and SLA, has shaped my growth as a leader while allowing me to support and learn from others entering the profession.”

Dilhani Munasinghe's contributions to ASIS&T reflect both scholarly promise and a deep commitment to professional service. Ms. Dilhani first demonstrated her research excellence by securing second place in the SIG-III International Paper Contest in 2024, a highly competitive achievement for an emerging scholar. She has since grown into an active contributor to the community, serving as a jury member for the SIG-III International Paper Contest in 2025–2026, where she evaluated submissions, offered constructive feedback, and helped identify impactful research. Her leadership potential is further evident in her selection to the ASIS&T Publication Committee for 2026–2027, a role that involves shaping the Society’s scholarly communication and future publication practices. In addition, she is serving as a reviewer for the ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2026, underscoring her ongoing engagement with academic quality and peer review. What distinguishes Ms. Dilhani is her ability to excel in these demanding roles while maintaining her primary professional responsibilities. Her trajectory shows maturity, initiative, and sustained dedication to the field of information science and technology.

Upon learning of her selection, Dilhani said, "I am incredibly grateful to the Award Jury and ASIS&T Board of Directors for this prestigious recognition. This award reflects the collaborative spirit of our field, and  I am excited to continue advancing research and practice in information science."

 

Dr. Lingzi Hong has established herself as an emerging leader whose work reflects both intellectual distinction and strong potential for long-term impact on the profession. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of information science, artificial intelligence, and human-centered computing, with a particular focus on how computational systems can better respond to users’ information and communication needs in socially significant contexts such as crisis informatics and health communication. Through this work, she has demonstrated not only a strong research trajectory but also a clear vision for how information science can address pressing societal challenges. Her ability to connect rigorous research with real-world information problems reflects the kind of leadership and forward-looking perspective that this award is intended to recognize. She has taken on important academic leadership roles, including directing academic programs and research initiatives, while also mentoring students and junior scholars. Her work consistently shows initiative, creativity, and a commitment to advancing the field in ways that are collaborative, inclusive, and practically relevant. Equally important are Dr. Hong’s contributions to ASIS&T, which have been substantive and sustained. She has been an active member of the association since 2020 and has taken on several leadership roles, including SIG Cabinet Deputy Director beginning in 2026, Panel Track Chair of the ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2026, Panel Vice Chair of the ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2025, Co-Chair of the ASIS&T IDEA Institute since 2023, and Chair of the Special Interest Group on Social Media in 2024. Her involvement in ASIS&T reflects a genuine commitment to strengthening the association as a space for intellectual exchange, community building, and professional development.

Receiving the news of the award, Lingzi said: “I am truly honored and deeply grateful to receive the James M. Matarazzo Rising Star Award. This recognition is a wonderful encouragement for me. I sincerely appreciate the support and trust from my collaborators, students, and the broader professional community. I will try my best to keep rising, continue growing, contributing, and serving the ASIS&T community with greater dedication and purpose.”

These recipients will receive their awards during the ASIS&T 2026 Information Science Summit & Special Libraries Conference (ISS/SLC26) which will be held 6-9 June 2026 in Albuquerque, NM.

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About ASIS&T

The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is the only professional association that bridges the gap between information science practice and research. For nearly 90 years, ASIS&T has been leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information.

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ISO/FDIS 233-3 (Ed 3), Transliteration of Perso-Arabic characters into Latin characters — Part 3: Persian language

This document establishes a system for the transliteration of the Persian characters (often called Perso-Arabic script) into Latin characters. This modification of the stringent rules established by ISO 233 is specifically intended to facilitate the processing of bibliographic information (e.g. catalogues, indices, citations, etc.).

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THE Standards committee has voted NO COMMENTS on this Committee Draft

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The standards co. itbee has voted YES

This ballot is to approve a proposed new work item to create aNISO Recommended Practice for identification of trust markers for increasing credibility and trust in research.

Ethics and integrity cases in submitted manuscripts are becoming an increasingly common problem, whilst retractions continue to grow at a rapid rate. These cases are caused by intentional misconduct and fraud, as well as a host of unintentional poor research practices. Most good journals undertake a range of checks to identify these issues ahead of peer review and publication. However, the specific checks that are undertaken are highly variable and typically not shared on a journal site, whilst most preprint servers conduct far more limited checks. This means that the specific checks that have been conducted and passed are unclear to the reader, especially for those that are unfamiliar with different scholarly publishing mechanisms and terminology, and that are consuming different types of content across a wide range of sites on the Internet.
 
The goal of this project will be to produce a NISO Recommended Practice (RP). This RP will provide consumers of scholarly content (with a focus on articles but irrespective of type of venue of publication, e.g. across preprint servers, journals) with necessary definitions and a framework for understanding items that would signal trust in published scholarly content.  

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Universitat de Barcelona, Spain and viewable on Zoom

The Europe Chapter (EC) of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) seeks participation in this year’s IST conference on Celebrating Theory and Practice. The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain, and presentations will also be viewable on Zoom.

• Conference dates:
  • June 25: networking & dinner, 8.00pm CET
  • June 26: keynote(s) & presentations, 10.00am-5.00pm CET
• Submissions (abstract of 400-750 words): on EasyChair [here], using this abstract template
• Deadline for submissions: Wednesday 6th May, 2026
• Notification of acceptance: Wednesday 20th May, 2026
• Registration (possible without a submission): here.

We invite researchers, practitioners and students to submit abstracts for talks (15 minutes presentation + discussion time, using the template linked above). Students also have the option to submit proposals for posters rather than presentations, if they wish. We welcome proposals from ASIS&T members and non-members alike. The main conference day will consist of an opening keynote, paper sessions, lunch and networking, and posters. Further, all attendees are invited to join for dinner the night before the conference (self paid); registrants can indicate interest during registration.

For this event, themed Celebrating Theory and Practice, we invite submissions within information science/studies (broadly construed) covering research (completed or in progress), practical projects or examples, and conceptual work. Inspired by the addition of SLA members to the Europe Chapter, the theme encourages a celebration of the nexus of theory and practice; this includes for example ongoing changes in digitality and digital environments, benefits and risks of emerging information technology and functionality, and information seeking and use as it can help (or hinder) people in meeting their information-related needs in the information society (including but not limited to the European region). We welcome broad interpretations on the conference theme, example topics include:

• Information Access, Use and Understanding in Transforming Contexts
  • Evaluating the value and validity of information (incl. source critique): challenging assumptions, tradition, and stereotypes
  • Research on changing information behaviour/practices that respond to theory and practice, including personal and professional information management contexts
  • Ethical concerns in the use of data, information and information technologies (e.g., education informatics, health informatics) for benevolent or malevolent purposes
  • Literacies for empowerment to address issues of information/data uses/abuses incl. privacy, democracy, responsible computing, digital sovereignty…
  • Literacies for emerging technology e.g. information seeking and (un)critical thought with AI
• Digital Transformation, Digital Culture and Everyday Experience
  • Research on digital inequalities, such as digital poverty and the digital divide, revealing exclusions or limitations faced by certain groups
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in information studies: maintaining and defending representation of participants to promote equality and diversity in the digital society
  • Relevant theories that promote the preservation or dissemination of digital and marginalized cultures and communities
  • Digital culture and links to sustainability of all kinds (via information, technology, practices, politics…)
  • Media and technology for transformation (good and bad): AI, Machine Learning; AR, VR, XR; Digital media; Online platforms in practice
  • Continuity and frictions in everyday information experience: exploring the dynamics of transitioning between online and offline realms in different aspects of life such as education, work, healthcare, and leisure in theory or practice
• New Perspectives on and Links Between Theory and Practice
  • Uses and abuses of theory in practice in public, business, academic, and other libraries and archives
  • Analysis of notable or ongoing gaps between theory and practice in real world contexts 
  • Promising approaches to addressing such gaps
  • New (or adapted) concepts for further developing theory and/or practice

We interpret Information Science broadly to include all kinds of information research including but not limited to information management, information behaviour and literacy, information retrieval and processing, data science, information ethics and governance, information/knowledge organisation, and ways of knowing. If you are not sure whether your idea fits in with our theme do please email the conference co-chairs (see emails below).

The Information Science Trends (IST) conference series – background:

The event is part of the series on Information Science Trends (IST). The events focus on current research topics, including invited speakers from research and industry. Our first event in Hamburg (April, 2019) focused on the topic Search Engines and Information Retrieval. Our second, online, event focused on Health Information Behaviour (June, 2020) and our third on Information Science Research During COVID-19 and Post-Pandemic Opportunities (June, 2021), and our fourth on Untold Stories (June, 2022). Our fifth event was hybrid and focused on Information Science Perspectives on Documenting Processes and Practices (June, 2023), whereas the sixth was online and explored Living Online and Offline in Darkness and Light (July, 2024). Last year’s meeting theme was Creativity, Transformation, and Empowerment (June, 2026), held in Manchester UK and online. The IST conferences have been awarded the ASIS&T Chapter Event of the Year multiple times. Our events provide an opportunity to network and share ideas and interests from the different fields of information science and related disciplines.

Submission requirements

For both presentations and posters, we request an informative, structured abstract:

• 400-750 words, in English
• Use standard scholarly headings that fit the nature of the work conducted and the short format, e.g. Background / Goals, Methods, Results & Discussion, References [in APA7]

You will find our template at https://tinyurl.com/IST25template. You must submit via Easychair. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. All presenters must register for the conference (see below for rates.) See the submission due date in the timeline above.

If your submission is accepted, we strongly encourage you to later upload your revised abstract with a CC-BY 4.0 International License to the conference proceedings series that has long been published on Zenodo (community: Information Science Trends – ASIS&T European Chapter Series).

Opportunities for all researchers and practitioners

You may submit proposals for presentations (presentation of 15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions). Please submit your abstract and choose the submission type “presentation” in the submission form. Multimodal presentations, as well as traditional presentations, are welcome as long as they fit in the time limit. 

Additional opportunities for students

Posters – In addition to the possibility to submit presentation proposals, students attending in-person may submit poster proposals. If a sufficient number of posters are present, all posters will be entered in a Best Poster competition, to be judged by the conference committee based on the quality of the presented research and efficacy of the visual presentation. To be eligible, students must be present with their posters on the day of the conference. Students are defined as BA/BSc, MA/MSc, or PhD students within Information Science (including related areas such as Data Science and Information Management). Please submit an informative, structured abstract (using this template https://tinyurl.com/IST25template), and be sure to choose the submission type “poster” in the submission form, and mention your student status and supervisor(s). Posters should be A1 size.

About the hybrid format and ‘viewable online’

This year’s conference is primarily an in-person event and consequently all presentations must be made in person to be included in the conference programme. There is also an online option exclusively for those who wish to watch the presentations remotely; for that a Zoom link will be provided after registration but please note that scheduled events beyond the presentations (e.g. networking, workshops) may not be viewable and handling of questions from online participants will be done on a best-effort basis.

Cannot Give a Talk But Plan to Attend?

Participation is not restricted to those presenting! Registration fees are: 

• For in-person attendance (includes lunch on the 26th):
  • ASIS&T members: US $20
  • ASIS&T student members: Free
  • Other non-members: US $40
  • Student non-members: US $20
• For online-only attendance (note: remote presentations are not possible! See above.):
  • ASIS&T members (incl. students): no charge (but registration still required)
  • Student non-members: US $10
  • Other non-members: US $20

Register here (if you are an ASIS&T member, log into the ASIS&T website to enable your discount).

For more information:
We are happy to answer any questions you might have regarding this event. Please send an email to the IST conference co-chairs / ASIST Europe Chapter officers

Alicia Takaoka, takaoka@rsm.nl, Chair

Tsveta Rafaylova, tsveta.rafaylova@gmail.com, Chair elect

Jesse Dinneen, jesse.dinneen@hu-berlin.de, Past Chair

Juanjo Boté, juanjo.botev@ub.edu, Chapter Officer

Tanja Merčun-Kariž, tanja.mercunkariz@ff.uni-lj.si, Chapter Officer

Hillary Oakley, hilary.oakley@sunderland.ac.uk, Chapter Officer

Sophie Rutter, s.rutter@sheffield.ac.uk, Chapter Officer

Sheila Webber, s.webber@sheffield.ac.uk, Chapter Officer

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