The iSchool had a great showing at this year's NEXT Library Festival in Aarhus, Denmark, with three interactive workshops:
· Lights, Camera, Community!
Using video to support community storytelling
Presented by: Jason Young, Cindy Aden, Chris Jowaisas, and Stacey Wedlake
· From Play to Participation
Designing tabletop games to empower digital civic engagement with youth
Presented by: Michele Newman and Chris Coward
· Misinfo Madness
Rapid ideation and design of an educational misinformation escape room game
Presented by: Nisha Devasia and Chris Coward
Ben Lee and co-authors Trevor Owens, and Jonah Estes’s paper titled “Powell.pps: Close & Distant Reading of Primary Sources in Web Archives,” was accepted to the journal Internet Histories.
Lucy Lu Wang and co-authors Donghoon Shin, Tze-Yu (Alex) Chen, and Gary Hsieh’s paper titled “What About My Design Context?: Exploring the Use of Generative AI to Support Customization of Translational Research Artifacts” was accepted to the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2025).
Sandy Littletree delivered a keynote address titled “To My Fellow Fellows” at the event celebrating 25 years of the North Carolina (NC) State University Libraries Fellows Program, hosted by the NC State University Libraries. She was a Libraries Fellow at NC State from 2007 to 2009.
Michelle Martin was one of the invited participants for the National Convening on Children’s Racial Learning, to discuss how children learn about race.
Heather Whiteman delivered a keynote address titled “Using Data Science to Eliminate Workplace Sexual Harassment” at the Women in Data Science Worldwide Puget Sound Conference.
Ben Lee gave an invited talk titled “Re-animating Coetzee’s Computer-Generated Poetry” hosted by the Australian Society of Archivists.
Melanie Walsh presented remarks at the seminar titled “Co-Intelligence” at the Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies at Duke University.
Michelle Martin moderated a panel titled “Science All Around Us,” for the School Library Journal Day of Dialogue for three writers of children’s nonfiction about their forthcoming nature/climate books.
Melanie Walsh and Neel Gupta were invited to participate in and present at "The Ends of Prosody," an event hosted by the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University. The event celebrated the sunsetting of the Princeton Prosody Archive.