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Vol. 31 No. iConf (2026): iConference 2026

Published: 2026-03-20

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Preface, Organisation, Reviewers, and Table of content

Isaac Sserwanga, Hanna Carlsson, Yuxiang (Chris) Zhao, Douglas W. Oard, Jennifer Campbell-Meier, Heinz Pampel, Jessica Barfield, Julián D. Cortés, Fernanda Ribeiro, Eduardo Vendrell Vidal, Brasilina Passarelli

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Information seeking behavior of agricultural professionals from developing countries in South Korea

Ana Mae Cantel, Eun Youp Rha

1-19
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Exploring metacognitive regulation activities and their roles in prompt literacy development among humanities and social science researchers in GenAI

Yutian Jing, Yuxiang Chris Zhao, Durong Wang, Siqi Liu, Qinghua Zhu

20-29
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AI-assisted writing's differential impact on EFL learners and implications for adaptive instruction

Shaobo Liang, Yingyu Wang, Dan Wu

30-39
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Shared agency in information behaviour research: Human–Nonhuman interactions

Niloofar Solhjoo, Jia Tina Du, Yazdan Mansourian

40-49
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Dimensions of information search strategies: a study of blind and visually impaired users in mobile digital library environments

Iris Xie, Wonchan Choi, Hyun Seung Lee, Ning Chiao Wang, Bo Hyun Hong

50-64
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Leveraging search engines and LLMs for creative thinking: effects of prompting skills, and domain knowledge

I-Chin Wu, Hsuan-Yu Lin, Pertti Vakkari

65-75
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Daniel Tiger vs. Ms. Rachel: exploring video-based media with babies and toddlers

Kathleen Campana, J. Elizabeth Mills

76-83
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Measuring theory through practice: Librarians’ perceptions of relevance, concreteness, and importance

Tanja Merčun, Amy VanScoy, Africa S. Hands, Katarina Švab

84-94
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The impact of parasocial interaction and perceived risk on consumer purchase intention in livestreaming e-commerce

Jiaying Li, Shijie Song, Yujun Liu

95-117
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Learning from unknown-unknowns: inconsistency-driven sampling for improving LLM entity matching

Kota Okayama, Hiroyoshi Ito, Atsuyuki Morishima

118-135
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Beyond the loop: a research agenda towards a framework for critical AI literacy in the AI-assisted literature review

Dipesh Jalui, Mary Tate, Jocelyn Cranefield

136-149
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Occupational identities in the age of generative AI: the case of librarianship

Viviane Ito, Lyric Grimes

150-169
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When in need of emotional support, human or AI? An exploratory study on Chinese women's selection mechanism of emotional information sources

Zhaotong Wu, Yunyi Hu, Hui Yan

170-177
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Limitations in cultural context: systematic biases of LLMs in Chinese sentiment analysis

Ruili Geng, Jiwen Zhang, Ruixian Yang, Mingzhe Quan, Xiang Zheng, Yishuai Xu

178-192
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Large language models na ciência da informação: perspectivas técnicas da inteligência artificial aplicadas à organização e à arquitetura da informação(Large language models in information science: perspectives on information organisation and architecture)

Daiane Campos Procópio, Patrícia Nascimento Silva

193-211
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An LLM-powered framework for hierarchical topic discovery in LLM research

Xuan Lu, Young Soo Ko

212-234
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Understanding user experience in generative AI application: Evidence from topic modelling and sentiment analysis of user reviews

Chenxin Zhou, Lihong Zhou

235-253
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The duality of connectivity: how the connectivity of collaborative networks shapes disruptive innovation

Yingqun Li, Chuhui Zhang, Zhiwei Hu, Lei Pei

254-275
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UC-TAM: an unsupervised model for fine-grained semantic association construction across large-scale power system standards documents

Weiwei Zheng, Lu Wang, Xiaoqun Yuan, Yanrong Zheng, Wei Xie, Yanan Liu, Liang Zhao

276-286
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From framework to flexibility: a heuristic scheme for institutional & individual interpretation and application of digital competencies

Collins Ovie, Pritam Chita, David Brazier, David Haynes, Peter Cruickshank

287-302
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Breaking the mold of knowledge imposition: reconstruct the digital literacy education model in academic libraries under the Scottish enlightenment

ZhenJia Fan, YiMei He

303-316
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Reframing creative learning: a conceptual framework for design literacy in the GenAI era

Asif H Zeshan, Xiao Hu

317-327
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Beyond or within the binary? Constructing gendered meanings in generative AI use

Zhiyuan Lai, Yunjie Tang

328-344
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Artificial intelligence in libraries: a systematic review of upskilling, challenges, and future research directions

Erezi Ogbo-Gebhardt, Agnes G. Pearcy, Joseph B. Wiggins, Yerika Jimenez

345-357
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Research topic mining and evolution analysis of digital literacy within higher education based on BERTopic

Shuangling Cheng, Shubin Zhou

358-367
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Seeking the mission and opportunities for LIS in the AI era: a systematic review of empirical research on teenagers' artificial intelligence literacy (TAIL)

Jing Liu, Jiajing Ma, Guoye Sun, Shu Fan

368-379
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Illuminating connections and contexts: building an ontology for Chinese ration coupon archival resources based on RiC-O

Linqing Ma, Ruohua Han, Xiaoyan Yang Yang, Yina Wu, Jiaqi Shi

380-391
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Exploring immersive cultural heritage experiences: a user study of a VR application featuring ancient manuscripts

Wenqi Li, Zeyang Luo, Pengyi Zhang

392-409
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Engineering oral stories: a conceptual model of traditions as water

Andrew Wiebe

410-416
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‘Appears to be about’: an evaluation of AI-generated metadata quality for community archives

Nikki Wise, Katrina Fenlon, Diana Marsh, Amanda Sorensen, Ugoma Smoke, Candy Navarette, Lucy Havens

417-437
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‘Metadata is wonderful, but there’s a coldness to it’: exploring the visual accessibility of cultural heritage through participatory design

Victoria Van Hyning, Pramod Chundury

438-447
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Wasteback Machine: a method for quantitative measurement of the archived web

David Mahoney

448-464
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Assessing digital preservation training needs in cultural heritage institutions in Saudi Arabia

Ghaliah Albushra, Perla Innocenti

465-478
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Archives search as a complex sensemaking task

Emi Ishita, Tokinori Suzuki , Douglas W. Oard, Yoichi Tomiura

479-485
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Perceptions of an immersive learning experience: what do reviews of an architecture cruise reveal?

Heather Moulaison-Sandy, Danielle Oprean, Wilson Castano

486-495
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International public cultural digitalisation: Technology, space, and service

Tongshu Wu, Tingting Zhuo, Qingqing Ye, Yi Chen

496-509
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Defining the ‘good’ in educational TikTok videos: Authenticity, literacies, and digital enlightenment

Joe Sánchez, Kayla Booth, Isabel Karolczak

510-523
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Who do we need to invite to the parlor? Curriculum deliberations and assessment approaches in conversation with course readings

Angela P. Murillo, Andrea Copeland, Charles Sutton, Jenn Sheridan, Cherry Gupta

524-539
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One degree, two disciplines? Examining the presence of archival concepts in American library association accredited core courses

Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Ana Roeschley

540-546
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Preparing library and information studies students for an AI-driven future: student perceptions and curriculum insights from the iSchool at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland

Stefanie Havelka, Claire McGuinness

547-562
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Bring back the blue book? A reflection on teaching strategies, engaged pedagogy, and the challenges of GenAI in the classroom

Yvette Iribe Ramirez

563-571
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Desarrollo de un marco curricular común para potenciar habilidades de investigación e información en la educación superior mexicana.

Alejandro Villegas-Muro, Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo

572-586
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Perfis profissionais dos mestres em ciência da informação da Universidade do Porto

Inês Aparício, Carla Teixeira Lopes

587-605
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Navigating the generative frontier: adoption, challenges, and strategic realignment of GAI in the Chinese publishing industry

Chen He, Qian Xiao, Jie Xu, Jiayun Wang

606-626
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Can digital transformation enable distressed manufacturing SMEs turnaround? The mediating role of supply chain resilience

Feifei Yu, Peijuan Zhu, Yuwei Yang, Chao Lu

627-640
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Creating digital information with algorithms and artificial intelligence

Jessica Barfield

641-649
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Digital citizenship and student-teacher readiness: insights from Malaysia

Rini Azrina Zabri

650-663
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Privacy risk assessment method incorporating sensitivity and correlation with empirical study

Ruili Geng, Tiantian Zhang, Sentao Li, Yishuai Xu

664-674
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Framing data inequality as an information justice lens: Access, representation, and control in algorithmic decision-making

Shiwei Jia, Hui Yan, Jia Tina Du

675-683
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Competing visions of ethical AI: a case study of OpenAI

Melissa Wilfley, Mengting Ai, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo

684-698
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Did I really agree to that?: making sense of policies you didn’t read with models that actually did

Shikha Soneji, Mitchell Hoesing, Sujay Koujalgi, Jonathan Dodge

699-717
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From privacy concerns to digital literacies: negotiating trust and authenticity in AI-mediated student records systems

Yang Lu, Yunjie Tang, Yijia Song

718-726
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Information and death: towards a conceptual framework for studying information as it relates to dying, death, mourning and digital afterlife

Maja Krtalić, Jesse Dinneen

727-734
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Unveiling moral development in generative AI chatbots

Jiayu Han, Alton Y.K. Chua

735-743
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Modelo informacional da carteira de identidade nacional (Brasil): uma leitura a partir da diplomática arquivística contemporânea (Information model of the national identity card (Brazil): a reading from contemporary archival)

Thiara dos Santos Alves, Marcia Cristina de Carvalho Pazin Vitoriano, Juliana Loureiro Alvim Carvalho

744-759
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A study on the correlation mechanism between knowledge convergence characteristics and short- and long-term patent impact

Jing Ma, Liyuan Li, Yaohui Pan

760-775
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Unraveling technology diffusion through dynamic network and multi-dimensional mechanism analysis: evidence from natural language processing

Junhao Yang, Haiyun Xu, Robin Haunschild, Shuying Li, Chunjiang Liu, Xueli Yu

776-800
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Multi-viewpoint knowledge graphs for minority cultural heritage: the case of online Jewish museum collections

Sara Minster, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Inna Kizhner

801-811
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Revising the research data lifecycle: Evidence from oceanography

Yubing Tian, Thomas Struett, Amelia Acker, Megan Finn

812-826
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Envisioning the process: Lessons from developing institutional OER repositories in Vietnam

Vi Truong, Bao Tran Chau

827-843
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Intermediary or gatekeeper? Defining content responsibility boundaries of open research data platforms

Zhengzheng Tian

844-853
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Exploring institutional change in a knowledge commons: a longitudinal institutional analysis of journal policies

Kai Nishikawa

854-870
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Amulets, boxers, and cybersecurity: influencer metaphors in VPN advertising and the communication of cybersecurity risk

Yu-Wen Huang, Yu-Jie Lin, Kai-Hsiang Chou, An-Jie Li, Tsai-Hsuan Hsieh, Li-Fei Kung, Wie Jeng

871-885
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Comunicação científica na era digital: o case da SciELO Brasil e seus video abstracts

Brasilina Passarelli, Adeilson Toledo Torres

886-899
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Immersive quality control for 3D data curation

Matt Cook, Hannah Hok Kim, Helen He, Zack Lischer-Katz

900-921
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Safe but scripted: uncovering second-order bias in LLM LGBTQ+ storytelling

Huiqian Lai

922-930
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Enabling embodied metaphors in new media arts: a multi-sensory augmented reality approach

Weiyue Lin, Xiao Hu

931-945
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Preserving creative process in the digital age: Findings from a survey of contemporary composers

Jessica Grimmer, Stephanie Akau

946-962
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An asymmetric echo: tracing social sentiment through economic cycles in a large-scale corpus of American newspapers

Zihan Zeng, Yingyu Wang, Xiaofan Ran, Qi Li Li, Liang Zhao

963-973
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Exploring a VR safety training prototype for active shooting emergency preparedness: Demonstration and preliminary evaluation

Daniel Zuniga-Vazquez, Ren Boz

974-983
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The disciplinary diversity shrinkage — the experience of Colombian social science research groups

Julian D. Cortes

984-991
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Hybrid weak supervision model with manual and pseudo labels: a novel approach for scientific text mining

Shengli Deng, Rongrong Xiang, Qiuyu Zhu, Fang Chen

992-1001
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Evaluating software academic impact in biomedical research based on large-scale full-text analysis

Yuzhuo Wang, Heng Zhang, Huahao Hu, Yi Zhao

1002-1010
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OpenAlex in focus: Metadata quality of publication type and language fields in an open peer review corpus

Güleda Doğan, Ayça Nur Sezen

1011-1020
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How do users respond to AI fact-checkers?

Alton Y.K. Chua, Jiayu Han

1021-1032
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Inclusive media and information literacy (IMIL): Building a framework for an age of preparedness and responsibilisation

Hanna Carlsson, Lisa Engström, Lisa Olsson Dahlquist

1033-1041
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Disability misinformation on Facebook: a comparison of LLM-based fact-checking tools

Ian Prazak, Leah Padovani, Yool Lim, Julia (Hsin-Ping) Hsu, Myeong Lee

1042-1053
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The role of misinformation in elder fraud: a conceptual framework

Jiangping Chen, Milo P. Ono

1054-1066
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Nudging students to fact-check GenAI outputs: Perspectives from dual process theory and digital literacy

Tran Mai Chi Nguyen, Chei Sian Lee

1067-1076
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Scaffolding resilience: the influence of an iSchool’s media and information literacy courses

Frey Aura Galario, Dan Anthony Dorado, Benedict Salazar Olgado

1077-1086
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Information priming for resilience: strengthening belief systems in the age of deepfakes

Yue Liu, Shuyuan Mary Ho

1087-1098
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See, trust, and interact: how AI disclosure shapes high school students’ trust

Nuo Chen, Zhiyuan Lai, Yichu Liu, Jia Li, Rui Wang, Pu Yan

1099-1145
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Who gets blamed? Negativity bias in social media diffusion on Weibo

Tiantian Liang, Xi Wang, Mei Zhang, Jian Tang

1146-1161
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Seeing past in the DREAM: a computational grounded theory analysis of comments on nostalgic videos

Jinhao Li, Yuxiang (Chris) Zhao, Dawei Wu, Qinghua Zhu

1162-1173
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From empathy to exclusion: how Immigrant groups are framed in online discourse

Kirin Mohile, Yiqi Li

1174-1186
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The measurement and influence factors of social consensus in the context of public events

Ruiyang Chen, Lu An, Yajing Zheng, Gang Li, Chuanming Yu

1187-1208
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Battle of the voices: the effects of inconsistent sentiment valence between video content and danmaku

Alton Y.K. Chua, Jiayu Han

1209-1218
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Cultural memory in the digital sphere: reproducing and localising American sitcoms on RedNote

Sijia Lu, Yunyi Hu

1219-1225
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Divulgación científica profesionalizada en YouTube: el caso de SciTube

Cristina I. Font-Julián, Alejandro Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Enrique Orduña-Malea

1226-1241
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Evaluating the professional competency of university librarians in the digital intelligence era: a survey from China

Chuanyu Zhu, Qingqing Ye, Yi Chen, Chuanfu Chen

1242-1252
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Beyond technical performance: Preliminary findings on algorithm aversion in digital library environments

Hengyi Fu, Fenfang Cao

1253-1262
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Mapping the evidence-based landscape in Chinese library and information science: a mixed-methods assessment

Junling Ye, Xinyu Chen, Siqi Jiang, Yikun Xia

1263-1277
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Mapping research impact services in health sciences and medical libraries: an observational study

Xinyu Peng, Fei Yu

1278-1286
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Towards AI for science: developing a conceptual basis for transforming research support services in university libraries

Lihong Zhou, Hanyu Miao, Tim Zijlstra, Zengmin Wang

1287-1298
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Bridging the gap between science and society: Mapping libraries' strategies for engaging in the research impact process through semantic analysis

Wang Zuorong, Sun Jiaxuan, He Shan, Deng Sanhong, Wang Hao

1299-1312
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From human to AI: University students’ trust in generative AI as reference librarians

Di Wang, Xizhou Deng, Xinyu Lu, Jianting Guo

1313-1324
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Legal deposit libraries’ contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals

Ellie Jack, Gobinda Chowdhury

1325-1335
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University libraries in transition: Understanding challenges and dilemmas of service transformation in the AI era

Hanyu Miao, Zengmin Wang, Lihong Zhou

1336-1346
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The impact of AI on librarians' profession: Chinese librarians' perceptions and concerns

Yi Chen, Qingqing Ye, Shiyi Xiao, Zike Jiang

1347-1355
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Estrategias nacionales frente a la soledad no deseada (SND) y bibliotecas: un análisis preliminar en el entorno de la OCDE (National strategies against unwanted loneliness and libraries: a preliminary analysis within the OECD context)

Sara Martínez Cardama, Ana Reyes Pacios

1356-1367
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Requalificação participativa de uma biblioteca da Universidade Estadual Paulista como centro de recursos para a aprendizagem e pesquisa: um estudo de caso

João Pedro Alves Cardoso

1368-1390
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Bridging the prehospital communication gap: evaluating a smart glass-enabled telemedicine system

Enze Bai, Zhan Zhang, Yincao Xu, Kathleen Adelgais, Mustafa Ozkaynak

1391-1410
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Suggestions regarding the relationship between daily information-seeking habits and the formation of ageism

Masaki Takeda; Satoru Suto

1411-1416
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Between reform and reality: institutional logics of data and digital in New Zealand’s health system transformation

Lesley Middleton, Jocelyn Cranefield, Verna Smith

1417-1433
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Dynamic complexity adaptation: how LLMs enhance medication information literacy

Tan Fu, Wen Lou

1434-1443
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Her cycle, its logic: Information practices and gendered governance in MCT apps

Yanli Zhou, Yunjie Tang

1444-1454
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Understanding credibility: toward a networked evidence model of health information

Karen Joy, Tawfiq Ammari

1455-1464
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Towards a typology of epistemic relationships in human–AI interaction

Shengnan Yang, Rongqian Ma

1465-1480
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Understanding user behaviors and satisfaction in LLM-assisted tasks: prompting strategies and user knowledge states among college students

Tzu-Yun Chien, Po-Yu Chen, Muh-Chyun Tang

1481-1501
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Collaborating with large language models in literature screening for a systematic review of college students’ GenAI literacy

Wonchan Choi, Joyce Lee, Besiki Stvilia, Yan Zhang, Hyerin Bak

1502-1514
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A comparison of human and ChatGPT classification performance on complex social media data

Breanna E. Green, Ashley L. Shea, Pengfei Zhao, Drew B. Margolin

1515-1533
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Integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in metadata training

Oksana L. Zavalina

1534-1541
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The dual impact of generative AI on research: structural stability and attention reallocation

Xiaoting Xu, Naixuan Zhao, Jiang Li, Xiao Hu

1542-1550
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From search to work tasks: exploring students’ AI chatbot information practices in higher education

Bo Hyun Hong

1551-1557
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‘Will there be parmesan?’ – Understanding migrants’ information needs and sources for transition to new country

Rashika Bahl, Shanton Chang, Dana McKay, George Buchanan, Marc Cheong

1558-1574
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Towards automated genre conversion: aggregating thematic events in classical Chinese chronological histories

Litao Lin, Shiyan Ou

1575-1584
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Redefining critical literacies and ethics in human–machine conversations in the emergent AI-human zone

Anika Meyer; Marlene Holmner, Theo JD. Bothma

1585-1596
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‘A good question is half the answer:’ a learning-oriented K-12 prompt literacy competency cultivation framework

Jing Zhou, Li Si, Xianrui Liu

1597-1607
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Eudaimonic media engagement in virtual reality: Memory, identity, and well-being among older Black adults

Kuo-Ting (Tim) Huang, Yanyun (Mia) Wang

1608-1617
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AI literacy training for K–12 learners: Community-led non-formal education practices in China

Yanke Zhao, Xiao Hu, Yuxiang (Chris) Zhao, Shijie Song, Jinhao Li

1618-1629
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Local news at a distance: psychological distance and the formation of news deserts

Tugce Burcu Gundogdu, Jieshu Wang, Brian S. Butler, Myeong Lee

1630-1638
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Transparency as organizational accomplishment: How an astronomical collaboration learns to observe its algorithms

Will Sutherland, Anissa Tanweer

1639-1651
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Voices from the river: exploring digitally inclusive tools with marginalised fishing communities in Bangladesh

Md Khalid Hossain, Gillian Christina Oliver, Misita Anwar, Tanjila Kanij, Manika Saha

1652-1671
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‘If I could go to one place’: examining city-based information practices from the perspective of city residents

Chelsea E. McCullough, Kenneth R. Fleischmann

1672-1678
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Changing how we count: the New Zealand census and Māori data

Spencer Lilley

1679-1684
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Proximity in coffee shop culture: exploring the potential of a common ground environment

Amy D. Lanier, Brian C. O'Connor

1685-1695
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Reframing data papers as boundary objects: aligning data narratives with reuse-oriented user expectations

Cuiyu Qin, Qingyu Duan, Lei Xu, Xiaoguang Wang

1696-1713
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AI for research assessment: opportunities and challenges from India

Tatiana Chakravorti, Chuhao Wu, Sai Koneru, Sarah Rajtmajer

1714-1732
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An empirical analysis of open access citation advantages in library and information science

Sunwoo Lee, Wonsik Shim

1733-1750
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Bibliographic records reveal trends in Chinese history scholarship: Evidence from Library of Congress metadata

Kai Li, Wenyi Shang, Yingying Han

1751-1760
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Ensuring the long-term accessibility of scholarly blogs: Bloggers’ attitudes and practices

Catharina Ochsner, Heinz Pampel

1761-1769
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‘Ugh, it’s a difficult topic’: Positionality statements as information use in information and library science research

Alex H. Poole, Ashley Todd-Diaz

1770-1787
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