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Welcome Wednesday - April 2026
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Learn more about ASIS&T and your membership benefits by attending a New Member Welcome Wednesday.
Webinar: Generating Smart Data for Diverse Cultural Heritage Resources in the New Era of AI -- Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Smart data means the trusted, contextualized, relevant, cognitive, predictive, and consumable data at any scale, revealing the most important V(value) of big data. In the new era of AI, smart data may be efficiently processed using AI technology while...
2026 IDEA Institute - Virtual Certificate Course on AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a disruptive but transformative technology that can bring value to libraries by enabling increased library use, optimizing collection analysis, and enhancing the user experience. Library and information ...
Meet the Author: The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World
12:00 AM
How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three...
Webinar: AI and ML Approaches for Improving Biomedicine and Healthcare (SIG-HLTH)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Major advances in AI are linked inseparably to biomedicine and healthcare. The use cases in the earliest AI experimental research initiatives investigated automated diagnosis of infections. In the current times...
Debating Social Media Bans for Children and Youth: Agency, Information and Wellbeing (SIG-USE/Oceania)
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
We have invited a very famous scholar in scientometrics field, Prof. Cassidy Sugimoto, to give a virtual talk to our broad audiences.
Webinar: Passing it On: Up, Down, and Sideways: A Dean’s-eye View of Working with Leadership and Peers
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
As part of the Passing it On series, Dean Eric T. Meyer of the UC Berkeley School of Information will share insights based on his eight years as a dean at two large research-intensive universities on how to work with campus leadership such as provosts...
Webinar: Cognitive Architecture for Digital Engagement: Structuring Information for Retention in Mobile-First Environments
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information systems are often evaluated using exposure-based metrics, such as page views, and interaction-based metrics, such as clicks, likes, and shares. However, these measures do not reliably reflect meaningful knowledge acquisition and retention...
Meet the Author: Making Ethical Choices in the Digital Age
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for a conversation with Kip Currier, author of Ethics, Information, and Technology, as he examines the ethical challenges shaping today’s digital environment. Drawing on themes from the book...
Webinar: Meet the Author: Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
In recent years, dreams about our technological future have soured as digital platforms have undermined privacy, eroded labor rights, and weakened democratic discourse. In light of the negative consequences of innovation, some blame harmful algorithms ...
Webinar: Passing it On: What Does the Dean Do All Day?
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
As part of the "Passing it On" series, Emily Knox will discuss her experiences moving through academia with a special focus on combining research, teaching, and service effectively.