The 86th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology will return to Europe, this time in London, one of the world’s most vibrant capital cities.
This year’s theme for our Annual Meeting is “Making a Difference: Translating Information Research into Practice, Policy, and Action”. Information is one of the most powerful tools for achieving social justice. It plays a pivotal role in tackling crisis situations, creating robust democratic processes, overcoming social and economic disadvantages, and increasing our global assets of education, knowledge, and culture. Challenges to social justice often come first in the form of challenges to information: censorship, fake news, the hollowing out of information services, and the denial of access to information. Promoting the power of information to develop human happiness, equality, and well-being means tackling these problems and finding ways to release the transformational power of information research.
There are three keynote speakers for this annual meeting. Sharing the opening plenary session, Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé from the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Their keynote speech is entitled “Librarians as Lifelines: In Praise of Critical Information Care”.
The closing plenary keynote speaker, Stuart Hamilton, is the Head of Libraries Development for the Local Government Management Agency in Ireland. His keynote speech is entitled “If You Don’t Get It the First Time, Back Up and Try It Again (Party): How Information Research Must Be Harnessed to Improve Library Advocacy”.
MDPI will be attending the event as an exhibitor, and we welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest ideas with us.
We look forward to meeting you at our booth, where you can find out more information about the following MDPI initiatives and journals:
Our representatives are eager to answer your questions and address any queries you may have. We look forward to attending such an important and exciting conference in London. We hope to see you there!
