Save the Date!

What: NEASIS&T's Annual Conference
When: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Where: Virtual
Who: NEASIS&T (Northeast Chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology)
Registration Opens: February 3, 2025
Cost: Free for ASIS&T members; $10 for non-members.

This year's theme: Voices Through Data: Integrating Information Science, Storytelling, and Digital Literacy

This year’s conference highlights the critical role of data in shaping stories and making information more accessible. We’ll focus on the importance of digital literacy, developing critical thinking skills, navigating ethical challenges in data storytelling, and empowering individuals to use data for informed decision-making.

Call for Proposals

Submit your proposals through our online form:
https://bit.ly/neasistcfp2025

We are accepting proposals for presentations, panels, workshops, and lightning talks/posters related to the conference theme. We welcome submissions from students, faculty, practitioners, and others in information sciences, libraries, archives, and related fields. Priority will be given to presenters from the Northeast region (CT, DE, ME, MD, MA, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT). We encourage all formats, especially lightning talks, which are a great opportunity for students.

Potential ideas include (but are not limited to):
Making data accessible through storytelling
Empowering digital literacy for data use
Ethics in data storytelling: privacy, bias, and inclusion
Personal narratives and big data
Teaching digital literacy through information science
Visualizing data and transforming numbers into stories
Building critical thinking for data literacy
Data-driven journalism and media
Protecting stories in digital archives
AI and the future of data storytelling
Using data for social change and advocacy
Engaging audiences with interactive data

Deadline for Submission:  January 13, 2025
Notification of proposal acceptance: January 27, 2025

Presenters have free registration to the conference!


About NEASIS&T
The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) bridges the gap between information science practice and research. Members share a common interest in improving the ways society stores, retrieves, analyzes, manages, archives and disseminates information.  The Northeast chapter (NEASIS&T) has a particular interest in providing low-cost professional development opportunities to practitioners who work in library digital services, IT systems, and data science.

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