Asia / Pacific Time Zone Schedule
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Opening Remarks
- Overview of Agenda | Regional Planning Co-Chairs: Muhammad Tariq, Pakistan & Prodip Roy, Australia
- Welcome Remarks | ASIS&T Executive Director, Lydia Middleton, USA
Keynote Address
Learning as Usual During Pandemic: Self-Directed Learning with a Multilingual eBooks System and Gamified Q&A Platform | Samuel Chu, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Invited Paper
Teen Readers Seeking the Truth: Connections Between Online Misinformation Practices and the Reading of Mystery Fiction | Emily Booth, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Panel: Non-Western Approaches in Information Science Research
Kathleen Obile, Moderator | University of the Philippines, Philippines
Jelina Haines | University of South Australia, Australia
Pethigamage (Lami) Perera | University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Michael Olsson | University of the Philippines, Philippines
Keynote Address
Role of Social Networking in Professional Development of Librarians: Cases from Developing Countries | Khalid Mahmood, University of the Punjab, Pakistan
Papers
- Role of Social Capital in Developing Information Sharing Behavior: Examination of Information Sharing Intention as a Mediator | Zaheer Ahmad, University of Management and Technology, Pakistan
- Technology Exposure During Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Psychological and Social Health of Students: Moderating Role of Technostress | Saira Hanif Soroya and Shamim Akhter, Minhaj University Lahore, Pakistan
Panel: Fighting with the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Can Information Research Help?
Xinlin Yao, Moderator | Nankai University, P.R. China
Yuelin Li | Nankai University, P.R. China
Dan Wu | Wuhan University, P.R. China
Yuxiang Zhao | Nanjing University of Science & Technology, P.R. China
Chang Liu | Peking University, P.R. China
Davy Ng | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China
Quiz Competition
Moderator: Jiban K. Pal | Indian Statistical Institute, India
Panel: Emerging Research in Asia-Pacific
Michael Olsson, Moderator | University of the Philippines, Philippines
Iyra Buenrostro–Cabbab | University of the Philippines, Philippines
Tanmoy Chakraborty | Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-D), India
Yuanye Ma | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Kirsten Thorpe | University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Muhammad Waqas | Wuhan University, P.R. China
Poster Presentations
The Quiz results will be announced at the end of this session.
Keynote Address
Acting Nationally – Thinking Globally: Achieving a Nationally Agreed Framework for Research Data Management for Australian Universities | Roxanne Massingham, Australian National University, Australia
Papers
- Invited Paper: Enabling Research Practice Nexus in LIS: Issues and Opportunities | Bhuva Narayan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Long Paper: Measuring the Impact of Social Media Use on Reading Habits of Research Students | Sumera Hafeez, Lahore Garrison University, Pakistan
- Invited Talk: Disinformation, Misinformation, and Fighting Falsity: Positioning the iField and Information Profession | Shalini Urs, University of Mysore, India
- Invited Paper: Information Resilience as a Key to Social Resilience | Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri, University of Calcutta, India
Concluding Remarks
- Regional Planning Co-Chair, Mohammad Tariq, Pakistan