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Issue #110 By Gary Marchionini  (UNC School of Information & Library Science) "Life is change, how it differs from the rocks" (Jefferson Airplane, 1968. The crown of creation ) Change as a disciplinary object of study. Most disciplines are strongly concerned with change. Most of the objectives of Biology--growth, homeostasis, response to environment, adaptation and even reproduction and metabolism--address changes in organisms. Chemistry examines how matter changes under diff

Issue #10 Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang   Asia-Pacific Region Australia Curtin University School of Media, Creative Arts & Social Inquiry iSchools member since 2020 Hello Karl! Please tell us a bit about you! I am currently the Director of the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI)   and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) , at Curtin University. I have been a researcher in COKI since 2018. Prior to joining Curtin, I was lecturer at University of Cape Town, and

Issue #109 by Heather Moulaison-Sandy  (University of Missouri, USA) In the recent review cycle for the 2026 iConference, the iSchool community reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining rigorous and ethical peer review practices. Consistent with iConference policy, reviewers were reminded that the use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT in the review process is prohibited. This policy is consistent with practices that have been widely adopted in scholarly publishing. Yet, a

The Department of Information Management at Peking University is now accepting applications for its Doctoral Program in Information Science (English-taught), commencing in September 2026.