Faculty, doctoral students and recent alumni from Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies will present at the 2026 annual conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). This year’s theme, “The Good Questions,” explores how inquiry shapes teaching, research and professional practice in library and information science. The conference will take place at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.

The iSchool’s presenters will share their work through papers, panels, posters, a curriculum workshop and a creative presentation. Recent graduates Tyler Youngman and Jieun Yeon will also present research alongside current iSchool faculty and doctoral students.

Faculty Presentations

Renate Chancellor

  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 4:20 p.m. — “How do or can we transcend beyond the Innovative to Transformative?” (special interest group panel)
  • Wednesday, Nov. 18, 10:30 a.m. — “Repairing the Record: A Curriculum Workshop,” with Beth Patin and Tyler Youngman
  • Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1:40 p.m. — “Fugitive Epistemology” (juried paper)

Beth Patin

  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1:05 p.m. — “From Buildings to Communities…” (juried paper)
  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 4:20 p.m. — “The Bad Questions,” with Tyler Youngman
  • Wednesday, Nov. 18, 10:30 a.m. — “Repairing the Record: A Curriculum Workshop,” with Renate Chancellor and Tyler Youngman

Doctoral Student Presentations

Sarah Appedu

  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 5:45 p.m. — “Diffractive Ethnography as a Postqualitative Methodology…” (Works in Progress poster)
  • Wednesday, Nov. 18, 9 a.m. — “Questioning AI: Four Perspectives” (juried panel)

Leah T. Dudak

  • Monday, Nov. 16, 1:30 p.m. — “Co-Designing an Engaged Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Course,” with Jieun Yeon (juried panel)
  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 10:30 a.m. — “Who Gets to Ask the Questions” (special interest group session)
  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 5:45 p.m. — “Embodied Experiences of Public-Interfacing Library Work” (Works in Progress poster)

Yang Zhao

  • Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1:40 p.m. — “Good Questions, Bad Answers: Designing Black Women with AI,” with LaVerne Gray

Qiaoyi Liu

  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 5:45 p.m. — “Metadata Literacy as Epistemic Stance,” with Ximeng Deng (Works in Progress poster)

Isabella Corieri

  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 5:45 p.m. — “Drawn From Within: Mapping Projects, Making Change” (Works in Progress poster). The project examines three community mapping cases in Syracuse.

Recent Alumni Presentations

Tyler Youngman, now at East Carolina University, will present a creative work and join iSchool faculty for sessions on inquiry and curriculum development.

  • Monday, Nov. 16, 7:10 p.m. — “Interrogo: A Poetic Dialogue” (creative work)
  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 4:20 p.m. — “The Bad Questions,” with Beth Patin
  • Wednesday, Nov. 18, 10:30 a.m. — “Repairing the Record: A Curriculum Workshop,” with Renate Chancellor and Beth Patin

Jieun Yeon, now at the University of Maryland, will present work on intellectual freedom, AI literacy, community engagement and academic freedom.

  • Monday, Nov. 16, 1:30 p.m. — “Co-Designing an Engaged Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Course,” with Leah T. Dudak (juried panel)
  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2:35 p.m. — “Byte-Sized AI Learning: Lessons Learned after Building AI Literacy MLIS Learning Content”
  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 5:45 p.m. — “Factors Influencing Censorship in Public Libraries” (Works in Progress poster)
  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 5:45 p.m. — “Understanding Community Engagement in Library Literature: A Scoping Review” (Works in Progress poster)
  • Wednesday, Nov. 18, 10:30 a.m. — “Academic Freedom as Policy: Governance and Practice” (special interest group session)