As part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the CAIS/ACSI 2019 Conference was held June 3-June 5, 2019, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC.
Five of STOREE’s investigators presented a paper titled “Building infrastructures for university-community knowledge exchange: The role of information professionals and literacy educators.” You can open and download the presentation slides here: CAIS-ACSI-2019_PanelFinal.
In their abstract, the panel of authors:
- Argued that information professionals and literacy educators play an important bridging role between universities and community groups and stakeholders.
- Described the context of university-community knowledge exchange, which is increasingly expected, but remains under-supported and under-theorized.
- Considered new opportunities that exist to support and build capacity in researchers and communities to co-create, share, and use information.