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REBECCA MCLEOD: Hello. Welcome to the Scholarship Winners Session of NISO Plus 2022. I'm Rebecca McLeod, managing director of the Harvard Data Science Review, and a member of NISO's board of directors. I'm very pleased to be serving as your moderator for this exciting session. The NISO Plus Scholarship program was launched at the same time as the NISO Plus conference in 2020, in support of NISO's commitment to improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the information community.
REBECCA MCLEOD: Including this year's cohort, there are 40 participants to date from 16 countries. And in addition to attending the conference and NISO's monthly webinars, they're also encouraged to engage with our community throughout the year. The 2021 cohort has organized this session around the broad theme of the challenges and opportunities for them as information professionals whose voices are underrepresented.
REBECCA MCLEOD: Participating in today's panel are seven members of the 2021 cohort who each will share their thoughts on the challenges and opportunities they see in terms of their professional lives and career development. A live Q&A session will immediately follow the presentations. So without further ado, I'm very happy to introduce Melroy Amadea, Lieke Boerefijn, Roxana Dinu, [INAUDIBLE] Lee, Michelle Leigh, Ira Tamm, and Sharon Whitfield.
MELROY ALMEIDA: Hello, everyone. My name is Melroy, and I work with the Australian Access Federation, or as we like to call ourselves, AAF. AAF provides identity and access management solutions to the higher educations and research sector in Australia. I am one of the 2021 NISO Plus Scholarship winners. And one of the reasons I applied for the scholarship was because I felt that identity and access federations were quite underrepresented in NISO.
MELROY ALMEIDA: As well as there wasn't much awareness of NISO in Australia. How has the pandemic continuing to impact my professional life. This can include my working environment, interacting with colleagues, or professional development opportunities. I have never seen myself as someone who would opt to work from home. However, the pandemic changed that. With no other option, but to work from home for the first three to four months of the pandemic, it was quite interesting coming to grips with it.
MELROY ALMEIDA: I would say, working from home has now helped me manage my work life-balance better by allowing me the flexibility to deal with things. Work, as well as of a personal nature as and when they happen. I do miss interacting with my peers physically, especially at conferences and workshops. Attending it via Zoom is not the same, as conferences and workshops through Zoom are fairly transactional in nature.
MELROY ALMEIDA: And the organic conversations that I felt would take place at a conference, after a session, or at a workshop, led to a lot of new ideas and collaborations, which is quite hard to replicate with a Zoom conference. Now, what do I see as the biggest challenge for the information community in the next five to 10 years.
MELROY ALMEIDA: And how I think this challenge affects my role as an information professional. In the last few years, the amount of content on the internet available to people has increased fairly exponentially. Now, not all of it is accurate, or correct, and there is also a fair bit of misinformation available. And this will only continue to grow.
MELROY ALMEIDA: In the next five to 10 years as information professionals, we need to advocate and teach folks how to discern accurate information from misinformation, how to understand the context in which information has been curated, and also look up what the source of that information is. In my opinion, coming up with a way or means, or an idea to help individuals understand the curated information they're being exposed to will be one of the biggest challenges for the information community, and for us as information professionals.
LIEKE BOEREFIJN: Hi, everyone. My name is Lieke Boerefijn, and I'm platform manager at CABI, the Center for Agriculture and Biosciences in the UK. And I applied for the NISO scholarship last year because I expected it would give me great opportunities to meet interesting people, but also especially to participate in a NISO Plus conference, which had many interesting sessions planned.
LIEKE BOEREFIJN: So this is my answer to question number one about the pandemic. During a pandemic I started a new job and the office is actually located in the UK, whereas I'm based in the Netherlands. And pre-pandemic, I would never have even thought of the possibility of working for a company in a different country. So that's something really that the pandemic has brought me that I now work for this company that's abroad.
LIEKE BOEREFIJN: And it's perfectly fine because everyone's so much more used to working remotely. Doing everything via Zoom just makes everything quite easy. The only downside now is that there are still quite some travel restrictions, which make it difficult to even occasionally visit the office. But hopefully, that will get a lot easier in the coming months.
LIEKE BOEREFIJN: So here's my answer to question number two about the impact of winning the NISO Plus Scholarship. So I was really pleased to be awarded with a NISO Plus Scholarship in 2021. Because it gave me some great opportunities. First of all, it was really good to meet a great group of other scholarship winners-- both past and present, and even future. It's nice that NISO brings all of us together and organized quite a few opportunities for us to meet and to connect.
LIEKE BOEREFIJN: Obviously, the highlight was attending the NISO Plus conference last year. There were many great sessions, which allowed me to engage with other professionals in the information industry, and learn a lot on topics like accessibility, for example. I also attended quite a few more educational events and webinars organized by NISO. So that was great, really to expand my knowledge and grow my network.
LIEKE BOEREFIJN: For me it was especially interesting to meet people outside the publishing bubble I tend to be in.
ROXANA DINU: This is my introduction. Hi, everyone. I am Roxana Dinu, and I work on the National Library of Romania. I apply for this scholarship because I was keen to be aware of advancements on standardization that I could transfer to the Romanian libraries, LIS professionals, and academics. How has the pandemic continuing to impact your professional life?
ROXANA DINU: This can include your working environment, interacting with colleagues, or professional development opportunities. Since COVID-19 pandemic has been broken out all sectors of society, different tasks that I perform at the National Library of Romania have been gone online and still keeping the same format. The live library tour dedicated to LIS students, librarians, and informational professionals.
ROXANA DINU: The exchange development programs with international colleagues attending professional meetings, conferences, and workshops. But to look on the bright side, this pandemic pushes people to come together virtually all over the world. Overcoming the geographic and financial barriers that face-to-face conference implies. What impact did winning the NISO Plus Scholarship and/or tending NISO Plus 2021 have on you.
ROXANA DINU: You can describe what was most useful, or changes you've made in response to things you learn at the conference. Being one or the NISO Scholarship awardees 2021 has given me the possibility to understand better the NISO mission and its multiple activities. And to get to know different people of its lovely team. By attending the NISO Plus conference, I was able to connect with several experts to learn from their enlightening talks and to be part of a highly-engaged audience.
ROXANA DINU: What role do you see librarians and information professionals in when it comes to addressing fake news, misinformation, and the censoring of information. Do you think this role is sufficient, or should information professionals strive to do more? Librarians and information professionals play an essential role in identifying, pointing out, and delivering information from qualitative and reliable sources.
ROXANA DINU: Especially nowadays when we are living in an age of disinformation and misinformation. One way they could involve actively in the process of the information evaluation is the literacy education. A good step is the collaboration with teachers of all grades, not only University level, in introducing informational literacy as a subject in the curriculum in order to train people to think critically, able to choose the right and efficient information.
ROXANA DINU: And to do that, the librarians must have the theoretical knowledge and experience that allow them to evaluate information, and to keep the pace with a cutting edge technologies. Thank you.
JIHYE LEE: Hi. My name is Jihye Lee. I'm an electronic resource cataloging librarian working at the [INAUDIBLE] library of Nova Southeastern University in South Florida, USA. I am one of 2021 NISO Plus Scholarship winners. Question one and two. How has the pandemic continuing to impact your professional life, working environment, interacting with colleagues, or professional development?
JIHYE LEE: I feel that this pandemic situation makes people antisocial, alienated, less engaged, or less motivated since we see that the future is very unpredictable. However, I think the pandemic also showed us that we can quickly adapt to new environment and find new ways or opportunities to make everything work well.
JIHYE LEE: I currently work in technical services department, and we try to have more staff engagement activities virtually, so that we can interact with colleagues, support each other, and keep the connections. Question five and six, what do you see as the biggest challenge for the information community in the next five or 10 years. And how do you think this challenge will affect your role as an information professional?
JIHYE LEE: I see that the need of information user community has changed and will change more in a post-pandemic future. So the biggest challenge will be how well and timely the information providers can keep pace with the user's needs and expectations. And I think this may also challenge us to become more creative in the ways of providing resources and services.
JIHYE LEE: As an information professional myself, particularly working on electronic resources, I feel a greater responsibility in providing a seamless access to the resources for the users as their needs to the digital content has increased a lot.
MICHELLE LEE: My name is Michelle Leigh and I'm a research and instruction librarian at Clayton State University located near Atlanta, Georgia in the United States. Question one. How has the pandemic continuing to impact your professional life. This can include your working environment, interacting with colleagues, or professional development opportunities.
MICHELLE LEE: The pandemic has impacted my professional life in a variety of ways. From changing where and how I work to changing how I participate in professional development. It seems like every part of our professional lives has had to adjust due to the pandemic. Some changes have worked out for the better, like more conferences are recording their sessions, so people can view them any time that works for them.
MICHELLE LEE: I still miss in-person conferences, though. Especially the serendipity of meeting new people and making connections. I've noticed that I don't make the same connections, or have the same opportunities to build up the same rapport with people in virtual conferences compared to in-person conferences. There's nothing quite like sitting at the same table as people you don't know, and having the chance to get to know them during the conference.
MICHELLE LEE: I've learned a lot from these sorts of interactions in the past and it's something that I've been missing since the pandemic started. Question two. What role do you see librarians and information professionals, and when it comes to addressing fake news, misinformation, and the censoring of information. Do you think this role is sufficient? Or should information professionals strive to do more?
MICHELLE LEE: As a librarian, I believe the library's role in addressing fake news, misinformation, and censorship has been to provide information and resources from reliable sources and multiple points of view, which lets our users access credible information through library resources. Libraries will no doubt continue to serve in this capacity, but I think libraries should strive for more. One area I think libraries should strive to do more in is digital literacy.
MICHELLE LEE: More and more information as well as misinformation is being shared through the internet. And libraries could help users learn to tell the difference between reputable websites or sources of information, and sources that may be less than reputable, or information that is incorrect. With these skills, users would be in a better position to identify misinformation they come across, which can have small and large implications and people's everyday lives.
IRA TAM: Hi, everyone. My name is Ira Tem. I'm one of the winners of NISO Plus 2021 Scholarship program. I now work at the Institute of Vocational Education in Hong Kong. I'm an assistant librarian in our technical services section. Here's answer to question one. How has the pandemic continuing to impact your professional life. In the last two years, I had fewer chances in interacting with other peers in person.
IRA TAM: Like everyone, I try to keep in touch with them by other means. Like messaging and virtual meet ups. For professional developments, I actually found more opportunities as there were way more webinars and virtual conferences during this period. I could join events in other countries, like NISO Plus that I normally could not participate in.
IRA TAM: Here's answer to question two. What impact did winning the NISO Plus Scholarship have on you. I think winning NISO Plus Scholarship help expand my professional life in this pandemic era by attending NISO Plus 2021 and subsequent NISO events in 2021. I can keep up with latest developments in our professional field. Plus, through the scholarship program, I had regular meet ups with NISO staff and other NISO Plus Scholarship winners around the world.
IRA TAM: I learned a lot from each of them. I believe this scholarship experience strengthens the foundation for my advancement of my career in the future. Other than that, I had an unexpected return from this Scholarship experience. Because of what I got from this scholarship throughout the past year, I believe I have become a better mentor in my workplace.
IRA TAM: I will continue to share what I got from this program with others in the future. Here's answer for question three. What do you see as the biggest challenge for the information community in the next five to 10 years. I think the biggest challenge for the information community in the near future will be to build the open infrastructures necessary for decentralized information sharing platforms.
IRA TAM: From the development of the internet in the past 10 years, we should learn to avoid monopoly of information sharing platforms operated by the big techs. One platform we lost in 2021 was Microsoft Academic, a citation database operated by Microsoft. One of the big five. Even though there are still other open citation databases available, Microsoft Academic with its APIs still left a big void in the field of scholarly content discovery.
IRA TAM: I think the event showed that information sharing can be easily avoided by big techs. Information community will need to work together to create open infrastructures so that system platforms operated by big techs can be easily replaced by open platforms. As an information professional, I believe these challenges will create some exciting opportunities that I can take part in.
SHARON WHITFIELD: My name is Dr. Sharon Whitfield. I am the electronic resources and user access librarian at Rider University. Rider University is located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, which is in Central Jersey. I applied for the scholarship so that there are more women represented in the development of standards. To answer the question, how has the pandemic continuing to impact your professional life-- my answer is-- New Jersey has been one of the United States that has been deeply impacted by the pandemic.
SHARON WHITFIELD: My state has had over 1.87 million people infected with COVID and close to 30,000 deaths. This has transformed how I live and work. As someone with a hidden illness, I enter every environment with caution. I am fortunate that my colleagues understand that I only want to interact with them virtually. I want to go into my office and shut the door, so I lessen my exposure to COVID.
SHARON WHITFIELD: And I only want to really take advantage of professional opportunities that are offered virtually. The pandemic has really made my physical world much smaller. However, it's really increased my virtual or online world tenfold. For example, as a NISO Plus Scholarship winner, I've been able to meet people from all around the world, and take part in conversations regarding standards and professional development.
SHARON WHITFIELD: These are things that I am extremely privileged to take advantage of. And so these virtual worlds and these virtual environments really helped me to stay engaged professionally and with my own personal work. Regarding the answer to question number three, what do you see as the biggest challenge for the information community in the next five to 10 years, and how do you think this challenge will affect your role as an information professional.
SHARON WHITFIELD: I think the biggest challenge for the profession is being a current technology advocate for our patrons. For instance, we're seeing-- we're starting to think about how to define what is the role of libraries and cyberbullying or digital violence. What role is the library going to have in creating the social norms in the metaverse.
SHARON WHITFIELD: How will libraries continue to advocate for technologies that are anti-racist? How do we have a profession that combats algorithmic bias, and how do libraries traverse the physical sphere and start advocating for patrons in a virtual sphere. I think these are the major challenges that I will encounter moving through my profession as a librarian. I think the key thing for our profession is that the librarians are recognized as experts who really need to be there at the table.
SHARON WHITFIELD: When canvases are starting the conversation around cyberbullying, librarians need to be there to advocate for our patrons and discuss policy. So we need to start really laying the groundwork that librarians are trusted professionals that really advocate for our patrons. And people-- we need to make sure that, that expertise comes across. For question number four, what role do you see librarians and informational professionals, in what comes to addressing fake news.
SHARON WHITFIELD: My answer is-- misinformation is leading to more autocratic governments, and yet the fundamental principles of library and information science are Democratic. So how libraries continue to coexist with autocracy. If we exist, what will our role in society be? I think we need to do more as librarians to advocate for our societies. Librarianship has always been a profession full of radicals.
SHARON WHITFIELD: We need to do more so that people understand how important it is to be information literate. I often use examples like phishing scams, and say you have to research to even determine if this email is real or fake. People need to realize that being able to evaluate information is an everyday skill. It's not just something for creating publications or doing research.
SHARON WHITFIELD: It's an everyday skill. We have to start talking about the fact that being an information professional is going to continue to be important in society. Having and being able to identify credible and accurate information is key for future employment. Libraries-- especially academic libraries, need to move beyond just thinking about research for getting your paper done, or publications.
SHARON WHITFIELD: We really need to start focusing on how being able to evaluate fake news and credible and accurate information is an everyday life concern. [MUSIC PLAYING]
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REBECCA MCLEOD: Hello. Welcome to the Scholarship Winners Session of NISO Plus 2022. I'm Rebecca McLeod, managing director of the Harvard Data Science Review, and a member of NISO's board of directors. I'm very pleased to be serving as your moderator for this exciting session. The NISO Plus Scholarship program was launched at the same time as the NISO Plus conference in 2020, in support of NISO's commitment to improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the information community.
REBECCA MCLEOD: Including this year's cohort, there are 40 participants to date from 16 countries. And in addition to attending the conference and NISO's monthly webinars, they're also encouraged to engage with our community throughout the year. The 2021 cohort has organized this session around the broad theme of the challenges and opportunities for them as information professionals whose voices are underrepresented.
REBECCA MCLEOD: Participating in today's panel are seven members of the 2021 cohort who each will share their thoughts on the challenges and opportunities they see in terms of their professional lives and career development. A live Q&A session will immediately follow the presentations. So without further ado, I'm very happy to introduce Melroy Amadea, Lieke Boerefijn, Roxana Dinu, [INAUDIBLE] Lee, Michelle Leigh, Ira Tamm, and Sharon Whitfield.
MELROY ALMEIDA: Hello, everyone. My name is Melroy, and I work with the Australian Access Federation, or as we like to call ourselves, AAF. AAF provides identity and access management solutions to the higher educations and research sector in Australia. I am one of the 2021 NISO Plus Scholarship winners. And one of the reasons I applied for the scholarship was because I felt that identity and access federations were quite underrepresented in NISO.
MELROY ALMEIDA: As well as there wasn't much awareness of NISO in Australia. How has the pandemic continuing to impact my professional life. This can include my working environment, interacting with colleagues, or professional development opportunities. I have never seen myself as someone who would opt to work from home. However, the pandemic changed that. With no other option, but to work from home for the first three to four months of the pandemic, it was quite interesting coming to grips with it.
MELROY ALMEIDA: I would say, working from home has now helped me manage my work life-balance better by allowing me the flexibility to deal with things. Work, as well as of a personal nature as and when they happen. I do miss interacting with my peers physically, especially at conferences and workshops. Attending it via Zoom is not the same, as conferences and workshops through Zoom are fairly transactional in nature.
MELROY ALMEIDA: And the organic conversations that I felt would take place at a conference, after a session, or at a workshop, led to a lot of new ideas and collaborations, which is quite hard to replicate with a Zoom conference. Now, what do I see as the biggest challenge for the information community in the next five to 10 years.
MELROY ALMEIDA: And how I think this challenge affects my role as an information professional. In the last few years, the amount of content on the internet available to people has increased fairly exponentially. Now, not all of it is accurate, or correct, and there is also a fair bit of misinformation available. And this will only continue to grow.
MELROY ALMEIDA: In the next five to 10 years as information professionals, we need to advocate and teach folks how to discern accurate information from misinformation, how to understand the context in which information has been curated, and also look up what the source of that information is. In my opinion, coming up with a way or means, or an idea to help individuals understand the curated information they're being exposed to will be one of the biggest challenges for the information community, and for us as information professionals.
LIEKE BOEREFIJN: Hi, everyone. My name is Lieke Boerefijn, and I'm platform manager at CABI, the Center for Agriculture and Biosciences in the UK. And I applied for the NISO scholarship last year because I expected it would give me great opportunities to meet interesting people, but also especially to participate in a NISO Plus conference, which had many interesting sessions planned.
LIEKE BOEREFIJN: So this is my answer to question number one about the pandemic. During a pandemic I started a new job and the office is actually located in the UK, whereas I'm based in the Netherlands. And pre-pandemic, I would never have even thought of the possibility of working for a company in a different country. So that's something really that the pandemic has brought me that I now work for this company that's abroad.
LIEKE BOEREFIJN: And it's perfectly fine because everyone's so much more used to working remotely. Doing everything via Zoom just makes everything quite easy. The only downside now is that there are still quite some travel restrictions, which make it difficult to even occasionally visit the office. But hopefully, that will get a lot easier in the coming months.
LIEKE BOEREFIJN: So here's my answer to question number two about the impact of winning the NISO Plus Scholarship. So I was really pleased to be awarded with a NISO Plus Scholarship in 2021. Because it gave me some great opportunities. First of all, it was really good to meet a great group of other scholarship winners-- both past and present, and even future. It's nice that NISO brings all of us together and organized quite a few opportunities for us to meet and to connect.
LIEKE BOEREFIJN: Obviously, the highlight was attending the NISO Plus conference last year. There were many great sessions, which allowed me to engage with other professionals in the information industry, and learn a lot on topics like accessibility, for example. I also attended quite a few more educational events and webinars organized by NISO. So that was great, really to expand my knowledge and grow my network.
LIEKE BOEREFIJN: For me it was especially interesting to meet people outside the publishing bubble I tend to be in.
ROXANA DINU: This is my introduction. Hi, everyone. I am Roxana Dinu, and I work on the National Library of Romania. I apply for this scholarship because I was keen to be aware of advancements on standardization that I could transfer to the Romanian libraries, LIS professionals, and academics. How has the pandemic continuing to impact your professional life?
ROXANA DINU: This can include your working environment, interacting with colleagues, or professional development opportunities. Since COVID-19 pandemic has been broken out all sectors of society, different tasks that I perform at the National Library of Romania have been gone online and still keeping the same format. The live library tour dedicated to LIS students, librarians, and informational professionals.
ROXANA DINU: The exchange development programs with international colleagues attending professional meetings, conferences, and workshops. But to look on the bright side, this pandemic pushes people to come together virtually all over the world. Overcoming the geographic and financial barriers that face-to-face conference implies. What impact did winning the NISO Plus Scholarship and/or tending NISO Plus 2021 have on you.
ROXANA DINU: You can describe what was most useful, or changes you've made in response to things you learn at the conference. Being one or the NISO Scholarship awardees 2021 has given me the possibility to understand better the NISO mission and its multiple activities. And to get to know different people of its lovely team. By attending the NISO Plus conference, I was able to connect with several experts to learn from their enlightening talks and to be part of a highly-engaged audience.
ROXANA DINU: What role do you see librarians and information professionals in when it comes to addressing fake news, misinformation, and the censoring of information. Do you think this role is sufficient, or should information professionals strive to do more? Librarians and information professionals play an essential role in identifying, pointing out, and delivering information from qualitative and reliable sources.
ROXANA DINU: Especially nowadays when we are living in an age of disinformation and misinformation. One way they could involve actively in the process of the information evaluation is the literacy education. A good step is the collaboration with teachers of all grades, not only University level, in introducing informational literacy as a subject in the curriculum in order to train people to think critically, able to choose the right and efficient information.
ROXANA DINU: And to do that, the librarians must have the theoretical knowledge and experience that allow them to evaluate information, and to keep the pace with a cutting edge technologies. Thank you.
JIHYE LEE: Hi. My name is Jihye Lee. I'm an electronic resource cataloging librarian working at the [INAUDIBLE] library of Nova Southeastern University in South Florida, USA. I am one of 2021 NISO Plus Scholarship winners. Question one and two. How has the pandemic continuing to impact your professional life, working environment, interacting with colleagues, or professional development?
JIHYE LEE: I feel that this pandemic situation makes people antisocial, alienated, less engaged, or less motivated since we see that the future is very unpredictable. However, I think the pandemic also showed us that we can quickly adapt to new environment and find new ways or opportunities to make everything work well.
JIHYE LEE: I currently work in technical services department, and we try to have more staff engagement activities virtually, so that we can interact with colleagues, support each other, and keep the connections. Question five and six, what do you see as the biggest challenge for the information community in the next five or 10 years. And how do you think this challenge will affect your role as an information professional?
JIHYE LEE: I see that the need of information user community has changed and will change more in a post-pandemic future. So the biggest challenge will be how well and timely the information providers can keep pace with the user's needs and expectations. And I think this may also challenge us to become more creative in the ways of providing resources and services.
JIHYE LEE: As an information professional myself, particularly working on electronic resources, I feel a greater responsibility in providing a seamless access to the resources for the users as their needs to the digital content has increased a lot.
MICHELLE LEE: My name is Michelle Leigh and I'm a research and instruction librarian at Clayton State University located near Atlanta, Georgia in the United States. Question one. How has the pandemic continuing to impact your professional life. This can include your working environment, interacting with colleagues, or professional development opportunities.
MICHELLE LEE: The pandemic has impacted my professional life in a variety of ways. From changing where and how I work to changing how I participate in professional development. It seems like every part of our professional lives has had to adjust due to the pandemic. Some changes have worked out for the better, like more conferences are recording their sessions, so people can view them any time that works for them.
MICHELLE LEE: I still miss in-person conferences, though. Especially the serendipity of meeting new people and making connections. I've noticed that I don't make the same connections, or have the same opportunities to build up the same rapport with people in virtual conferences compared to in-person conferences. There's nothing quite like sitting at the same table as people you don't know, and having the chance to get to know them during the conference.
MICHELLE LEE: I've learned a lot from these sorts of interactions in the past and it's something that I've been missing since the pandemic started. Question two. What role do you see librarians and information professionals, and when it comes to addressing fake news, misinformation, and the censoring of information. Do you think this role is sufficient? Or should information professionals strive to do more?
MICHELLE LEE: As a librarian, I believe the library's role in addressing fake news, misinformation, and censorship has been to provide information and resources from reliable sources and multiple points of view, which lets our users access credible information through library resources. Libraries will no doubt continue to serve in this capacity, but I think libraries should strive for more. One area I think libraries should strive to do more in is digital literacy.
MICHELLE LEE: More and more information as well as misinformation is being shared through the internet. And libraries could help users learn to tell the difference between reputable websites or sources of information, and sources that may be less than reputable, or information that is incorrect. With these skills, users would be in a better position to identify misinformation they come across, which can have small and large implications and people's everyday lives.
IRA TAM: Hi, everyone. My name is Ira Tem. I'm one of the winners of NISO Plus 2021 Scholarship program. I now work at the Institute of Vocational Education in Hong Kong. I'm an assistant librarian in our technical services section. Here's answer to question one. How has the pandemic continuing to impact your professional life. In the last two years, I had fewer chances in interacting with other peers in person.
IRA TAM: Like everyone, I try to keep in touch with them by other means. Like messaging and virtual meet ups. For professional developments, I actually found more opportunities as there were way more webinars and virtual conferences during this period. I could join events in other countries, like NISO Plus that I normally could not participate in.
IRA TAM: Here's answer to question two. What impact did winning the NISO Plus Scholarship have on you. I think winning NISO Plus Scholarship help expand my professional life in this pandemic era by attending NISO Plus 2021 and subsequent NISO events in 2021. I can keep up with latest developments in our professional field. Plus, through the scholarship program, I had regular meet ups with NISO staff and other NISO Plus Scholarship winners around the world.
IRA TAM: I learned a lot from each of them. I believe this scholarship experience strengthens the foundation for my advancement of my career in the future. Other than that, I had an unexpected return from this Scholarship experience. Because of what I got from this scholarship throughout the past year, I believe I have become a better mentor in my workplace.
IRA TAM: I will continue to share what I got from this program with others in the future. Here's answer for question three. What do you see as the biggest challenge for the information community in the next five to 10 years. I think the biggest challenge for the information community in the near future will be to build the open infrastructures necessary for decentralized information sharing platforms.
IRA TAM: From the development of the internet in the past 10 years, we should learn to avoid monopoly of information sharing platforms operated by the big techs. One platform we lost in 2021 was Microsoft Academic, a citation database operated by Microsoft. One of the big five. Even though there are still other open citation databases available, Microsoft Academic with its APIs still left a big void in the field of scholarly content discovery.
IRA TAM: I think the event showed that information sharing can be easily avoided by big techs. Information community will need to work together to create open infrastructures so that system platforms operated by big techs can be easily replaced by open platforms. As an information professional, I believe these challenges will create some exciting opportunities that I can take part in.
SHARON WHITFIELD: My name is Dr. Sharon Whitfield. I am the electronic resources and user access librarian at Rider University. Rider University is located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, which is in Central Jersey. I applied for the scholarship so that there are more women represented in the development of standards. To answer the question, how has the pandemic continuing to impact your professional life-- my answer is-- New Jersey has been one of the United States that has been deeply impacted by the pandemic.
SHARON WHITFIELD: My state has had over 1.87 million people infected with COVID and close to 30,000 deaths. This has transformed how I live and work. As someone with a hidden illness, I enter every environment with caution. I am fortunate that my colleagues understand that I only want to interact with them virtually. I want to go into my office and shut the door, so I lessen my exposure to COVID.
SHARON WHITFIELD: And I only want to really take advantage of professional opportunities that are offered virtually. The pandemic has really made my physical world much smaller. However, it's really increased my virtual or online world tenfold. For example, as a NISO Plus Scholarship winner, I've been able to meet people from all around the world, and take part in conversations regarding standards and professional development.
SHARON WHITFIELD: These are things that I am extremely privileged to take advantage of. And so these virtual worlds and these virtual environments really helped me to stay engaged professionally and with my own personal work. Regarding the answer to question number three, what do you see as the biggest challenge for the information community in the next five to 10 years, and how do you think this challenge will affect your role as an information professional.
SHARON WHITFIELD: I think the biggest challenge for the profession is being a current technology advocate for our patrons. For instance, we're seeing-- we're starting to think about how to define what is the role of libraries and cyberbullying or digital violence. What role is the library going to have in creating the social norms in the metaverse.
SHARON WHITFIELD: How will libraries continue to advocate for technologies that are anti-racist? How do we have a profession that combats algorithmic bias, and how do libraries traverse the physical sphere and start advocating for patrons in a virtual sphere. I think these are the major challenges that I will encounter moving through my profession as a librarian. I think the key thing for our profession is that the librarians are recognized as experts who really need to be there at the table.
SHARON WHITFIELD: When canvases are starting the conversation around cyberbullying, librarians need to be there to advocate for our patrons and discuss policy. So we need to start really laying the groundwork that librarians are trusted professionals that really advocate for our patrons. And people-- we need to make sure that, that expertise comes across. For question number four, what role do you see librarians and informational professionals, in what comes to addressing fake news.
SHARON WHITFIELD: My answer is-- misinformation is leading to more autocratic governments, and yet the fundamental principles of library and information science are Democratic. So how libraries continue to coexist with autocracy. If we exist, what will our role in society be? I think we need to do more as librarians to advocate for our societies. Librarianship has always been a profession full of radicals.
SHARON WHITFIELD: We need to do more so that people understand how important it is to be information literate. I often use examples like phishing scams, and say you have to research to even determine if this email is real or fake. People need to realize that being able to evaluate information is an everyday skill. It's not just something for creating publications or doing research.
SHARON WHITFIELD: It's an everyday skill. We have to start talking about the fact that being an information professional is going to continue to be important in society. Having and being able to identify credible and accurate information is key for future employment. Libraries-- especially academic libraries, need to move beyond just thinking about research for getting your paper done, or publications.
SHARON WHITFIELD: We really need to start focusing on how being able to evaluate fake news and credible and accurate information is an everyday life concern. [MUSIC PLAYING]
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