Area: Data management
Scope Note: The development and execution of architectures, policies, practices, and procedures to manage the information lifecycle needs of an organization in an effective manner. Topics include:
- Copyright
- Data curation
- Information governance
- Information policy
- Information privacy
- Information security
- Intellectual property
- Knowledge management
- Records and information management
- Risk management
Area: Data science
Scope Note: Processes and systems to extract knowledge, social, and economic value in various forms, either structured or unstructured. Topics include:
- Altmetrics
- Bibliometrics
- Big Data
- Cloud computing
- Data mining
- Data visualization
- Data warehousing
- Informetrics
- Machine learning
- Natural language processing
- Webometrics
Area: Human-computer interaction & design
Scope Note: The relationship between people, groups, and societies and computing and information systems. Topics include:
- Artificial intelligence
- Computer-supported collaborative work
- Machine learning
- Mobile systems
- Social computing
- User interfaces
- Augmented reality
- Ubiquitous computing
Area: Information organization and retrieval
Scope Note: Processes and systems to effectively represent and organize, and retrieve information. Topics include:
- Abstracting
- Archival arrangement and description
- Classification
- Cataloging
- Cross-language information retrieval
- Indexing
- Interactive information retrieval
- Linked data
- Metadata
- Multimedia information retrieval
- Taxonomies
- Ontologies
- Semantic Web
- Social tagging
Area: Information practices
Scope Note: Processes and systems that examine the dissemination and use of information. Topics include:
- Censorship
- Education
- Information ethics
- Information literacy
- Information needs
- Information seeking
- Information use
- Intellectual freedom
- Print culture
- Reading and reading practices
- Reference transactions
- Scholarly communications
- Specific populations
Area: Education of information professionals
Scope Note: Methods and strategies to provide learning opportunities to information professionals. Topics include:
- Accreditation
- Administration
- Continuing education
- Curriculum
- Education programs/schools
- Online learning
- Pedagogy
- Research methods
- Standards
- Students
- Teaching faculty
Area: Information services
Scope Note: Specific contexts in which information sources are collected for, and disseminated to, target populations. Topics include:
- Academic libraries
- Archives
- Children’s services
- Collections development
- Community and civic organizations
- Community engagement
- Community-led services
- Digital Humanities
- Libraries in the developing world
- Museums
- Public libraries
- Publishing
- Readers’ advisory services
- School libraries
- Special libraries
- Young adult services
Area: Information technologies
Scope Note: The design, application, and evaluation of computers, storage, networks, and other devices to create, process, store, secure, and exchange all forms of electronic data. Topics include:
- Database systems
- Discovery systems
- Information system design
- Library technology systems
- Open source software
- Social software
- Social media
Area: Sociocultural perspectives
Scope Note: How individual behaviors are affected specifically by their surroundings, and social and cultural factors. Topics include:
- Critical librarianship
- Information rights
- Political economy of the information society
- Social justice
- Sociology of information
