Information and Democracy: Education, Access, Libraries, and Society (ID:EALS)
ID:EALS 2025 – 2026 Virtual Speaker Series
The Institute is excited to host ID:EALS, a six-part series of research talks this year. ID:EALS will feature innovative information focused researchers whose work is advancing information literacy knowledge and practice.
Advancing Women’s Health Information Literacy: Global Researcher Spotlights
Leili Seifi and Neda Zeraatkar will present their research project, “Access and Strengthen Health Information Literacy: A Toolkit to Alleviate Information Poverty in Pregnant Rural Women in Iran.”
Professor Anwarul Islam will share his team’s ambitious project, “AI and Health Information Literacy: A Study Exploring the Perceived Usefulness, and Readiness Among Women in South Asia.”
Monday, November 17, 2025, 10-11am EST via Zoom.
Evidence-based Mindsets in an Era of Information Confusion: An Information Literacy Approach
Professor Bill Badke, Associate Librarian for Information Literacy and Associated Canadian Theological Schools at Trinity Western University, will share his recent work on fostering evidence-based mindsets in information literacy education.
Informed Research in Practice: Libraries Empowering Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers
We are thrilled to kick off the ID:EALS 2025-26 speaker series with an interactive discussion with Dr. Christine Bruce and Dr. Susan Gasson about their work developing the Faces of Informed Research, a model that supports librarians in their work with graduate students and early career researchers.
During the session, attendees will be encouraged to share their views and ideas for empowering graduate students and early career professionals.
ID:EALS Symposia
Previously, the Institute hosted Information and Democracy: Education, Access, Libraries, and Society (ID:EALS) as symposia. They highlighted the work of notable information literacy researchers and placed them in dialog with politicians, businesspeople, educators, students, and others on the frontlines of combatting information disorder, such as health disinformation, information conspiracies, and other unethical uses of information affecting our society.