Pecha Kucha and Poster Session

Date: Tuesday, 23 September 2025

PechaKucha Session Location: Room MG1/00.04

Time: 10:45 – 11:30

Poster Session Location: Room MG1/02.06 & MG1/02.08

Time: 11:30 – 12:20

This dedicated session features six Pecha Kucha presentations in room MG1/00.04, followed by the display of fifteen posters in rooms MG1/02.06 & MG1/02.08. The posters are thematically grouped to highlight key areas of innovation and practice in information literacy, and are listed in the order of presentation.


🧠 Theme 1 – AI, Digital Tools & Emerging Technologies (MG1/02.06)

  • AI and Information Literacy: Step Forward or Step Back?
    Natalia Strak (University of Warsaw, Poland)
  • The Use of Generative AI in Academic Studies: A Study at Linköping University Library
    Rebecka Öhrn, Tatiana Liljeström, Mikael Rosell, Nelly Hagberg, Erika Crabo (Linköping University Library, Sweden)
  • How Good Are They? How Can AI Help? Analyzing the Quality of Systematic Literature Reviews in Business and Management
    Franziska Klatt (Technische Universität Berlin), Sabine Rauchmann (Universität Hamburg, Germany)

🧩 Theme 2 – Literacy Instruction, Pedagogy & Mentoring (MG1/02.06)

  • From Fragments to Cohesion: Developing a Sustainable Online Course for Foundational Information Literacy Instruction
    Katie Strand, Shawn Hall, Lara Petersen, Sara Szobody (Utah State University, USA)
  • Enhancing Information Literacy: Supporting Academic Success of Final-Year Students
    Muharrem Yilmaz (Kristiania University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
  • Building a Community of Training Librarians in French-Speaking Switzerland: How a Collaborative Bottom-Up Approach Reached to a Successful Conference Day
    Vincenzo Palatella, Carmen Cianfrani, Miriam Petrilli (EPFL, Switzerland), Elodie Anne Schwob (UNIGE, Switzerland)
  • Nurturing the Next Generation of Professionals: Transformative Peer-Based Student Mentoring for Career Development
    Michael Courtney, Meredith Knoff (Indiana University, USA)

🌍 Theme 3 – Societal Impact, Public Libraries & Inclusion (MG1/02.08)

  • Bridging the Gap Using NEET Youth as Information Literacy Ambassadors in Khuma (Stilfontein) Townships in South Africa
    Sabelo Ransome Chizwina, Dina Mashiyane (North-West University, South Africa), Karen Kaufmann (University of South Florida, USA)
  • Promoting Reading Among Adults – The Role and Responsibility of the Public Library
    Sara Nordlund-Laurent, Ira Cottier (Espoo City Library, Finland)
  • Information Literacy Meets Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Strategies at the NTNU University Library
    Almuth Gastinger, Astrid Kilvik, Turi Marte Brandt Ånerud (NTNU University Library, Norway)
  • Am I AI–Lost? What Information Professionals and Librarians Seek and Need to Stay Updated for Teaching AI-Driven Information Literacy
    Margarita Reibel-Felten (DGI, Germany), Tamara Heck, Sylvia Kullmann (DIPF | Leibniz Institute), Luzian Weisel (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences)

📚 Theme 4 – Media Literacy & Rhetoric (MG1/02.08)

  • News Literacy on Board (NEED): Outputs of an Erasmus+ Project
    Jasmina Ninkov, Bojan Kundacina (Belgrade City Library, Serbia), Serap Kurbanoğlu, Orçun Madran, İpek Şencan (Hacettepe University, Türkiye)
  • “What?” – The Q-drop Corpus’s Usage of Rhetorical Questions to Refer to Independent Information Retrieval
    Rikard Friberg von Sydow (Södertörn University, Sweden)
  • How to Keep Up with AI Tools in Academic Information Seeking
    Essi Lempiäinen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Nea Aleksiina Pälä (University of Turku, Finland)
  • AI-Powered Tools and Searching for Information in the Deep Web
    Sabina Cisek (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

💡 We strongly advise you to consult the presentation guidelines.

👉 For more details about the full ECIL 2025 program, visit the official conference schedule.