Webinar: Attention in LIS

There is a webinar organised by the ACRL Contemplative Pedagogy Interest Group on 29 April 2026 at 14.00 US Eastern time, 19.00 BST: Attention in LIS (Library and Information Science).  The speaker is Hugh Samson (Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University in Canada).
"This talk examines the concept of attention as an emerging concern in LIS. It proceeds through three guiding questions. First, What is attention? The talk briefly surveys accounts in which attention is understood as a selective orientation of consciousness and a mechanism that structures perception and cognition. Second, Why does it matter? In contemporary information environments characterised by abundance, attention functions as a limiting condition that shapes what information becomes visible, credible, and sustained. Finally, How might LIS examine it? The talk outlines possible lines of inquiry focusing on attentional infrastructures, literacies, and practices."
Register at https://ala-events.zoom.us/meeting/register/4tzumZcIT_eaMa_O_nktgg#/registration
Photo by Sheila Webber: cherry trees, Sheffield, March 2026