Melissa Vee Rentchler

This active topic examines AI as part of library infrastructure, with a strong focus on semantic web, linked data, ontologies, knowledge access, and the human labor behind digital systems.

This active topic blends family-law guidance, law librarianship, legal research instruction, copyright, Creative Commons, and legal information management. Its center is law as a field where good information practices matter.

This earlier library-learning topic built a large base around critical literacy, misinformation, school librarians, edtech, gamification, and libraries as active learning infrastructure.

This dormant topic followed digital literacy as both pedagogy and access infrastructure, from classroom frameworks and digital citizenship to the digital divide, Wi-Fi, BYOD, and public access programs.

This topic covered information literacy as a practical toolkit: fake-news detection, copyright, digital citizenship, search skills, source evaluation, and research instruction for schools and libraries.

This topic explored education reform, school choice, competency-based learning, future jobs, fake news, and the role of school librarians in information literacy and institutional change.

This health-science topic followed stress, meditation, immunity, inflammation, epigenetics, cancer, aging, the microbiome, and the broad terrain of mind-body research.

This topic examined epigenetics, gene regulation, trauma, inherited risk, intelligence, consciousness, and the idea that biology is shaped by environment and experience.

This topic followed chronic inflammation, gut health, diet, autoimmune disease, mental health, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, and a more advocacy-leaning concern about food systems and environmental exposures.

This topic mapped radicalization, terrorism, mental illness, social exclusion, poverty, tribalism, unemployment, and powerlessness as intersecting sources of public risk and social breakdown.

This topic linked pollinator decline, pesticides, native bees, biodiversity, seed banks, ethnobotany, and plant-based medicine into a combined ecology-and-health archive.

This topic followed lifelong learning, cognitive science, creativity, MOOCs, mobile learning, computational thinking, and the practical skills of learning how to learn.

This topic covered equitable access through broadband, libraries, disability access, open courseware, global connectivity experiments, and education in low-resource settings.

This topic covered social media as a learning and professional-practice tool, with attention to classroom use, social content selection, posting workflows, and academic adoption.

This topic followed assistive and adaptive technology for disability access, from captioned phones and screen-reader resources to deaf-blind communication tools, accessible course design, and inclusive media services.