Take Me Out To The Ballgame
A Love Story About Information
Infophilia, a Positive Psychology of Information | March 28, 2026 | Vol. 4, Issue 18
Artificial Intelligence | Information Styles | Intellectual Freedom | Toolbox | Wellbeing
Welcome to Infophilia, a weekly serial exploring how our love of information and connection can help us thrive, individually and collectively. A living lab, this is also one of the places where adaptive infophilia theory is being developed as public scholarship.
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Cite as: Coleman, A. S. (2026, March 28). Take me out to the ballgame: A love story about information. Infophilia, A Positive Psychology of Information, 4(18).
Signal & Noise
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The courts had something to say
Here’s a quick update to our winter series on intellectual freedom and FTC 6(b) orders, as well as information weaponization, addiction, and the Fogg-Eyal framework: in recent weeks, two separate civil juries found Meta, Google, and YouTube liable for negligent platform design causing mental health harm to minors — translating, in the language of tort law, much of what our essays and adaptive infophilia theory already named. Snap and TikTok settled before either jury saw their internal documents.
A librarian’s story, arriving in May
Robert Wedgeworth's memoir — Breaking Barriers: A Librarian's Story of Changing Times — will be published by Bloomsbury on May 14, 2026, as an ebook. Wedgeworth made history as the first African American Executive Director of the American Library Association (1972–1985) and later as President of the International Federation of Library Associations (1991–1997). His chapters trace a life spent at the center of American librarianship's most consequential moments: from Lincoln High School and Wabash College to becoming a librarian, new information technologies, the leadership of ALA and IFLA, and from the closure of Columbia's library school to the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign — home to one of America's largest academic library collections, historically ranked among the top three research libraries in the country. What this book has to do with the human love affair with information and connections will be another charming discovery.
Infophilia in print, and in the garden
A new book has been published by the American Library Association: Digital Literacy in Public Libraries by Jenna Kammer and Lauren Hays, associate professors who previously co-authored Digital Literacy Made Simple and co-edited Integrating Digital Literacy in the Disciplines. Their work applies digital skills across K–12 education and libraries, and this latest volume extends that project into the public library context. It came with a seed packet — Perennial Butterfly Garden Mix, courtesy of the CMSU Library Science department — which felt entirely appropriate for a spring week in which bees and butterflies are already doing their own research. We’re delighted to find infophilia listed in the index and defined in the book. Book review coming soon.
Now, for this week’s feature essay.