Information Literacy Active Learning Conference

Emmanuel College, Fenway Room

The event will include an active learning workshop followed by a panel with time for discussion. It will feature instructors from the Dartmouth Librarians Active Learning Institute (LALI).

Schedule:  

10:00 – 10:30        Registration and morning refreshments

10:30 – 10:35        Welcome 

10:35 – 10:55        Keynote speaker (Annie Soisson)

10:55 – 11:10        Break

11:10 – 11:30        Panel Discussion

11:30 – 11:40        Questions for the panel and speaker

11:40 – 12:40        Active Learning Workshop (LALI)

12:40 – 1:00         Q&A/Wrap Up

Please join us for the next Fenway Library Organization, Information Literacy COI event centered on the intersection of information literacy instruction and assessment.

We will start the morning hearing from our keynote speaker, Megan Oakleaf, Associate Professor in the iSchool at Syracuse University where she teaches “Reference and Information Literacy Services” and “Planning, Marketing, and Assessing Library Services.” Her research interests include outcomes assessment, evidence-based decision making, information literacy instruction, information services, and digital librarianship. She is the author of the Value of Academic Libraries Comprehensive Review and Report and Academic Library Value: The Impact Starter Kit.” Megan will be presenting via Zoom webconferencing.

Later in the morning we will have a panel discussion with an interesting balance of perspectives between librarians providing instruction, library administrators, faculty, and learning technology innovators. Our panelists include:

Elizabeth Berman, Assistant Director, Tisch Library, Tufts University

Shanti Freundlich, Online and Educational Technology Librarian, MCPHS

Juval Racelis, Assistant Professor, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tes Zakrzewski, Learning Innovation & Technology Director, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Not Throwing Away My One-Shot:

Implementing Critical Information

Literacy Pedagogy in One-Shot Instruction

Sometimes librarians only get one shot to connect with their users in instruction sessions. How can staff make the most of these one-shot sessions and still incorporate critical pedagogy? Explore this question in a conversation with a panel of library and information science staff, and in a hands-on discussion workshop.

Critical pedagogy in librarianship means providing users with an understanding of the power structures behind information production and with the research skills and thought processes to find resources that go beyond the peer-reviewed journal, to include content from diverse contexts, nontraditional media, or other valuable materials outside the typical publishing hierarchy.

This event will feature a round-table panel discussion with an introduction to the concept of critical pedagogy and how to incorporate these ideals into one-shot instruction sessions. Explore the challenges librarians face in incorporating critical pedagogy into their educational services and learn more about the strategies for overcoming these obstacles.

Panelists include: Dawn Cadogan and Caro Pinto, chapter authors for the ACRL Handbook of Critical Library Pedagogy, Shanti Freudlich the Online and Educational Technologies Librarian at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Maric Kramer the Academic Outreach Librarian for the Social Sciences at Brandeis University, and Dawn Stahura the Research and Instruction Librarian for Social Sciences and Zine Librarian at Simmons College.

In this presentation, the Director of Project Information Literacy (PIL), Alison Head, presents qualitative findings from their latest study on library learning space design, which is part of a new research initiative at PIL called "The Practitioner Series." During 2016, PIL team of researchers conducted 49 in-depth interviews from 22 different academic library projects in the U.S. and Canada, including two projects in Massachusetts at Stonehill College and Northeastern University.

The session will feature a discussion about what library learning space means today, based on coding results from the interviews, and what best—and worst—practices librarians and architects have learned from their recent projects. Attendees will learn how students' information and learning needs are being met so they can make informed decisions about, and investments in, their own library projects.

Alison Head, Ph.D. is an information scientist and social science researcher. She is founder and director of the national and ongoing research study, Project Information Literacy (PIL), a study of college students' research habits in the digital age. She is a Fellow at the metaLAB at Harvard University and a Visiting Scholar in University Libraries at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Since 2009, she and her small research team have interviewed or surveyed over 13,000 U.S. college and university students at 60 different US institutions. A research report from the library learning space study will be released in the mid-November 2016.