Call for Proposals
2nd Annual LILi (Lifelong Information Literacy) Conference
Monday, August 3, 2015
9:00 am – 1:30 pm
Registration 9:00-9:30am
William H. Hannon Library
Loyola Marymount University
1 LMU Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90045
FREE Conference
Parking $10
Call for proposals now through Friday, May 1st
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sgZBawrr44TCYJWwsejN_WQeWaXG2Ek9IylSHGuLm34/viewform
Notification of acceptance by May 25th
Can public libraries, school libraries, academic libraries, and special libraries collaborate to promote information literacy and lifelong learning? Lifelong learning is not confined to childhood or the classroom, but takes place throughout a range of situations in life including the workplace. How do libraries of all kinds best engage with their communities and make creative partnerships to meet the challenges?
What has worked for you and your colleagues in helping children / students / teachers and faculty / job-seekers / veterans / seniors and more when teaching lifelong learning? How have you reached out to those in various library institutions to help each other with such efforts? Share your innovations, experimental attempts, successes and failures.
Kathy Gould, Director of the Palos Verdes Library District, will be the keynote speaker at the second annual LILi conference. Ms. Gould will address public library partnerships with schools and other community organizations, and how we work together to enhance both information literacy and lifelong learning. A panel of librarians from other types of libraries will react to her talk with ideas for bringing academic, school, and special libraries into the mix. The aim is to highlight a crucial area for cooperation and collaboration among different types of libraries toward a common goal: offering supportive, sequential information literacy instruction (ILI, including lifelong learning) for all levels and in all types of libraries.
The LILi (Lifelong Information Literacy) group invites you to submit proposals related to information literacy and collaboration for lifelong learning for 20-minute presentations and 10-minute lightning talks. Proposals will be blind-reviewed, so please do not include identifying information in the text of your abstract. Topic ideas include, but are not limited to:
- Collaborative or creative ILI partnerships among academic, school, special, and public libraries
- Collaborative or creative ILI partnerships between libraries and community organizations
- Sequential ILI across two or more institutions or organizations
- Collaborative or creative ILI partnerships between individuals in different types of libraries
- ILI co-teaching
- Marketing, publicity & promotion for collaborative ILI
- Establishing innovative ILI connections
- Outreach for ILI beyond a single institution or organization
- Collaborative or cooperative ILI programming
- Assessment of ILI partnership efforts
- ILI and Common Core Standards and/or California State Standards
- New, innovative ILI pedagogical approaches
Information Literacy lies at the core of lifelong learning. It empowers people of all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and educational goals. It is a basic human right in a digital world and promotes social inclusion of all nations. – Alexandria Proclamation on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning
2nd Annual LILi Conference 2015 https://sites.google.com/site/lifelonginformationliteracy/annual-conference-1
1st Annual LILi Conference 2014 https://sites.google.com/site/lifelonginformationliteracy/annual-conference-1
Questions?
Elisa Acosta (Loyola Marymount University)