LIRT (Library Instruction Round Table)

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The mission of the Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) is to provide a forum for discussion of activities, programs, and problems of instruction in the use of libraries; to contribute to the education and training of librarians for library instruction; to promote instruction in the use of libraries as an essential library service, and to serve as a channel of communication on library instruction between the ALA divisions, ALA and ACRL committees, state clearinghouses, Project LOEX, other organizations concerned with instruction in the use of libraries, and members of the Association.

Learn more about LIRT on the ALA website.

Going Where the User Takes Us: Instruction beyond the Library Classroom

  • 1.  Going Where the User Takes Us: Instruction beyond the Library Classroom

    Posted Jun 14, 2013 06:29 AM
    Sunday June 30th, 2013

    1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

    McCormick Place Convention Center, S106b

     

    Please join us for the Library Instruction Round Table program during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.  If libraries want to remain relevant and vital to their communities, they need to reach out to their users in virtual and physical spaces beyond the traditional library walls.  Library instruction is no different.  It needs to go beyond the traditional library classroom with 20 computers and a white board.  Instruction can occur when a school library works with teachers to aid them in teaching information literacy skills in their own classrooms.  Instruction can occur when a public library offers a media lab designed for young adults to experiment and learn.  Instruction can occur when an academic librarian works with a residential college to provide instruction.  This program will explore how libraries are doing library instruction outside of the traditional classroom, how it benefits patrons, and how other libraries can implement similar instruction initiatives. 


    Speakers will include Nichole Pinkard, Visiting Associate Professor in the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University and co-founder of Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia space, Lynda Kellam, Data Services and Government Information Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and from the Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, TN, Kristin Bernet, the Upper School Librarian, and Alice Bryant, the Middle School Librarian.


     



    For more information, please visit: http://fleetwood.baylor.edu/lirt/program.html

     

    We hope to see you there!