The LOEX 2022 Conference Planning Committee invites
1) graduate students in library and information science programs and 2) library fellows and residents to submit proposals to host a poster session at the 50th Annual LOEX Conference. The conference will be held May 5-7, 2022.
Poster sessions should visually convey research in the areas of instruction and information literacy. They typically take the form of an exhibit and should include brief narratives, data, and graphics that quickly summarize the presenter's research. Successful poster proposals reflect elements of one (or more) of the conference tracks.
Proposal Tracks
- Pedagogy: Instructional Nuts & Bolts
It’s essential that we help students build a foundation for their own learning. Give us your blueprint to student success: How do you use instructional design principles, learning outcomes/objectives, or authentic engagement activities to foster student learning? How do you create a classroom engaged in critical, anti-racist discourse? What practices do you use to keep your classrooms humming with learning? How do you adapt your instruction to meet the needs in online and hybrid learning environments? \
- Assessment: Building in Quality Control
Grab your clipboard and tell us how you measure instructional output and impacts. How do you ensure total quality management of student learning? Have you found ways to mass produce meaningful and authentic assessment around your library instruction? How have you represented diverse voices and perspectives in your measurement initiatives? This part of our work has always been important, but it is mission critical and offers potential for future growth.
- Innovation: R&D in Information Literacy Instruction
Necessity is the mother of invention! How have you adapted your instructional role for changing times? How are you rethinking library spaces, tools, technology, resources, and instructional formats to reimagine what information literacy can look like? What theories or techniques have been the engines in moving your classroom forward? Tell us about your own instructional research and development, and how new discoveries are reshaping your teaching approaches.
- Leadership: Stepping Up to the Line
Leaders are built at all points along the line -- in formal and informal ways. Half of the battle is leading from where you stand! How are you establishing your library, your instruction program, or yourself as a leader in information literacy at your institution? Share your advice on developing leadership skills, managing larger-scale instructional projects, or advancing your library’s teaching presence on campus
- Failures and Problem-Solving: Overhauling and Reinventing
Even the best designs have flaws, and failure is often part of the process. How have you transformed failures into successes? How have you developed problem-solving skills and strategies? What strategies have you used to break through bottlenecks in students’ learning?
- Collaboration and Outreach: Assembling Diverse Production Teams
Instructional allies are key to any information literacy instruction effort. How have you developed partnerships to respond to changing climates at your institution? How have you forged strategic alliances to advance an inclusive vision of your institution? What are the strategies you’ve used to maintain existing or longstanding partnerships? How do you know when a collaboration reaches the end of the line and it’s time to part ways?
Proposals can be submitted only through the
online submission form and must be received by
Monday, January 31, 2022.
More details are provided on this website: LOEX Poster Proposals