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.

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Free webinar - Decentering Whiteness in Information Literacy through Critical Theories and Methods

  • 1.  Free webinar - Decentering Whiteness in Information Literacy through Critical Theories and Methods

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    Please join us on Tuesday, February 24 at 12 PM EST for a free webinar - Decentering Whiteness in Information Literacy through Critical Theories and Methods. In this webinar, we review previous scholarship highlighting the racelessness of information literacy as a concept and a practice and discuss how we are using critical methodologies and theories to center the experiences and voices of Black and African American students through an exploration of research assignment experiences in secondary and postsecondary education. Click here to register. (Please note that this webinar will not be recorded.) Click here for more information about webinar or other upcoming Meaningful Inquiry webinars.



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    Amanda Folk
    Director of Libraries
    Denison University
    She/Her/Hers
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