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.
The Meaningful Inquiry Team is actively putting together a lineup of online webinars for the fall semester, and we're excited to share the webinars that have been scheduled already! More complete information can be found on this site, and this site will also be updated with any additional webinars once we have the dates and times pinned down.
You can access registration information by clicking on the hyperlinked title. At this time, we do not intend to record these, though slides and other ancillary materials might be available for sharing.
Monday, September 28, 12 – 1 PM (Eastern) TILTing Research Assignments Katie Blocksidge and Jane Hammons
Wednesday, October 14, 12 – 1 PM (Eastern) Making Reading Visible Michelle Gabay
Monday, November 9, 12 – 1:15 PM (Eastern) Navigating the Novice-Expert Research Gap: An Information Literacy Taxonomy The Meaningful Inquiry Team
Monday, November 16, 12 – 1 PM Crossing Information Literacy Thresholds: A New Model to Scaffold Learning Amanda Folk
Tuesday, December 1, 12 – 1 PM (Eastern) Motivating Through Meaningful Research Assignments Hanna Primeau and Amanda Folk
We also hope that you'll check out our companion workshop series – Teaching Information Literacy – which also has a wonderful lineup of offerings. Both Meaningful Inquiry and Teaching Information Literacy workshops are free to attend, and all who are interested are welcome – librarians, instructors, graduate students and teaching assistants, instructional designers, etc. We hope to see you again at some point this semester!