The Innovative Library Classroom (TILC) 2025
Pre-conference Workshop, Poster Session, & Social on Thursday, June 5 and Conference on Friday, June 6, 2025
William & Mary, Williamsburg VA
Call for Proposals: TILC 2025 - "Teaching for a Sustainable Future"
We are excited to announce the call for proposals for 2025 The Innovative Library Classroom (TILC), centered around the theme "Teaching for a Sustainable Future." This conference will explore the multifaceted concept of sustainability within the realm of library instruction and information literacy, focusing on both ecological and educational perspectives.
Theme Overview:
Sustainability is crucial for building strong and knowledgeable communities and its principles are essential to fostering resilient, informed communities. In the context of library instruction and information literacy, sustainability can be interpreted in several ways:
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Environmental Sustainability: What are strategies for integrating environmental topics into information literacy instruction? How can libraries contribute to ecological awareness and action through teaching and learning?
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Information Sustainability: How do we teach students to navigate and preserve information responsibly?
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Educational Sustainability: How do we create lasting learning experiences and adaptable teaching methods that equip learners with skills for lifelong information literacy?
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Program Sustainability: How can we advocate for and implement sustainable practices for ourselves? How do we build sustainable library instruction programs that meet the evolving needs of our learners?
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Cultural and Social Sustainability: How do we promote equity, diversity, and inclusion within information literacy programs to support marginalized and under-represented communities?
We hope this theme will help you brainstorm ideas, but we will welcome any proposals related to innovative practices related to teaching and learning in libraries. Our conference attendees especially appreciate stories of practical application.
Proposals are invited for four different session types
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2-hour pre-conference workshop (presented Thursday afternoon before the poster session)
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Posters (presented at the Thursday evening social)
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50-minute presentations
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5 to 7 minute lightning talks
Carefully consider which format would work best for your topic:
A pre-conference workshop should have broad appeal and incorporate a mix of presentation, hands-on activities, and opportunities for brainstorming practical application.
Presentations are best for sharing activities, lesson plans, etc that have broad appeal and can be easily reproduced at most libraries, or for exploring a topic of wide interest and is intended to promote discussion. The most effective presentations often combine practical application with a grounding in scholarship or theory.
Posters are best for case studies that are more unusual, or ones that are interesting but not easily replicable. They are excellent for one-on-one discussions.
Lightning talks are intended for quick shares about an activity or tool, or an idea intended to promote new ways of thinking.
Selection process and timeline:
Proposals will be peer reviewed and then selected by the conference organizers to ensure that TILC offers sessions on a range of topics from a diverse set of institutions and presenters. Note that you may be invited to present in a format other than the one you proposed. You can see the questions that our peer-reviewers are asked to answer about each presentation here.
Submission deadline: Friday, November 22, 2024
Acceptance notification: mid-January 2025
We are planning for an in-person conference. We will follow the best safety practices as recommended by the CDC, Virginia Library Association, and William & Mary. We are prepared to cancel the conference if needed. (We do not have the budget or equipment to do a hybrid conference.)
We expect registration to be about $70 with an additional fee for the pre-conference workshop.
Poster, session, and lightning talk presenters will be offered a reduced registration. Workshop presenters will have their registration fees waived and will receive an honorarium of $200 in total, to be divided among the presenters. All presenters are responsible for their own travel costs.
Full details and links to the proposal forms are available at: http://theinnovativelibraryclassroom.weebly.com/
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Jennifer Resor-Whicker
University Librarian
Radford University
She/Her/Hers
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