Annual Program 2010
Meeting Digital Natives Where They Are: New Standards for the New Student
Friday, June 4, 2010 Yale University West Campus, Building W-B25 Orange, CT

The ACRL/New England Library Instruction Group (NELIG) presents a one day program exploring ways that librarians are rethinking information literacy instruction in light of today’s student expectations, behaviors, and emerging technologies.

Registration (full)

Pre-event at Yale June 3rd

Directions
Campus Map
Lodging

10:30

Born Digital
Keynote Speaker: John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School
 

Breakout sessions (select one of the following concurrent sessions)

• Information Seeking Habits of College Students: Using Assessment to Help Build Better Information Literacy Programs
   - pdf version
  Mary Jane Sobinski-Smith and Joshua Becker, Western New England College

• Integrating Assistive Technology with Library Instruction
   - pdf version
  Candace Brown, Landmark College
• Quality Counts: Developing a Game for Information Literacy Instruction
   - pdf version
  Maura A. Smale, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
• Make No Assumptions: Incorporating the Student’s Viewpoint to Improve Library Spaces, Services, and Resources
  Susanna Cowan and Michael Howser, University of Connecticut

Lunch (with optional discussion roundtable discussions)

     Discussion table topics:

• Meaningful or Meaningless: ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards in 2010
• In through the back door: Harnessing back-door communication to enhance information literacy instruction
• ‘BFFs:  Broaden Faculty Following’ by Using Emerging Technology to Strengthen Relationships
• What Do I Write About? Approaches to Teaching Information Literacy Standard One

• A Perfect Storm: Cloud Computing and JiTT
   - libguide
  Ann Perbohner, Dartmouth College
• The Big Picture: Visual Storytelling in Library Instruction
  Nicole E. Brown and Erica Schattle, Emerson College
• Redefining Instruction for the Future
   - handout
  Sarah Walkowiak, Brandeis University

The Crossroads of Learning: Librarians and IT Professionals Banding Together to Embed Information and Technology Literacies into Undergraduate Courses
 - handout
Collaboration for Enhanced Learning Librarians: Clarence Maybee (presenter), Charlotte Droll (presenter), Debbie Krahmer, Francesca Livermore, Colgate University
 

Program Wrap-up