(via Esther Grassian, University of California Los Angeles)
Registration is open for the next LILi (Lifelong Information Literacy) Show & Tell webinar, “Pedagogy, Personability, and Library Intimidation: Recommendations for Instruction Librarians”.It will take place on Wednesday, April 16, at 12:00 PM CDT.
Library anxiety inhibits students’ progress toward research goals and often deters them from viewing the library as a supportive space. By utilizing principles from Relational Cultural Theory (RCT), which argues that students understand class content through connection, instruction librarians can integrate personability into teaching. This ensures that the class remains active everything from instruction to lessons to students is continuously engaging. While we possess prior knowledge and expertise and understand the professor’s expectations for the library session, we come prepared with preconceived notions about how the lesson will be. Nonetheless, this process can influence the overall classroom environment, as some students may still struggle to engage or grasp the skills being taught. This presentation offers recommendations for librarians to cultivate practical instructional techniques rooted in RCT that alleviate library intimidation and enhance student engagement.
Register here. View all upcoming LILi Show & Tell sessions here.
LILi is a group of librarians, library staff, and information professionals from various types of libraries, investigating information-literacy definitions, standards and, instruction. The goal of these efforts is to craft effective models of lifelong, sequential information-literacy instruction.