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LILAC Spring Training Call for Proposals
Call for Proposals/ Potential Sessions
LILAC Spring Training: Up Your Game!
Practical innovations beyond traditional information literacy
Friday, June 8th, 2018
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
CUNY Central
205 East 42nd Street
We are seeking proposals for 10-45-minute presentations, discussions, or workshops on any of the following information literacy topics:
- How I learned to stop worrying and love OneSearch
- New approaches to “fake news”
- Student agency in the research process
- OER – teaching beyond the firewall
- Information literacy and resistance in action beyond academia
- Public higher education and social justice
- New kinds of skills our students are expected to master
- … or any other information literacy innovation
Event Format:
- Welcome
- Opening ice-breaker activity
- 10 minute break
- Breakout sessions (10-45 minute, multiple concurrent sessions)
- 10 minute break
- Session sharing and wrap-up
Please submit a description for a 10-45 minute breakout session using this form.
Deadline: April 15, 2018
Not sure about presenting? Register to attend the June 8th event here.
Registration is required.
LILAC Spring Training Committee:
Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, co-chair
Daisy Domínguez, co-chair
Anne Leonard
Linda Miles
Robin Brown
Julie Turley
Jonathan Cope
CuPL – CUNY Libraries Branch Out!
CuPL : CUNY Libraries Branch Out
Monday, April 13th – Saturday, April 18th, 2015
How do we connect the resources of CUNY libraries with the life-long learning possibilities of Branch libraries? Are our current and future students aware of resources outside of their campus libraries?
Monday, April 13th – Saturday, April 18th, 2015, participating CUNY campuses will Branch Out!
Teaming with participating branch libraries, the first ever CuPL: CUNY Libraries Branch Out initiative will bring branch libraries to CUNY campuses all in one week.
CuPL: CUNY Libraries Branch Out is a collaborative effort between librarians at the City University of New York, and librarians in the public libraries throughout NYC. The goal is to enhance use of systems across institutions and make current, former, and future students aware of local resources for academic research success as well as lifelong learning.
2015 Participating CUNY Libraries
LaGuardia Community College Monday 4/13 |
teams with Queens Public Library |
College of Staten Island Monday 4/13 |
teams with Richmondtown Branch |
Lehman College Monday 4/13 |
teams with Robyn Saunders from the Career, Education and Information Services (CEIS) at the Bronx Library Center |
York College Tuesday 4/14 |
teams with Queens Public Library |
Queens College Wednesday 4/15 |
teams with Queens Public Library |
Kingsborough Community College Wednesday 4/15 |
teams with Sheepshead Bay Library |
City Tech Wednesday 4/15 |
teams with the Info Commons at Central Branch |
Hostos Community College Thursday 4/16 |
teams with Bronx Public Library main branch |
Brooklyn College Thursday 4/16 |
teams with Central Library’s Society, Sciences Technology Division |
Guttman Community College Friday 4/17 |
teams with NYPL Midtown for a library card drive |
BMCC Saturday 4/18 |
teams with the New Amsterdam Branch for BMCC’s career fair |
To receive more information on CuPL : CUNY Libraries Branch Out, contact the CuPL representative:
NYPL – Rebecca Federman & Carolym Broomhead
Queens Public Library – Kim McNeil –Capers
Brooklyn Public Library – Melissa Morrone
CUNY Libraries – Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz
CuPL : CUNY Librarians Branch Out is a sub-committee of LILAC and includes the following librarians
(list in formation):
Carolyn Broomhead, New York Public Library
Robin Brown, BMCC
Diane Dimartino, OLS
Robert Farrell, Lehman
Rebecca Federman, New York Public Library
Julia Furay, Kingsborough Community College
Meagan Lacy, Guttman Community College
Tara Lannen-Stanton, Queens Public Library
Miriam Laskin, Hostos Community College
Galina Letnikova, LaGuardia Community College
Kim McNeil–Capers, Queens Public Library
Jesse Montero, Brooklyn Public Library
Melissa Morrone, Brooklyn Public Library,
Evelyn Muriel Cooper, New York Public Library
Shawnta Smith, Graduate Center
Amy Stempler, College of Staten Island
Di Su, York Community College