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CUNY LILAC sponsors the Critical Pedagogy Symposium May 17-19, 2023
Registration is now open for the Critical Pedagogy Symposium, which will be held virtually May 17th – May 19th, 2023, 12pm – 4pm EST. The virtual event is open to everyone. Use this link to register CUNY LILAC is proud to once again sponsor the Critical Pedagogy Symposium (CPS). CPS is a working symposium that is focused on […]
Welcome to Fall 2022
Welcome to the fall 2022 semester! LILAC meetings will continue virtually until further notice. Future meeting dates are: 9/13, 10/18, 11/15, 12/13. We look forward to chatting with you about instruction and working on our new projects. Best, Sharell Walker, LILAC Co-Chair
Spring Training Schedule
Please join us for our Spring Training on 6/1 and 6/2. You can view the schedule below and there is still time to register!
Spring Training – Call for Proposals
LILAC Spring Training Call for Proposals Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2022 – Thursday, June 2, 2022 Time: 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm (both days) Eastern Standard Time Format: Online Spring Training is back! We are looking forward to reflecting and reconnecting! LILAC is seeking proposals for 10, 20 and 30-minute presentations or workshops. Topics may […]
Ditching the Script: video making in coronatimes.
In March of 2020, when NYC went under “stay at home” orders, and CUNY campuses closed, instruction librarians had to spontaneously reconceptualize library instruction, alongside everyone else in education. As other librarians on this blog have documented, the teaching faculty on our campus were so overwhelmed by having to move their entire lesson plans online […]
Ain’t Miss Debatin’
Every semester, I teach two sets of information literacy sessions for one of the Speech Communication faculty, one session to work with the students on their informative speeches, and one for their persuasive speeches. These include one marathon day of back-to-back-to-back classes and then one lone class on another day. Way back in the other […]
Where’s My Blackboard? Do I Have Enough Food?: Thinking Back on Our Pandemic Pivot
It has been just over a year that CUNY instructors made a swift pivot into online teaching and learning. Having taught Blackboard-based English classes and a hybrid research-and-library instruction class on Canvas for other colleges, I volunteered to be the ersatz library liaison to my CUNY campus’s teaching faculty during the rather surreal pivot week […]
Lesson Plans Sheet
This Lesson Plans sheet is a collection of instruction material from contributing CUNY libraries, organized by LILAC. Our collection includes lesson plans, tutorials, handouts, and libguides focusing on library instruction, both one-shots and credit courses. For each lesson/learning object, we include the college that created the material, the teaching topic(s) covered, format, and relevant links. […]
Dis-Connected
I have taught a lot of synchronous IL instruction since we went remote a year ago. I did my first ones— a marathon morning of three speech classes in a row—on March 24, 2020 and since then, have taught another 55 session. Fewer sessions than what I would have done in person, but enough that […]
LILAC Instruction Chat 2/23/21
On this installment of the LILAC Instruction Chat, we heard from Emma Antobam-Ntekudzi, on her experience conducting instruction for a Nursing 100 (Gerontology) class. The class was tasked with finding evidence based practice research with very specific criteria (authored by a nurse, published in a nursing journal, published within the last 7 years, etc.). The […]
