(via CARLI) The School of Social Work at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has created a self-paced online training course for library staff on navigating mental health situations that patrons experience and how to interact with those patrons, “Working with Mental Health Situations in Library Settings“. The training course is intended to provide a basic…
Month: February 2024
Call for Proposals: ACRL Critical Digital Humanities Cookbook–Deadline Fri., Feb. 23
(via Fiona Kovacaj, Toronto Metropolitan University) We are accepting chapter (“recipe”) proposals on instructional activities for teaching about the Digital Humanities through a critical lens. Activities in this cookbook will encourage participants to think about theoretical and methodological issues in the field. Some theoretical paradigms/frameworks that can be applied to the recipes include critical media…
Registration Open for Free Online Panel Discussion and Q&A “Exploring Librarianship as a Profession”–Tues., Feb. 20, 3:00-4:30 PM CDT
(via Gwen Gregory, Northern Illinois University) Registration is open for the free online presentation “Exploring Librarianship as a Profession”. It will take place on Tuesday, February 20, from 3:00 to 4:30 PM CDT. The event will consist of a panel discussion, followed by a Q&A. Indiana University’s Bloomington campus library is the host. Are you…
Call for Participants: Hackathon to Develop Teaching and Learning Materials for AI literacy (Wed., April 3, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA)–Deadline Mon., Feb. 5
(via Emily Bongiovanni, Carnegie Mellon University) Participate in the creation of a dynamic, multimodal, diverse, sustainable collection of openly-licensed materials to enhance algorithm and AI literacy! The Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Libraries is hosting a hackathon to develop teaching and learning materials for AI literacy. The goal of the Hackathon is to gather academic librarians,…
Registration Open for Next ACRL STS Hot Topics Discussion, on Information Literacy in the Sciences–Tues., Feb. 20, at 1:00 PM CDT
(via Sandy Avila–SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics) Please join the ACRL STS Hot Topics committee in a discussion with Mike Caulfield about his new book and how STEM librarians can leverage the SIFT method to support the STEM community in verifying online information sources. The presentation will take place on Tuesday, February…
Registration Open for Next LILi Show & Tell, “Two-Shots Instead of One: Using the Flipped Classroom to Teach Information Literacy”–Wed., Feb. 7, at 12:00 PM CDT
(via Esther Grassian, University of California – Los Angeles) Registration is open for the next free LILi (Lifelong Information Literacy) Show & Tell webinar, “Two-Shots Instead of One: Using the Flipped Classroom to Teach Information Literacy”. It will take place on Wednesday, February 7, at 12:00 PM CDT. The presenter is Michelle Sanchez, Reference Librarian…