LOEX 2025: Full Schedule

Times for Breakout Sessions are just placeholders. Actual times will not be assigned until early April.

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Accessing our Voices: Building Inclusive Classrooms for Diverse Learners

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

This interactive session examines linguistic diversity and digital accessibility in the postsecondary classroom. Participants will engage in an immersive classroom experience to understand diverse student perspectives and identities. Building on this, the session explores strategies for creating inclusive pedagogical practices, including adapting teaching materials, designing digitally accessible documents, and fostering a culture that values diversity. Through hands-on activities, attendees will gain practical tools to support equitable learning environments and empower all students. Participants will leave with actionable insights to enhance inclusivity and accessibility in their own classrooms, promoting deeper understanding and collaboration among learners.

Presenters

Christie Zablocki

Senior Associate Librarian/Accessibility Lead, University of Michigan

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Advocacy and Justice: Paving Our Path

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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Coffee, Crafting, and Collaboration: Empowering Outreach Through Your Interests

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Looking to create dynamic library programs but unsure where to start? This interactive session will help you turn your own hobbies and skills into meaningful outreach that aligns with community needs. Through guided brainstorming, discussion, and a flexible programming framework, you'll explore ways to design engaging events while addressing common challenges such as resource limitations and institutional outreach. Walk away with a program outline and actionable steps to bring your ideas to life-no matter your library setting.

Presenters

Kaylee Harrington

Outreach and Instruction Librarian, South Puget Sound Community College

Electra Gupton

Director of Student Life, South Puget Sound Community College

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Collaboration and Outreach: Stitching Us Together

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic, At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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Uniting a Patchwork of Perspectives: Using Faculty Focus Groups to Collaborate on Inclusive Information Literacy Instructional Resources

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

In this "post-truth" era, students require more advanced skills in information literacy to succeed, while librarians lack the time and access to personally reach every student through the one-shot model. This interactive workshop will guide attendees in developing and facilitating their own faculty focus groups centered on integrating information literacy instruction into disciplinary coursework through an equity and inclusion lens. These focus groups combine the insight and perspectives of teaching faculty with the information literacy mastery of librarians to develop lesson plans and generate ideas for new library resources to support students.

Presenters

Emma Quinn

Learning and Curricular Services Librarian, St. John's University

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Collaboration and Outreach: Stitching Us Together

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic, At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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Curriculum Toolkit for Combatting the Spread of Mis- and Disinformation

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Community college library faculty from Seattle Central College partnered with Seattle's Black Brilliance Research Project as part of a National Science Foundation grant focused on combating the spread of mis- and disinformation. Data from participatory design sessions with students informed the team's process and the creation of a curriculum toolkit. The toolkit is a group of lessons organized by themes including trust, accountability, identity, and politics & power. This session will actively include attendees in a participatory design process to learn about the team's research, explore the toolkit, solicit feedback, and share ideas on using and adapting the lessons.

Presenters

Dave Ellenwood

Faculty Librarian, Seattle Central College

Allison Fader

Faculty Librarian, Shoreline Community College

Katy Dichter

Seattle Central College

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Frontiers and Innovation: Forging Our Future

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic, At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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From Passive to Active: Leveraging Interactive Technology Tools to Increase Student Engagement

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Crafting a future for information literacy instruction requires innovative approaches to student engagement. This workshop will introduce participants to interactive technology tools like Nearpod and Goosechase and demonstrate their potential to foster collaboration, creativity, and active learning during library instruction sessions. Attendees will explore these tools from both the student and instructor perspectives, participate in hands-on activities, and experiment with designing their own interactive lesson. Facilitators will also share practical tips and examples of successful implementations to inspire participants' confident use of these tools in their own teaching practices.

Presenters

Melissa Herzberg

Instructional Design Librarian, University of Alabama

Gabrielle Passick

Research and Instructional Services Librarian, University of Alabama

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Frontiers and Innovation: Forging Our Future

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic, At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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Race the Librarian: Crafting interactive activities for library instruction

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

In our library classes, we were seeking ways to make database instruction more engaging for our students. Follow our journey as we collaborated to craft and refine a "Race the Librarian" game that includes fun competition and prizes, but more importantly empowers students to be responsible for their own learning as they practice with (and explain!) Boolean operators, key words, and limiters in databases. Experience how you can develop similar activities for your classroom, and come play the game for yourself! (Recommended: Bring a laptop or tablet to play.)

Presenters

Toni Pilcher

Library Instructor, Brigham Young University

Karin Patrick

Library Instructor, Brigham Young University

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Frontiers and Innovation: Forging Our Future

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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Research Wizards

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Join this session to play Research Wizards, a new card game for source evaluation. Wizards must use reliable sources to research incantations for the battle, or their spells will fizzle. Wizards will define a variety of traditional and emerging information formats, discuss their relative reliability, and explore the variation in quality found within each format. Only one will win: could it be you? Attendees will play the game, learn about the process of its design, and go home with a link to use or adapt the deck for educational purposes.

Presenters

Lauren deLaubell

Information Literacy/Instruction Coordinator, SUNY Cortland

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Frontiers and Innovation: Forging Our Future

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic, At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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We Have to Do What Now?! Sustainable Innovation in Library Instruction Programs

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

While librarians often dive quickly into the latest pedagogies and technologies, many of us are experiencing trend fatigue. How can we incorporate artificial intelligence, new source evaluation techniques, and all the other cool things into our increasingly overstuffed instruction sessions, not to mention overstuffed brains? This presentation will take participants through the process of sustainable innovation, our collaborative and low-stress method of responding to emerging trends without losing focus on our core mission. We will highlight a GenAI microcourse and misinformation toolkit illustrating sustainable innovation in action, and participants will develop their own context-specific roadmaps for practical and impactful project implementation.

Presenters

Rob Detmering

Head of Research Assistance and Instruction, University of Louisville

Tessa Withorn

Science Librarian, University of Louisville

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Frontiers and Innovation: Forging Our Future

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic, At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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Who's Afraid of Little Old AI? Using an AI Literacy Framework to Create an Instruction Session

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

As the conscious use of AI tools becomes more prevalent in society so too does the need for the literacy framework to guide people in their exploration of AI. This interactive workshop will guide participants in using a new AI literacy framework to create an information literacy session. Participants will brainstorm information needs related to AI, create learning objectives and a teaching plan using a template to map AI competencies to their identified needs, and build activities to engage their learners.

Presenters

Sandy Hervieux

Head Librarian, Nahum Gelber Law Library, McGill University

Sandy Hervieux is the Head Librarian at the Nahum Gelber Law Library of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her research interests include reference services, information literacy, and the impact of artificial intelligence on user services.

Amanda Wheatley

Liaison Librarian, McGill University

I am the Liaison Librarian for Management, Business, and Entrepreneurship at McGill University. I'm also the Outreach and Engagement Coordinator for the Humanities and Social Sciences Library. My research interests include artificial intelligence, gamification, and entrepreneursh... Read More →

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Frontiers and Innovation: Forging Our Future

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic, At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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What's in it for me: Revisiting the labor on peer observations of librarian teaching

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

A narrative of peer observation and review of librarian teaching often frames the process as a task reluctantly undertaken by all involved. This workshop-based presentation will help cultivate ways for attendees to refresh or revise their libraries' peer review of teaching practice. One avenue of this is learning from the observed librarian colleague through reflection, reframing, and actionable steps, and including both formative and summative assessment. More holistically building a partnership into the work of observation can restore symmetry to the process and benefit everyone, and perhaps make the process better.

Presenters

Catherine Bowers

Librarian Associate Professor, Valdosta State University

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Research and Assessment: Shaping Our Practice

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic, At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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Killing Your Darlings: A ruthless inventory of a 'successful' instruction program

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Writers are commonly advised to "kill your darlings," to get rid of superfluous characters, sentences, or plot points in service of a more concise, compelling story. Understandably, these darlings are difficult to cut. Yes, we are talking about one-shots. This interactive workshop will lead librarians desiring change through a ruthless inventory of their instruction program to reimagine pedagogical goals. This workshop is based on efforts currently underway at LaGuardia Community College. We will share qualitative strategies and quantitative tools to aid the process. Participants will leave the session ready to take the first step towards change.

Presenters

Ian McDermott

Associate Professor, Coordinator of Library Instruction, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

Silvia Lin Hanick

Professor, Chief Librarian, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Stewardship and Leadership: Weaving Our Strengths

Intended Audience At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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Building Better One-Shots: Practical Approaches with Small Teaching

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

"Why do I have to learn this?" is a common refrain of students. James Lang's Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons in the Science of Learning offers strategies to foster meaningful connections, enhancing understanding and retention. This interactive workshop adapts Lang's techniques to one-shot library instruction, offering librarians practical, low-prep strategies to enhance teaching and learning outcomes. Attendees will create an action plan to integrate Small Teaching strategies into an existing lesson plan equipping them to deliver impactful, engaging library instruction despite time constraints. Attendees will leave with actionable ideas to improve student retention of key concepts.

Presenters

Emily Bush

Instruction and Digital Learning Librarian, Vanderbilt University

Ramona Romero

Assistant College Librarian for Arts & Sciences, Central Library, Vanderbilt University

Rachel Lane Walden

Assistant Director for Research and Education Services, Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center, Vanderbilt University

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Teaching and Learning: Honing Our Craft

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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Citation Needed: Weaving Together Citation and Information Sharing with WikiEdu

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Citation is a crucial part of academic information use and because of this librarians talk about it a lot, but it can be hard to engage students in conversations about why and what to cite. Editing Wikipedia articles can help students think more critically about finding, using, and sharing information sources and how citations can facilitate a conversation. This workshop will show how librarians can help students make small-scale edits to Wikipedia using activities and frameworks provided on WikiEdu. I'll talk about my experience with the WikiEdu platform and we'll do some activities that help us think about ways to use this in one-shots or longer class collaborations.

Presenters

Linnea Minich

Research and Instruction Librarian, Bowdoin College

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Teaching and Learning: Honing Our Craft

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic, At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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Information Literacy Instruction Trifecta: Universal Design for Learning, Culturally Responsive Teaching, and Andragogy in Action

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

This interactive workshop will outline three learning theory models pertinent to information literacy instruction and invite participants to model what these strategies look like in a one-shot. Three distinct but interrelated models discussed will be: Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), and Andragogy. We will briefly outline the main traits of each model and how they are similar. We will then break participants into three groups and facilitate a sample one-shot demonstrating elements that can be included to enhance effectiveness and engagement.

Presenters

William Ortiz

Instruction Librarian, California State University San Bernardino

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Teaching and Learning: Honing Our Craft

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic, At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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KeyWordPlay: The Role of Playfulness in Information Literacy

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

A library user takes an active role in searching. Their success not only depends on their knowledge of search strategies, but their tendency to persist and change their strategies on the fly. Successful searchers are those who experiment, explore... and play.

Join in on an exploration of playfulness and information literacy. Learn how the language of play can reframe the vocabulary of the ACRL Framework. See how various librarians have integrated games into library instruction to teach a balance of strategy and flexibility in time-limited classroom settings. Maybe even come up with some game ideas of your own.

Presenters

Jay Edwards

Instruction Librarian, University of Oklahoma

Jay Edwards joined University Libraries in August of 2008, and currently serves as the Circulation Supervisor for the Ruby Grant Fine Arts Library. He holds a Master of Library and Information Studies and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma. He has been improvising... Read More →

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Teaching and Learning: Honing Our Craft

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic, At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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One Size Does Not Fit All: Designing Library Instruction for Scalability

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Academic Libraries are responsible for meeting the diverse information needs of many different learners. We often find ourselves teaching similar content across different modalities and at different levels of expertise. This can keep us from focusing on the specialized or specific information needs of our learners. This workshop will introduce approaches to intentional and equitable design of library instruction resources for adaptability and scalability, using examples from several different cases. Participants will have the opportunity to develop their own scalable instruction plans.

Presenters

Caitlin Plovnick

Lead, Education & Curriculum Integration, NYU Health Sciences Library

Juliana Magro

Research and Education Librarian, NYU Health Sciences Library

Gregory Laynor

Systematic Review Librarian, NYU Health Sciences Library

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Teaching and Learning: Honing Our Craft

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic, At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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The Lost Art of Skilled Belief: Rebalancing Our Approach to Information Literacy

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

In response to rising distrust for expertise, the commodification of information and education, and continued lack of information literate behaviors, many librarians are looking for ways to advance critical thinking, but what if over-reliance on critical approaches (in our culture as much as our pedagogy) is part of the problem? What if information literacy sits in balance between skillful doubt and skillful belief?

This collaborative workshop will make the case for a more robust approach to critical thinking, one that engages 'methodological doubt' and 'methodological belief'. Come experience this dichotomy and consider whether it could catalyze your instruction.

Presenters

Kate Wimer

Research & Instruction Librarian, George Fox University

I'm a teaching and reference librarian who also wears outreach and engagement hats. I'd love to talk about:. - Information literacy, especially cross-walking ACRL frames to other university rubrics and outcomes. - Curiosity and wonder as postures for research. - Website design and... Read More →

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Teaching and Learning: Honing Our Craft

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic, At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop

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Unboxing Information Literacy: A Gamified Constructivist Approach to First-Year Experience Library Sessions

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Daemen University's First Year Experience (FYE) seminar incorporates an Information Literacy component led by the Research and Instruction team, joining asynchronous online modules with engaging in-person sessions. Last Fall, inspired by Project Zero's Thinking Routines, we introduced a "Mystery Box" activity: groups received two small items and collaboratively brainstormed keywords, scoped potential research topics, and navigated online library tools to find three relevant resources. The exercise fostered autonomy, creativity, humor, and hands-on learning. Faculty appreciated how this successfully addressed pinch points of freshman research skills, and were enthusiastic to adapt it to their own classrooms.

Presenters

Devon Cozad

Research and Instruction Librarian, Daemen University

Hello! I am a Research & Instruction Librarian at Daemen University, a private college located in Amherst, New York. I specialize in first year experience and information literacy instruction. I am also involved in campus conversations about supporting early adopters of genAI. As... Read More →

Thursday May 15, 2025 TBA

Teaching and Learning: Honing Our Craft

Intended Audience Brand new to the topic, At least some experience with the topic
Breakout Session Format Interactive Workshop