Curious how to more fully engage faculty and students in library instruction? Interested in improving your instruction skills? Simply swamped with all those scholarly readings, you keep meaning to get to?

Well, I’m pleased to announce the start of the new Library Instruction Journal Club (LIJC)!*

This summer, we are launching a pilot program that will meet the 3rd Monday of each month in room 322 for one hour. Each month, a different presenter will select one (or two) scholarly articles to read. He/she will then guide a discussion central to the topic.

Anne Marie Hules has agreed to lead our first discussion, on Monday, May 18th at 2:00pm. We’ll be discussing early rhetoric and assumptions guiding the development of IL standards. The citation for the article is:

Connor, Lisa O. (2009). Information Literacy as Professional Legitimation: A Critical Analysis. Journal of  Education for Library and Information Sciences, 50 (2), 79-89. Click here for full-text.

Come to one session, all sessions, or none. Drop in or out as your schedule allows. LIJC is open to all!!

*For more information about Journal Clubs, check out this.