Tuesday, October 25, 2005

WILU call for papers


There is a call for papers for the 35th Annual Workshop on Instruction in Library Use (WILU) conference, which is the annual Canadian information literacy conference. It will be held at at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, May 10-12, 2006. The theme is Charting a Course for Instruction.

Topics include:
- mentoring between new and mid-career librarians
- collaborating with administration to establish and promote information literacy programs
- working with educators across the curriculum
- providing peer support and techniques for keeping connected
- partnering between school and academic libraries
Proposals for one-and-a-half-hour sessions and three-hour workshops related to the theme of the conference are also welcomed. Deadline for proposals is November 28, 2005. Online proposal submission forms are available at: http://library.acadiau.ca/wilu/proposal-e.html

(Photo by S. Webber: Macdonald Stewart sculpture park, at the University of Guelph, venue for this year's excellent WILU.)