LILi conference recordings and slides

Material from the 12th Annual LILi (Lifelong Information Literacy) Conference Tech for Equity: Leveraging Tools and Tech to Build Inclusive Futures (that took place 17-18 July 2025) is available, with recordings of sessions and slides. Sessions included
- Super-Sized Library Instruction: One Size Does Not Fit All
- “Our Class Can’t Come to Campus, but Could We Zoom the Session?”: Adapting and Delivering Information Literacy Instruction to Off-Campus Dual Enrollment Composition Classes
- Beyond Search: Using AI to Empower Every Student’s Research Journey
- Learn in a Week: On demand, scaffolded e-learning - Leveraging Generative AI for Information Literacy Curriculum Mapping in Academic Libraries
- Leveraging Technology to Take Professional Development Beyond an Annual Institute to Enhance Professional Skills and Cultural Knowledge of Tribal College Librarians
- Using AI to increase the readability of online information literacy tutorials
- From Static to Dynamic: Enhancing Online Information Literacy Instruction with Interactive Tutorials
- From AI Hallucinations to Critical Information Literacy: A 'Critical Citation Tracing' Approach
- Research Without Resources: Incorporating Information Literacy Into Prison Education Programs
Go to https://lili.libguides.com/lili2025/schedule
Photo by Sheila Webber: Rudbeckia flowers, Botanic gardens, August 2025

Digital Literacy & information Access for incarcerated people

There is a series of training videos on library services to incarcerated people, created by San Francisco Public Library as part of their Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People initiative. This includes one on Digital Literacy, Access, and Considerations During and After Incarceration at https://youtu.be/VDKOiwbk9es?si=OomfFqnyvLX8Y13A

Photo by Sheila Webber: parrot tulips, March 2024

Recent articles: teaching incarcerated students; policy literacies; LibGuides; Forestry students; IL in STEM

The latest issue of open access journal College and Research Libraries News (vol 81 issue 4) is available. It includes:
- The Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (in prison): Using the frames to teach incarcerated students by Clare Kuntz Balcer
- Big data gets big help: Law and policy literacies for text data mining by Kyle Courtney, Rachael Samberg, Timothy Vollmer
- LibGuides Groups in practice: Building a partnership between an academic library and an information studies school by Courtney Hoffner, Antonia Osuna-Garcia
Go to https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/issue/view/1577/showToc

Also I don't think I covered the previous issue (vol 81 no 3). That included:
- Instructional design: Resources for online learning by Laura A. Sheets
- Taking root: Librarians help new Forestry students create a learning community by Erica Lopez, Tina Oswald
- Critical appraisal: The key to unlocking information literacy in the STEM disciplines by Kathryn Mercer, Kari D. Weaver, Rachel Figueiredo, Caitlin Carter
Go to https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/issue/view/1574/showToc
Photo by Sheila Webber: cherry blossom and daisies, April 2020