Satellite Meeting in Tampere, Finland

Description

Further information: satellite meeting website

Sponsors:  IFLA's Continuing Professional Education and
Workplace Learning and Information Literacy Sections

General Themes

• Strategies for designing and implementing a professional development information literacy program for librarians.
• To help them become effective information literacy guides for their community
• To foster their own conceptual understandings and practical applications of information literacy in their work
• What works best in institutionalizing information literacy in workplace training programs?
• How do we sell information literacy as a necessary practice to librarians and administrators?
• What tools and resources are needed to support information literacy development for librarians?
• What information literacy standards and competencies should be incorporated into a staff development program?
• The role of library associations and library education programs in preparing librarians for information literacy and education roles.

Additional Details

• Call for proposals 2012