We hope this meeting will be the first of many collaborative projects between K-16 and public librarians in the greater Athens area.
Below are the four goals of our meeting, and how we will accomplish them. Since we've got a rather ambitious agenda for a 90 minute meeting, you'll notice that we'll be performing a few tasks ahead of time. These won't be very time-consuming but they will get us oriented to our subject and to each other so that when we meet in person we can 'hit the ground running'.
Before our meeting, each school or library will fill out a short online form to briefly describe its information literacy activity. These will be posted to the website under the Participants link, so we can get a sense of each others' work. The UGA librarians have completed theirInfo Literacy at UGA form to give you an idea of what the form looks like when completed. If parts of the form don't apply to your library, simply skip them. Also feel free to include other information you'd like to share.
Browse through a few of the short, full text articles under the background reading link. They are grouped into the four topic areas that we'll be working wtih at our meeting (see explanation below.) Read the articles in your chosen topic area; they are concise, inspiring and guaranteed get your creative juices flowing! If you have other articles you'd like to see included, email ncohen@uga.edu and we'll add them to the list.
For the bulk of our meeting we will divide into four 'working groups', each devoted to an info literacy need or issue in our area. Participants will join the group of their choice and devise a project or tool we can use to address that need or issue. Go to the Working Groups link to see the four group topics, along with suggested talking points and a possible project or tool. These talking points and projects are only suggestions to get the ball rolling - the working groups can take their topic in whatever direction they choose. At the end of the meeting, we will reassemble to hear brief summaries from each group. Completed working group projects or tools will be put on the website under the Projects link, where they'll be available as teaching resources.
If you'd like to take an active role in promoting future collaborative information literacy activities in our local area, please join the CLOC planning committee! CLOC needs representatives from all teaching environments, K-16 and public, to define its mission and plan its future.
