From Laura O’Neill via ILI-L’s Listserve:

The New England Library Instruction Group (NELIG), an interest group of ACRL New England, is requesting proposals for its annual program “Meeting Digital Natives Where They Are: New Standards for the New Student,” to be held at Yale University’s West Campus in Orange, CT, on Friday June 4, 2010.

This year’s program will explore ways that librarians are rethinking information literacy instruction in light of today’s student expectations, behaviors, and emerging technologies. We encourage proposals from individuals or groups or from those interested in facilitating lunch time round table discussions. Proposal topics could include but are not limited to:

• Using Twitter, Facebook, and social networks in library instruction: What are librarians learning? How are these initiatives being assessed?
• Using mobile devices for research education
• ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education after 10 years: Revising & recreating standards for 2010-2020
• Teaching concepts vs. tools: How librarians are teaching/revising information literacy concepts and meeting learning needs of digital natives
• Teaching transferable research skills
• Tapping into learning styles or searching behaviors of current students to better educate future students.

Please submit proposals to Laura O’Neill (loneill@holycross.edu) or Elizabeth Dolinger (elizabethdolinger@landmark.edu) by February 19, 2010.

For more information, please see the archived ILI-L post.