A Virtual Chat with Barbara Fister: Instruction Committee Event

A Virtual Chat with Barbara Fister, author of Lizard People in the Library 

Moderator: David Ward, Director of Teaching and Learning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

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Join us for a discussion with Barbara Fister, author of Lizard People in the Library, the inaugural essay from Project Information Literacy's Provocation Series. In this 60-minute, online session with instruction and subject liaison librarians, Barbara and participants will discuss the the architectures, infrastructures, and fundamental belief systems that shape our information environment, how we establish principles for evaluating and considering information from flawed sources, and how to facilitate discussions with faculty about truth and construction of knowledge. 

 This event is co-sponsored by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, CARLI, and Project Information Literacy, a nonprofit research institute. 

• Date: Tuesday, May 18th
• Time: 11am-12pm CDT

This event will be held via Zoom. 

Registration is very limited and open to all librarians from CARLI member institutions:  Registration Form

This discussion will be recorded and shared widely after the event.

The Project Information Literacy Provocation Series features timely essays about what “literacy” means in all its manifestations. This occasional series is meant to formalize and voice pressing information literacy-related issues, ideas, and concerns while raising solutions or new ways of thinking for plotting a way forward. The goal of the international series is to create better teaching and learning opportunities for students, librarians, and educators, while identifying new directions that inform future research.