***Proposal Deadline is Nov 17, 2024***

SCIL Works 2025

Building Connections:
Formal and Informal Approaches to Integrating Library Instruction throughout Campus

Friday, February 7, 2025
Online

Proposal Submission Form

Southern California Instruction Librarians (SCIL) will be hosting SCIL Works on Friday, February 7, 2025, as a remote half-day mini-conference. This annual event offers library workers the opportunity to share their best practices, innovative pedagogy, and creative solutions with colleagues. SCIL Works 2025 will focus on relationship building, liaison collaborations, and campus engagement with library instruction.

Relationship building is critical to embedding information literacy instruction across disciplines, student success initiatives, and campus collaborations. Library workers often have to build networks with library colleagues, discipline faculty, staff, students, and community groups. Strategic and intentional approaches to relationship building are not always discussed in library education programs. What happens when we have never heard the word “liaison” throughout our graduate education? How do we learn how to approach relationship building and create effective instruction collaborations across the library, campus, and the profession? Together we will explore the expanding definitions and responsibilities of liaison roles as they relate to instruction.

The SCIL Works annual mini-conference is your opportunity to share your interventions, both small and large, best practices, innovative pedagogy, creative solutions, and successes and failures in building relationships around instruction, library outreach and library in-reach (internal communication that highlights and promotes our work).

Suggested topics may include but are not limited to:

• Building collaborative and empathetic relationships across campus
• Successful relationship building strategies for liaison librarian and discipline faculty
• Building relationships with student success programs and initiatives and campus organizations
• Collaborations outside one-shot instruction, such as assignment design or asynchronous materials
• Building teaching community with instructors outside the library
• Working with first-year engagement programs, transfer student programs, first-generation student centers, etc.
• Strategies for embedding information literacy in campus outreach programs
• Successful outreach approaches
• Developing discipline knowledge as a liaison librarian, without prior experience in the discipline
• Navigating campus as a new librarian, learning acronyms, administrative titles, and strategies to find potential collaborators
• Onboarding those who are new to the profession or institution
• Instruction mentorship or internship programs

We are accepting proposals for presentations in one of two formats:

• Presentation: A 20-minute presentation where the presenter shares their research or an effective program or practice with participants, with an additional 5 minutes for Q&A.
• Lightning Round: A live, 5-minute poster session or slide deck. This presentation could briefly describe a program or initiative, highlight an online tool or tutorial, exhibit an assessment process or instrument, or describe another intervention that fits within the theme.

Submissions

Please complete the Proposal Submission Form by end of day, Sunday, November 17, 2024. SCIL Works 2025 welcomes presenters who identify as a member of a minoritized group or community so we can ensure our conference has broad representation. We encourage early career professionals and library school students to submit proposals. All submissions will be blind-reviewed by a panel. We anticipate that presenters will be notified that their submissions have been accepted by Friday, December 6, 2024. If you have questions about submitting, please contact Ariana Varela, SCIL Chair at avarel34@calstatela.edu.

You will be asked to include the following information in your submission.

• Primary contact name, institution, title, phone number, email
• Other presenters names (if any)
• Title of presentation
• Short description of the presentation (no more than 250 words)
• One paragraph describing how this presentation addresses the theme of the program
• One learning outcome for attendees

We appreciate your consideration and look forward to hearing from you!