October 16, 2020 @ 10:00 am – 2:30 pm
Please join us on Friday October 16, 2020 “Working out Loud: Critical Reflections on the Next Normal”. The day will start with a keynote by Fobazi Ettarh and Eamon Tewell followed by a series of discussions based on pre recorded presentations on how library workers have reflected on, revised, and reimagined, and continue to reimagine, our values, ideologies, procedures, and practices.
Registration is free. Donations are welcome and will go towards organizing future events. We look forward to seeing you there.
Schedule
10:00 – 11:30 a.m. – Welcome and Keynote
Keynote Dialogue with Fobazi Ettarh and Eamon Tewell
Fobazi M. Ettarh is currently the Undergraduate Success Librarian at Rutgers Newark. A school librarian by training, she specializes in information literacy instruction, K-12 pedagogy, and co-curricular outreach. Her research focuses on the decolonization of white supremacy in librarianship. She is the creator of the open-access video game Killing Me Softly: A Game About Microaggressions, which leads the user through the personal and professional effects of ongoing microaggressions. Recently, she coined and defined the concept of vocational awe, as seen in the article Vocational Awe: The Lies We Tell Ourselves. She is a 2020 Library Journal Mover And Shaker and author of the blog WTF is a Radical Librarian? which examines the intersections of librarianship, labor, identity and diversity.
Eamon Tewell (he/him/his) is Head of Research Support & Outreach for Columbia University’s Science, Engineering, and Social Science Libraries. Eamon has published and presented on the topics of critical information literacy, library instruction, critical reference practice, and questioning narratives of grit and resilience in libraries. You can find Eamon on Twitter at @eamontewell.
1:00 – 1:45 p.m. – Discussion Session 1
Outreach
Rethinking Archival Outreach: Trials & Tribulations of Engagement with Archival Materials, Beaudry Rae Allen
Why Won’t They Return My Emails? Undertaking a Needs Assessment Project to Better Serve Subject Students and Faculty, Sarah Jones and Courtney Eger
Student Workers
Somehow We Manage: Overcoming Student Employee Challenges, Abigail Cengel
Cultivating Student Employees: Developing, implementing, and improving an employment program centered on career growth, Andrew Yager and Franklin Ofsthun
1:45 – 2:30 p.m. – Discussion Session 2
Instruction
“Well that Bombed”: How to Quickly Fix a Bad Lesson in 15 minutes, Brendan Johnson
Tech Services
A tale of risk, failure and “success”? Lessons and thoughts on the quest for an open source library management platform at Lehigh Libraries, Sharon Wiles-Young and Chulin Meng
Getting Better All the Time – Villanova University’s Affordable Materials Project, John Banionis, Christopher Hallberg, Linda Hauck, and Marianne Watson