Light refreshments will be provided courtesy of the Florham Campus library.

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What is critical pedagogy and why might we want to incorporate it within library instruction? This webcast will investigate critical pedagogical approaches for library instruction with the greater goal of improving our teaching, how students feel about using the library (affect), and the image of the librarian. As we strive to make our teaching, our libraries, and our campuses as inclusive as we can, there is still a lot of work to be done. Critical library instruction, situated within critical pedagogy, examines power and privilege in the classroom and beyond. Through this webcast, participants will begin to situate this praxis for their own roles as librarian educators.

The webcast will  immediately be followed  by a live panel discussion at 3:30 p.m.  

Local Panelists:   

Megan Dempsey is the Instructional Services Librarian and Department Chairperson of the Evelyn S. Field Library at Raritan Valley Community College. Megan has an MSLIS from Long Island University, MA in English from Montclair State University, and has experience in secondary education prior to becoming a librarian. Her research interests include active learning strategies, undergraduate research skills, and most recently, the implications of the Framework for Information Literacy on IL instruction.

Romel Espinel is the Web Services Librarian at the Samuel C. William Library of the Stevens Institute of Technology. He teaches and develops technology for college students to become critical thinkers about information and media literacies, using active and problem-based instruction. He is an active member of #critlib on Twitter and will have a lesson plan chapter about teaching Authority in an upcoming ACRL Press book on Critical Pedagogy. Romel has a Master of Library & Information Science from the Pratt Institute.

Moderator: Amanda Piekart is the Information Literacy Instructional Designer at Berkeley College.  She is the current co-chair of the ACRL-NJ/NJLA CUS User Education Committee and the 2016 ValeNJ Users Conference. Amanda’s research interests are instructional technology and design, marketing and outreach, and information literacy. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Instructional Design and Technology.

The program is free.  You may register for this event by logging into the NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ website, and clicking the tab labeled 'Register' associated with this event (if you are not logged in you will not see the Registration Tab). Don't have an account on our website? You can register for an account here - http://cus.njla.org/user/register.   If you have problems with the registration process, please email mallerym@mail.montclair.edu.