[Web4lib] ACRL President's Program in New Orleans

[Louise S. Sherby]

Come hear a great debate on the tenets of Information Literacy at the 
ACRL President's Program in New Orleans!

When:   Monday, June 26, 2006, 1:30-5:30pm (ACRL reception follows program)

Location:       New Orleans Marriott, Carondelet Room

Title:          The Emperor Has No Clothes: Be It Resolved That 
Information Literacy is
                 a Fad and Waste of Librarian Time and Talent.

Moderated by James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and 
University Librarian, Columbia University, two teams composed of 
Stanley Wilder, Associate Dean in the Library, University of 
Rochester, Jeff Rutenbeck, Associate Professor and Director Digital 
Media Studies, University of Denver, Julie B. Todaro, Dean, Library 
Services, Austin Community College, and Gary P. Radford, Professor of 
Communication Studies, Fairleigh Dickinson University, will debate 
the relevance of information literacy as we know it. Is information 
literacy a concept created by academic librarians to make themselves 
more relevant to the curriculum or is it one of our most important 
roles? Is information literacy critical thinking in disguise or is 
there a real body of knowledge to be communicated? Does civil 
society's dependence on life-long learners require the acquisition of 
information literacy skills? Can libraries justify the expenditures 
they've made on teaching information literacy or do the data suggest 
otherwise? This debate
will test our assumptions and beliefs about a core element of the 
academic librarians' role in the educational process.

See you there!