LOEX Fall Focus 2023 Conference
Call for Proposals
Mid-November 2023*
Online
As mentioned in the previous Currents, LOEX is holding a Fall Focus conference, our first since 2015—only this time it will be online. You are invited to submit a proposal for LOEX’s Fall Focus 2023, an information literacy & library instruction conference focused on:
- Welcoming and Engaging Students New to Your Institution
- Building and Sustaining a Supportive Professional Community at Your Library
We are not replacing the annual spring conference, but we thought occasionally supplementing it with smaller, online conferences in the fall—focused on a topic area or two—would be a great way to give more people an opportunity to share what they've learned and are doing in areas that currently have particular salience in the library instruction & information literacy community.
We chose these two topic areas as we believe both are relevant to where we are at now: students are entering college or transitioning to new institutions having experienced a level of disruption & transformation that exceeds anything in living memory and thus need additional assistance & revised programming to make sure their first year at their new institution are worthwhile and fruitful. But it's not just about students—everyone has been through a lot and librarians are no exception; so how are we supporting ourselves and our colleagues to make sure we are not just surviving but thriving? We invite you to submit a proposal on either of these focuses.
Proposals for 50-minute long presentations (which will be the majority of the conference) and 7-minute long lightning talks can be submitted only through the online submission form and must be received by Thursday, August 31, 2023. You do not need to be a LOEX member to submit a proposal.
For more details, please visit https://loexfallfocus.org/
*The conference will be held on two or three days over November 8-10 or 13-15 (exact dates will be finalized by September 8).
