Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy Opens Call for Proposals
A call for proposals is now open for the Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy, that will be held at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah Sept. 15 to 16.
The mission of the conference is to provide opportunities to share research and the best practices related to teaching, learning and assessing essential lifelong learning skills. The conference invites proposals from across disciplines for workshops and presentations that will consider, extend or otherwise address information literacy in K-20 (preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school and higher education) settings.
Types of presentations include:
- Individual paper/presentation
- Panel
- Workshop
- Poster session
- Defining information literacy in a digital age
- Effective means of developing information literacy skills in learners
- Partnerships between librarians and classroom teachers to teach students research skills
- Information literacy across the disciplines
- Assessment of information literacy initiatives
- Intellectual property, copyright and plagiarism in the digital age