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Fundamental shifts in both the digital information environment and the scholarly community challenge instruction librarians continually to revitalize the way instruction programs are designed, delivered, promoted, and integrated into the academic setting. The challenge is especially acute during times of tight budgets when institutions ask hard questions about the value of the educational experience. The goal of library instruction remains constant: to assist users in learning to function well in a dynamic information environment. The way we approach our mission, however may involve significant change.

LOEX 2004 will provide opportunity to re-examine the need for library instruction and how library instruction programs can meet that need. LOEX invites all instruction librarians and others involved with or interested in instruction to share their expertise by submitting proposals to speak at one of the conference's breakout sessions. We are especially interested in presentations which focus on the following questions:

q       Is there a need for library instruction? How is it demonstrated? Why does it matter?

q       Can students’ skills be assessed? How can this be done? What makes data meaningful?

q       Whose job is it to teach research skills?

q       What priority should library instruction have?

q       When do instructional efforts become a user education program?

q       What support and resources does a program need to be successful?

q       What is the role of the user instruction librarian? How is it changing?

q       What skills do librarian-instructors need? How can they get them?

q       How can innovative teaching techniques be folded into instruction programs?

q       As accrediting bodies include information literacy in their standards, what are the implications for the library?

q       Who and where will future library users be?

q       What emerging technologies will support library instruction?

q       What is the future of library instruction and how will it be realized?

By exploring these and related questions, we hope to better understand the factors that shape library instruction, inform our planning, and guide our efforts.

LOEX Program Planning Committee

The deadline for submitting proposals is December 5, 2003 at 5:00pm ET.

Thank you for your proposal submissions! The Program Planning Committee will soon begin to review all submitted proposals. Session presenters will be notified around the end of Januaruary 2004.

If you prefer to submit your proposal proposal on paper, please mail it to:

Sally Weston
Kresge Business Admin. Library
University of Michigan Business School
701 Tappan St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Please be sure your proposal is postmarked by December 5, 2003 at 5:00pm ET.

Proposals will be reviewed during January and submitters will be notified of the results starting January 30, 2004.