2019 Charleston Library Conference

University libraries devote significant resources toward education & training and overall information literacy initiatives aimed at benefiting their user communities. This great reservoir of information, tools, and outreach is there for consumption, though ensuring it will be consumed is a massive challenge with no guarantee of success despite the effort. Direct engagement with users, in this case faculty and graduate students, can greatly enhance their information literacy foundation and directly benefit their academic pursuits. Live educational workshops with lecture-like environments can be very successful in educating users on key benefits of particular information resources at their disposal. Holding successful workshops typically requires careful planning and organization, with a wide range of factors to consider – and the definition of success itself does of course vary from workshop scenario to scenario.
Here, our two librarians will each provide detail on their approach to ultimately achieving successful faculty and graduate student workshops within an information literacy framework. From the initial thought process to logistics of syncing topics, physical space, and people, gain insight into approaches resulting in successful library-driven user workshops.