Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any format that are in the public domain or under open license for no-cost access, reuse, repurpose, adaptation, and redistribution by others. OERs can be used as supplements to existing curricula, as replacements for traditional textbooks, or as innovative approaches to encourage student contributions.

Health literacy is obtaining, processing, and understanding basic health information and services. The National Assessment of Adult Literacy indicates that only 12% of Americans have the necessary health literacy skills to meet their needs, including locating health services, understanding drug labels, and following treatment instructions. This session explores reliable consumer health resources and ways to determine the quality and trustworthiness of online health information.

ChatGPT and other generative AI tools have the potential to disrupt many librarians’ approaches to library instruction. Join library leaders from the University of the Incarnate Word (Texas) to hear how they are developing co-curricular learning outcomes for generative AI and information literacy applications.

Videos and online tutorials are where many people turn to quickly learn and develop new skills. As libraries develop their own online tutorials and videos, they can become important information literacy tools. With guidance for applying instructional design fundamentals, interactivity, accessibility principles, and assessment elements to measure learner comprehension, transform your design and creation process for online tutorials.

Understand sustainability as a set of practices and as a discipline. Explore how various library organizations have adapted practices, created programming, and developed information-literacy learning modules with sustainability learning outcomes. Attendees will articulate how sustainability is interconnected to the development of information literacy and life-long learning skills by drafting a sustainability project plan, which will be presented to the entire class.

Have you recently been tasked with providing research data management services to your faculty and students but do not know where to start? Many grant funders and publishers are requiring authors and researchers to document how they will organize, share, and archive the data produced in their research, developing a research data management plan is quickly becoming an important part of the publishing process.

Libraries often must justify collection decisions and find creative ways to remove barriers to access. Attaining a broad understanding of intellectual freedom as a professional value will strengthen librarian’s ability to navigate challenges and implement effective policies.

The expectation for delivery of library services through live or recorded video has become ubiquitous. Library workers in every role are stepping in front of the camera more and more often to facilitate programs, provide library instruction and more. Join us for basic tips and best practices on camera. This Know and Go is for the camera shy and the camera confident.

This introduction to teaching information literacy (IL) defines information literacy as a concept, introduces the ACRL Framework and other IL standards, and reviews teaching methods. Instructional design concepts will help learners improve their instruction.

Where do we come from? Researching our family history is becoming more popular with subscription services such as Ancestry.com and 23andMe ancestry kits. But what if we don’t want to spend a fortune answering this question? How can we find our ancestors without costly subscriptions? How can I confirm that my ancestors were from (insert country) or that the stories my great aunt tells are true? Knowing about free genealogy resources, both digital and physical, is one way to get started researching your genealogy.