Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

There are now links to recordings of all the Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC2020) parallel sessions and keynote talks - the conference took place on May 13th 2020. I'm looking forward to catching up on the parallel sessions I missed! The sessions are:
- Keynote 1: Campaigning for Change (Quinn Roache : Policy Officer – LGBT+ and Disabled Workers – Equalities and Strategies Department – Trades Union Congress)
- Shared Reading with Portuguese Speakers (Elena Traina)
- Ageism and Libraries (Sheila Webber i.e. me)
- Read at Leicester (Heena Karavadra)
- One Subdivision at a Time (Sarah Hammond)
- Sick Systems: Is Cruelty the Point of HE? (Hannah Hickman)
- Developing Credit-Bearing Modules in Critical Library Practices (Michelle Bond and Darren Flynn)
- Keynote 2: Academic Libraries: A Critical Postcolonial Feminist Perspective (Dr Zainab Naqvi: Senior Lecturer in Law, Leicester De Montfort Law School)
- Critical Role of the Area Information Specialist Towards Decolonisation (Waseem Farooq)
- How Witches Use the Libraries: The Information Behaviour of Contemporary Pagans and Ritual Magicians (Joanne Fitzpatrick)
- Embedding Change in HE through Decolonizing Academic Practices (Sara Ewing)
For the list of links, go to http://calc.coventry.domains/8-2/session-recordings/

Incorporating critical librarianship into daily practice may initially seem daunting due to varying demands and constraints. Given these challenges, how can we help first-year students develop more complex understandings of social issues that they may be researching and writing about in their composition courses? How do we reach first-year students who may have overlapping identities find resources and support during their time at the university? Join two academic librarians who will introduce the efforts they have made to incorporate intersectional themes into instruction and educational programming on their respective campuses. Librarians attending this roundtable discussion will brainstorm and share ideas for engaging in first-year instruction and outreach efforts that promote intersectionality. 

I’ve learned many things over my over 40 years as a librarian. That said, we don’t, as professionals, sufficiently embed learning at the core of our practice.