Coffee Hour

Upcoming Coffee Hour Sessions

Please join us Friday, April 24, 2026 at 10:00am EST for our Virtual Coffee Hour featuring guest speaker Ilana Stonebraker. Ilana Stonebraker is the Head, Sciences and Social Sciences and Head, Business/SPEA Library at Indiana University Bloomington. The presentation will be:

Too Big for One-Shots, Too Complicated for Videos: Insights and Best Practices for Train-the-Trainer Programs. 

This presentation draws on four years of implementing train-the-trainer initiatives in two business courses with significant library involvement. Train-the-trainer is an information literacy model that focuses on equipping instructors - rather than students directly - with the knowledge and tools to integrate information literacy into their teaching.

Please register to receive the Zoom link and calendar invite. We hope to see you there! 

LIRT Coffee Hour Registration - Ilana Stonebraker

Please join us Friday, March 27, 2026 at 10:00am EST for our Virtual Coffee Hour. This Coffee Hour will be a facilitiated discussion on the topic of AI in Library Instruction. If you can join us, please register here, and a Zoom invite will be sent to your email shortly. We hope to see you there!! 

Past Coffee Hour Sessions

February 13, 2026

Webinar featuring guest speaker Jane Hammons! Jane will be discussing Small Teaching and Information Literacy Instruction, a talk based on the research and findings presented in James Lang’s Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning.

In Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, James Lang uses research on how we learn to provide guidance for small changes that instructors can make in order to support student learning. This presentation will provide an overview of the Small Teaching approach and explore how librarians can use this approach to help students develop key understandings and skills related to research and information literacy.

Jane Hammons is an Associate Professor and the Head of Teaching and Learning in The Ohio State University Libraries, after previously serving as Instructional Services Librarian at Northern Kentucky University. Jane was the winner of the 2025 ALA Library Instruction Round Table Librarian Recognition Award, and she has published her research in journals such as the Journal of Academic Librarianship, the Journal of Information Literacy, and College & Research Libraries.

Transcript

January 23, 2026

 Facilitated Discussion - The Trials and Triumps of Information Literacy Instruction