Coffee Hour

Upcoming Coffee Hour Sessions

Please join us for our May LIRT Virtual Coffee Hour Friday, May 22 at 10am EDT. This will be a facilitated discussion around the topic of Summer Projects. As our semesters are ending, we turn towards all the work we couldn't get to over the academic year, and start prepping for the next year! Share what you are working on, what plans you have, what pie in the sky dreams you want to make come true. Let's chat, bounce around ideas, and get prepped for an amazing, productive summer. Please register using the link below to receive the Zoom invitation. Hope to see you all there!

To register: eku.zoom.us/meeting/register/PAkzmfghRyGzYnXjFLHhww 

Your LIRT Officers

Tessa Withorn, Chair 

Kayla Davidson, Vice-Chair

Dana Kendrick, Secretary/Treasurer 

Past Coffee Hour Sessions

April 24, 2026 - Guest speaker Ilana Stonebraker. Ilana Stonebraker is the Head, Sciences and Social Sciences and Head, Business/SPEA Library at Indiana University Bloomington.

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.

Slides

Transcript available - select "Watch on YouTube" to access

March 27, 2026

Facilitated discussion on AI in information literacy instruction. 

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