Mama's Mexican Restaurant | 1461 N. Lee Trevino Dr. | El Paso, TX. 79936

The University of Texas at El Paso | University Library | 1900 Wiggins Way | El Paso, TX 79968

This session will encourage participants to consider ways they are already serving in leadership roles, whether formal or informal, as well as ways they can change others' perceptions of their role in the school library.

The Library Literacy Center in operation for over 26 years, still offers ESL, Citizenship and Computer classes. Services now include: WorkPLACE (Public Literacy Access for Careers and Entrepreneurship); Career Online High School (COHS) and Digital Skills at your Library.

This workshop will explore the different ways that instructional faculty and librarian partnership can positively contribute to students developing course-specific information literacy (IL) skills. This partnership can help address student equity issues in access to and training on information, including influencing collection development at college libraries. Interpreting the ACRL Framework for IL for Higher Education through a Diversity Equity & Inclusion lens enables librarians to elevate their own critical IL when approaching the design of IL instruction. Presenters will discuss their seven years of research in embedded librarianship and how it has enhanced student cultural awareness, IL, and overall student success.

Intellectual freedom is a right that allows us to seek and receive information from all points of view and without limitation. This workshop will explore subject matter within intellectual freedom and provide its attendees approaches to protect this right.

Presenters from UTEP Special Collections and the EPPL’s Border Heritage Center will discuss how archivists from different institutions often work together. This work includes outreach activities, making our collections more accessible to researchers, and digitization projects.

Ever wondered if joining TLA is "worth it?" Already a member and want to be more involved? Join librarians with more than 75 years of TLA experience among them in this fun and informal session and get all your questions answered. There will be door prizes!

- library programming for school and public libraries

- supporting each other

- social media programming

- for all grade levels

This presentation introduces librarians to resources for finding LGBTQ titles for students of all ages, and it highlights some of the titles that are especially praised by educators and librarians.

Presenter will share tried and true lessons that can be pulled together with little or no notice. These lessons are engaging, meaningful and teach and/or reinforce library skills.

Through Gumdrop Books, your nonfiction section of your library can be enhanced with hardcover and unlimited simultaneous access (USA) eBooks. With our guaranteed bindings the life of your books are extended. Bilingual and Spanish books are available for your youngest readers.

TSLAC will share updates about changes to the TexQuest program for school libraries and the TexShare Databases Program for public and academic libraries, highlighting new resources available to program participants.