RACL Information Literacy Committee

Purpose

RACL-IL will foster the adoption and use of best practices in information literacy at all University System of Georgia institutions; serve as a sounding board/generative body for IL initiatives related to libraries; and work to inform USG broadly about how instruction and reference librarians serve as partners in teaching and learning initiatives. The group will recommend opportunities to implement those best practices across the University System of Georgia to the Regents Academic Committee on Libraries.

Save the dates for our Spring & Summer 2025 events!

Summer 2024

Career Pivots 3: Promoting Yourself

July 16, 2- 3:30

In this third session within the Career Pivots series your RACL-IL team will lead an interactive workshop on selling yourself through your yearly evaluations, promotion, and tenure.

SESSION RECORDING

Spring 2024

Career Pivots 2: How to Publish and NOT Perish

Monday, March 25th at 2 pm

In this second session within the Career Pivots series your RACL-IL team will lead an interactive workshop on all things publishing. This session will feature brief opening remarks and then attendees will be divided into the following breakout rooms:

Identifying publication venues and requirements
Responding to reviewer feedback
Crafting a compelling book proposal
Handling/structuring the book editing process

The session will close with a brief discussion of promotion requirements and their relationship to the publishing process.

Fall 2023

Career Pivots 1 : Teaching!

Tuesday, November 14, 2pm

This workshop, the first in a three-part series, will take on three teaching conundrums:

How do I incorporate AI as a research tool?
How do I teach an odd request from a professor?
How do I increase audience engagement?

Join us as we share possible ways to tackle these questions on 11/14 at 2 PM!

Thank you to Betsy Fleming (Georgia Highlands College) and Catherine Bowers (Valdosta) for sharing their conundrums with us!

Newsletters

Spring 2023 Newsletter

Summer 2023 Newsletter

Steering Committee Members

Please contact one of the members of the Steering Committee for information about RACL-IL's activities or to bring an issue before the group.

Research University Group

Alvin Blount, Georgia State University (2024-2025)
Holly McMasters, University of Georgia (2024-2025)
Thomas Weeks (Past-Chair), Augusta University (2022-2024)

Comprehensive University Group

Catherine Bowers, Valdosta State University (2024-2025)
Nikki Cannon-Rech (Chair-Elect), Georgia Southern University (2024-2026)

State University Group

Kristen Bailey, Middle Georgia State University (2024-2025)
(2025-2027)

State College Group

Susanna Smith (Chair), Georgia Highlands College (2024-2025)
David Minchew, Georgia Gwinnett College (2024-2025)

Ex-Officio Group

TBD (RACL)
Russell Palmer (USG), GALILEO Support Services

Bylaws

RACL-IL Bylaws (Approved 2021)

Become a Member

All USG-affiliated employees are welcome to join our General Membership by joining our listserv:

Send an email to: listserv@listserv.uga.edu
Put the following in the body of the message of your email:
- Subscribe USG-INFOLIT yourfirstname yourlastname
An email will be sent to your email address; click on the first link in the email to confirm your subscription to our listserv.

Join our Steering Committee

The Steering Committee consists of a Chairperson, Chairperson-Elect, Past-Chairperson, five to ten at-large members who are librarians from each USG group, a Regents Academic Committee on Libraries representative, and a GALILEO representative. A call for nominations will be announced in October and elections will be held in November.