Instruction Toolkit: General Instruction Resources

This section within ACRL promotes the concerns of instruction librarians. The site contains links to a variety of projects that can be useful for teaching.

LOEX is "a self-supporting, non-profit educational clearinghouse for library instruction and information literacy information."

A special interest group of ACRL-NEC that sponsors several instruction-related programs a year.

"The MIT Teaching and Learning Laboratory...collaborates with faculty, administrators, and students to strengthen ongoing educational efforts at MIT and develop innovations in pedagogy and technology." Sponsors workshops during IAP on teaching best practices.

This link goes to the Association of College and Research Libraries' gateway to information literacy.

Developed and maintained by the Association for College & Research Libraries.

This wiki provides lists of articles and guidelines for library instruction in specific fields and subject areas.

Discussion list for instruction librarians, maintained by the Instruction Section of ACRL. The archive is searchable, making it an excellent resource for finding teaching tips, articles about instruction, etc.

Maintained the Instruction Section, this project "promotes and shares peer-reviewed instructional materials created by librarians to teach people about discovering, accessing and evaluating information in networked environments."

Sponsored by ACRL, this is an intensive workshop series on library instruction. Attendance is very competitive, and requires an application. Courtney Crummett, Anne Graham, Lisa Horowitz, Angie Locknar, Jennie Murack, and Mark Szarko have all attended. Mark has also served on the selection committee for several years, including as Vice Chair (2010-2011) and Chair (2011-2012), and can answer questions about the program or application process.