APLA Conference 2022

Members of APLA’s Information Literacy Interest Group will speak about the Virtual Drop-In
Learning Spaces they have hosted in 2021-2022. These sessions focused on specific themes
surrounding information literacy, such as instruction technologies, strategies, and evaluation.
The presenters will describe the rationale for these spaces, and share the successes and
challenges of previous sessions. They will also outline how these informal professional
development opportunities serve as a means to increase inclusion and diversity within
information professions. The sessions are open to anybody with an interest in information
literacy, regardless of their employment status, job title, or institution of employment. Thereby,
these sessions allow those who are unemployed, underemployed, students, and anybody in
non-traditional information professional roles to freely participate in sessions, which may both
benefit their professional development, and enhance the sessions with their perspectives. The
presentation will be followed by an optional virtual drop-in session, in which participants will
experience the learning space for themselves and engage in informal professional
development. This session will also serve as an introduction to the APLA Information Literacy
Interest Group for conference attendees who are not familiar with the group and its work.