LEARN

Emmett Lombard will be one of the guest speaker’s at the next LEARN meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 6, from 1-4 p.m. at Berwyn Public Library.
Emmett Lombard is a Librarian, Webmaster, and English Instructor at Gannon University. He describes his book, Pursuing Information Literacy: Roles and Relationships,  in a youtube video.

Reading his book in advance will help us be ready to participate in our dialogue with him about Information Literacy, public librarianship, and serving the ESL patron.

Thanks,

Esther Chase
Berwyn Library

The next LEARN meeting will be Wednesday, Oct. 6, from 1-4 p.m. at Berwyn Public Library.

AGENDA:

1. Introduction of New Members (20 min.)
2. Member Collection Show and Tell, as well as BPL’s New Literacy Collection (30 min.)
3. Emmett Lombard: Information Literacy and What It Means to Public Librarians (1 hr.)
4. Break (15 min.)
5. Pat Barch: Best Practices for Public Library Service to Adult Literacy and English Language Learners (1 hr.)
6. Workshop Evaluations (10 min.) – Joe Popowitch will review the evaluations from the workshop in March.

Please note that the meeting will be about 3 hours.

The next LEARN meeting will be Wednesday, Oct. 6 from 1-4 p.m. at Berwyn Public Library. The agenda will be posted as we get closer to the meeting.

The 2010 Northern Region Adult Education Conference will be held on  Friday, December 3, 2010 at the Hilton Indian Lakes Resort, Bloomingdale, IL.

NEW THIS YEAR! 4 CONCURRENT SESSIONS! Due to popular demand, this year’s conference will offer 4 concurrent sessions instead of 3–so we need proposals! Please consider submitting a proposal.

The Call for Papers is now available on the ALRC website www.thecenterweb.org/alrc . Click on the link “2010 Call for Papers” on the right side of the page.

Please direct questions about conference proposals to Catherine Porter at (224) 366-8500 or cporter@cntrmail.org.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Sue BarauskiAdult Learning Resource Center