Keynote Speakers

Opening Keynote: Kim Brooks

Teaching as though what mattered most was our learning

In this session, Kim Brooks takes on the hard question of what the university would look like if what we cared about most was learning: our own and our students’. Most of us are so pressed by the daily demands of our jobs – real or perceived – that we forget what motivated us to work in a university setting. The session will be divided into four parts: (1) what we wish we knew; (2) what our students wish we knew; (3) we what wish our students knew; and (4) who we plan to be, perhaps not in that order! (About Kim Brooks.)

Closing Keynote: Veronica Arellano Douglas

Counter-narratives in Teaching Librarianship

Veronica Arellano Douglas is the Instruction Coordinator at the University of Houston Libraries. Her research interests focus on the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity and labor in academic libraries, applying relational-cultural theory to librarianship, and critical information literacy pedagogy. You can find her writing at ACRLog and on her personal blog, Libraries + Inquiry. (About Veronica Arellano Douglas.)