- Visit register.mcmaster.ca and create an account by clicking “Create one here”.
- Once you have created your account, you can login using your Guest Login.
- Next, press the General Registration button.
- Finally, type in WILU2025 and click “Select”. On the next page you will choose “Save and Continue”. After this you will be able to go through the registration process.
| Registration | Early Bird (until May 7th, 2025) | Regular Price |
|---|---|---|
| Regular | $350 + tax | $400 + tax |
| Speaker | $300 + tax | $350 + tax |
| Student | $200 + tax | $200 + tax |
| Tours & Excursions | Free up to $30 | Free up to $30 |
| Preconference Workshops 1. From Personality to Pedagogy 2. Building Bridges for Knowledge Synthesis 3. Finding a Place for Climate Action | $30 + tax | $30 + tax |
All prices are in Canadian dollars.
Preconference Workshops
Date and Time: Mon, June 9, 2025 1:30 PM – 4 PM
From Personality to Pedagogy: Tailoring Your Teaching Style
Presenters: Anna Flak & Katie Merriman
Each of us is unique, as an individual and as a library professional, and as such there is no one path to becoming a successful instructor. The best instructor you can be is one who is confident and comfortable in your own style. This workshop aims to help participants discover their unique teaching style, enabling them to be the best version of themselves.
The workshop leaders have designed an Instructor Identity test, reminiscent of the Myers-Briggs test, that highlight various “types” of librarian instructors. We will begin this workshop by discussing various instructional styles to highlight the many approaches one can take in the classroom. We will then sort participants into groups based on the test. Like-minded individuals will work together on an instructional scenario, mapping out their approach collectively. The final part of the session will involve each group presenting their ideas and outcomes, followed by a larger discussion from all participants. Our hope is that this will showcase the ways in which different instruction styles can be equally effective and consider the inherent strengths found in our own instruction practices that we may overlook.
Building Bridges for Knowledge Synthesis: Advancing Skills, Overcoming Barriers, and Evaluating Impact
Presenters: Chelsie Lalonde & Lydia Thorne
Academic libraries are experiencing an increase in demand to support users in all disciplines who are working on systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and other types of knowledge synthesis.
In this workshop, participants will explore frequent challenges that arise while offering knowledge synthesis services through case studies, discussions and interactive activities. Attendees will brainstorm ways that they can manage demand and increase capacity, navigate training obstacles, and leverage internal and external partnerships to bridge any gaps in their knowledge synthesis related skills.
This session will appeal to early career librarians, librarians new to supporting knowledge synthesis requests, as well as those with previous experience in this area.
Finding a Place for Climate Action in Library Instruction
Presenters: Nicole Doro
This workshop is an invitation to co-create information literacy instruction interventions that are environmentally sustainable and climate justice- oriented in nature.
Participants are encouraged to come with one or two lesson plans (and/or slides, syllabi, etc.) for courses they typically or might expect to teach in, to workshop incorporating climate justice and environmentally sustainable interventions into their teaching practices. In groups, participants will work in stages to explore various tools and resources (databases, OERs, partnerships through a climate-aware lens) to implement into their lessons. No prior experience is necessary; sample lesson plans will be provided for those who may not have prior experience or a particular lesson in mind.
Participants will leave the workshop with practices ranging in scale appropriate for all types of library instruction (in any subject, whether for first year or graduate students, for one-shots or embedded), and a knowledge of tools and resources to aide in threading climate justice and/or environmental sustainability into their work.
