2026 LILAC Spring Training
“Teaching Research is Iterative, Too”
Thursday, June 11 
12:30-4:30pm 
City College, Cohen Library 

Teaching is an ongoing process of testing out new ideas and methods, reflecting on the resulting experience, and evolving. Join LILAC (CUNY’s Library Information Literacy Advisory Committee) and fellow teaching librarians at Cohen Library at CCNY for a (no-cost) afternoon of co-learning, reflection, and connection. 

Event Schedule 

12:30 – 1:00pm: Sign in and welcome

1:00 – 1:45pm: (concurrent)

• Room 1:
  – “I asked chat gpt” “Okay well I made my own AI Use: Personal Statement”, Samantha Slattery & Gina Levitan (Hunter College)
  – “Why Can’t the Disability Services Office Just Take Care of It?”: Making Accessibility a Shared Practice in Information Literacy Instruction, Ingrid Conley-Abrams (John Jay College)
  – Teaching Beyond the Stacks, Fatoma Rad (Farmington State College) 

• Room 2: Beyond the ACRL Framework: Applying a Framework for Information Literacy Instruction in Reference to Classroom Library Instruction, Vanessa Arce Senati & Diana Moronta (Lehman College) 

2:00 – 2:45pm: (concurrent)

• Room 1: Embedding Information Literacy in the Curriculum: Librarian-Faculty Collaboration, Alexandra Hamlett (Guttman Community College) 

• Room 2: Fellow Travelers: Reflecting on our motivations as educators, Eric Silberberg (Queens College)  

3:00 – 3:45pm: (concurrent)

• Room 1: Student Success Workshops and York Library: The Creation of the First Year Experience Information Literacy Digital Badge Program, Jessica Jackson (York College)  

• Staff Room: Zine Your Pedagogy: a Zine-Making Workshop, Gina Levitan (Hunter College)

3:45 – 4:00: Wrap up