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Southern California Instruction Librarians (SCIL) will be hosting SCIL Works on Friday, February 20th as a remote half-day mini-conference. This annual event offers library workers the opportunity to share their best practices, innovative pedagogy, and creative solutions with colleagues. SCIL Works 2026 will focus on assessment in library instruction in its many different contexts, and in our current technological, political, and educational moment. We invite proposals through the end of the day on January 12, 2026.
Our theme this year is Assessment is Constructed and Contextual: Measuring What Matters in Information Literacy.
What do we mean when we say “assessment?” The answer is, as our title suggests, always constructed and contextual. A library director may define it as demonstrating the value of library instruction to campus administration. An instruction coordinator may think of using finished student work to measure the impact of a one-shot earlier in the year. A student might wonder why they’re being asked to complete so many evaluations of their learning experiences, and where that information is going. All of these perspectives, and more, are part of the assessment landscape. Definitions of information literacy are rapidly evolving; are our assessment methods keeping up?
At its best, assessment helps to answer the question: “How do we measure, reflect on, and evaluate what students are learning?” The SCIL Works annual mini-conference is an opportunity to share your interventions, best practices, innovative pedagogy, and creative solutions in instruction and information literacy assessment. Large- or small-scale, success or failure, formative or summative, we want to hear about it all!
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Elizabeth (Liz) Galoozis (she/her)
DEIA [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility] Strategies Librarian
egal...@uci.edu | 949.824.2760
UC Irvine is located in the traditionally shared territory of the Acjachemen, Kizh (Gabrieliño), and Tongva peoples who have continuously occupied the area for the last 8,000 years. I am grateful to live as a guest on these lands. This land acknowledgment is a small gesture in the ongoing process of coming to terms with the legacies and trauma of Indigenous dispossession and enslavement., For more information please visit https://gabrielinotribe.org/history/..