Making the Invisible Visible
May 30, 2025 | Cal State Monterey Bay
Call for Speaker Proposals
In 2025, CCLI will be at California State University Monterey Bay for the first time!
In our highly adaptive librarian roles, we are uniquely positioned to make the invisible more visible to students, faculty, and administration. We demystify hidden curriculum for students from different information privileges and backgrounds. We unpack and deconstruct the research process and make it accessible. Together, we explore the challenges inherent in emerging technologies, such as generative AI and algorithms. With the insights we draw from these vantage points, we are able to respond to and advocate for diverse needs and address these in the teaching environments we create, be they in person, online or through learning objects.
CCLI invites you to share your instructional philosophies, teaching interventions, and strategies that make the invisible processes or structures visible to students, faculty, and the higher education community and support their curiosity and ability to navigate the challenges they face as students, scholars, and life-long learners.
Examples of specific questions that proposals could address include:
- How do we grow students’ curiosity and ability to ask good questions?
- How do we address misinformation/disinformation in today’s climate of rapidly changing information? How do we strengthen the critical thinking skills that make our students less susceptible to manipulation?
- What instruction advocacy work has succeeded or failed at your institution?
- How do we lean into our roles as librarians to facilitate stronger or higher level learning?
- How do we use outreach or assessment to increase awareness of the impact of library instruction on student learning?
- How do we engage with scholarly communication to make it accessible to new audiences and participants?
- How do we build relationships with instruction collaborators to counter the preconceptions that faculty or administrators may have about librarians (and faculty librarians)?
- How do we continue to offer high quality instruction with smaller or reduced library budgets? Is it sustainable?
The California Conference on Library Instruction invites you to submit a proposal for the 2025 program, to be held in person on Friday, May 30th, 2025 at Cal State Monterey Bay. Please submit a proposal for one of the following formats:
- 60-minute presentation, with active learning to engage attendees and opportunities for discussion.
- 75-minute active learning workshop.
- 5-10 minute lightning talk (1-2 presenters maximum).
Proposals should relate to the conference theme, clearly outline the session, be timely and applicable to librarians, and incorporate active learning. For presentations or workshops, please also include 2-3 learning outcomes and details on how you plan to incorporate active learning into your session. For presentations, please plan on devoting a minimum of 25% of your 60-minute session to active learning (40% for workshops). CCLI attendees value active participation.
Prospective presenters should review our evaluation rubric for presentations, workshops, and lightning talks. We employ anonymous peer review. A committee member will redact all identifying information from your submission. This committee member is not a part of the ranking process.
Submit your CCLI 2025 proposal.
The extended deadline for submissions is December 2, 2024. We appreciate your consideration and look forward to hearing from you! For questions, contact CCLI Chair Matthew Collins or CCLI Speakers Subcommittee Chair Amber Janssen.