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In this workshop attendees will learn about the new Project Outcome for Academic Libraries surveys and resources. Project Outcome is a free toolkit that helps libraries measure four key learning outcomes – knowledge, confidence, application, and awareness – across seven library program and service areas. This new toolkit will provide academic libraries of any size the means to easily measure the learning outcomes of their programs and services and to use that data as the basis for improvements and advocacy.

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Tasked by the Image Resource Interest Group to address shifts in technology, instruction, and increased pervasiveness of visual media, the Visual Literacy Task Force is updating the ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. This session will discuss their perceptions within the shifting landscape of visual literacy and metaliteracy, the task forces’ methodological framework, and resulting proposed adjustments and additions to the standards. Come see how a diverse group came together to find collaborative consensus at a distance, learn about ways these changes could apply to library instruction programming, and voice your opinion.

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Much of the work around diversity, equity, and inclusion in libraries has either: focused on solutions that rarely solicit input from marginalized communities, or is expected to be carried out by those already overburdened by the effects of higher education institutions built on whiteness. This panel will push beyond this framework by offering strategies and language to help move discussions around mentorship forward, both in the institutions of attendees and across the profession as a whole. Through collaborative storytelling tools and visual storytelling decks, we will collectively envision a speculative future for libraries that is inclusive and equity-based.

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Women of color (WOC) are often on the frontlines of activist actions, pushing for equity, inclusion, and justice in our library institutions. This work is often invisible, unacknowledged, and has an emotional toll. WOC also face workplace stress in the form of racist, sexist, or homophobic comments and treatment from colleagues and patrons. The negative impact of these stressors demonstrates the importance of radical self-care for WOC librarians, as an act of self-preservation, survival, and community resistance. In this session, panelists will share their research projects that center the voices of WOC librarians and engage the audience with interactive exercises.