2019 CCLI Keynote Speaker: Melanie Chu
Curiosity, Compassion, and Conversation: Facilitating Student Learning in the Library
Imagine a space for transformative meaning-making and participatory learning, where users can go for both deeply personal discovery and for intensely collaborative experiences — you might call to mind a high-class museum or high-tech exploratorium. Now imagine that space is your library’s own lobby. This keynote brings together critical information literacy and museum visitor studies, reimagining the powerful potential of participatory learning in the library’s shared spaces. Using one library’s art series, we will explore the personal, sociocultural, and physical contexts fundamental to experiential museum learning. Drawing upon museum engagement techniques, librarians can better support the experience, engagement, and assessment of student learning in creative, effective, and nontraditional ways.
Melanie Chu became the Director of the Library & Learning Services at Lake Tahoe Community College in Fall 2017. Before joining LTCC, she was Outreach Librarian and library faculty at California State University San Marcos for 14 years. Melanie has also served as a librarian for Semester at Sea, a multi-country study abroad program. Her most recent publication: Out of Context: Understanding Student Learning Through Museum Studies