California Academic & Research Libraries

SCIL Works (offered in January or early February) is a half-day mini conference that highlights the work of area professionals centered around a new theme each year.

Most recent, 2025: Building Connections: Formal and Informal Approaches to Integrating Library Instruction throughout Campus

Below is a list of past SCIL Works event pages. Many of these pages include presentation materials and collaborative notes.

Past Years

2024: Listen and Empower: Enhancing Empathetic Communication in Library Instruction

2023: More than a checkbox: Moving beyond DEI into justice

2022: Instructional Mix-Tape: Mixing tracts from In-person and Online Instruction

2021: Unmute Your Mic: Student Engagement and Outreach in a Virtual World

2020: Disaster Planning: Bouncing Back From Instructional Fails

2019: Instruction RX: Prescriptions for Helping Students Overcome Library Anxiety

2018: Where Virtual Meets Reality: the Intersection Between Instruction and Our Virtual Campus Communities

2017: Let's Get Together: Collaborating with Our Academic Communities Beyond the One-Shot

2016: Crossing the Threshold: Engaging with the ACRL Framework

2015: Let me take you higher: How libraries use High Impact Practices to engage students

2014: All Things Digital: Instruction Tools and Services in the Virtual World

2013: Hack your library!

2012: Back to Basics: The Ubiquitous One Shot

2011: Keeping it Real, Keeping it New: Pushing Boundaries in Challenging Times

2010: Practice, Practice, Practice (P3): Reinvigorating ILI Pedagogy

2009: "The Daily and the Visionary": Employing Reflective Practices to Increase Our Engagement and Success

2008: Putting Theory into Practice: The 'Why' Behind Instructional Strategies

2007: 21st Century Librarianship: Classroom Management in Today's Information Age

2006: From Design to Delivery: Developing and Managing Instruction Projects and Programs

2005: Risky Business: Innovation and Information Literacy

2004 SCIL Open House

Reports:

• Setting the Stage for Effective Library Instruction with Writing
• Reinvigorating Library Instruction: Responding to the Curriculum
• Developing Effective Library Assignments
• Dissecting a Database: Leading Students to Discovery-Based Learning

Presentation materials:

• Dissecting a Database: Leading Students to Discovery-Based Learning

2003 SCIL Open House

Reports:

• Marketing IC to Community College Faculty
• A Best Practices Model for Integrating Information Literacy into the Curriculum
• Marketing the Library to Remote Faculty
• Marketing/Teaching Information Literacy for Special Populations
• Teaching the Teachers: Partnerships in Information Literacy

2002 SCIL Open House

Reports:

• Dealing with Larger Classes
• Marketing to Faculty
• Effective Outreach to First Year Students
• Victims of Our Own Success

2001 SCIL Open House

Reports:

• Wireless Technologies in Library Instruction
• Instructional Competencies Survey Project
• Institute for Information Literacy (IIL): Immersion 2000
• Active Learning Techniques and Exercises