Williams College Librarian Lor DuBois to Discuss the Information World and Teaching01:06PM / Monday, November 09, 2009
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Williams College reference and instruction librarian Lori DuBois will be the featured guest at the Program in Teaching lunch on Wednesday, Nov. 11. DuBois will speak on the topic "What Teachers Should Teach, and Children Should Learn, About the Information World." The lunch will take place in Bronfman Science Center, room 317, at noon. The event is free and the public invited. Please email Susan.Engel@williams.edu to confirm attendance.
Since joining the library staff in 2002, DuBois, who specializes in teaching research skills, has worked to assure that students are comfortable and competent when using the college's libraries. She has been responsible for a library portion of first-year orientation, during which students learn how to use the online catalog, search the web, and locate books in the library's collection in an interactive way.
In addition to designing informational programs for students, DuBois serves as collection and instruction liaison to the Africana Studies, American Studies, education, history, and theatre departments, as well as instruction liaison for Asian Studies, English, and film studies.
She received her bachelor's degree from Colby College, and her master's degree in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
DuBois' talk is one of the monthly luncheons sponsored by the Program in Teaching. Previous Program in Teaching lunches have featured prize-winning teacher Will Okun and New York Times editorial board member Verlyn Klinkenborg, as well as members of the Williams faculty and staff. The topics have ranged widely, from "going green" in schools, to America's educational divide, to teaching creativity. |
