Your Name and Title: Tara Donnelly School Librarian 2024-2025 Fellow - University of California Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
Library, School, or Organization Name: Foreman College & Career Academy, Chicago Public Schools
Co-Presenter Name(s): N/A
Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Chicago, Illinois
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience(s): High School and Academic Librarians
Short Session Description (one line): Visioning Vertical Collaboration: Ideas and conversation about collaboration between high school and academic librarians in the age of book banning and AI.
Full Session Description (as long as you would like): Current developments in the information literacy landscape mean that college bound students have increased challenges in navigating the transition to higher education. These challenges, compounded with targeted attacks on k-12 librarians, the defunding of school and academic libraries, and the assaults on intellectual freedom, ensure that the work of librarianship is as important as ever. Ideas will be presented about opportunities for collaboration regarding issues of AI within the academy, how to support students’ information literacy skills as a meanstoencourage democratic learning and engagement, and the importance of workers’ advocacy for intellectual freedom. There will also be an opportunity for discussion and conversation of these issues.
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