This informative program will share ideas for how librarians can encourage and promote digital citizenship

PCI Webinar with Lauren Hays

Digital citizenship includes privacy, behaving ethically online, and being safe and responsible in digital environments. As facilitators of digital knowledge consumption and creation, librarians have a unique role to play in fostering digital citizenship among their users.

This informative program will share ideas for how librarians can encourage and promote digital citizenship, and provide recommendations for resources and community partners.

Learning Outcomes:

• Attendees will identify what is included in digital citizenship curriculum
• Attendees will recognize resources and community partners they can leverage to promote digital citizenship
• Attendees will generate ideas for encouraging digital citizenship in their library users

Lauren Hays ~ Biography

Lauren Hays, PhD, is the instructional and research librarian at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, KS where she enjoys teaching and being a member of her institution’s Faculty Development Committee. She has co-presented at the annual conference for the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and was the 2017 speaker on SoTL for the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Student Learning and Information Literacy Committee’s Midwinter Discussion.