| The purpose of the Library
Instruction Round Table (LIRT) is to advocate library instruction as a
means for developing competent library and information access skills,
along with their use, as a part of lifelong learning. LIRT supports those
who provide library instruction. LIRT membership represents all types
of libraries committed to these goals.
- To increase professional and public awareness of the need for library
instruction as an essential service.
- To encourage the development of American Library Association policy
promoting library instruction.
- To assist library practitioners in the development, improvement,
and promotion of library instruction.
- To broaden the base of membership involvement in the activities
of LIRT by attracting active members from all types of libraries.
- To provide opportunities in which librarians from all types of libraries
can share ideas about library instruction.
- To encourage the networking of professional library instruction
groups at the state and regional level.
- To encourage library schools to include education for bibliographic
instruction in their curricula.
- To maintain an organizational structure that enables the implementation
of the goals and objectives of the Library Instruction Round Table.
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