COIL on Wheels: A Library Professional Development Roadshow

Abstract

Professional development for instruction librarians is in danger of coming to a standstill in difficult economic times. COIL on Wheels is a professional development roadshow developed by the Community of Oklahoma Instruction Librarians to allow librarians with budget and staffing issues to benefit from peer training. By matching member librarian interests with institutional needs, librarians can visit institutions in their geographic area to provide their colleagues with low-cost or free training. This article discusses the origins of and rationale for this program and describes a successful implementation of this traveling professional development project.

KEYWORDS:

• COIL on Wheels
• instruction librarians
• peer training
• professional development

The authors would like to extend a special thanks to Jason Dupree, Jamie Holmes, Sarah Clark, Amand Lemon, and Tom Thorisch for their contributions to the success of the COIL on Wheels project and also for their assistance in providing details for this article.

Notes

Comments and suggestions should be sent to the Column Editors: Stewart Brower ([email protected]) and Linda Hasman ([email protected]).

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Notes on contributors

Toni Hoberecht

Toni Hoberecht, MLIS ([email protected]) is Reference and Instruction Librarian, The University of Oklahoma–Tulsa, 4502 East 41st Street, Tulsa, OK 74135.

Emily Brown

Emily Brown, MLIS ([email protected]) is Circulation Librarian, Oklahoma City University Law Library, 2501 North Blackwelder, Oklahoma City, OK 73106.