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.
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.
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