The Transformation of the College Library Workshops, organized by the Council of Independent Colleges and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, are continually improving, according to a comparison of evaluations from the five workshops held to date. The most recent workshop, the fifth, was held in Chicago on September 29–October 1.

A key benefit of the workshops has been the opportunity for participants, working in institutional teams, to outline a plan of action for implementing or improving an information literacy program on their own campus. At the fall 2005 workshop, more time to develop and reflect on the campus plan was built into the program by adding collaborative consultations on the individual campus plans. Meeting in pairings of two institutional teams, workshop participants reviewed their institutional plans in detail, noting how the situation at each campus drove the plan and identifying opportunities for strengthening individual plans.

Participants for the next two library workshops, scheduled for February 9–11 in Nashville, Tennessee, and April 20–22 in Boston, Massachusetts, have been selected. These programs are made possible through the generous financial support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation. The workshops are sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Council on Library and Information Resources. The Appalachian College Association and the United Negro College Fund have both endorsed the program.

CIC anticipates offering additional workshops in academic year 2006–2007.