Program

View the final schedule now, and view information about keynote and invited guest speakers below.  In order to view presentations and handouts from the program, please visit the 2014 Presentations page.  


Keynote Speaker: Lori Anthony


Lori Anthony
Lori Anthony’s career spans more than twenty-five years with experience in management, academe and interior design practice. In practice, she supervised interior design departments and managed large corporate accounts. In academe, she assumed managerial roles and directed undergraduate and graduate interior architecture and landscape architecture programs where she was responsible for assessment, accreditation, budgets, personnel, strategic planning, scheduling and recruitment.  She holds a BS in interior design from Seton Hill University, a MS in interior design from Virginia Tech and is currently pursuing a PhD in architectural studies from the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Lori is an innovative and creative thinker. She has conducted various Design Thinking workshops – most recently, she partnered with design professionals to conduct a series of Design Thinking sessions with middle school special education teachers.  Prior to coming to Radford, she orchestrated the revamping of a traditional four-year interior design curriculum and with her colleagues, created an innovative three-year interior design bachelor’s degree– without summer study. This project and resulting curriculum received local and national media coverage - published by the Washington Post and televised nationally on PBS’s Nightly Business Report. 

Her research interests include innovation and creativity, design thinking in education, workplace issues and the role of power in the built environment.  She has presented nationally and internationally and has several publications in peer-reviewed journals.


Invited Guest Speaker:  Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson

Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson
Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson is the Director of Instruction and Information Literacy at West Virginia University Libraries, has directed a university-wide information literacy course enhancement program since 2009, and serves as the library liaison to WVU’s Center for Women and Gender. She is a graduate of Wells College in Aurora, New York; the Rutgers University MLS program; and ACRL’s Immersion Tracks for Program (2007) and Assessment (2010). 

Recently, she was the co-editor with Courtney Bruch of Transforming Information Literacy Programs: Intersecting Frontiers of Self, Library Culture, and Campus Community, Association of College and Research Libraries Publications in Librarianship Series #64, 2012. She and Courtney co-wrote the first chapter of the book: “Surveying Terrain, Clearing Pathways.”

She is one of five institutional participants in Dr. Megan Oakleaf’s 2010-11 cohort of the Rubric Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (RAILS) research project.  Within the last decade she published two articles about an information literacy course (now called ULIB 301 Gender and the Research Process) which she developed in 2003.  Wilkinson is a member of the ACRL, ALA, West Virginia Library Association, and the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Chapter of the ACRL (WPWVC).  In June, 2007, she was a recipient of the West Virginia University Libraries’ Outstanding Librarian Award.