HSLI Newsletter

(via Sarah LeMire, Texas A&M University)

The Libraries and Veterans National Forum is a two-day symposium to discuss strategies for supporting library patrons and library workers who are veteran or military-affiliated. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (LG-12-19-0114 <https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-12-19-0114-19>).  Fifty library workers from a variety of library types and from around the country will be selected to attend the symposium, with travel and accommodations covered courtesy of the IMLS grant. The Forum is scheduled for June 8-9, 2020 in College Station, Texas.

The Libraries and Veterans National Forum is intended to move forward the conversation about veteran and military-affiliated patrons in libraries. To that end, we particularly encourage library workers who are actively engaged in working with these communities to apply to attend.  Engagement with veteran and military communities could look like targeted programs or services, or it could look like collections, spaces, or policies aimed at making libraries friendlier to veteran and military-affiliated patrons.  Or it could be something else entirely!  We want to hear what you’re doing and how you could share your experience.

We also want to extend a specific invitation to library workers from traditionally underrepresented groups and those who work with underrepresented groups within the veteran and military communities to apply to attend.

To indicate interest in attending and for more information, check out our website:  https://veterans.libguides.com/home.  The Call for Interest in Attending will close on Sunday, December 15, 2019, and selected participants will be notified in January 2020.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Sarah LeMire, Texas A&M University Libraries, at slemire@library.tamu.edu.

(via NASIG)

The NASIG 35th Annual Conference will take place June 8-12, 2020, in Spokane, WA. NASIG seeks proposals for one-hour conference sessions on topics related to scholarly communication and publishing, and the acquisition, management, and discovery of library collections. We particularly welcome proposals related to the areas defined in NASIG’s Core Competencies, at https://www.nasig.org/site_page.cfm?pk_association_webpage_menu=310&pk_association_webpage=1225, including:

• Electronic resource life cycle and management
• Collection analysis, assessment, and development
• Licensing and legal framework of library content
• Standards and systems of cataloging and classification, metadata, linked data, and indexing
• Standards, initiatives, and best practices for library content
• Scholarly communication, including copyright, data management, and assessment and impact metrics
• Institutional repositories, publishing, digital preservation, open educational resources, and open access
• Life cycle and workflow of print continuing resources
• Relationship building between libraries, vendors, publishers, standards bodies, and others involved in the information community
• Supervision and management of staff working in areas relevant to NASIG
• Management of projects related to electronic and/or print resources or scholarly communication
• Initiatives and best practices in areas included in the core competencies and awareness of trends and ongoing developments in those areas
• Diversity, equity and inclusion in relation to libraries

Each 1-hour session should include approximately 45-50 minutes of content, with time left for discussion. Presentations are selected by the Program Planning Committee based on their relevance to NASIG interests. Co-presenters are welcomed, but we ask that you limit submissions to no more than three presenters. All presenters will be asked to publish a conference report in the NASIG Proceedings, which will be published through the journal Serials Librarian. Additional information for speakers can be found on our speaker resources page.

Accepted presenters will be offered a $100 discount on the cost of registration.

Please submit all proposals using the online form at https://proposalspace.com/calls/d/1114. The submission deadline is Monday, December 2.

If you have any questions, please contact the Program Planning Committee (PPC) Co-Chairs, Wendy Robertson and Megan Kilb, at prog-plan@nasig.org<mailto:prog-plan@nasig.org>.

(via Stacey Knight-Davis, Eastern Illinois University, on behalf of Brenda Fay, Advocate Aurora Health)

Save the date for the next Digital Commons-Great Lakes User Group meeting , to be held July 27, 2020, in Milwaukee, WI. Hosted by Marquette University Raynor Memorial Libraries, our theme will be “Library as Publisher”. If you have ever considered an institutional repository at your institution or already have one, I invite you to the 2020 DC+GLUG meeting.

More details will be coming in 2020. This one-day, free meeting, will feature Digital Commons (bepress) and presentations from DC users, but will also feature other institutional repository platforms. It could be a great way to learn about how the IR marketplace might be changing and what other products and vendors are on the horizon.

Watch for a call for presentations in mid-December 2019. Organizers Marquette University, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and Advocate Aurora Health are excited to bring a twist on the traditional DC+GLUG format by reserving time for platform agnostic presentations and discussion in the afternoon.

(via the Illinois Library Association)

The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) is now accepting proposals to present at the 11th National Conference of African American Librarians (NCAAL), August 5-9, 2020, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Additional information, including proposal instructions, submission guidelines, and selection criteria, are available on the conference website.