(via Jeanne Sadlik, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Library) In order to enable more librarians to attend Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meetings, EBSCO Information Services has generously donated money to the MLA Scholarship Endowment to provide stipends up to $1,000.00 each to four (4) librarians for travel and conference-related expenses, to be known as…
Year: 2015
Webinar on Library Promotion of Public-Health Literacy
WebJunction will be hosting the free webinar “Public Health and Public Libraries: Librarians as Health Literacy First Responders”. It will take place on Wednesday, October 21, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM CST. Although the webinar is aimed at public libraries, much of the information covered will likely prove useful to librarians working in academic…
Midwest Chapter of REFORMA to Hold Meeting October 9
(via Gwen Gregory, incoming IACRL President) For those interested in services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking: FALL 2015 MEETING REFORMA MIDWEST CHAPTER LOYOLA UNIVERSITY INFORMATION COMMONS Held by conference call from different locations 6501 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660 3:00-4:30 PM CST on Friday, October 9, 2015 Conference Call Information: Dial-in Number: (712) 775-7031…
Opening for Reference Services Librarian at Advocate Health Care, Chicago
(via Lisa Jacob, Director of Advocacy Library Network) Reference Services Librarian full-time, Advocate Library Network based at Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL Position provides knowledge-based reference and research information services to physicians, residents, medical students, and associates in support of the clinical, educational, and research goals of Advocate Health Care. For full job description…
Submit an “Ignite” Session for ALA Midwinter
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President-Elect) 2016 ALA Midwinter Meeting attendees have the chance to inspire and entertain colleagues in the popular five-minute “Ignite” sessions, always standing-room-only and high energy events. Session proposals are accepted now through the end of the day on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. Find out more and submit proposals now<http://2016.alamidwinter.org/schedule-meeting>. Each five-minute Ignite…
Legislative Updates, 9/30/2015
Federal: Legislation to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is gaining ground in Congress this fall. ECPA is the principal law that controls when the government needs to have a search warrant to obtain the full content of electronic communications. It was enacted in 1986 and has not been updated since. There is now…
Twiss-Brooks Chosen as Mentor for Leadership Fellows Program
Andrea Twiss-Brooks (MS, MSLS), who is Co-Director of the Science Libraries Division and the Head of Collection Services at the University of Chicago’s John Crerar Library, has been chosen as a mentor for the 2016 class of NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows. Twiss-Brooks is one of 10 participants in this year’s program (five fellows and five mentors),…
Susan Singleton Retiring as CARLI Executive Director
(via Susan Singleton) At the meeting of the CARLI Board of Directors this morning (Friday, September 25), I announced to my decision to retire as Executive Director of CARLI in July 2016. This was a difficult decision for me, reached after much consideration. The July 2016 timeline should allow for ample time to conduct a…
Registration Still Open for Symposium on Health Care Reform
Update (September 29, 2015): Please note that the symposium below, which took place in March, is NOT being repeated on Wednesday, September 30. Rather, tomorrow is the last day that one may view the webinar and still receive CE credit. After that date, the recording of the webinar will be available, but one will not earn…
Proposal for Panel Session at IACRL 2016
(via Josh Sopiarz, Governors State University) I would like to propose a panel on the academic library and student veterans in response to the call that went out for IACRL 2016: Raise Your Voice: Librarians in the Lead. If you or anyone at your institution’s library has worked–or is working–with student veterans I would love…