(via Lindsay Harmon, IACRL Vice-President/President-Elect) We are excited to announce that members of ALA’s New Members Round Table (NMRT) can apply for a grant to help offset expenses to attend the ALA Annual Conference, June 23 – June 28, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. You must be a current member of NMRT in order to apply….
Year: 2015
Illinois Librarians Who Presented at ASIS&T Conference
The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) held its 78th annual conference in St. Louis, from November 6 to November 10. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community”, with a special emphasis on the ways in which research can be applied to real-life information problems….
Knight-Davis Discusses Eastern’s Institutional Repository on WCIA-TV
Two librarians from Eastern Illinois University were recently featured on WCIA’s “CI Living” segment. (Watch the interview here.) Booth Library’s Stacey Knight-Davis (past HSLI President) and Todd Bruns discuss The Keep, Eastern Illinois University’s growing institutional repository. Some of the items they share are yearbooks and postcards in Booth Library’s collection that, through the digitization efforts,…
Volunteer for Newly-Formed ACRL Libraries Transform Task Force by December 15
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) At its Fall Board Meeting on October 23, 2015, the ACRL Board of Directors approved the ACRL Libraries Transform Task Force to support the new ALA advocacy campaign. ACRL President Ann Campion Riley invites you to volunteer to serve on this newly created task force. Please see the following charge,…
University of Chicago Chosen to Host MLA Webinar
The University of Chicago’s John Crerar Library has been chosen as one of the locations to host a Medical Library Association webinar, “Instructional Design for Medical Librarians”. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, December 2, from 1:00 to 2:30 PM CST. The University of Chicago was selected by the National Network of Libraries of…
HSLI Election Results
(via Molly Horio) Congratulations to Miranda Shake, HSLI’s new President-Elect. Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s elections. Miranda received 34 votes in the special election for President-Elect. Your HSLI Officers for 2015-16 are: President: Daneen Richardson, Malpass Library, Western Illinois University (term expires at end of 2016 business meeting) President-Elect: Miranda Shake,…
Opening for Acquisitions & E-Resources Librarian at DePaul University Library
We are currently recruiting for an Acquisitions & E-Resources Librarian to join the DePaul University Library. The successful candidate will provide leadership for acquisitions, rapid cataloging, and ongoing management of electronic and continuing resources. The Acquisitions & E-Resources Librarian will work collaboratively to make research resources rapidly accessible to library users in an environment where…
“Digital Creation Centers in Academic Libraries” Online Discussion on December 2
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President, and Emily Thompson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) ACRL/ULS, through its Online Discussion Group, is pleased to host the following online discussion: “Digital Creation Centers in Academic Libraries.” The discussion will be held on Wednesday, December 2, from 2:00pm to 3:00pm EST. Makerspaces for digital media and data visualization centers…
Call for Proposals: ALA Annual Conference Poster Session
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) Share your best ideas and work with the national library community by presenting a poster session at the 2016 ALA Annual Conference in Orlando! The poster session committee encourages submissions from all types of libraries and on any topic relevant to librarianship. Submissions may include a description of an innovative…
Opening for Digital Scholarship Librarian at DePaul University
(via Dr. Scott Walter, DePaul University Library) Colleagues – we are currently recruiting for a Digital Scholarship Librarian to join the DePaul University Library. The successful candidate will join a library that has played a leading role on campus in the development of DePaul’s new Digital Humanities program and the use of library publishing services to…