(via Emily Williams, Georgia State University) The Georgia Library Association Carterette Series Webinars presents “Teaching and Assessment of Metacognition”. It will take place on Wednesday, February 15, starting at 1:00 PM CDT. There is no cost to attend. Please see below for more details, including instructions to register. Description: Metacognition is often an invisible by-product…
Year: 2023
Reminder: Applications for RAILS CE Event Grants Due Fri., Feb. 10
(via Gwen Gregory, Northern Illinois University) RAILS again invites networking groups, consortia, and libraries to apply for a RAILS Continuing Education Event Grant. This grant supports CE events for RAILS member libraries towards the development of library staff and trustees. To qualify, CE events must be made available to all RAILS member libraries. RAILS will prioritize events focused on equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility…
Call for Submissions: Second Annual Graphic Medicine International Collective Award (Deadline Tues., Feb. 14)
(via Matthew Noe, Harvard University) With the new year comes time for the second annual Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) Award! This award recognizes an outstanding health-related comics project published in the prior year (in this case, comics published in 2022). Last year was the inaugural year and the shortlist makes an excellent reading list…
Call for Proposals: 21st Annual Illinois Information Literacy Summit (at College of DuPage Fri., April 28)–Priority Deadline Mon., Jan. 23
(via Sveta Stoytcheva, DePaul University) Illinois Information Literacy Summit Stronger Together: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Media & Information Literacy Date: Friday, April 28, 2023 Location: College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL The College of DuPage Library and the DePaul University Library are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the 21st Annual Illinois Information…
Call for Submissions: Upcoming ILA Reporter Article on 2022 Expansion, Renovation, and New Building Projects (Deadline Fri., Jan. 20)
(via the Illinois Library Association) Has your library undergone renovations or new building in 2022? Share the news with the library community by submitting the project for the ILA Reporter “Library Buildings 2022” article in the March, 2023 issue. Submissions should include: At least one high-resolution image of the exterior At least one high-resolution image…
Reminder: ACRL Science & Technology Section Future Modalities Task Force Seeking Volunteers (STS Membership Not Required)
(via Hannah Gascho Rempel, Oregon State University) Are you a librarian with responsibilities or interests in the sciences? Do you have ideas and opinions on the different formats (e.g., virtual, in person, different timings) or other creative solutions that the ACRL Science and Technology Section (STS) can use for meetings, events, and gatherings moving forward?…
Registration Open for Three-Part Webinar Series “Programming Library Spaces for Institutional Impact” (Feb. 9, 16, and 23, all Thursdays, 1:00-2:00 PM CDT Each Day)
(via Joan Lippincott–Associate Executive Director Emerita, Coalition for Networked Information) If you are involved with library space planning, whether for a large or small project, I hope you’ll join my co-editors of the Designing Libraries for the 21st Century book, along with some of the chapter authors and myself, for a webinar series in February, 2023….
Call for Nominations: RUSA Federal Achievement Award and Federal Rising Stars Initiative
(via Adria Olmi–Director, Army Logistics University Library) Please consider nominating deserving colleagues for RUSA (Reference & User Services Association) achievement awards. There are many fabulous feds that work daily advancing the causes of library and information sciences, promoting the information profession, passionately devoting themselves to their profession through numerous activities. We would love to celebrate…
Registration Open for CARLI Professional Development Alliance Webinar “Over-servicing at your Library at the Expense of a Healthy Life Balance” (Tues., Feb. 14, 10:00-11:00 AM CDT)
(via Nicole Swanson, CARLI) Registration has opened for “Over-servicing at your Library at the Expense of a Healthy Life Balance”, the first webinar of the Honest Conversations about Finding Personal/Professional Life Balance Series available to CARLI members and those of the Professional Development Alliance. In 2016, Fobazi Etarh, an academic librarian and a queer woman…