Congratulations to HSLI member Mary Ashley Dotson, who just graduated from the UI iSchool and was invited to join Beta Phi Mu (LIS Honors) and Phi Kappa Phi (all discipline honors)! Mary Ashley was a 2025 Jira Scholarship recipient, and is the Librarian for Sarah Bush Lincoln Health System, based in Mattoon, IL.
Month: May 2026
Registration Open for RAILS virtual event “Drawn Together: Building Empathy & Compassion through Graphic Medicine”
(Via RAILS) Through a structured presentation and a librarian-guided zine-making activity, this two-hour virtual event will engage participants in an exploration of Graphic Medicine as a contemporary field and its focus on the intersection of comics, illness, health, and medicine. The event will examine the diverse ways in which Graphic Medicine can foster empathy and…
Call for Lightning Talk Presentations for HSLI 2026
The Health Science Librarians of Illinois (HSLI) annual conference will be virtual in 2026. The conference will be held September 29 – October 1, 2026. This year’s theme is “Preserving the Past, Inspiring the Present: Librarians Advancing Health Science.” HSLI is seeking proposals for Lightning Talk Presentations. Each presenter will have 10 minutes to present…