(via Melanie Norton, Yale University) Authors are needed for the MLA Newsletter “Expert Searching” column. Even if you don’t consider yourself an expert searcher, you probably have search strategies and skills that are new to some of your colleagues. In other words, what may seem apparent to you, may be new to others. Consider sharing your…
Author: Eric Edwards
Call for Proposals: Makerspaces for Innovation and Research in Academics Conference (Deadline Extended to March 1)
(via Dr. Vinaya Tripuranei, University Librarian at University of La Verne) CALL FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO MARCH 1, 2018!!! Submit proposals here: http://laverne.libguides.com/mira The Makerspaces for Innovation and Research in Academics (MIRA) conference planning Committee seeks proposals for its first inaugural annual conference at University of La Verne, La Verne, CA on July 12, 2018. The…
Call for Nominations: ACRL Instruction Section Featured Teaching Librarian (Deadline March 2)
(via Sara Scheib, University of Iowa) Do you know someone who is an amazing teaching librarian? If yes, consider nominating them as a Featured Teaching Librarian! If you’re an amazing teaching librarian, consider nominating yourself. The ACRL Instruction Section Teaching Methods Committee wants to highlight excellent teaching librarians. Several times during the year, the committee…
Reminder: Mentoring Volunteers Needed at ALA Midwinter
(via MD Galvin, University of Oregon) As we get closer to Midwinter, I hope that you will consider spending an hour of your time mentoring fellow librarians and students. If you have time and consider this a worthy activity, please sign up here: https://goo.gl/sCGbEJ. Mentoring-on-fly will be located in the Placement Center of the Colorado…
Registration Open for Millikin University’s Staley Library and University Commons Open House
(via Elizabeth Clarage, CARLI) The CARLI Public Services Committee is pleased to sponsor an Open House at Millikin University?s new University Commons on Thursday, March 15, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Featured presentations will showcase Staley Library service areas, the New Technologies Studio, and the library?s instruction program. After lunch, there will be…
Conference Announcement and Call for Proposals: MILEX 2018, “The Future of Teaching Librarianship”
(via Jill Burke, Community College of Baltimore County – Essex) Conference Announcement and Call for Proposals: The Future of Teaching Librarianship Maryland Information Literacy Exchange 2018 Spring Conference Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Loyola Graduate Center, 8890 McGaw Rd, Columbia, MD The Maryland Information Literacy Exchange (MILEX) is a collaborative of…
Call for Participants in Online Cohort: “Stand Up for Health: Health and Wellness Services for Your Community”
(via Bobbi Newman, National Network of Libraries of Medicine) The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) is recruiting public library staff to participate in the online training, “Stand Up for Health: Health and Wellness Services for Your Community<https://nnlm.gov/classes/stand-health-health-and-wellness-services-your-community>.” This is a 4-week, online, asynchronous (all self-paced) course where participants will earn 12 continuing education…
CARLI Collection Management Committee Seeking Responses to Open-Access Ebooks Survey
(via Elizabeth Clarage, CARLI) The CARLI Collection Management Committee is exploring the availability of open-access ebooks and their corresponding cataloging records. The Committee is interested in what open-access ebooks would CARLI member libraries like to see available to all libraries using I-Share and eventually through OCLC Collection Manager to all CARLI members. All CARLI members…
Registration Open for 2018 Information Literacy Summit
(via Tish Hayes, Moraine Valley Community College) 17th Annual Information Literacy Summit Teaching for Curiosity, Creativity, and Action Friday, April 20, 2018, 8:30am-3:30pm Presented by DePaul University Library and Moraine Valley Community College Library Located at the Moraine Valley Community College campus Purpose of the Summit The organizers envision the Summit as an opportunity for…
Call for Presenters: ALAO Distance Learning and Instruction Interest Groups Workshops (Deadline Feb. 15)
(via Amanda Goodsett, Cleveland State University) ALAO 2018 DLIG/IIG Spring 2018 Workshop — Call for Presenters Distance Learning and Instruction Interest Groups – Co-Hosted Spring Workshop Friday, May 4th, 2018 State Library of Ohio Authority, Source Evaluation, and Critical Thinking for In-Person & Online Library Instruction Have you experimented with in-person or online strategies for getting students to think critically…