(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) The 2016 Illinois Library Association Conference will take place in Rosemont from October 18 to 20. There are still ways that you can get involved. Submit a Poster Session Poster sessions at the 2016 ILA Annual Conference will be held in the exhibit hall on Wednesday, October 19, and Thursday,…
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ALA Seeking IFLA Section Committee Nominations for 2017-21
(via ALA) The ALA International Relations Committee (IRC) is seeking nominations to section standing committees of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). The selected representatives will serve from 2017 to 2021. Details on the ALA nomination and selection process can be found on the information site. Any ALA member is eligible to…
Reminder–ALA Seeking Candidates for 2017 Elections
(via ALA) The ALA 2017 Nominating Committee reminds all interested ALA members that the deadline for completing the candidate biographical form is quickly approaching–the form will close on Friday, July 8. The committee is soliciting nominees to run on the 2017 spring ballot for the offices of ALA President-Elect and Councilor-at-Large. The Nominating Committee will…
UIC and Northwestern Sponsoring Health Sciences Practicum
(via Rebecca Raszewski, University of Illinois at Chicago) The Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and the Galter Health Sciences Library of Northwestern University are co-sponsoring a joint practicum for the Fall 2016 semester. This practicum is geared towards library science graduate students currently enrolled in ALA-accredited programs…
Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting to Be Held August 9-11
(via OCLC) The Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and the CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting will be held jointly this year, from Tuesday, August 9, to Thursday, August 11. The events will take place at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. More information is below. The Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC16) features the following activities. keynote…
RUSA Stars Hot Topics Discussion Group at ALA Annual
(via Tina Baich, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) Please plan to attend the STARS Hot Topics Discussion Group at ALA Annual! The meeting will take place from 3:00 to 4:00 PM on Sunday, June 26, in the Orange County Convention Center, Room W202B. Note the change from the normal day. Hot Topics has been moved so that it…
ACRL Seeks Curriculum Designer/Presenters for New Learning Opportunities on Assessment
(via ACRL) ACRL is accepting applications from prospective curriculum designer/presenters to contribute to creating two (and possibly more) new learning opportunities on assessing library impact, building on the work of the ACRL program Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success (AiA). First, a day-long workshop is being designed to provide professional development support to librarians who…
IACRL Election Results
(results via Cyndi Robinson, ILA) The results for the 2016 IACRL election are in! Carolyn Ciesla, Instructional Services Librarian and Assistant Professor at Prairie State College, was elected Vice-President/President-Elect. She ran unopposed and received all 69 votes cast. She will serve one year as Vice-President, to be followed by a year as President. Eric Edwards,…
2016 Purdue Information Literacy Research Symposium on August 2
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) The 2016 Purdue University Literacy Research Symposium will take place on Tuesday, August 2, from 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM, at the Stewart Center on the Purdue University main campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. The theme of this year’s event will be “Faces and Spaces of Information Literacy: With International Students in…
ACRL Report on Top Trends in Academic Libraries
The ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee has released its report on the top trends in academic libraries for 2016. The Committee puts out the report every two years. The 2016 report focuses on such areas as research data services (RDS), emerging staff positions, and the impact of ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy. The main findings…