(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…
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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…
Savage Chosen for Leading to the Future Program
Devin Savage, Assistant Dean for Assessment and Scholarly Communication at the Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago campus), has been selected as a participant in ALA’s fourth annual Leading to the Future program. Savage is one of 42 participants from all types of libraries across the U.S., and he is the only one from an Illinois…
CARLI Creates Google Group for Collection Development Projects
(via Chris Diaz, CARLI Collection Management Committee) The Collection Management Committee has created a Google Group for CARLI member libraries to discuss and coordinate collaborative collection development projects for the 2016-2017 academic year. Many of us are buying fewer books than we did in the past. According to a survey we conducted earlier this year,…
Registration Open for Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference
(via David Ketchum, University of Oregon Libraries) Registration is now open for the 16th Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference. The conference will take place in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, September 8, and Friday, September 9, at Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus. This year’s program includes the following events. library tours on September 7-register for tours…
ILL Discussion Group at ALA Annual
(via Krista Higham, Millersville University STARS ILL Discussion Group Chair) For those attending ALA Annual in Orlando, please join us for the ILL Discussion Group. It will take place on Saturday, June 25, from 10:30 to 11:30 AM, in the Orange County Convention Center, Room W202B. We will be discussing the newly updated and approved Interlibrary Loan Code…
Webinar at 12:00 PM TODAY on Applying for OCLC Digital Innovation Award
(via OCLC) Have you completed your submission for the Digital Learning Innovation Award (DLIAward)? The DLIAward program recognizes faculty-led teams and institutions for advancing undergraduate student success through the adoption of digital courseware. OLC is calling for submissions from accredited U.S.-based institutions in two categories. Institutional Award – $100,000 (up to three awarded) Faculty-led Team…