(via Ariel Orlov, Dominican University) Are you a Chicago-area librarian that provides library services to students and faculty at a distance and online? Join us as we launch a local interest group to meet several times a year to share ideas and innovations. We’re holding a kick-off event on Thursday, June 9, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM at…
Author: Eric Edwards
Deadline for ILA Awards Nominations is May 15
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) Do you have a colleague doing great work in an Illinois library? Nominate the person for an award! The deadline for Illinois Library Association award nominations is this Sunday, May 15. This includes the Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year, as well as many other awards. The nomination process is simple…
Chu Wins Distinguished Service Award from Chinese American Librarians Association
Dr. Clara M. Chu, Director and Distinguished Professor at UIUC’s Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, has been named the 2015 recipient of the Chinese American Librarians Association’s (CALA) Distinguished Service Award. The award, which is given annually, is the highest recognition granted by the organization. It recognizes an individual who has displayed exceptional leadership…
Illinois Faculty Summer Institute to Be Held May 24
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) This year’s Faculty Summer Institute (FSI) will take place on Tuesday, May 24, from 11:30 AM to 5:30 PM, at Urbana-Champaign’s iHotel. It will be our 20th year anniversary. The FSI is designed for faculty members and learning technology professionals, and as always, it is free to all faculty and staff at…
RUSA Virtual Town Hall June 15
(via the Reference and User Services Association) The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) is hosting a virtual Town Hall meeting on Wednesday, June 15, at 3:00 PM CST, to give all RUSA members (and prospective members!) a chance to ask questions about the organization and give input on our current and future directions. We invite…
LITA Webinar: Mindful Tech with David Levy
(via the Library Information Technology Association) Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in this well known program by David Levy on the timely topic of mindful tech. The popular interactive program will include exercises and participation now re-packaged into a two-part webinar format. Both parts will be fully recorded for participants to return to, or…
ACRLog Blog Team Seeking Writers
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) Are you interested in writing about issues that affect academic libraries? We’re looking to bring on a few new bloggers here at ACRLog! Members of the ACRLog blog team write on any issue or idea that impacts academic librarianship, from current news items to workflow and procedural topics to upcoming…
Registration for 2016 IDS Project Conference Open
(via Mark Sullivan, Executive Director of the IDS Project at SUNY Geneseo) The IDS Project’s 12th Annual Summer Conference is Thursday, July 28, and Friday, July 29, at the Desmond Hotel and Conference Center. This year’s conference theme is “The Sharing Economy”, and approximately 250 attendees are expected. The IDS Conference is packed with information and training…
HSLI Listserv Has New Home
(via Linda Feinberg, NorthShore University HealthSystem) With the National Network of Libraries of Medicine-Greater Midwest Region moving its office from the University of Illinois at Chicago to the University of Iowa, the Health Science Librarians of Illinois listserv, which is hosted by the GMR, has a new e-mail address. The updated address is GMR-HSLI@list.uiowa.edu. Please delete…
Park Presents at DPLAfest
Sarah Park, Technology & Engineering Librarian at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, presented at the 2016 DPLAfest, which was sponsored by the Digital Public Library of America. This year’s event was in Washington, D.C., from April 14 to 15. Park’s workshop, titled “Geovisualization: Visualize that on a Map”, provided an introduction to geovisualization, which is a…