(via the Illinois Library Association) Fun Fact or Story of the Week Does your library have an interesting story no one knows about or is there a fun fact about your library that only your patrons and staff and know about? If so, share it with the Illinois library community! We are launching an Illinois library…
Category: Awards, Grants, and Scholarships (non-HSLI)
Call for Nominations: American Library Association Honorary Membership (Deadline Tuesday, September 1)
(via Sheryl Reyes–Director, Office of ALA Governance) Nominations are being accepted for ALA honorary membership, the Association’s highest honor, which is bestowed on living citizens of any country whose contributions to librarianship or a closely related field are so outstanding that they are of significant and lasting importance to the whole field of library service….
Reminder: Submissions for IACRL People’s Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing Due Friday, July 10
(via IACRL) This is a reminder that the Illinois Association of College & Research Libraries (IACRL) Awards Committee is seeking submissions for the People’s Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing. This award will give academic and research librarians throughout Illinois the opportunity to read and evaluate scholarly works by their peers and then vote on a favorite. It will…
Call for Submissions: Library Juice Press Annual Paper Contest (Deadline Saturday, August 1)
(via Rory Litwin, Library Juice Academy) The intention of this contest is to encourage and reward good work in the field of library and information studies, humanistically understood, through a monetary award and public recognition. The contest is open to librarians, library students, academics, and others. Acceptable paper topics cover the full range of topics…
Call for Nominations: ACRL Instruction Section Featured Teaching Librarian (Deadline Wednesday, July 15)
(via Caroline Sinkinson, University of Colorado Boulder) 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…
UIC’s Teresa Helena Moreno is ACRL Member of the Week
(via ACRL) Teresa Helena Moreno, Librarian + Undergraduate Engagement Coordinator at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Daley Library, is the ACRL Member of the Week. The Member of the Week interview is below, and it is also available on the ACRL website. Describe yourself in three words Tenacious, empathetic, political. What are you reading…
Call for Submissions: IACRL People’s Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing (Deadline Wednesday, July 1)
(via IACRL) The Illinois Association of College & Research Libraries (IACRL) Awards Committee is seeking submissions for the People’s Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing. This award will give academic and research librarians throughout Illinois the opportunity to read and evaluate scholarly works by their peers and then vote on a favorite. It will also present Illinois research and academic librarians…
Final Reminder: Nominations for Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year Award Due Friday, May 29
(via the Illinois Library Association) This is a reminder that nominations for the Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year Award are due Friday, May 29. The general criteria are below. Additional information, including instructions for submitting a nomination, is available here. Please direct any questions to ila@ila.org. For more information about other ILA awards and…
Harper College’s Victoria Turner is Recipient of Initial CARLI Scholarship
(via Margaret Chambers, CARLI) The Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) is pleased to announce that Victoria Turner, Cataloging Assistant at Harper College Library in Palatine, has been selected to receive the CARLI Scholarship. CARLI is awarding this scholarship for the first time for the 2020/2021 academic year. “My first semester at…
Deadline for Illinois Library Association Awards Nominations Extended to Friday, May 29
(via Gwen Gregory, University of Illinois at Chicago, on behalf of the Illinois Library Association) The ILA Awards Committee has extended the deadline for award nominations to Friday, May 29. We urge you to help shine the spotlight on the wonderful work of the Illinois library community and nominate a colleague, manager, mentor, or yourself…