(via Elizabeth Kiscaden, National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region) The National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) program has a very special opportunity. The Library of Congress, the Royal Library and Royal Archives, Windsor Castle, and their partners seek an individual resident to lead the Georgian Paper Programme project. Time will be split between…
Category: Awards, Grants, and Scholarships (non-HSLI)
Outreach Awards and Application Training Available from NN/LM – GMR
(via Molly Olmstead, National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region) The GMR Outreach Awards are rolling in–we’ll continue to post them on our website as they approved by the NNCO. The Express Outreach Award and Technology Improvement Award are both live and we’re accepting applications until Monday, September 12. The Professional Development…
Nominations Sought for I Love My Librarian Award
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) Nominations are open through Friday, September 19, for the I Love My Librarian Award. The award encourages library users-professors, administrators, students-to submit nominations about how their librarian makes a difference on campus or in the community. Up to 10 librarians in public, school and college, community college, and university libraries…
Snow Presents at Digitization Conference
Dr. Karen Snow, Assistant Professor and Ph.D. Program Director at Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science, gave two presentations at the 2016 Digitization Conference. This year’s event took place on Thursday, August 18, and Friday, August 19, on Florida State University’s Panama City campus. (There was also a preconference workshop on August…
Piotrowski Named Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year
Pattie Piotrowski, who recently started a position as University Librarian and Dean of Library Instructional Services at the University of Illinois Springfield, has been named the 2016 ILA Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year. The award, which is sponsored by CARLI, recognizes an Illinois librarian who has had a statewide impact on academic or research…
Chu Named ALA Representative to UNESCO Commission
Dr. Clara M. Chu, Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor at the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs (on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus), has been chosen as the American Library Association’s representative to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. Dr. Chu’s term will last through June of 2018. The Commission includes representatives from…
Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians Seeking Applicants
(via ACRL) The Harvard Institutes for Higher Education annual Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians program, led by leading faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), details important leadership concepts and applies them to the practical challenges of leading and managing the contemporary academic library. The curriculum addresses three areas–planning, organizational strategy and change,…
Sandra De Groote Wins MLA’s Ida and George Eliot Prize
(Note: This is an article that appeared in the Spring, 2016, issue of the IACRL Newsletter.) Sandra De Groote, Professor and Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has won the Medical Library Association’s 2016 Ida and George Eliot Prize. The award recognizes a scholarly work that has had a significant impact…
SIU-Carbondale’s Gorzalski named SAA Emerging Leader
Matt Gorzalski, University Archivist at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Morris Library, has been named the 2016 recipient of the Society of American Archivists’ Emerging Leader Award. This is the sixth year that the Award has been presented. The Award recognizes archivists who are relatively new to the profession but have already demonstrated leadership ability, done…
Winners of NMRT’s ALA Annual Conference Professional Development Award Announced
(via Lindsay Harmon, IACRL Vice-President/President-Elect) The NMRT Annual Conference Professional Development Attendance Award Committee congratulates Corinne Thompson, Siena Heights University, and Jane Wu, Otterbein University, on their winning essays. Thompson will receive a ticket to the NMRT preconference “What’s a Millennial to Do? Learning Thrive in a Multi-Generational Workplace” at the ALA Annual Conference 2016…