(via ILA) Jesse White became Illinois’s longest-serving Illinois Secretary of State on May 30, 2014, which also makes him the longest serving Illinois State Librarian and State Archivist. White’s tenure has been an asset to libraries in the state budgeting process, protecting them from the most severe cost-cutting in lean years. In addition to overseeing…
Category: Awards, Grants, and Scholarships (non-HSLI)
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…
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…
Sopiarz Wins Collection Development Grant
(Note: This post is an article that appeared in the Spring, 2016, issue of the IACRL Newsletter.) Josh Sopiarz, Social Sciences and Government Information Librarian and Assistant Professor at Governors State University, has received the 2016 Douglas A. Noverr Grant for Collection Enhancement for Institutions to Build Popular Culture and American Culture Research Collections. The grant…
Kahl Wins Marta Lange/SAGE-CQ Press Award
(Note: This post is an article from the Spring, 2016, issue of the IACRL Newsletter.) Chad Kahl, Interim Associate Dean for Public Services and Information Technology at Illinois State University’s Milner Library, is the recipient of the 2016 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) Marta Lange/SAGE-CQ Press Award. The…
Digital Learning Innovation Award Submissions Due June 30
(via Nori Barajas-Murphy-Grant Project Director, Online Learning Consortium) The countdown begins today. 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….
Call for Nominations–Access Services Conference Support Staff Travel Scholarship
(via Thomas Mantzakides, University of Illinois at Chicago and member of Award Committee for the scholarship) Do you know a support staff member who deserves special recognition for their work and dedication in access services? For the second year, the Access Services Conference will be presenting the Access Services Conference Support Staff Travel Scholarship to…
UIUC’s JJ Pionke Wins ALA’s Carnegie-Whitney Grant
(Note: This post is an article that appeared in the Spring, 2016, issue of the IACRL Newsletter.) Katharine (“JJ”) Pionke, Applied Health Sciences Librarian and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the 2016 recipient of the American Library Association’s Carnegie-Whitney Grant. The grant funds the development of reading lists, webliographies, and other…
Fakouri Named ACRL Member of the Week
Maryam Fakouri, Intellectual Property Librarian at Columbia College in Chicago, has been named the ACRL Member of the Week for the week of May 16. She has been a member of ACRL since 2003. In an interview with ACRL, she discusses her role in teaching faculty and students at an arts and media college about…
Call for Nominations–Distinguished Achievement in Access Services Award
(via Kim Copenhaver, Eckerd College) Do you know someone who deserves special recognition for her or his work and dedication in access services? For the third year, the Access Services Conference and Generation Fifthwill be presenting the Distinguished Achievement in Access Services Award to an individual who has made an extraordinary contribution to our field. The Distinguished Achievement in Access…