(via Gabrielle (Abby) Annala, Lewis University) Calling all librarians and library staff with an interest in marketing! Inspired by ACRL? Didn’t get to go and want to share your project related to marketing and outreach? ACRL’s Library Marketing and Outreach Interest group (LMOIG) is hosting an inaugural Chicago area meetup for librarians interested in forming…
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Reminder: DPLAFest2019 to Be Held April 17-18 at Chicago’s Harold Washington Library Center (Registration Required)
(via the Illinois Library Association) DPLAFest2019 will be held April 17-18, 2019, at the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago. This event will explore how libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural organizations across the country leverage technology to serve, inform, and empower communities. The complete program is now available on the event website. Cost to attend is…
Reminder: Registration for 2019 Digital Initiatives Symposium (April 29-30) in San Diego Closes April 19
(via Amanda Makula, University of San Diego) Last Call: Final Registration<https://2019-dis.eventbrite.com/> for the 2019 Digital Initiatives Symposium<https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2019/>! – Six Pre-conference Workshops: – Collections as Data: Digital Collections for Emerging Research Methods by Stewart Varner, University of Pennsylvania – Two Peas in a Pod: On Information Literacy and Open Educational Resources by Michelle Reed, University of…
Reminder: Program Proposals for 2019 Reaching Forward South Conference Due Monday, April 15
(via the Illinois Library Association) Reaching Forward South, an annual professional development conference for library support staff in central and southern Illinois, is now accepting conference <https://ila.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e70654dccbd86e15c572ad55&id=4758096daf&e=6c7f1a78dd> proposals<https://ila.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e70654dccbd86e15c572ad55&id=da855dbaf9&e=6c7f1a78dd>. The theme is The Future is Always Beginning Now, and proposals should consist of ideas and practices in strategic planning, forward-thinking programming, and current events or endeavors…
Call for Nominations: the Alexandre Vattemare Award for Creativity in Libraries (Deadline May 1)
(via Rory Litwin, Library Juice Academy) The Alexandre Vattemare Award for Creativity in Libraries Given annually by Library Juice Press, the Vattemare Award recognizes contributions in the LIS field that are marked by originality, creative energy, and novel combinations of ideas. Considerations in selecting the awardee are their creation of new possibilities for libraries and…
ALA Working Committee on Eliminating Monetary Library Fines as a Form of Social Justice Seeking Input for Creating Toolkit (Deadline Friday, April 12)
(via Sarah Houghton, California Digital Library) I was recently appointed to the ALA Working Committee on Eliminating Monetary Library Fines as a Form of Social Justice. This group was formed as a result of the passage of a Resolution on Monetary Library Fines as a Form of Social Inequity at ALA Midwinter 2019. We are…
Call for Proposals: ACRL Academic Library Services to Graduate Students Interest Group at ALA Annual 2019 (Deadline 4/26)
(via Mark Lenker–University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Call for Proposals – ACRL Academic Library Services to Graduate Students Interest Group ALA Annual 2019 The ACRL Academic Library Services to Graduate Students Interest Group meeting will be held on Saturday, June 22 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm. in Washington D.C. Presentations will be given in person….
Save the Date: Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association Annual Conference (October 2-4 in Lansing, MI)
(via Linda Feinberg, NorthShore University Healthsystem, on behalf of the Mid-Michigan Chapter of the MHSLA) The Mid-Michigan Chapter of the Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association invites you to save the date for the 2019 MHSLA Annual Conference October 2-4, 2019 Radisson at the Capitol Lansing, MI Visit the conference website (https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019/mhsla2019) for more information about…
Call for Curriculum Designers and Presenters: ACRL RoadShow on Open Educational Resources and Affordability (Deadline May 1)
(via ACRL) ACRL is accepting applications from prospective curriculum designers/presenters to create and deliver a new ACRL RoadShow to support librarians in finding, using, and developing open educational resources (OERs). This introductory level, day-long workshop will be intended for academic librarians and library staff integrating OERs into their institutions and developing OER initiatives. The curriculum…
Call for Submissions: Against the Grain Issue on Outsourcing Technical Services
(via Stacey Marien, American University) We have a few proposals about shelf-ready and are looking for other ideas – if you are a vendor who provides outsourcing services, we want to hear from you as well as ideas from our colleagues in other types of libraries, such as public, special, law, government. Call for Papers: …