(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) The IACRL 2016 Conference is now accepting proposals for poster sessions. To submit a proposal and register for the conference, visit our conference page. Deadline for submissions is Saturday February 6th, 2016. Notification will be given by Saturday February 20th, 2016. This year, there will be two awards given out to…
Category: Conferences and Meetings (non-HSLI)
Illinois Academic Library Marketing Outreach Spring Meeting on March 11
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) The meeting will be held on Friday, March 11, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, at the Northwestern University Library. Based off of suggestions from our group, we’ll be looking at discussing practical tools to market services, like web tutorials and software to create materials. What tools do you use?…
Call for Proposals–Great Lakes Resource Sharing Conference
(via Mark Sullivan, SUNY-Geneseo) On behalf of the Conference Program Committee, we invite you to submit a proposal (http://glrsc.org/call-for-proposals/) for the 3rd Annual Great Lakes Resource Sharing Conference. The event will be held in Indianapolis, IN, at the Sheraton Indianapolis at Keystone Crossing. This conference is an opportunity for individuals working in resource sharing to…
Proposals Sought for Indiana Online Users Group Conference
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) IOLUG Spring 2016 Conference — DIY UX: Innovate. Create. Design. Friday, May 20th, 2016 Indiana Wesleyan University North Campus 3777 Priority Way, Indianapolis, IN 46240 Keynote Speaker: Suzanne Chapman, User Experience Librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The IOLUG Program Committee is inviting proposals around the theme of improving…
Deadline for Illinois Information Literacy Summit Proposals Extended to Jan. 31
(via Jennifer Schwartz, DePaul University Libraries) 15th Annual Information Literacy Summit: Shifting Perspectives: Developing Critical Approaches in Information Literacy-to be held Friday, April 29, 2016, 8:30am-3:30pm. The conference will be presented by DePaul University Library and Moraine Valley Community College Library (host)-for more information on submitting a proposal, go here. Keynote Address: “Critical Pedagogy in a…
Drupal Training to be Held at UIC, March 17-20
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) MidCamp (also known as the Midwest Area DrupalCamp) is an annual event held in Chicago that brings together people who use, develop, design, and support the Web’s leading content management platform, Drupal. MidCamp will be March 17-20, 2016 at the University of Illinois at Chicago Student Center West. Organized by…
Registration for MLA 2016 Opens Jan. 6
Registration for the Medical Library Association’s 2016 annual meeting officially opens Wednesday, January 6. (The registration form is already available on the MLA website.) This year’s conference, which will take place in Toronto from May 13 to 18, is themed “Mosaic: Be Part of the Big Picture” and will be a joint meeting with the…
ALA Midwinter Event on Makerspaces
Are you planning to attend ALA Midwinter and have a special interest in makerspaces? Does your library already have a makerspace area, or is it considering creating one? Need to know the latest gizmos that libraries can include in a makerspace? Be sure to register for the “Makerspaces: Inspiration and Action” tour, sponsored by the…
ALA Midwinter Sessions for Academic Librarians
The following sessions at this year’ss ALA Midwinter meeting might be of special interest to academic librarians. Saturday, January 9 11:30 AM-12:00 PM Ignite session: “Using Small Grants to Promote Academic Libraries and Engage Student Learners”-how to write small grants for programming opportunities that will draw more students and faculty into the library 4:30-5:30 PM…
IACRL 2016: Poster Session Proposals Are Open!
(via Andrew Lenaghan, IACRL Past-President) The IACRL 2016 Conference is now accepting proposals for poster sessions. The Conference will be held on Friday March 18th, 2016 at the Chicago Marriott O’Hare. Deadline for submissions is Saturday February 6th, 2016. Notification will be given by Saturday February 20th, 2016. Raise your voice by submitting a poster…