(via Sarah Smith, Dean of Libraries at St. Louis Community College) Join us in 2020 for the Library Instruction Tennessee Conference! The theme for LIT 2020 is TRANSFORMATION Friday, June 12, 2020 Austin Peay State University Clarksville, Tennessee More information on the Conference is available here. Call for Proposals – Sent early January 2020, due…
Category: Conferences and Meetings (non-HSLI)
Call for Applications: 2020 Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL), June 6-14 in Los Angeles — Deadline January 27
(via Collen Mullally, Pepperdine University) The Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) is now accepting applications for the 2020 cohort. IRDL is a continuing education program for academic and research librarians designed to prepare novice researchers for careers as librarian-researchers. The Institute takes place at the William H. Hannon Library in Los Angeles, CA. IRDL provides social…
Save the Date: Social Science Librarians Boot Camp (June 12 in Medford, MA)
(via Tina Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) The 10th annual Social Science Librarians Boot Camp will be held on Friday, June 12, 2020 at Tisch Library, Tufts University in Medford, MA. The conference is an opportunity for librarians working in the social sciences to come together to hear the latest research on social science topics,…
Call for Proposals — Finding the Balance: 2020 ACRL New England Chapter and New England Library Instruction Group Joint Annual Conference, May 26-27 in Providence, RI (Deadline Jan. 17)
(via Kendall Hobbs, Wesleyan University) Joint Call for Proposals Joint Annual Conference: Finding the Balance 2020 ACRL New England Chapter (ACRL/NEC) & New England Library Instruction Group (NELIG – A Special Interest Group of ACRL/NEC) May 26-27, 2020 Rhode Island Convention Center Providence, RI Library work is often a balancing act. We seek proposals from…
Call for Proposals: Urban Librarians Unite 2020 (May 1 at Brooklyn Public Library) — Deadline December 31
(via Urban Librarians Unite) Urban Librarians Unite is calling for presenters for our eighth Urban Librarians Conference to be held at the Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn NY on May 1, 2020. The theme of this year’s conference is “Caution: Librarians at Work!” and will be focusing on the pragmatic realities of working…
Save the Date: 2020 Open Education Southern Symposium (July 16 – 17 at North Carolina State University)
(via Stephanie Pierce, University of Arkansas) The Open Education Southern Symposium (OESS) planning committee is excited to announce that the next symposium will be held July 16 – 17, 2020 on the North Carolina State University campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Open Education Southern Symposium is a day and a half event for open…
Call for Proposals Extended: Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students 2020 Conference (March 16-17 in Kingsport, TN) — New Deadline Monday, December 16
(via Dr. Wendy Doucette, East Tennessee State University) We have received a fantastic selection of proposals for “Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students,” the only conference dedicated to graduate librarianship. We are still seeking submissions which focus primarily on copyright, scholarships, OER, data services, publishing, research teams and the research life cycle, and professional development for…
Reminder: IACRL Hosting ACRL Webinar on Copyright, at Northern Illinois University (Friday, December 6, at 9:00 AM)–EVENT CANCALLED
Update, 12/5/19 Due to low registration, IACRL has decided to cancel the webinar showing. It has not yet been rescheduled. (via Michelle Nielsen Ott, IACRL President) Join us at the NIU Founders Memorial Library for an ACRL webinar “Copyright and Course Reserves: Print Reserves” on Friday, December 6, starting at 9:00 AM. Light breakfast refreshments will…
Call for Proposals: Annual Meeting of the Northern California Technical Processes Group (Friday, May 8, 2020, in San Francisco) — Deadline Friday, January 3
(via Swetta Abeyta, Saint Mary’s College) We are pleased to announce that the next Annual Meeting of the Northern California Technical Processes Group (NCTPG) will take place in San Francisco on Friday, May 8, 2020. Our 83rd annual meeting theme is “Open in Technical Services” For 2020, we will have two options for presenting. Full…
Call for Interest in Attending: Libraries and Veterans National Forum (June 8-9, 2020, in College Station, TX) — Limited to 50 Spots
(via Sarah LeMire, Texas A&M University) The Libraries and Veterans National Forum is a two-day symposium to discuss strategies for supporting library patrons and library workers who are veteran or military-affiliated. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (LG-12-19-0114). Fifty library workers from a variety of library…