(via Lisa Hinchliffe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Scott Walter, DePaul University) Lisa Hinchliffe, Professor/Coordinator for Strategic Planning and Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction at UIUC, is one of three individuals currently in the race for President of the American Library Association. The link to her campaign website is below. http://lisahinchliffe.com/ If…
Category: American Library Association (ALA)
RUSA Guidelines for Health and Medical Reference
In June, the ALA’s Reference and User Services Association officially updated its guidelines for health and medical reference. The new guidelines stem from a significant revision of the “Guidelines for Medical, Legal, and Business Responses”, which were released in 2001. The revised guidelines are intended for all library staff, not just those working in medical…
Information-Literacy Standards for Students in STEM Disciplines
Ten years ago, a joint task force made up of representatives from ALA, ACRL, and STS-put together a set of information-literacy standards for students in the hard sciences, including engineering and technology. The standards were based on the ACRL Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and were modified to fit the specific needs of students…
HSLI Members, Present and Past, Presenting at ALA
One current member of HSLI and one past member will be presenting at this year’s American Library Association conference, to be held in San Francisco from June 25 to June 30. Current member Mary Beth Riedner, of the Gail Borden Public Library District in Schaumburg, is one of the organizers for the session “Hearing on Guidelines…
Declaration for the Right to Libraries
Declaration for the Right to Libraries is a campaign from the American Library Association designed to build public support for all library types. The campaign includes a toolkit with ideas for hosting a signing of the declaration in your library. While some points in the declaration fit best with public libraries, the spirit of the…