(via ACRL) The ACRL Board of Directors approved the establishment of the Diversity Alliance Task Force. The Diversity Alliance Task Force will oversee the ACRL Diversity Alliance program and will be tasked to carry out the recommendations from the current oversight task force, whose terms expire in June 2020, to grow and develop the program….
Category: Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
Reminder: Registration Open for ACRL Technical Services Interest Group Presentations on Cataloging VR and Merging Acquisitions (12:00 PM CDT on Tues., June 23)
(via Cynthia Romanowski, Governors State University) The ACRL Technical Services Interest Group invites you to join us virtually for two presentations on: Date: Tuesday, June 23 Time: 12:00 PM CDT Place: Zoom The following will be 20-minute presentations with a five-minute question session: Cataloging Virtual Reality programming: why and how — Joy DuBose, Assistant Professor,…
Registration Open for First Session (Friday, July 10) in ACRL Health Sciences Interest Group’s Interactive Online Learning Webinar Series
(via John Siegel, University of South Carolina Upstate) The ACRL Health Sciences Interest Group invites you to attend our webinar series on Interactive Online Learning. Each one-hour webinar will include three presentations on either learning strategies or tools to enhance your interactive online learning practices. The first session will happen on Friday, July 10, from…
Call for Submissions: Cover Art for Upcoming College & Research Libraries News Issues
(via ACRL) The publication College & Research Libraries News (C&RL News) is looking for images from library collections to feature on upcoming covers. If you have items in your collections that you think would make attractive C&RL News covers, we would love to see them. To submit images (or image collections), send URLs for Web-based…
Call for Nominations: ACRL Instruction Section Featured Teaching Librarian (Deadline Wednesday, July 15)
(via Caroline Sinkinson, University of Colorado Boulder) Do you know someone who is an amazing teaching librarian? If yes, consider nominating them as a Featured Teaching Librarian! If you’re an amazing teaching librarian, consider nominating yourself. The ACRL Instruction Section Teaching Methods Committee wants to highlight excellent teaching librarians. Several times during the year, the…
Call for Chapter Proposals: ALA Editions Publication on Teaching Research Data Management (Deadline Friday, August 14)
(via Julia Bauder, Grinnell College) Do you ever help students or faculty with research data management? Does that work involve teaching them the knowledge, skills and abilities they need to manage research data on their own? Then you are invited and encouraged to submit chapter proposals for an upcoming book to be published by ALA Editions,…
UIC’s Teresa Helena Moreno is ACRL Member of the Week
(via ACRL) Teresa Helena Moreno, Librarian + Undergraduate Engagement Coordinator at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Daley Library, is the ACRL Member of the Week. The Member of the Week interview is below, and it is also available on the ACRL website. Describe yourself in three words Tenacious, empathetic, political. What are you reading…
Registration Open for Online ACRL STS Research Forum and Poster Session (June 18 and 19) — UIC’s Goben and NIU’s Osorio are Presenters
(via Rachel Hamelers, Muhlenberg College) Research Forum (separate registration required) Please join us for the ACRL Science and Technology Session Research Forum on Thursday, June 18, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM CDT. Please register for this free event here, so that we can send you a Zoom link to participate. We are pleased to showcase…
Registration Open for ACRL Together Wherever Week of Virtual Programming and Networking (June 8-12)
(via Gwen Gregory, University of Illinois at Chicago) ACRL is pleased to host ACRL Together Wherever, a week of virtual programming and networking opportunities for the acade?mic and research library community to be held from Monday, June 8, to Friday, June 12. Keep up with what’s going on in the profession at a time when…
Call for Reviewers: Choice/ACRL Core Bibliography (Priority Deadline Monday, June 1)
(via Anne Doherty–Project Editor, Resources for College Libraries) The database Resources for College Libraries (RCL), the Choice/ACRL bibliography of essential titles for undergraduate teaching and research, seeks experienced library subject selectors and faculty to serve as peer reviewers. We are currently seeking referees for the following RCL Arts and Humanities subjects. American Literature British Literature Classical…