(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) At its Fall Board Meeting on October 23, 2015, the ACRL Board of Directors approved the ACRL Libraries Transform Task Force to support the new ALA advocacy campaign. ACRL President Ann Campion Riley invites you to volunteer to serve on this newly created task force. Please see the following charge,…
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Non-HSLI associations, consortiums, and systems for libraries/librarians
“Digital Creation Centers in Academic Libraries” Online Discussion on December 2
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President, and Emily Thompson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) ACRL/ULS, through its Online Discussion Group, is pleased to host the following online discussion: “Digital Creation Centers in Academic Libraries.” The discussion will be held on Wednesday, December 2, from 2:00pm to 3:00pm EST. Makerspaces for digital media and data visualization centers…
Call for Proposals: ALA Annual Conference Poster Session
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) Share your best ideas and work with the national library community by presenting a poster session at the 2016 ALA Annual Conference in Orlando! The poster session committee encourages submissions from all types of libraries and on any topic relevant to librarianship. Submissions may include a description of an innovative…
Deadline to Apply for ULS Professional-Development Award is December 4
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) Do you know someone who has contributed to librarians’ growth and professional development? The University Libraries Section (ULS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries has a brand-new award designed to recognize such a person, the ULS Outstanding Professional Development Award. The winner will receive $1,000 cash and be…
ACRL Annual Survey Now Open
The ACRL 2015 Annual Survey is now open. Academic libraries of all types are invited to complete it. The survey focuses on library staffing, collections, and resource-sharing. The data submitted in the survey should come from an institution’s last full fiscal year that ended before October 1, 2015. Those administering the survey have three specific…
UIUC’s Hinchliffe in Race for ALA President
(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…
Susan Singleton Retiring as CARLI Executive Director
(via Susan Singleton) At the meeting of the CARLI Board of Directors this morning (Friday, September 25), I announced to my decision to retire as Executive Director of CARLI in July 2016. This was a difficult decision for me, reached after much consideration. The July 2016 timeline should allow for ample time to conduct a…
Call for Nominations: ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL Vice-President/President-Elect) Do you know the next ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year winner? ACRL is now accepting nominations for the ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. This prestigious award recognizes an outstanding member of the library profession who has made a significant national or international contribution to academic or research librarianship…
Illinois Librarians Giving Poster Sessions at MLA – Midwest Chapter
The following Illinois librarians will be giving poster sessions at this year’s meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association. The meeting will take place in Louisville, Kentucky, from October 2 to October 6. The posters will be on display on Sunday, October 4, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, and then from…
Seeking Volunteers for IACRL Committees
The Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries is seeking committee members. Members must currently belong to IACRL. Committees include Awards, Communications, Membership, and Nominations. Brief descriptions of each committee and its activities are below. Awards-solicits and evaluates nominations for the “Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year” award and related honors Communications-puts out the IACRL Newsletter twice…