(results via Cyndi Robinson, ILA) The results for the 2016 IACRL election are in! Carolyn Ciesla, Instructional Services Librarian and Assistant Professor at Prairie State College, was elected Vice-President/President-Elect. She ran unopposed and received all 69 votes cast. She will serve one year as Vice-President, to be followed by a year as President. Eric Edwards,…
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UIUC’s JJ Pionke Wins ALA’s Carnegie-Whitney Grant
(Note: This post is an article that appeared in the Spring, 2016, issue of the IACRL Newsletter.) Katharine (“JJ”) Pionke, Applied Health Sciences Librarian and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the 2016 recipient of the American Library Association’s Carnegie-Whitney Grant. The grant funds the development of reading lists, webliographies, and other…
ECIC Meets at VA Illiana Health Care System Library
Five members of the East Central Illinois Consortium met on 5/5/2016 in Danville, IL. As a part of the meeting, they toured the Medical Library and Patient’s Library in the VA Illiana Health Care System Library. Named one of the most patient-friendly Veteran’s Affairs libraries, this facility provides services to the medical and nursing staff…
HSLI Members Presenting at IACRL 2016
Several Health Science Librarians of Illinois members will be presenting at this year’s Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, which starts Thursday evening and lasts all day Friday. This year’s conference will feature 15 breakout sessions, five “lightning-round” presentations, and six poster sessions. Topics will cover everything from open access and classroom instruction,…
Knight-Davis Discusses Eastern’s Institutional Repository on WCIA-TV
Two librarians from Eastern Illinois University were recently featured on WCIA’s “CI Living” segment. (Watch the interview here.) Booth Library’s Stacey Knight-Davis (past HSLI President) and Todd Bruns discuss The Keep, Eastern Illinois University’s growing institutional repository. Some of the items they share are yearbooks and postcards in Booth Library’s collection that, through the digitization efforts,…
HSLI Election Results
(via Molly Horio) Congratulations to Miranda Shake, HSLI’s new President-Elect. Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s elections. Miranda received 34 votes in the special election for President-Elect. Your HSLI Officers for 2015-16 are: President: Daneen Richardson, Malpass Library, Western Illinois University (term expires at end of 2016 business meeting) President-Elect: Miranda Shake,…
UIC Library of the Health Sciences’ Howard Featured in GMR Blog
Carmen Howard, Regional Health Sciences Librarian and Visiting Assistant Professor at the UIC Library of the Health Sciences – Peoria, was featured in a National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region blog post earlier this month. In the post, she discusses the steps that UIC has taken to implement the NeXT (Nursing…
Former HSLI President, Legislative Committee Chair Michael Wold Passes Away
(via Stacey Knight-Davis) Michael Wold passed away last Friday, 10/23/2015. Michael most recently served as the HSLI Legislative Committee Co-Chair. Michael was HSLI President for the 1989-1990 term. He will be remembered for his cheerfulness and willingness to help. The obituary below notes that Michael was married on October 4, 2015 to Charles Avery. BURLINGTON,…
Roy Jones Retires
Roy Jones has retired from his position as Library Manager at OSF St. Francis. Roy continues to serve as the HSLI Membership Chair. He served as HSLI Secretary in 1996-1997. He was the Conference planning Committee Chair for the 2013 Midwest Chapter/HSLI meeting. Roy and Deborah Rhue were joint recipients of the HSLI Star Thrower…
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…