(via Bob Sandusky, University of Illinois at Chicago) Registration is open until Monday, July 17, for the DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting. The event will be held on Monday, July 24, and Tuesday, July 25. It will be co-located with the Summer ESIP Federation Meeting at Indiana University, in Bloomington, IN. The DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting will…
Category: Professional Development
Illinois Librarians to Present at EBLIP Conference 2017
A number of Illinois academic librarians will be presenting at the EBLIP (Evidenced Based Library & Information Practice) Conference 2017. This year’s event, the ninth annual gathering, will take place in Philadelphia from Sunday, June 18, to Wednesday, June 21. The theme is “Embedding and Embracing Evidence”. The keynote speakers are Dr. Alison Brettle, Professor…
Illinois Librarians Presenting at Great Lakes Resource Sharing Conference
A number of Illinois academic librarians will be presenting at the 2017 Great Lakes Resource Sharing Conference. This year’s event will take place on Thursday, June 8, and Friday, June 9, in Oak Brook, IL. The theme of this year’s gathering is “Harnessing the Winds of Change!”. Corey Seeman, Director of Kresge Library Services at…
Early-Bird Registration for Northwest ILL Conference Ends July 10
(via Jessica Bower, Chapman University) Early-bird registration ends Monday, July 10, for the 2017 Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference! Early-bird registration fee is $175; regular registration is $225. The conference will take place in Portland, Oregon on Thursday, August 10, and Friday, August 11, at Portland State University in downtown Portland. This year’s program includes the…
Registration and Call for Proposals: Library Marketing and Communications Conference
(via Mark Aaron Polger, College of Staten Island) The Library Marketing and Communications Conference is the only event designed exclusively for people who do library marketing and communications (MarCom) work. We are pleased to open Registration and the Call for Proposals for our 3rd annual event. It’s time to register for #LMCC17, which will be Thursday,…
Applicants Sought for College Library Director Mentoring Program
(via Melissa Jadlos, St. John Fisher College) If you are a new Library Director at a small college library, please consider joining the College Library Director Mentoring Program. The program, now in its twenty-fifth year, is designed to enhance leadership capabilities of new college-library directors, and to help them meet the unique challenges involved in…
Illinois Librarians Presenting at Association of Christian Librarians Annual Conference
Several Illinois academic librarians will be presenting at the Association of Christian Librarians 2017 Annual Conference. This year’s event will take place from June 12 to 15 at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The theme for this year’s gathering is “Great Expectations to Grand Experience”, focusing on improving the user experience for library patrons….
Registration Open for Inaugural OCLC Americas Regional Council Meeting (U. Chicago’s Cronin on Program Committee)
(via OCLC) What does it take to become a smarter library? Join fellow OCLC members at the inaugural Americas Regional Council meeting and address the challenge of supporting increasingly personalized customer relationships while also scaling to meet growth in population, materials and expectations. The two-day agenda is designed for attendees from all library types, and will feature…
Reminder: Registration Open for Great Lakes Science Boot Camp for Librarians (July 19-21)
(via Daniel Dotson, The Ohio State University) Registration is now open for the Great Lakes Science Boot Camp 2017. The program will take place from Wednesday, July 19, to Friday, July 21, on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. Librarians from all library types are welcome. This yearly boot camp includes talks from scientists and…
Registration Open for July 19 Carterette Webinar, “Effective and Valuable Outreach: Aligning Activities to Goal-Driven Assessment”
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL Past President, on behalf of Kimberly Boyd, Brenau University) The next webinar in the Carterette Series will be “Effective and Valuable Outreach: Aligning Activities to Goal-Driven Assessment”. The event will take place on Wednesday, July 19, at 1:00 PM CST. To register, go here. (Also, a recording will be made available after the webinar.)…