(via Billie Peterson-Lugo, Baylor University) Please join us for the December CopyTalk, “Modern Interlibrary Loan Practices: Moving Beyond the CONTU Guidelines”, which will provide information on the ARL whitepaper, published in August 2020. This whitepaper reexamines the role of the decades-old Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) Guidelines in interlibrary lending. Much…
Category: Scholarly Publishing
Call for Participation: Survey for Upcoming ILA Reporter Article on Developing a Professional-Reflection Practice (Deadline Fri., Nov. 20)
(via Kim Tipton, McHenry County College) The following survey will inform an article being written for the March, 2021, issue of the ILA Reporter. The article topic is “developing a professional-reflection practice”. Do you currently have a professional-reflection practice? We’d love to hear about it! Please take a few minutes to answer this survey. We…
Call for Submissions: ILA Reporter Library Buildings Issue (Deadline Wed., Jan. 20)
(via the Illinois Library Association) Has your library undergone renovations or new building in 2020? Share the news with the library community by submitting the project for the ILA Reporter “Library Buildings 2020” article in the March 2021 issue. Submissions should include: At least one high-resolution image of the exterior At least one high-resolution image of the interior…
Registration Open for IACRL People’s Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing Webinar (Mon., Nov. 9, 1:00-2:00 PM)
(via IACRL) The IACRL People’s Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing was established in 2020. This award gives academic and research librarians throughout Illinois the opportunity to read and evaluate scholarly works by their peers and then vote on a favorite. It also presents Illinois research and academic librarians with the opportunity to share their findings…
Call for Chapter Proposals Extended: ARCL Data Literacy Cookbook (New Deadline Sun., Oct. 18)
(via Kelly Getz, Eastern Michigan University) We are moving the deadline for the call for chapters in the ACRL Data Literacy Cookbook to Sunday, October 18, 2020 (because pandemic time is wibbly wobbly, timey wimey). You are welcome to submit a proposal for any of the topics listed below; however, we encourage you to consider…
Save the Date: Free October CopyTalk Webinar “Fair Use as Cultural Appropriation: Why the ‘Forgotten Factor’ Matters” (Thurs., Oct. 1, 1:00 PM CDT)
(via Billie Peterson-Lugo, Baylor University) Please join us for the October CopyTalk webinar, “Fair Use as Cultural Appropriation: Why the ‘Forgotten Factor’ Matters”. The presentation will explore how copyright is an inadequate fit for combatting cultural appropriations. Copyright allows some publicly-beneficial uses of protected works without the consent of the copyright owner under certain exceptions,…
HSLI Secretary JJ Pionke Finishes First in IACRL People’s Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing Vote
(via the Illinois Association of College & Research Libraries) The polls for the IACRL People’s Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing have closed, and the votes are counted. Congratulations to JJ Pionke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who received the highest number of votes, for his article “Library Employee Views of Disability and Accessibility”, in Journal…
Call for Papers: Internet Reference Services Quarterly
(via David Ward, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Internet Reference Services Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal by Taylor & Francis, welcomes articles covering topics on the online, electronic and digital aspects and nature of library reference and information services, including reference practices, research consultations, reference sources and tools, professional librarianship, electronic communications, information literacy, instruction, online…
IACRL Communications Committee Seeking Information on New Jobs or Recent Publications Among Illinois Academic Librarians
(via Krista Bowers Sharpe, IACRL Communications Committee Chair) The IACRL Communications Committee is highlighting recent career changes and publications by Illinois academic librarians in the next IACRL Newsletter. If you have: changed positions since February of 2020 been published since February of 2020 and would like to be included in the Fall, 2020, IACRL Newsletter,…
Call for Proposals: Future Issue of Libraries: Culture, History, and Society on Black Women Librarians (Deadline Nov. 16, 2020)
(via the Illinois Library Association) In Spring 2022, the Library History Round Table will devote Volume 6, Number 1, of Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, and significant space in LHRT News and Notes, to scholarship, book reviews, and blog posts on Black women librarians. This issue will be guest-edited by Dr. Nicole A. Cooke, the…