(on behalf of the HSLI Conference Planning Committee’s Publicity Subcommittee)
Registration is still open for the Health Science Librarians of Illinois 2019 Conference, “Going Forward, Looking Back”, at the iHotel in Champaign, IL, from September 11 to 13. Don’t delay – early-bird registration ends Friday, August 23.
The Conference keynote speaker will be Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Professor and Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction at the University Library, University of Illinois, and also Affiliate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Lisa’s talk is titled “From One Big Deal to Another? Libraries in an Open Access Age”. Lisa is professionally active in many organizations, a recipient of a number of awards, and a productive author. As ACRL President in 2010/2011, Lisa led the launch of the ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Initiative. She is currently Editor of Library Trends; a chef for the Society for Scholarly Publishing blog,”The Scholarly Kitchen”; and Chair of the IFLA Information Literacy Section.
And did you know that, when you register for the Health Science Librarians of Illinois (HSLI) Annual Conference, you can attend two CEs of your choice as part of your registration fee?
The following continuing education sessions will be offered on Thursday afternoon, September 12.
(Note: There are no MLA CE credits for Thursday sessions.)
- “Citation Management Software: Advancing your Expertise with Freely Available Tools”
Presented by Kirstin Duffin
- “Issues in Scholarly Communication for the Health Sciences”
Presented by Dan Tracy
The following continuing education sessions will be offered on Friday morning, September 13.
- “Making Your Library Positively Accessible” (4 MLA CE)
Presented by JJ Pionke
- “Teaching Critical Appraisal to Students in the Health Sciences” (4 MLA CE)
Presented by Laura Menard
For more information on CEs, see http://hsli.org/conference/#CE.
Register by mail or online: http://hsli.org/conference/#Registration.
We hope to see you there!