(via Anne Craig, CARLI Senior Director) Applications are available for the extremely popular CARLI Counts Cohort 3, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. CARLI Counts is a continuing education library leadership immersion program that prepares librarians to make effective use of research findings on the impact of academic libraries on student success…
Registration Open for OLC Accelerate 2021 Hybrid Conference (Virtual Sept. 20-24, In-Person Oct. 5-8)
(via the Online Learning Consortium) Registration is now open for the OLC Accelerate 2021 conference. This year’s meeting will have a hybrid format, with a virtual portion from Monday, September 24, to Friday, September 28, and in-person sessions from Tuesday, October 5, to Friday October 8, in Washington, D.C. The theme of this year’s event is “An Odyssey into…
Call for Feedback: ACRL Visual Literacy Task Force’s Draft of The Framework for Visual Literacy (Deadline Wed., July 7)
(via Dana Thompson, Murray State University) The ACRL Visual Literacy Task Force is currently seeking feedback on The Framework for Visual Literacy. We are asking you to consider how you might use this document. We would also like to understand how it could be improved to better align with your needs. We thank you in advance…
Illinois Library Association Announces Main Speakers for 2021 Annual Conference (Online Oct. 12-14)
(via the Illinois Library Association) An award-winning author and writer for a nationally renowned magazine, a cartoonist, editor, and professor, a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Librarian, and the American Library Association’s 10th Executive Director are among the speakers for the 2021 ILA Annual Conference. The Conference will be virtual this year–from Tuesday, October 12, to…
Call for Cover Art: Upcoming Issues of College & Research Libraries News
(via ACRL) The publication College & Research Libraries News (C&RL News) is looking for images from library collections to feature on upcoming covers. If you have items in your collections that you think would make attractive C&RL News covers, we would love to see them. To submit images (or image collections), send URLs for Web-based images or images directly as…
Reminder: Registration Still Open for IACRL Spark Event “Looking Back, Looking Forward” (Fri., June 11, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM)
(via Emily Gilbert, IACRL Vice-President/President-Elect) Registration is still open for this Friday’s IACRL event, “Spark: Looking Back, Looking Forward”. It will take place online from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM. The event will have three lightning talks from Illinois academic librarians on practices they developed during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and participants will be able to discuss…
Legislative News, 06/09/2021
Federal news MLA signs onto CHLA ABSC statement on the importance of hospital libraries [MLAConnect, 6/1/2021] This statement outlines the role hospital libraries play in the provision of evidence-based health care, and our concern and disappointment regarding the continued decommissioning, closure, underfunding, and understaffing of hospital libraries. The statement will be sent to politicians, hospital…
Registration Open for Library of Congress Historical Company Research Webinar (Wed., June 9, at 12:00 PM CDT)
(via the Library of Congress) The Library offers a number of orientations/classes and that includes Business Reference. We have given the in-person So…you want to research old companies at the Library of Congress before and because there was interest, we are doing it this time as a webinar! On Wednesday, June 9, starting at 12:00 PM CDT, we are…
Call for Submissions: The Christian Librarian Fall 2021 Issue’s Forum on Teaching (Deadline Fri., Oct. 1)
(via Garrett Trott, University Librarian at Corban University) As many librarians teach, and some have taught for quite some time, many of us have learned the ins and outs of teaching the hard way: by making mistakes and by learning what is terrible and what works great. The Christian Librarian (TCL) will be doing a forum…
Call for Nominations: ACRL IS Teaching Methods Committee Featured Teaching Librarian (Deadline Fri., July 16)
(via Rachel Edford, University of Central Florida) Do you know someone who is an amazing teaching librarian? If yes, consider nominating them as a Featured Teaching Librarian! If you’re an amazing teaching librarian, consider nominating yourself. The ACRL Instruction Section Teaching Methods Committee wants to highlight excellent teaching librarians. Several times during the year, the…