(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL Past President) ILA is sponsoring several Library Legislative Meet-Ups next month. All librarians are encouraged to register and attend. Don’t miss out on this chance to talk to your legislators. You can meet them in person and talk about issues affecting libraries and higher education, including MAP funding and financial support for libraries. Members…
Feedback on Second Draft of ACRL Action-Oriented Research Agenda Due Feb. 17
(via the Association of College and Research Libraries) The team from OCLC Research, which is developing a new action-oriented agenda on library contributions to student learning and success, has released a second draft. Team members seek your input and reactions via the feedback form by Friday, February 17. Learn about the team’s continued progress and next steps during ACRL’s Update…
Legislative Update, 1/12/2017
Federal: With presidential administrations poised for turnover, a number of library advocacy issues are on the precipice of change: – support of net neutrality, which the FCC strongly bolstered in 2015 with the adoption of the Open Internet rules, may be weakened or eliminated under the new administration; – championship of privacy, including as it relates to…
Call for Submissions: NMC Horizon Report > 2017 Library Edition
(via the News Media Consortium) The expert panel has completed voting and the topics for the NMC Horizon Report > 2017 Library Edition have been selected. The report is a collaboration among the NMC, the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Chur, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover, and ETH-Bibliothek Zurich, with the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)…
NN/LM – GMR Holding “Food for Thought: Exploring Nutrition Information Resources” Webinar on February 21
(via Molly Olmstead, National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region) This hands-on webinar is designed to assist librarians, public health workers, health professionals, and the general public in locating authoritative information on nutrition and topics relating to nutrition. Background information on the importance of nutrition information to other health-related topics will be…
NN/LM – GMR Hosting “MedlinePlus vs. PubMed: Your Health Wins” Webinar on February 17
(via Molly Olmstead, National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region) Are you new to consumer health and/or health sciences librarianship? Do you wish to provide health information services to consumers, health professionals or health professions students via free health information resources and not sure where to start? This one-hour, in-person or online,…
Slides from Lisa Hinchliffe Presentation at HSLI 2016 Conference Available
(via Stacey Knight-Davis, Eastern Illinois University) The slides from the presentation “Engaging Assessment to Show your Values & Make Decisions”, given by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe at the Health Science Librarians of Illinois 2016 Conference, are now available. Click here to access them. The main topics covered in the presentation are listed below. program logic model for service…
MLA Hosting Webinar “Searching with Ease: A Guide to Effective and Efficient Searches” on February 8
(via the Medical Library Association) Terry Ann Jankowski, AHIP, FMLA, one of the preeminent educators on expert searching, guides novice and intermediate searchers on how to conduct any search with ease. Participants will learn how to translate search requests into strategies, identify the right steps and tools for the request and themselves, and use their…
ALA Executive Board Hosting Town Hall Meeting at Midwinter
(via the American Library Association) The ALA Executive Board invites the ALA membership to join a town-hall-style conversation on Sunday, January 22, from 9:30 to 11:00 AM, at the Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta. The town hall will take place in GWCC Thomas Murphy Ballroom 3-4, immediately following Council I. Many members have expressed concerns about the effects of the…
RUSA STARS ILL Discussion Group Meeting at ALA Midwinter
(via Krista Higham, Millersville University) For those attending ALA Midwinter in Atlanta, please join us for the RUSA STARS ILL Discussion Group. It will be held on Saturday, January 21, from 10:30 to 11:30 AM, in Room B204 of the Georgia World Conference Center. This session will be an open discussion of interlibrary loan and resource-sharing topics. Some…