(via Mark Sullivan, IDS Project Executive Director at SUNY Geneseo) Ed Rivenburgh is the founder of the IDS Project and has been the driving force behind the technological and pedagogical advances over the past decade. Even after his retirement in 2012, the impact of his ideas on mentoring and technology has continued to be felt…
NMRT Offering Annual Conference Professional Development Attendance Award
(via Lindsay Harmon, IACRL Vice-President/President-Elect) NMRT (New Members Round Table) members are invited to submit an essay to win a ticket to attend a ticketed event of their choice at the 2016 ALA Annual Conference in Orlando, FL. The award facilitates professional development and networking opportunities for NMRT members through participation in special ticketed ALA…
Opening for Adjunct Faculty Librarian at College of DuPage
(via Ellen Sutton, Dean of Learning Resources at the College of DuPage) College of DuPage Library is seeking a part-time librarian to provide reference service, information literacy instruction and support of electronic resources for at least 20 hours per week and up to 26 hours per week. This is a term to term appointment assigned…
“Big Data” Program at Elmhurst College’s AC Bueller Library on April 19
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) RAILS will offer an in-person program with Amy Affelt of Compass Lexecon called “Data, Big or Otherwise: What Is It Good For?” on Tuesday, April 19, 2016, from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM, at Elmhurst College AC Buehler Library. Brief program description: What is Big Data, and how is it different…
Nominations Sought for 2016 Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Award
(via Margaret W. Ellingson, Emory University) The Rethinking Resource Sharing (RRS) Innovation Award recognizes and honors an individual or institution for changes it has made to improve users’ access to information, through resource sharing in its library, consortium, state, province, or country. The purpose of the award is to showcase innovation in resource sharing and…
ACRL 2017–Call for Panel Session Proposals (May 6 Deadline)
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President, on behalf of Cheryl Middleton, Oregon State University) As a member of the ACRL 2017 Panel Sessions Committee, I strongly encourage you to submit a proposal (or more than one!) for a panel discussion of your favorite topic at the ACRL 2017 Conference in Baltimore. A panel session offers an opportune occasion…
Scholarly Communications Core Competencies Task Force Seeking Input
(via Leigh Ann DePope, Publicist at NASIG, Inc.) The NASIG (formerly, the North American Serials Interest Group) Executive Board has charged a task force with developing a statement describing core competencies for librarians whose professional responsibilities include activities related to digital scholarship and scholarly communications. The Scholarly Communications Core Competencies Task Force seeks your input….
Registration Open for Indiana Online Users Group Spring Conference
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) Register now for the Spring 2016 Conference – “DIY UX: Innovate. Create. Design.”. The conference will be from 9:00 AM to 3:45 PM on Friday, May 20th, on the Indiana Wesleyan University North Campus, located at 3777 Priority Way, Indianapolis, IN 46240. Suzanne Chapman, keynote speaker and User Experience Librarian…
Eisendrath and Filapek Chosen for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Conference Exchange
M. Alison Eisendrath, Andrew W. Mellon Director of Collections at the Chicago History Museum, and Joe Filapek, Consulting and Continuing Education Manager for the Reaching Across Illinois Library System, have been selected as participants in the 2016 Collective Wisdom: Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAM) Conference Exchange. Eisendrath and Filapek are among 18 librarians and archivists…
Legislative Updates, 4/4/2016
Federal: Federal library advocates pushed for strong advocacy efforts to Congress to show support for federal appropriations for libraries and library programs. Advocacy efforts were on par with last year, with over 14,000 e-mails and over 740 tweets to legislators. However, the House Budget Committee released it’s first FY 2017 Resolution on the budget on March 23…