The ACRL 2015 Annual Survey is now open. Academic libraries of all types are invited to complete it. The survey focuses on library staffing, collections, and resource-sharing. The data submitted in the survey should come from an institution’s last full fiscal year that ended before October 1, 2015. Those administering the survey have three specific…
“Keeping Up with PubMed” Online Class Starts Today
(via Jacqueline Leskovec, National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region) Last online class of the year starts today and there’s still room for you. There is no cost to take this asynchronous courses. Take it at your pace, spending about and one to two hours a week at the time of your…
Reminder: November 6 is Deadline for Applying to be GMR-Sponsored Host of MLA Webinar
(via Jacqueline Leskovec, National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region) DEADLINE: Friday, November 6th, 2015 (only one Illinois location has applied so far) How to Become a GMR Sponsored Webinar Site http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/mla-webinar The GMR will sponsor the registration costs for up to *two (2) individual webinar events per state* in the region for the…
UIUC’s Hinchliffe in Race for ALA President
(via Lisa Hinchliffe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Scott Walter, DePaul University) Lisa Hinchliffe, Professor/Coordinator for Strategic Planning and Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction at UIUC, is one of three individuals currently in the race for President of the American Library Association. The link to her campaign website is below. http://lisahinchliffe.com/ If…
15th Annual Information Literacy Summit–Call for Proposals
(via Jennifer Schwartz, DePaul University) 15th Annual Information Literacy Summit (Palos Hills, IL) Shifting Perspectives: Developing Critical Approaches in Information Literacy http://informationliteracysummit.org/ Friday, April 29, 2016, 8:30am-3:30pm Presented by DePaul University Library and Moraine Valley Community College Library Located at the Moraine Valley Community College campus Keynote Address: “Critical Pedagogy in a Time of Compliance”–Emily…
Webinar on Autism and Libraries
The recording of the webinar “Libraries and Autism: Why It Matters” and the accompanying slides are available here, for anyone who wasn’t able to watch it live, or who did see it but would like to review the webinar’s content or share it with a colleague. The webinar discusses what autism is, how libraries sometimes come…
Deadline to Register for CARLI Annual Meeting is November 5
(via Michelle Huls, CARLI) Please remember to register by Thursday, November 5, if you are planning to attend the CARLI Annual Meeting on Friday, November 13, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign. Staff at any CARLI member library is welcome. There is no fee to attend and lunch will be served. The meeting, celebrating 35 years of…
Nominations Sought for Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) We are seeking nominees for the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. This award recognizes outstanding achievements (including risk-taking) by academic librarians that have contributed significantly to improvements in the areas of library automation, library management, and/or library development and research. This award honors the life and accomplishments of Hugh C….
Legislative Updates, 10/29/2015
Federal: This week the Senate voted to pass CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (S. 754), by a vote of 74 to 21. ALA has opposed most forms of CISA since its inception and released a statement by President Sari Feldman after it passed in the Senate on Tuesday: “CISA won’t prevent cyberattacks like the…
Call for Poster Sessions at IFLA 2016 in Columbus, OH
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) Call for Poster Session Applications: IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2016, in Columbus, OH, USA Are you involved in an interesting project or in an area of work that you would like to discuss with or show to other congress attendees? Why not present your work in the IFLA…