(via Molly Olmstead, National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region) The GMR Outreach Awards are rolling in–we’ll continue to post them on our website as they approved by the NNCO. The Express Outreach Award and Technology Improvement Award are both live and we’re accepting applications until Monday, September 12. The Professional Development…
Nominations Sought for I Love My Librarian Award
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) Nominations are open through Friday, September 19, for the I Love My Librarian Award. The award encourages library users-professors, administrators, students-to submit nominations about how their librarian makes a difference on campus or in the community. Up to 10 librarians in public, school and college, community college, and university libraries…
Online College Students Report for 2016 Released
The Learning House, Inc., has released the 2016 edition of its annual Online College Students report. This is the fifth year that the report has been published. The goal of the study is to track not just who makes up the current body of online students, but also why they are enrolled in particular online…
Snow Presents at Digitization Conference
Dr. Karen Snow, Assistant Professor and Ph.D. Program Director at Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science, gave two presentations at the 2016 Digitization Conference. This year’s event took place on Thursday, August 18, and Friday, August 19, on Florida State University’s Panama City campus. (There was also a preconference workshop on August…
NN/LM – GMR Holds Monthly Update for August
The National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region held its monthly update webinar for August on Monday, the 15th. (The update takes place usually on the third Monday of each month.) A recording of the presentation is available here. Some of the main topics that the presentation covered are below. The national office…
ALA Task Force on the Context of Future Accreditation Holding Online Forums
(via ACRL) The ALA Task Force on the Context of Future Accreditation is charged to develop a white paper that describes the fields and context for which we will be accrediting in the future, and to make such recommendations as may arise in the process of that development to the ALA Executive Board. One area…
Legislative Update, 8/17/2016
Federal: Gathering in Washington, DC in late June 2016, the Joint MLA/AAHSL Legislative Task Force met with representatives. Key talking points included requesting: an increase in 2017 appropriations (at least $395.1M for NLM and $34.5B for NIH), delay of action on proposed copyright law legislation until the new Librarian of Congress has been confirmed, and…
RUSQ Seeking Submissions for “Alert Collector” Column
(via Mark Shores, Miami University of Ohio) Mark Shores, the new editor of the “Alert Collector” column in Reference and User Services Quarterly (RUSQ), is seeking authors to develop topic ideas for future issues. This popular column in RUSQ is a great way to share your subject knowledge on almost any topic. (Some sample “Alert…
Proposals Sought for Conference About Libraries & Literacy
(via Liz Humrickhouse-Lee, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse) It is our distinct pleasure to invite you to the first Conference About Libraries & Literacy (C.A.L.L.). The conference is a collaboration between UW-La Crosse Murphy Library, the School District of La Crosse & La Crosse Public Library and will take place at Murphy Library on…
ACRL Updates to Standards for Libraries in Higher Education Begin
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) The ACRL Board of Directors has recently appointed a task force to review and update the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education (SLHE), as appropriate. Like all ACRL standards and guidelines, these are subject to a regular cyclical review. Specifically, the task force is charged with the following tasks. review…