The following Illinois librarians will be giving poster sessions at this year’s meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association. The meeting will take place in Louisville, Kentucky, from October 2 to October 6. The posters will be on display on Sunday, October 4, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, and then from…
Legislative Updates, 9/4/2015
Federal: In the continuing fight over net neutrality, ALA, ACRL, ARL, & COSLA have requested the right to file an amici curiae brief supporting the respondent in the case of United States Telecom Association (USTA) v. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and United States of America. The purpose of the brief would be to bolster the…
University of Maryland Report on the Future of the Library Science Degree
Last month, the University of Maryland’s iSchool and the University’s Information Policy & Access Center released a report on the future of the master’s degree in library science, at least in the degree’s current form. The report is the result of a year-long collaborative effort, including discussions with the broader community, to determine how an…
October 19 Workshop on Health Literacy
The Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Health Literacy (at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) will be hosting an all-day meeting on health literacy this October. The event, titled “Integrating Health Literacy, Cultural, Competency, and Language Access Services”, will take place from 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM CST on Monday, October 19, and…
NLM and Mayo Clinic Libraries Seeking New Directors
Libraries at two of the nation’s major health organizations are seeking new leaders. The National Library of Medicine, at the National Institutes of Health, officially launched the search for a new Director last week. The person will succeed Dr. Donald Lindberg, who retired in March after spending 31 years at the helm and playing a…
Seeking Volunteers for IACRL Committees
The Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries is seeking committee members. Members must currently belong to IACRL. Committees include Awards, Communications, Membership, and Nominations. Brief descriptions of each committee and its activities are below. Awards-solicits and evaluates nominations for the “Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year” award and related honors Communications-puts out the IACRL Newsletter twice…
Registration for “A Librarian’s Guide to NCBI” Bioinformatics Course
Registration is open for the next offering of the “A Librarian’s Guide to NCBI” course in bioinformatics. The class, which is sponsored in part by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), trains participants in the use of online molecular databases and other resources from the NCBI. The course is intended for librarians whose area…
“PubMed for Librarians” Training
This December, the National Library of Medicine Training Center will be offering a five-part PubMed for Librarians series. There will be one session per day, from Monday, December 7, to Friday, December 11. Viewers may sign up for all five sessions or just particular ones. (Registering for all of the sessions requires signing up for each one…
Summer Legislative Updates
Federal: Due largely in part to numerous citizen advocates, the Senate did not take up S. 754, the privacy-hostile Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). According to the New America’s Open Technology Institute and the Center for Democracy and Technology, the bill would have created “incentives for private companies and the government to widely share huge amounts of Americans’ personally…
NN/LM – GMR Community Engagement Award
The National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region is seeking applicants for the Community Engagement Award. The award will fund an outreach program that would allow network members to collaborate with community-based organizations, in order to increase access to biomedical information, particularly NLM databases such as PubMed and Medline Plus. The project…