Additional sessions (held between Saturday afternoon and Monday) at ALA that might be of interest to HSLI members are listed below. Sessions that are starred are being presented by current or former HSLI members. For more information on a particular session, click on the title. Saturday, June 27 (afternoon) 12:30 – 2:00 PM “Mapping Buried…
Month: June 2015
ALA Conference Sessions of Interest to HSLI Members, Part I
The following sessions at this year’s ALA conference might be of interest to HSLI members who are attending. (Sessions being given by current or past members of HSLI are starred.) For more information on a particular session, click the title. The list below includes sessions through Saturday morning. I will post a list of the…
NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program Seeking Applicants
The National Library of Medicine, in collaboration with the AAHSL (Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries), has announced that the application process for the 2015-16 class of leadership fellows is now open. The deadline is July 20. Candidates should have a serious interest in eventually becoming the director of a health-sciences library and should already…
HSLI Members, Present and Past, Presenting at ALA
One current member of HSLI and one past member will be presenting at this year’s American Library Association conference, to be held in San Francisco from June 25 to June 30. Current member Mary Beth Riedner, of the Gail Borden Public Library District in Schaumburg, is one of the organizers for the session “Hearing on Guidelines…
ACRL Report on Library Trends, Part III
A summary of the remainder of ACRL’s 2015 Environmental Scan is below. The full report can be read at http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/whitepapers/EnvironmentalScan15.pdf. Discovery Services Shared Integrated Library Systems (ILS)/Resource Management Systems (RMS) In an effort to make all parts of the collection as accessible as possible, regardless of the type of item (print, electronic, media, etc.), libraries are…
2015 ACRL Report on Library Trends, Part II
An overview of the middle section of ACRL’s 2015 Environmental Scan is below. (The full text of the document can be found here.) I’ll have an overview of the last part of the report later this week. Research Data Services Responses to U.S. Government and Funding Agencies’ Policies Recent years have seen increased efforts by the federal government,…
2015 ACRL Report on Library Trends
The Association of College and Research Libraries recently released the 2015 edition of its annual Environmental Scan of Academic Libraries. The report builds on the “Top Trends in Academic Libraries” report that appeared in a 2014 issue of College & Research Libraries News. (That article can be accessed here.) In addition to identifying trends that are having…