The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant, which will be spread out over four years, will help fund research into ways of closing the “digital divide” in higher education and ensuring that scholarly works are distributed as broadly as possible. The research…
Day: October 16, 2015
Registration Still Open for Annual LITA Forum
Registration is still open for this year’s Library Information and Technology Association Forum, which will be held in Minneapolis, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15. The deadline to register is Sunday, November 8. (Early-bird registration has already passed.) The cost is $390 for LITA and LLAMA members, $475 for ALA members who do…
Call for Nominations–ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President-Elect) Do you know the next ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year winner? ACRL is now accepting nominations for the ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. This prestigious award recognizes an outstanding member of the library profession who has made a significant national or international contribution to academic or research librarianship…