The planning committee for the 2016 LITA (Library Information Technology Association) Forum is seeking program proposals. This year’s event will take place from Thursday, November 17, to Sunday, November 20, at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas. Proposed programs may take the form of full-day preconference sessions or poster presentations, in addition to…
Day: April 1, 2016
Knox Partnering with FTRF to Teach Intellectual-Freedom Course
Dr. Emily Knox, Assistant Professor at UIUC’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science, is collaborating with the Freedom to Read Foundation, and with support from the Web-Based Information Science Education Consortium, to teach an online course covering censorship and intellectual freedom. The course, titled “Intellectual Freedom and Censorship”, is open to any student enrolled…
April 6 Webinar on CRL Resources
(via Kevin Wilks, Head of Access Services at the Center for Research Libraries) Looking for better methods to discover materials held by CRL? On Wednesday, April 6, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM, CRL will host “Find CRL Resources Through OCLC’s Discovery Services“, the second in a series of webinars exploring ways to maximize exposure to CRL records for…