(via Catherine Hamer, University of Texas at Austin) Save the date! Re-think it: Libraries for a New Age will take place January 8-10, 2018, in Austin, Texas. Registration is currently open. To receive updates and announcements, subscribe here. Re-think it 2018 is presented by the University of Texas Libraries, Austin Community College Library Services, and the Austin Public Library….
Day: September 3, 2017
Call for Proposals: Empirical Librarians 2018 (Feb. 16 in Knoxville, TN)
(via Nina Exner, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University) Do you support faculty researchers or graduate student researchers? Or, do you do your own research? Then we have a conference for you! Please join us for the fourth Empirical Librarians conference, EmpLibs18. EmpLibs18 is a mini-conference on librarians and research, and will be held…
Call for Proposals: CCLI 2018, “Library Instruction by Design: Using Design Thinking to Meet Evolving Needs”
(via William Cuthbertson-California State University, Chico) The California Conference on Library Instruction (CCLI) seeks to showcase the ways in which librarians have approached library instruction and information literacy problems through the lens of Design Thinking, which will be central to the theme of the 2018 meeting. Design Thinking involves using a designer’s perspective to improve…
Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital’s Mahajan Receives Winifred Sewell Prize for Innovation in Information Technologies
(via the Chicago Tribune website) Nalini Mahajan, director and webmaster of the Medical Library for Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital, part of Northwestern Medicine, has been awarded the Winifred Sewell Prize for Innovation in Information Technologies. She received the award at the All Sciences and Engineering Awards Reception for the 2017 Special Library Association (SLA) in Phoenix….