(via Dr. Troy Swanson, Moraine Valley Community College) I am excited to send along the link to an interview I did with psychologist Laura Lauzen-Collins. We discuss the short cuts used by your brain to process information and how those short cuts contribute to the spread of fake news. Importantly we discuss how identity and self-perception…
Month: September 2017
HSLI Annual Conference 2017: Registration Now Open!
The conference and hotel registration are now open for the Annual Conference of the Health Science Librarians of Illinois! Please mark your calendars to join us in Bloomington, IL at the Chateau Hotel from Wednesday, October 25th to Friday, October 27th. Please follow this link for online conference registration using PayPal or you may download the PDF form to…
“Back to School: Statistical Methods, Training, and Resource Needs for the Public Health Workforce” Webinar at 1:30 PM CST on Sept. 6
(via Derek Johnson, National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region) “Back to School: Statistical Methods, Training, and Resource Needs for the Public Health Workforce” Wednesday, September 6 (1:30 PM CST) This introductory seminar developed with support from the National Library of Medicine provides a review of trends in statistical methods used in…
ALA Offering Free Webinar Series Libraries Transforming Communities: Models for Change for Academic Libraries
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL Past President) The American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office, the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) and the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) invite academic library professionals to attend a free learning series that teaches several dialogue facilitation approaches and helps librarians position themselves to foster conversation…
UIUC’s Mortenson Center Hosting Sept. 14 Lecture and Book Signing by Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen
(via Margaret Chambers, CARLI, on behalf of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs) The 27th Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture presents “Enduring Wars in Transpacific Memories” by Viet Thanh Nguyen, scholar and author of Pulitzer Prizewinner, The Sympathizer. Nguyen’s work engages dialogue on what it means to be national, ethnic, multicultural, foreign, international, diaspora, and…
Call for Proposals: IOLUG 35th Anniversary Conference (Deadline Sept. 15)
(via the Indiana Online Users Group) The Indiana Online Users Group (IOLUG) is seeking program proposals for its 2017 Conference. This year’s meeting will take place at the Indianapolis Propylaeum (1410 N Delaware St. #2, Indianapolis, IN 46202) on Friday, October 13. Instructions for producing and submitting proposals are below. Libraries have always been at the…
NNLM Offering “5 Clinical Questions You Can Answer with NCBI Databases” Webinar on Sept. 20
(via Molly Knapp, University of Utah) The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, in conjunction with the National Center for Biotechnology Information, will offer the webinar “5 Clinical Questions You Can Answer with NCBI Databases (GTR, ClinVar, MedGen)”. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, September 20, from 12:00 to 1:00 PM CST. In this webinar, you…
Library Marketing and Communications Conference Announces Keynote Speakers
(via Mark Aaron Polger, College of Staten Island – City University of New York) Have you registered yet for the 2017 Library Marketing and Communications Conference? There’s still time. We’re happy that so many of you are returning for our third LMC Conference! And we have lots of new attendees, and speakers, joining us this fall. If…
Re-think It 2018 Conference Call for Proposals Extended to Sept. 8
(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….
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…