(via Barbara Wood, Kennesaw State University) Registration is now open for “Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students”, March 22 – 23, 2018, Kennesaw GA. The Conference focuses on the ways in which academic libraries can meet the specific needs of graduate students. As universities continue to add and diversify their graduate programs, academic libraries have become…
Day: January 28, 2018
Call for Applications: MLA Hospital Libraries Section Professional Development Award (Deadline March 9)
(via Ene Belleh, The University of Pennsylvania Health System) The Professional Development Committee of the Medical Library Association’s Hospital Libraries Section invites HLS members to apply for a Professional Development Award. If a HLS member has had an abstract or poster accepted by MLA for the 2018 meeting, that member would qualify. The funding could…
Reaching Forward Conference Registration Open and Awards Applications Available
(via the Illinois Library Association) The 29th annual Reaching Forward Conference will be held Friday, May 4, at the Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont. The conference features a full day of programming, with morning coffee and a plated lunch. Reaching Forward programming is designed for library staff at all levels of experience and types of…
Call for Responses: Survey on Reporting Censorship Challenges (Deadline Jan. 31)
(via Tracy Ruppman, Loyola University Chicago) I am Tracy Ruppman and I am one of your Illinois Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee co-chairs. You may have seen communication from the American Library Association about reporting censorship challenges for 2017 and ILA is helping them get the word out. The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF)…
Call for Applications: Elevate Illinois Library Leadership Program (Deadline Feb. 23)
(via Gwen Gregory, University of Illinois at Chicago) Elevate is a statewide library initiative to recruit and nurture future Illinois library leaders. The program is a joint project of Illinois Heartland Library System, the Illinois Library Association, the Illinois State Library, and Reaching Across Illinois Library System. The event will take place at the University…