Thank you so very much to the 2013 Syed Maghrabi Scholarship Committee for awarding me a scholarship to Midwest Chapter MLA 2013 Navigating a River of Information October 4 through October 8, 2013 in East Peoria, IL. It was an honor to be chosen. The conference was held on the banks of the Illinois River at the…
Author: Stacey Knight-Davis
Grassroots Advocacy
The bumper sticker above was created by Susan Shelly and posted on MedLib-L. Another great suggestion from Dina McKelvy is: Does your doctor use a library? Don’t you think they should? Get the message out any way you can, hospital libraries are important!
Illinois Library Association Call for Proposals
The 2014 ILA Annual Conference will take place at the Prairie Capital Convention Center, Springfield, IL, on October 14 -16, 2014. They are now soliciting program proposals: Call for Proposals The 2014 ILA Annual Conference theme, Kickstarting Connections, Creativity, Community, focuses on how libraries align ideas, passion, and commitment to cultivate connections and create imaginative approaches, methods,…
2014 HSLI Conference November 13-14, Champaign Illinois
Mark your calendars for November 13-14, 2014 for the HSLI annual conference. The 2014 meeting will be held in at the Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign, Illinois. The theme for the meeting is “Communicate and Advocate”.
ILEAD U: Illinois Libraries Explore, Apply and Discover, The 21st Century Technology Tools
The State Library will host ILEAD U: Illinois Libraries Explore, Apply and Discover, The 21st Century Technology Tools Institute for Illinois Library Staff at the University of Illinois Springfield on March 24-27, June 23-26 and October 27-30, 2014. The ILEAD U Steering Committee is looking for participants, mentors and instructors to implement web technologies that…
WIU awarded LSTA Grant for Nursing Resources
In May, WIU was awarded a Back to Books Grant LSTA Grant through the Illinois State Library. The grant was titled Nursing Resources for a Rural Academic Library, we were awarded the maximum award of $5000. Eighty-five titles were purchased. Please take a look at the title that were purchased with Illinois state funds. These…
Back Issues Added to HSLI Newsletter Archive
Fran Kovach has digitized the 1980s and 1990s issues of the HSLI Newsletter. You can now view these back issues at https://hsli.orgarchive/ They are also linked on the menu at the right.
Ready, Set, Influence! Participating in the Business of Your Health Care Organization
MLA’s webinar “Ready, Set, Influence! Participating in the Business of Your Health Care Organization,” is scheduled for Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 1:00pm-2:30pm, Central Time. There are two locations in Illinois for viewing the webcast. The Illinois State Library will be a site. Online registration is available at http://www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=16586 Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center, 333 N….
Daniel Biss’s Presentation
The video of Illinois State Senator Daniel Biss’s keynote address last Friday at Northern Illinois University’s “Open Access Week” event is linked below. http://www.livestream.com/niulive/video?clipId=pla_64e2dffa-2f2e-4232-8e14-95527bf9305f&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb Eric Edwards took the following notes that answer many frequently asked questions about open access and the Open Access to Research Articles Act. Illinois State Senator Daniel Biss’s Presentation During Northern…
Conference Report – Carmen Howard
The 2013 Midwest Chapter/MLA and HSLI conference was a new experience for me, and I would like to thank the Syed Maghrabi Scholarship committee and all of HSLI for giving me the opportunity to attend. Although I have been a librarian for many years, I am relatively new to the health sciences and this was…