(via Gwen Gregory, Northern Illinois University) The Soon to Be Famous Illinois Author Project needs your help! The Project needs judges for adult and young adult fiction by self-published authors. Judges will be required to read six to 10 books over a period of at least 12 weeks beginning in August and fill out evaluation forms on…
Category: Awards, Grants, and Scholarships – Non-HSLI
Western Illinois University’s Jade Kastel Named Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year
(via the Illinois Library Association) Jade Kastel, Assistant Professor, Music Librarian, and Library Diversity Officer at Western Illinois University (WIU) Libraries, is the 2023 recipient of the Illinois Library Association’s (ILA) Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year Award. The award, presented by the ILA Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries (IACRL) Forum, recognizes an…
Northern Illinois University’s Kimberly Shotick is ACRL Member of the Week
(via ACRL) Kimberly Shotick, Student Success Librarian at Northern Illinois University, is the ACRL Member of the Week for July 10-16. To read her Member of the Week interview, including what she values most about working with college students and how she has benefited from membership in ACRL, please go here.
Call for Applications: ALA’s 2024 Class of Emerging Leaders–Deadline Sat., Sept. 9, 2023
(via Gwen Gregory, Northern Illinois University) The American Library Association (ALA) is now accepting applications for the 2024 class of Emerging Leaders (EL). Details regarding the program criteria can be found on the Emerging Leaders web page. The deadline to apply is Saturday, September 9, 2023. Apply now. The ALA EL program is a leadership development program which enables…
Final Reminder: Deadline for 2023 Illinois Library Association Award Nominations is Fri., June 2
(via the Illinois Library Association) The ILA Awards Committee has extended the deadline for award nominations to Friday, June 2. We encourage nominations for all awards, but especially the Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year Award. An overview of the Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year Award is below. Please click on the link above for a full description,…
Deadline for 2023 Illinois Library Association Award Nominations Extended to Fri., June 2
(via Dr. Pamela Thomas, Illinois Heartland Library System) The ILA Awards Committee has extended the deadline for award nominations to Friday, June 2. We encourage nominations for all awards, but especially the Librarian of the Year Award. For more information about the Librarian of the Year Award itself: This award recognizes a librarian’s distinguished service and leadership in Illinois…
Final Reminder: Applications for NNLM Region 6’s Illinois SAG Outreach Award Due Mon., May 15, at 4:59 PM CDT–NNLM Membership Required
(via Jacqueline Leskovec, Network of the National Library of Medicine – Region 6) NNLM Region 6 is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity, the Illinois SAG Outreach Award. Each state in Region 6 has a State Advisory Group (SAG). The SAG charge is two-fold: SAG Illinois members discussed health information needs in the State of…
Registration Open for IMLS National Forum Webinar Session #5, “Data Quality: Reproducibility and Preservation” (Thurs., May 25, 1:00-2:30 PM CDT)–UIUC is Co-Organizer
(via Yan (Grace) Liu, West Chester University) Registration is open for the webinar “Data Quality: Reproducibility and Preservation”. It will take place on Thursday, May 25, from 1:00 to 2:30 PM CDT. Will data produced today be available in the future? Can the data be replicated? Kathleen Weldon will explain the steps the Roper Center…
Registration Open for IMLS National Forum Webinar Session #4, “Commercial Data Quality Issues” (Thurs., April 27, 1:00-2:30 PM CDT)–UIUC is Co-Organizer
(via Yan (Grace) Liu, West Chester University) Registration is now open for IMLS National Forum Webinar Session #4, “Commercial Data Quality Issues”. It will take place on Thursday, April 27, from 1:00 to 2:30 PM CDT. Please see below for more details, including the link to registration. How do we decide which commercial sources to…
Call for Applications: ALA Building Library Capacity Grants to Assist Libraries at Minority Serving Institutions–Deadline Wed., May 24 (Informational Webinar on Tues., April 25, at 2:00 PM CDT
(via Lauren Carlton–ACRL Program Officer, Member Services) The American Library Association (ALA) announces the opening of the ALA Building Library Capacity Grants that will provide grants to assist libraries at Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) across the United States and US Territories that have experienced economic hardship due the consequences of the pandemic and its aftermath, to help increase academic…