(via Gwen Gregory, University of Illinois at Chicago, on behalf of Diane Foote, Illinois Library Association Executive Director) You may have heard the news that ILA is beginning a process to update and refresh our current strategic plan. Much in that plan remains perennially relevant, but as times change so will we evolve. Over the…
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Call for Applicants: Two Rounds of Value of Academic Libraries Travel Scholarships (Deadlines 8/31/18 and 2/15/19)
(via the Association of College and Research Libraries) The Association of College and Research Libraries is pleased to announce a new round of the Value of Academic Libraries Travel Scholarships. The ACRL Board of Directors has allocated $10,000 in fiscal year 2019 to offer travel scholarships of up to $2,000 each for librarians presenting on…
IDS Project Conference 2018 Reminders: Registration Still Open and Updated Schedule Available (Northwestern’s Kurt Munson is Keynote Speaker)
(via Elise Thornley, Binghamton University The IDS Project’s 14th Annual Conference is just a few short weeks away! Please join us on July 26th and 27th, at Utica College in Utica, NY. Approximately 200 attendees are expected. Our keynote speaker is Northwestern University’s Kurt Munson, this year’s Distinguished ILL Librarian. View the full schedule for information on other speakers….
Registration Open for First-Ever Indiana Business Librarian Summit on July 25 (Free to Attend)
(via Gwen Gregory, University of Illinois at Chicago, on behalf of Heather Howard, Purdue University) Are you a business librarian or liaison, or someone who wants to know more about business librarianship? Join us for the first Indiana Business Librarian Summit. The event will take place on Wednesday, July 25, at Purdue University. It will…
Seeking Suggestions for Chicago-Area Panelists for MLA Leadership Workshop (Sept. 27-28 in Chicago)
(via Michelle Kraft, Cleveland Clinic) I am picking brains for the names of people in the Chicago area who you (librarians) think would be good to participate on a panel to share their person experiences on how they discover and consume the information they need to do their jobs. We are interested in nurses, allied…
Reminder: NNLM – Greater Midwest Region Seeking Feedback From Member Hospital Libraries on NLM Strategic Plan (Virtual Meeting at 10:00 AM July 2)
(via Elizabeth Kiscaden, Associate Director for the National Network of Libraries – Greater Midwest Region) The GMR invites our hospital librarians to share their feedback about NLM’s new strategic plan. In response to our first call for feedback, several hospital librarians submitted responses, which generated discussion at the annual MLA meeting. National Library of Medicine…
Reminder: Registration for New Librarian Summit (August 2-3) Still Open
(via Laurie Brochard, San Jose State University) The New Librarian Summit (NLS) Organizing Committee would like to invite you to register for the 2nd annual NLS event to be held at San Jose State University (SJSU) in San Jose, California on August 2 and 3, 2018. Our aim is to create an exciting, innovative and…
Call for October 25 CARLI Resource Sharing Forum Presenters
(via Lorna Engels, CARLI) The Resource Sharing Committee′s fall forum will be held at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library on Thursday, October 25, 2018. The committee is now seeking proposals for presentations related to any of these broad topics: · Statistics & reporting · Marketing, promoting, and patron instruction of interlibrary loan and/or access services…
Call for Volunteers: Field-Testing of New Surveys for ACRL’s Project Outcome for Academic Libraries
(via Gwen Gregory, University of Illinois at Chicago) The ACRL Project Outcome for Academic Libraries Task Force<http://www.ala.org/acrl/aboutacrl/directoryofleadership/taskforces/acr-tfpi> seeks volunteers to field-test new surveys it has developed. Its work is based on adapting PLA’s Project Outcome<https://projectoutcome.org/>, and the new academic library toolkit will launch in 2019. The goal is to provide users with free, easy-to-use, standard…
Academic Libraries of Indiana 2018 Scholarly Communication Librarianship Conference to Take Place 10/26
(via Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Illinois Wesleyan University, on behalf of Craig Finlay, Indiana University South Bend) The Academic Libraries of Indiana 2018 Scholarly Communication Librarianship Conference will take place on Friday, October 26, in the University Library at IUPUI. This interdisciplinary conference should be of interest to scholarly communication librarians, librarians taking on scholarly communication responsibilities,…