(via Susan Lessick, Distinguished Librarian Emerita – University of California, Irvine) You have another chance to apply for the 2024-25 Research Training Institute (RTI) Fellowship Program! Submit your application by 11:59 AM CDT on Friday, March 8, 2024. The Research Training Institute (RTI) Fellowship Program is a unique, highly effective, and collaborative online research and support…
Category: Calls and Requests
User for nominations, proposals and submissions alone with a category (when available) for the organization making the call or request.
Call for Examples of Recent Scholarly Publications: Spring Issue of IACRL Newsletter–Deadline Fri., March 15
(via Kim Tipton, IACRL Communications Committee Chair) Are you an Illinois academic librarian who’s been recently published? We’d love to share it with the IACRL community! To have your publication mentioned in the Spring, 2024, issue of the IACRL Newsletter, please send the details (or a citation) of your publication to Kim Tipton, IACRL Communications…
Call for Proposals: ACRL Education and Behavioral Sciences Section Research Committee’s Virtual Forum (Wed., May 1)–Deadline Fri., March 15
(via Jylisa Kenyon, University of Idaho) The Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Research Committee invites proposals for presentations at their virtual research forum, to be held online Wednesday, May 1. Our charge is to investigate and propose ways for education and behavioral science librarians to share ideas about new directions in education and behavioral…
Call for Presenters: 12th Annual CARLI Instruction Showcase (Online Tues., June 18)–Deadline Fri., March 8, at 5:00 PM CDT
(via Denise Green, CARLI) Please share this message with anyone in your institution who may be interested in participating. The CARLI Instruction Committee is seeking presentation proposals for the 12th annual Instruction Showcase, to be held virtually on Tuesday, June 18. CARLI members and Illinois LIS students are welcome to submit proposals on all library…
Call for Proposals: Association for Information Science & Technology’s Midwest Chapter Spring Symposium (Online Fri., April 26)–Deadline Sun., March 17
Join us at the first-ever Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Midwest Chapter Spring Symposium online Friday, April 26! We are currently accepting session proposals for this exciting new event. Sessions can be presented in either a five-minute (lightning) or fifteen-minute format. Unlike many conferences and events these days, this event has NO set…
Call for Proposals: 14th Annual Connecticut Academic Library Conference (Online Fri., June 14)–Deadline Sat., March 30
(via Jasmine Huff, Capital Community College) We are excited to announce that we are now accepting proposals for the 14th Annual Connecticut Academic Library Conference, formerly titled the Connecticut Information Literacy Conference, which will be held virtually on Friday, June 14. We have expanded our scope to include all under the academic library umbrella. The…
Call for Proposals: Northwest Interlibrary Loan & Resource Sharing Conference (in Person Wed., Sept. 18 – Fri., Sept. 20, in Eugene, OR; Also Virtual Option on Those Dates)–Deadline Mon., March 25
(via Dev Singer, Brandeis University) The NWILL Planning Committee is excited to open the call for proposals for the 2024 Northwest Interlibrary Loan & Resource Sharing Conference. The hybrid conference will be held from Wednesday, September 18, to Friday, September 20, in person at the University of Oregon in Eugene, and virtually on the Whova…
Call for Proposals: Statewide E-Resource Package
(via Ramune Kubilius, Galter Health Sciences & Learning Center at Northwestern University, on behalf of RAILS) The Illinois Secretary of State has released a request for proposal for the e-resource package that will be available without charge to all Illinois communities. The RFP is available for viewing on the Illinois State Library E-Resource Program Pulse…
Call for Volunteers: Interviews for Research Project “Academic Library Reference in the Time of COVID-19 – The Longtail, 2023-24”
(via Laura Costello, University of Minnesota and doctoral candidate at Rutgers University) My name is Dr. Marie Radford, and I’m a Professor in the Department of Library & Information Science within the School of Communication & Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University. I’m working with Laura Costello, Kaitlin Montague, and Julia Maxwell to conduct a research…
Call for Proposals: ACRL STS Research Committee’s Lightning Talks (Online Thurs., April 25)–Deadline Fri., March 15
(via Andrew Stuart, Ohio University) The Research Committee of the ACRL Science and Technology Section (STS) invites proposals for a session of lightning talks to highlight research and practitioner projects related to science and technology librarianship. The committee is seeking proposals to present at the STS Lightning Talks that will take place online Thursday, April…