(via Lorna Engels, CARLI) The CARLI Instruction Committee is seeking presentation proposals for the sixth annual Instruction Showcase on Thursday, May 31, at Dominican University in River Forest, IL. CARLI members are welcome to submit proposals on all library instruction topics, and encouraged to draw inspiration from the committee’s theme this year, “We Can’t Do…
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2nd Call for Responses: International Survey on Clinical Librarian Services and Impact
(via Rebecca Carlson McCall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is conducting a research study on the essential services provided by clinical librarians. This study addresses a gap in the clinical librarianship literature on the activities and impact of services by…
Call for Student Snapshot Sessions for 2018 NASIG Annual Conference
(via NASIG) The NASIG Student Outreach Committee (SOC) invites proposals for the Great Ideas Showcase and the Student Snapshot Sessions for the 33rd NASIG conference in Atlanta, GA, June 8 to 11. The theme of the conference is “Transforming the Information Community.” The Great Ideas Showcase will be held on Friday, June 8, from 3:45 to…
Call for Applicants: 2018 Librarians Active Learning Institutes at Dartmouth (Deadline March 12)
(via Laura Barrett, Dartmouth College) Apply now for the 2018 Librarians Active Learning Institutes at Dartmouth! Librarians Active Learning Institute, July 30-August 1, 2018 Librarians Active Learning Institute–Archives and Special Collections, August 8-11, 2018 When is the last time you were able to spend several days focused solely on your teaching? The Librarians Active Learning…
Call for Proposals: Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium (Deadline April 30)
(via Nicole Pagowsky, University of Arizona) The University of Arizona Libraries is organizing a second Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium to be held here on campus November 15-16, 2018. The CFP is now open, and information about the conference and how to submit proposals can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aBPOhV4E3pWIYHF9HL_sEPkPTGoc6vn6tyWGI698S3o/edit. The deadline to submit is April…
RAILS Board Seeking to Fill Positions
(via Gwen Gregory, University of Illinois at Chicago) We invite nominations for five volunteer positions on the RAILS Board of Directors. Two at-large seats – to be filled by individuals representing RAILS libraries of any type (academic, public, school, or special) Three public library trustee seats – to be filled by board members from RAILS…
Call for Panelists: LITA Top Trends Program at ALA Annual (Deadline March 31)
(via Mark Beatty, American Library Association) We are currently seeking nominations for panelists for the 2018 ALA Annual Conference LITA Top Tech Trends program in New Orleans, LA! You may nominate yourself or someone you know who would be a great addition to the panel of speakers. Submit your nominations at https://goo.gl/forms/eND5Z4uzfb2n9WZN2. The next LITA Top…
Call for Nominations: ILA Intellectual Freedom Award (Deadline May 15)
(via Tracy Ruppman, Loyola University Chicago) The Illinois Library Association is seeking nominations for the Intellectual Freedom Award. This award recognizes groups and individuals for outstanding contributions in either defending or promoting intellectual freedom. More information on the award and a nomination form can be found on the ILA Awards website (https://www.ila.org/about/awards/intellectual-freedom-award).
Call for Papers: Marketing Libraries Journal – Volume 2, Issue 1 (Summer 2018)
(via Beth Heldebrandt, Eastern Illinois University) Call for Papers Marketing Libraries Journal Volume 2, Issue 1 (Summer 2018) Deadline for Submissions: April 1, 2018 (peer reviewed manuscripts) Deadline for Submissions: May 1, 2018 (practical articles) Submit manuscripts online at http://journal.marketinglibraries.org/submit.html Aim and Scope Marketing Libraries Journal (MLJ) is a peer-reviewed, independently published, open access scholarly…
Registration Open for Workshops on Text Mining and the HathiTrust Research Center
(via Harriett Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Are you a librarian interested in learning more about digital humanities methods and text mining? Consider taking a text mining workshop hosted by the IMLS-funded project “Digging Deeper, Reaching Further: Libraries Empowering Users to Mine the HathiTrust Digital Library Resources” (DDRF). The DDRF project is holding a…