(via Christina Norton, IACRL Secretary) What’s your secret for making the workday easier? What tool have you found that makes a routine task more fun or interesting? What’s your “One Weird Trick” to being more organized in life? Come share your software, hotkeys, processes, or other hack(s), big or small, to help your colleagues learn…
Category: Calls and Requests
User for nominations, proposals and submissions alone with a category (when available) for the organization making the call or request.
Request for Participation: Survey on Reasons Instruction Librarians Turn Down Instruction Opportunities
(via Anna White, Grand Valley State University) You are invited to participate in a research project about when and why librarians with instruction responsibilities say no to/turn down instruction opportunities. The purpose of this research study is to determine how often and why librarians with instruction responsibilities at institutions of higher education in North America…
Reminder: Proposals for ACRL Rare Books & Manuscripts Section 2023 Conference (June 27-30, Tues.-Fri., in Bloomington, IN, and Virtually) Due Fri., Jan. 20
(via Elizabeth DeBold, Doctoral Student at Newcastle University) With January upon us, there are somehow only days left to submit a proposal for the ACRL Rare Books & Manuscripts Section 2023 Conference! It’s looking like an exciting batch so far, and the entire committee is looking forward to welcoming you all to Indiana University’s Bloomington…
Call for Submissions: First Issue of Journal of Graduate Librarianship (Deadline Fri., March 17)
(via Jill Cirasella, CUNY Graduate Center) The Journal of Graduate Librarianship is now accepting submissions. Authors may submit manuscripts on any aspect or type of graduate librarianship to either of these two sections: Articles (i.e., peer-reviewed scholarly articles) or Sharing Our Stories (i.e., editor-reviewed reports on practice). See below for details on these sections, and…
Reminder: Deadline to Volunteer for a 2023-24 ACRL Division, Section, or Representative Appointment is Tues., Feb. 28, 2023
(via ACRL) Are you ready to be considered for an opportunity to advance learning and transform scholarship through a committee appointment? ACRL Vice-President/President-Elect Beth McNeil invites you to volunteer to serve on a 2023-24 division or section committee. Face-to-face attendance at conferences is not required and committee work can be completed virtually throughout the year….
Call for Lesson Proposals: “Lessons for Librarians in Open Science Principles and Methods” Project (Deadline Tues., Jan. 31)
(via Lee Adams–California State University, East Bay) The UCLA Library is pleased to announce a call for proposals for “Lessons for Librarians in Open Science Principles and Methods”, a two-year (2023-2024) project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) to incentivize lesson authors to develop and refine seven lessons each year (total 14 lessons) through two-year sequential summer workshops. This call is…
Call for Proposals: Northeast Chapter of ASIS&T (Association for Information Science and Technology) Annual Conference, Co-Hosted with Simmons ASIS&T (Online Fri., March 3)–Deadline Mon., Jan. 16
(via Cindy Li, Pratt Institute) Please save the date for the NEASIS&T (Northeast Chapter of Association for Information Science and Technology) Annual Conference, which will be held virtually through Zoom on Friday, March 3 (final time TBD). Simmons ASIS&T will co-host the Conference. The theme this year is “Information Science and Technology in Action”. Registration…
Reminder: Nominations for ACRL Board of Directors 2024 Elections Due Wed., Feb. 15, 2023
(via Ali Larsen, Siena College) In November, the call for nominations for the ACRL Board of Directors was announced. Candidates for the positions of ACRL Vice-President/President-Elect and Director-at-Large are being sought for the 2024 elections. The ACRL Leadership Recruitment and Nomination Committee (LRNC) encourages members to nominate themselves or others to fill these important roles….
Reminder: Applications for RAILS CE Event Grants Due Fri., Feb. 10
(via Gwen Gregory, Northern Illinois University) RAILS again invites networking groups, consortia, and libraries to apply for a RAILS Continuing Education Event Grant. This grant supports CE events for RAILS member libraries towards the development of library staff and trustees. To qualify, CE events must be made available to all RAILS member libraries. RAILS will prioritize events focused on equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility…
Call for Submissions: Second Annual Graphic Medicine International Collective Award (Deadline Tues., Feb. 14)
(via Matthew Noe, Harvard University) With the new year comes time for the second annual Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) Award! This award recognizes an outstanding health-related comics project published in the prior year (in this case, comics published in 2022). Last year was the inaugural year and the shortlist makes an excellent reading list…