(via Mark Aaron Polger, College of Staten Island) There’s still time to submit your own proposal for a session at LMCC17. The call for proposals is open through 11:00 PM CST on Friday, June 9. This year, we are collecting proposal submissions to fill our seven selected tracks. the marketing cycle user-centered design all things…
Category: Conferences and Meetings – Non-HSLI
Call for Volunteers and Appointments: Onsite Resume Review Service at ALA Annual
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL Past President) The NMRT Resume Review Service Committee is recruiting volunteer resume reviewers and booth greeters, and it is also taking resume review appointments for the 2017 ALA Annual Meeting. Visit our informational website for more details, or keep reading. Thank you to all those who’ve volunteered, so far! More information…
Illinois Librarians Presenting at Great Lakes Resource Sharing Conference
A number of Illinois academic librarians will be presenting at the 2017 Great Lakes Resource Sharing Conference. This year’s event will take place on Thursday, June 8, and Friday, June 9, in Oak Brook, IL. The theme of this year’s gathering is “Harnessing the Winds of Change!”. Corey Seeman, Director of Kresge Library Services at…
Call for (Additional) Proposals: IACRL @ ILA–Deadline is June 30
(via Lindsay Harmon, IACRL President) Did you miss the deadline to propose a program for the 2017 ILA Annual Conference? Good news: you have another chance! The ILA Conference Program Committee has reserved several spots for additional academic library programming. We are especially interested in programs related to the following topics. marketing and outreach programming…
Early-Bird Registration for Northwest ILL Conference Ends July 10
(via Jessica Bower, Chapman University) Early-bird registration ends Monday, July 10, for the 2017 Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference! Early-bird registration fee is $175; regular registration is $225. The conference will take place in Portland, Oregon on Thursday, August 10, and Friday, August 11, at Portland State University in downtown Portland. This year’s program includes the…
Registration and Call for Proposals: Library Marketing and Communications Conference
(via Mark Aaron Polger, College of Staten Island) The Library Marketing and Communications Conference is the only event designed exclusively for people who do library marketing and communications (MarCom) work. We are pleased to open Registration and the Call for Proposals for our 3rd annual event. It’s time to register for #LMCC17, which will be Thursday,…
Illinois Librarians Presenting at Association of Christian Librarians Annual Conference
Several Illinois academic librarians will be presenting at the Association of Christian Librarians 2017 Annual Conference. This year’s event will take place from June 12 to 15 at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The theme for this year’s gathering is “Great Expectations to Grand Experience”, focusing on improving the user experience for library patrons….
Save the Date: 2018 OCLC Resource Sharing Conference (March 13-15)
(via Tony Melvyn, OCLC) OCLC is excited to announce a new location for the 2018 OCLC Resource Sharing Conference! To accommodate increased interest from the resource sharing community, next year’s event will be held in Jacksonville, Florida, at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Hotel. We encourage you to save the dates–March 13-15, 2018–and read this…
Reminder: LITA AvramCamp at ALA Annual 2017 (Facilitators are Margaret Heller, Loyola, and Evviva Weinraub, Northwestern)
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL Past President) Women in technology face numerous challenges in their day-to-day work. If you would like to join other women in the field to discuss topics related to those challenges, AvramCamp is for you. This one-day LITA preconference at ALA Annual in Chicago will allow female-identifying individuals employed in various technological…
Illinois Librarians Give Poster Sessions at MLA 2017
A number of librarians from Illinois gave poster sessions at the Medical Library Association’s 2017 Annual Meeting. This year’s event took place in Seattle, from May 26 to 31. The theme was “Dream, Dare, Do”. The poster sessions are below. For those that included presenters not from Illinois libraries, just the Illinois ones are listed….