Via Gwen Gregory, IACRL Vice-President/President-Elect Register for the “A Library State of Mind” joint conference by Monday, September 21, and save! Members of ILA, ISLMA, IACRL, SLA Illinois, and HSLI are eligible to register for a discounted rate. All conference registrations include complimentary buffet lunches in the exhibit hall on each day of the conference;…
Category: Conferences and Meetings – Non-HSLI
Recharge “Unconference” for Library Leaders to be Held October 30
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL Vice-President/President-Elect) If you are looking to re-energize your innovation and creativity, attend the first Unconference for library leaders on Friday, October 30, 9:30 a.m. – 3:45 p.m., at the Gail Borden Public Library District. Beck Tench, an educator, designer, and technologist, is the keynote speaker. For more information, see rechargecommittee.com.
HSLI Members, Present and Past, Presenting at ALA
One current member of HSLI and one past member will be presenting at this year’s American Library Association conference, to be held in San Francisco from June 25 to June 30. Current member Mary Beth Riedner, of the Gail Borden Public Library District in Schaumburg, is one of the organizers for the session “Hearing on Guidelines…
MLA 2015 Poster Sessions by Illinois Librarians
Illinois librarians gave the following poster sessions at this year’s MLA conference. If I missed anyone, please let me know. “Community College Library Support for Health Professions”–Debra Smith, College of DuPage “Database Trial Success through Community Organizing”–JJ Pionke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Developing a Process to Find Alternatives for Cancelled or Discontinued Electronic Resources”–Estelle…
Illinois Librarians Presenting at MLA 2015
The following staff members from Illinois libraries are presenting at this year’s Medical Library Association Conference in Austin, Texas. (For those presentations that include presenters not from Illinois, just the Illinois ones are listed.) If I missed anyone, please let me know. I will include the poster sessions in a separate entry. “A Day in…
Legislative Meet-Ups Reminder
With Governor Bruce Rauner having laid out his proposals for slashing spending by up to 20 percent, and with further cost-cutting measures likely to be unveiled in his “State of the State” speech on February 4, it is critical that library advocates act now to ensure that maintaining funding levels at an acceptable level is…
2015 Legislative Meet-Ups Announced
The Illinois Library Association has announced its first round of legislative meet-ups for the upcoming Illinois General Assembly session. The meet-ups will be held in mid-February, with three of them in the Chicago area and one in the St. Louis area. South Suburban Breakfast-will be held in Tinley Park on Friday, February 13 West Suburban…
Overview of 2014 Advocacy Events
Here is an overview of recent and upcoming advocacy events at the state and federal levels. Illinois Legislative Meet-Ups-During February, meetings with legislators were held in four locations, including Lockport, Oak Brook, and Edwardsville. These meetings grew out of the annual Presidents’ Day breakfast, which is held in the northwestern suburbs. The meet-ups were intended…
Illinois Library Association Call for Proposals
The 2014 ILA Annual Conference will take place at the Prairie Capital Convention Center, Springfield, IL, on October 14 -16, 2014. They are now soliciting program proposals: Call for Proposals The 2014 ILA Annual Conference theme, Kickstarting Connections, Creativity, Community, focuses on how libraries align ideas, passion, and commitment to cultivate connections and create imaginative approaches, methods,…
Call for Papers and Posters Midwest Chapter MLA and HSLI Conference
Call for Papers and Posters The Program Committee invites proposals for contributed papers and posters for the joint Midwest Chapter MLA and HSLI Conference to be held October 5-8, 2013 in East Peoria, Illinois. The conference theme is “Navigating a River of Information”. We encourage you to take a literal or figurative (use your fertile…