The East Central Illinois Consortium met on February 27, 2015 at the Mills Breast Cancer Institute, Urbana, IL. Members present were Miranda Shake, consortium coordinator, Lakeview College of Nursing, Frances Drone-Silvers, host, Carle Foundation Hospital Library, Scott Drone-Silvers, Lake Land College, JJ Pionke, Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (SSHEL) UIUC, Sarah Isaacs, Illinois Early Intervention Clearinghouse Library, and Stacey Knight-Davis, Eastern Illinois University.
Members shared news from their libraries over tea, coffee and cookies. Discussion items were library budgets, student worker screening and training, and unique library collections. Both JJ and Sarah’s libraries have unique items of interest to HSLI members:
Speech and Hearing Science Assessment Instruments: Standardized Diagnostic Tests at SSHEL
Full instruments available for room use only. Online list below
http://www.library.illinois.edu/sshel/specialcollections/tests/shsinstruments.html
Illinois Early Intervention Clearinghouse Library
Books, journals, and DVDs related to early childhood, parenting, and young children with special needs.
http://eiclearinghouse.org/library.html
If your consortium has met this year, let us know what you talked about!