Several Health Science Librarians of Illinois members will be presenting at this year’s Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, which starts Thursday evening and lasts all day Friday. This year’s conference will feature 15 breakout sessions, five “lightning-round” presentations, and six poster sessions. Topics will cover everything from open access and classroom instruction, to digitization and library space. The keynote speaker will be ACRL President Ann Campion Riley, whose talk is titled “Getting to the Table and Speaking Up: Effective Advocacy on Campus and Beyond”.
The HSLI members and their sessions are listed below. (For sessions that have multiple presenters, just the HSLI member is listed.) To access the full program, click here.
Breakout Sessions
10:30-11:30 AM
“Meeting in the Middle: Academic Libraries and Student Veterans”–JJ Pionke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (session will brainstorm ways that academic libraries can more effectively serve student veterans and their dependents, as the number of veterans on campus increases)
1:45-2:45 PM
“Digitizing History: Projects from the Blessing Health Professions Library”–Arlis Dittmer, Blessing Health Professions Library (session will cover strategies for making large digitization projects more manageable, especially in terms of time and money, with the participants sharing examples from their own work)
Lightning Rounds
10:30-11:30 AM
“Resources for Educating Yourself on Research Data Management”–Rebecca Raszewski, University of Illinois at Chicago (session will discuss data-management resources, including conferences and online videos, that librarians can use to increase their knowledge and use it to assist patrons)
Poster Sessions
1:00-1:45 PM
“Proactive Outreach: Teaching Students How to Fish”–Liesl Cottrell, Resurrection University (poster will give overview of opportunities and resources available for solo librarians to reach out to students throughout their academic careers, including surveys and other tools for feedback)
If I missed anyone, please let me know.