(via Ramune Kubilius, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center at Northwestern University) It’s your last chance to submit an abstract for the Medical Library Association’s 2022 Midwest Chapter Annual Meeting. The event will take place in Bloomington, Indiana, from Saturday, October 22, to Monday, October 24. We are accepting research or program description abstracts…
HSLI Member Michelle Nielsen Ott is Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year Award Winner
(via the Illinois Library Association) HSLI member Michelle Nielsen Ott of Bradley University is the 2022 recipient of ILA’s Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year Award. Her involvement in HSLI includes serving as a member of the Conference Planning Committee, and she is also an active member of the newly-formed Journal Club. Among her other accomplishments,…
HSLI Member Stacey Knight-Davis Part of EIU Booth Library Team That Received 2022 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award for Interlibrary Cooperation
(via the Illinois Library Association) HSLI member Stacey Knight-Davis of Eastern Illinois University is part of the Booth Library team that received the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award for Interlibrary Cooperation. The Award recognizes sustained activity and contributions having a lasting impact on librarianship. More information about Booth Library’s project is below. In 2021, EIU’s Booth…
HSLI Member Laura Barnes Featured in ILA Member Spotlight
(via the Illinois Library Association) This week’s ILA Member Spotlight features Laura Barnes, who happens to be a member of HSLI, also. She is the sustainability information curator for the University of Illinois’s Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC), where she provides information services for ISTC’s engineers and scientists and coordinates ISTC’s strategic communications. She founded and…
Call for Proposals: Texas Library Association Library Instruction Round Table Summit (Online Fri., Oct. 14)–Deadline Fri., July 29
(via Kelly Hoppe, West Texas A&M University) The call for proposals for the 2022 Texas Library Association (TLA) Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) Summit is now open! The LIRT Summit is a virtual, one-day conference focused on topics related to library and information literacy instruction in academic, public, school or special libraries. Attendees will interact…
Call for Participation: Research Study on the Use of Design Thinking in Library Settings
(via Sarah Allison, Ball State University) Dear Colleagues, Have you participated in the design thinking process within a library setting? Have you used design thinking for problem-solving needs or remodeling of library spaces? Have you used design thinking to refine your library public services? We are working on exploratory research about how design thinking is…
Call for Papers: Special Issue of The Journal of Academic Librarianship on Libraries’ Adaptations to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Priority Deadline Thurs., Dec. 1)
(via Bernd Becker, San Jose State University) The sudden changes brought about by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic gave libraries little time to prepare for what was to come. Universities suddenly closed their doors and either shifted services to an online environment or halted them altogether. These changes were equally significant for every function and service…
Call for Participation: Research Survey Measuring Academic Librarians’ Teaching Self-Efficacy Beliefs (Deadline Fri., July 29)
(via David Lemmons, George Mason University) We are writing to ask you to participate in a research survey measuring academic librarians’ teaching self-efficacy beliefs. The purpose of this study is to test a scale for measuring teaching self-efficacy of librarians working in higher education. Any person working in an academic library with teaching responsibilities is…
Call for Host Organizations: “Privacy and Library Learning Analytics” Half-Day Workshop During 2022-2024 (Priority Deadline Mon., Aug. 15, 2022)
(via Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) We are pleased to announce this call for expressions of interest to host the “Privacy and Library Learning Analytics” workshop. The “Privacy and Library Learning Analytics” workshop is an offering of Prioritizing Privacy, a multi-faceted continuing education program to train United States academic library practitioners to…
Registration Open for Two Fall Inquiring Teachers Courses, “Information Literacy in Politically Polarized Times” (Sept. 5 – Oct. 4) and “Scaffolding Information Literacy” (Oct. 17 – Nov. 15)
(via Dr. Andrea Baer, Inquiring Teachers) The following two Inquiring Teachers courses will be offered in the fall of 2022. Monday, September 5 – Tuesday, October 4: “Information Literacy in Politically Polarized Times” (register here) Monday, October 17 – Tuesday, November 15: “Scaffolding Information Literacy” (register here) To register or for inquiries, please e-mail abaer@inquiringteachers.com. In addition to these courses,…