(via Dr. Michele Villagran, San José State University iSchool) The SJSU iSchool Diversity Committee invites you to attend our 2020 Diversity Webinar Series. All are welcome to attend these free webcasts and registration is not required. The sessions will be recorded and made available on the on-demand webcast page about two weeks after each event date. Webinars take place once…
Reminder: Proposals for Open Education Southern Symposium (July 16-17 at North Carolina State University) Due Sunday, February 16
(via Stephanie Pierce, University of Arkansas) The Open Education Southern Symposium’s Program Committee wants remind everyone that proposals are due Sunday, February 16. OESS is committed to highlighting a variety of voices and experiences in our programs and first time presenters are highly encouraged to submit a proposal. Below is our CFP and submission details: …
Call for Volunteers: CARLI Alma Acquisitions Workflows Advisory Group (Deadline Monday, February 17)
(via Jen Masciadrelli, CARLI) The CARLI Office is seeking volunteers to serve on a short-term advisory group to help develop initial workflows and best practices for Acquisitions in Alma. We are interested in documenting workflows for both print and electronic acquisitions in Alma, for both monograph and serial ordering. We have heard anecdotal feedback at…
Legislative Update, 02/10/2020
Federal news Having a hard time keeping up with presidential campaigning? Kaiser Health News gives us “A Guide To Following The Health Debate In The 2020 Elections.” Supreme Court allows Trump’s ‘public charge’ rule to proceed: The 5-4 ruling would deny green cards to immigrants who use federal aid programs [Roll Call, 1/27/20] “The [tech…
Registration Open for February 13 and March 25 MLA Webinars on Statistics
(via Barry Grant, Medical Library Association) Count on MLA in February and March for powerful, practical webinars on statistics basics. Purchase both one and a half hour webinars as part of the Basic Statistics Webinar Series<http://www.medlib-ed.org/products/2469/basic-statistics-webinar-series> and receive the recorded webinar, Getting Started with Statistics for Librarians<http://www.medlib-ed.org/products/1160/getting-started-with-statistics-for-librarians>, at no additional cost. Basic Statistics for Research…
Call for Applicants: ARL (Association of Research Libraries) Digital Scholarship Institute, June 15-19 in Champaign–Deadline Friday, March 13
(via Anne Craig, CARLI Senior Director) The ARL Academy<https://t.e2ma.net/click/9504vb/hcrfxc/13hm4i> is accepting applications for the fifth iteration of the ARL Digital Scholarship Institute<https://t.e2ma.net/click/9504vb/hcrfxc/hwim4i>, with a deadline of Friday, March 13, 2020. The Digital Scholarship Institute is a five-day, cohort-based opportunity for library professionals and graduate students who are new to digital scholarship and would like to…
Call for Proposals: Emerging Learning Design Conference, May 29 at Penn State – University Park and Online (Deadline March 15)
(via Teresa Slobuski, Pennsylvania State University – Brandywine) Emerging Learning Design Conference 2020 Open All Hours: The Power of Open for Education’s Future Friday, May 29th, 2020 Learn more and Submit by March 15th: http://bit.ly/ELD2020 As we enter a new decade of the budding millenia, open has permeated all areas of academia. In research, funding…
Call for Applicants: Fiscal Year 2021 CARLI Research Funding Program (Deadline May 15, 2020)
(via Anne Craig, CARLI Senior Director) I am pleased to announce the availability of the Fiscal Year 2021 CARLI Research Funding Program. Approved by the CARLI Board of Directors at their December 2019 meeting, this program provides funding to CARLI Governing Member Library staff and faculty with the intention of spurring research and innovation that…
Registration Open for Seventh Annual Digital Initiatives Symposium (April 27-28 in San Diego) — UIUC’s Benson is Presenter
(via Dr. Theresa Byrd, University of San Diego) Registration for the Seventh Annual Digital Initiatives Symposium is now open! Check out the program at: https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2020/ Monday, April 27: Five pre-conference workshops: – Cataloging in the Age of RDA: Latest Trends, Issues, and Challenges Murtha Baca PhD, Getty Research Institute (emerita) and UCLA (emerita); Luiz H. Mendes, California State University, Northridge…
ACRL Endorses Protocols for Native American Materials
(via Gwen Gregory, University of Illinois at Chicago) ACRL, at the request of its Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS), has endorsed the Protocols for Native American Materials. In April 2006 a group of nineteen Native American and non-Native American archivists, librarians, museum curators, historians, and anthropologists gathered at Northern Arizona University Cline Library in Flagstaff,…