Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Singer/songwriter Bill Withers reminds us in his song "Lean on Me" that we all have challenges at times in our lives and that there are people in our lives who are available to help support us through those challenges. As library professionals, some of these relationships can be mentorship relationships to help us navigate challenging moments in our careers.
Mentorship can be formal or informal, and our panelists provide thoughts and insights into different ways that mentorship can exist in the library world - within an institution, at a national level, and potentially focused on supporting efforts to diversify the profession.
Friday, September 6, 2024, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The OER Campus Kickstart: Award for Growing Illinois OER Programs is awarded to selected Illinois institutions to offer financial incentives towards the implementation of OER programs and encourage OER usage in classrooms. During this webinar, the 2023 OER Campus Kickstart awardees will discuss their institution’s programs.
Connecting with Kaetrena Davis Kendrick: Clarifying Low Morale in Libraries.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
IACRL Conference and Continuing Education Committee Chair Shannon Pohrte spoke with Kaetrena Davis Kendrick about her powerful work centering on low-morale experiences in library workplaces. Must log in to view.
Thursday, March 7, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
The IACRL Conference and Continuing Education Committee hosted a one-hour discussion on initiating or advancing Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives with a focus on the Illinois State Library Grant for OER. Panelists Kim Hale at Columbia College, Chicago Library, and Lauren Kosrow from the College of DuPage Library shared their experiences with OER projects. Cathy Mayer from Elgin Community College offered a grant writer's perspective. And, Daniel Matthews, former President of IACRL and current chair of the IACRL Awards and Nomination Committees, shared information about the OER Campus Kickstart: Award for Growing Illinois OER Programs.
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
This webinar, hosted by the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries Forum (IACRL), features a broad introduction to disability (what is it, what does the law generally say) and a discussion on neurodiversity, focusing on ways to provide support for neurodiverse patrons in academic environments. Slides.
Friday, November 10, 2023, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The IACRL People’s Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing was established in 2020. This award gives academic and research librarians throughout Illinois the opportunity to read and evaluate scholarly works by their peers and then vote on a favorite. It also presents Illinois research and academic librarians with the opportunity to share their findings outside of a conference or other formal setting.
The 2023 winners discuss their work in this webinar. Tina Griffin, from the University of Illinois Chicago, and Holly Beverley, representing Cadence Group, received the highest number of votes with their article "Student and Supervisor Experiences Conducting an Entirely Virtual LIS Practicum During COVID-19." Securing second place are Jung Mi Scoulas and Sandra De Groote, the University of Illinois Chicago, for their article, "Impact of Undergraduate Students’ Library Use on Their Learning beyond GPA: Mixed-Methods Approach," was published in College & Research Libraries. Rounding out the list, in third place, are Angela Yon and Eric Willey from Illinois State University, authors of the article "Using the Cataloguing Code of Ethics Principles for a Retrospective Project Analysis," which appears in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.
Monday, November 7, 2022, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The IACRL People’s Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing was established in 2020. This award gives academic and research librarians throughout Illinois the opportunity to read and evaluate scholarly works by their peers and then vote on a favorite. It also presents Illinois research and academic librarians with the opportunity to share their findings outside of a conference or other formal setting.
The 2022 winners discuss their work in this webinar. Jung Mi Scoulas, Elena Carrillo, and Linda Naru, University of Illinois Chicago, received the highest number of votes for their article, "Student Voice in Administrative Decision-Making: Inclusive Planning During the Pandemic," in Journal of Library Administration. The second-place winner is Amelia Brunskill, University of Illinois Chicago, whose article “Without That Detail, I’m Not Coming”: The Perspectives of Students with Disabilities on Accessibility Information Provided on Academic Library Websites," appears in College & Research Libraries. Gwen Gregory, from Northern Illinois University, finished third, and her article is "Retreating to Advance Together: Communicating Through Internal and External Retreats," from Telling the technical services story (pp. 35-48). American Library Association.
Friday, April 1, 2022, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
DEI and OER are important topics that we believe librarians want to engage with, and with that in mind we are again shifting the structure of Spark. The IACRL Conference and Continuing Education committee is partnering with CARLI to present the Open Illinois Hub, a new OER tool for Illinois higher education institutions. We are excited to highlight this tool that will help to bring OER to more institutions in Illinois.
Friday, June 11, 2021, 10:00 a.m. - Noon
The event began with three lightning talks from Illinois academic librarians on practices they developed during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and participants discussed the presentation of their choice with the presenter in a breakout room. This was followed by a hour-long unconference with topics suggested by the attendees. Only the presentations were recorded.
Friday, March 12, 2021, 10:00 a.m. - Noon
IACRL will host its second Town Hall to discuss what our libraries are doing to adapt physical spaces and online library instruction and services. We will hear from panelists from several academic libraries on strategies they have employed.
Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 9:30 a.m. - Noon
Librarians from Illinois shared their innovations with their colleagues. What changed at your library since March 2020? How did you stay motivated? What successes do you want to share?
Monday, November 9, 2020, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
The IACRL People’s Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing was established in 2020. This award gives academic and research librarians throughout Illinois the opportunity to read and evaluate scholarly works by their peers and then vote on a favorite. It also presents Illinois research and academic librarians with the opportunity to share their findings outside of a conference or other formal setting.
The 2020 winners will discuss their work in this webinar. JJ Pionke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, received the highest number of votes for his article, “Library Employee Views of Disability and Accessibility,” in Journal of Library Administration. The second-place winner is Elena Carrillo, University of Illinois at Chicago’s Daley Library, whose article with Dr. Jung Mi Scoulas, ʺWelcome to the Library: Data-Driven Student Worker Empowerment,ʺ appears in Evidence Based Library & Information Practice. Tina Griffin, also of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Daley Library, finished third, and her article with Abigail Goben is “In Aggregate: Trends, Needs, and Opportunities from Research Data Management Surveys,” from College & Research Libraries.
Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 10:00 a.m. - Noon
IACRL, in partnership with RAILS and IHLS, hosted a Fall Semester Town Hall to discuss what our libraries are doing in regards to reopening our physical spaces and what librarians are doing to navigate instruction under new circumstances. The Town Hall consists of two sections: reopening plans and considerations & library instruction plans and considerations.
Friday, May 15, 2020, 10:00 a.m. - Noon
IACRL and RAILS are excited to announce a new event for Spring 2020 – Spark: Connect and Get Fired Up! We hope this professional development opportunity will be the first of many to Spark our enthusiasm to share and connect with each other as academic librarians in Illinois.
Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Open Educational Resources (OER) have quickly become an answer to addressing higher education affordability, increasing student completer success raters and reducing equating gaps, and increasing pedagogical innovations. As libraries support the very essence of ‘open,’ librarians and library staff are primed to lead OER efforts at colleges and universities. After setting baselines, including definitions and efficacy of OER, this webinar will discuss some OER and Open program opportunities your library can select to implement and support, no matter where you’re at in the OER adoption process. We encourage you to bring your ideas for OER programs that others can adapt, and your questions and concerns.
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