Interviewed By Kim Tipton, McHenry County College Library Caitlin Archer-Helke with her cat, Elvis Caitlin Archer-Helke is currently the Acquisitions and Content Support Specialist at the national law firm Dykema, in the law library of their Chi…
Interviewed by Kim Tipton, McHenry County College Library Christina Norton is your newly elected IACRL Secretary. She’s currently the Online Learning Librarian at Bradley University, where she also serves as a liaison librarian with some instru…
Interviewed by Lori Noe, Frontier Community College Sarah McHone-Chase is the Directory of Aurora University's Phillips Library, and the newly elected IACRL Vice-President/President-Elect. What do you think is the most important thing for you to acco…
by Kent LaCombe, Illinois State University The Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee (IACRL DEI), is looking forward to an academic year of opportunities and outreach. The committee held its…
Interview by Christina Norton, Bradley University Congratulations on your award! This isn’t the first time you’ve appeared in our newsletter, thanks to your service to IACRL in the past. But for those who haven’t met you yet, can yo…
By Dan Matthews, Moraine Valley Community College Illinois convened the College Course Materials Affordability and Equitable Access Collaborative Study Act and Task Force, also called "CCM Task Force", in the summer of 2021. The task force’s ch…
Compiled by Krista Bowers Sharpe, Western Illinois University, and Janis Shearer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Published since March 2022: Anderson-Zorn, April K. 2022. “Do I Belong? Impostor Syndrome in Times of Crisis.” Mu…
Compiled by Janis Shearer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In July 2022, Jennifer AW Stubbs joined Bradley University's Cullom-Davis Library as the Instruction and Outreach Librarian. She has worked previously in Shanghai, China…
Daily, we are confronted with reminders that the work of public servants and libraries is being undermined and that the freedom to read and learn is under attack. Information professionals and library workers are ideally suited to help combat these c…
Education and lifelong learning are at the heart of library services, and it is important to support library staff in this same regard so that they can professionally grow, learn, and connect with new ideas. Each year, the Reaching Forward …