Sue Franzen, incoming IACRL President Message from the Incoming IACRL President: Sue Franzen 2020 has been unfathomably different than years past. We’ve experienced and learned so much. The one constant is that we are better together, especiall…
Qiana Johnson, incoming Secretary/Treasurer of IACRL Meet the new IACRL Secretary/Treasurer: Qiana Johnson Interviewed by Jill Harper, Heartland Community College Qiana Johnson works at Northwestern University and has recently been elected to s…
Meet the new IACRL Vice-President/President-Elect: Emily Gilbert Interviewed by Elena Carrillo, University of Illinois, Chicago Emily Gilbert, incoming VP/Pres Elect of IACRL In May 2020, it was announced that Emily Gilbert, Health Sciences Librarian…
Publications by IL Academic Librarians: March-September 2020 Compiled by Krista Bowers Sharpe, Western Illinois University Avery, Joshua. (2020). Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History. Kevi…
Position Changes and Job Listings in IL Academic Libraries: Fall 2020 Gwen Gregory starts as Associate Dean for Collections Management at Northern Illinois University on September 1. Prior to that, she was UIC Library's Resource Acquisition and Manag…
Molly and her 5 year-old son, who has become her “work-from-home-buddy” Meet Molly Beestrum, 2020 Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year! by Elena Carrillo, University of Illinois, Chicago We congratulate Molly for being selected as ILA&…
October IACRL Journal Club: Join Us! by Emily Gilbert, Rasmussen College As it was covered in our last issue, the IACRL Journal Club has been a great opportunity for academic librarians across the state to share ideas. Meetings are held every other m…
IACRL is pleased to announce a 2nd Spark event for 2020! Join us for Spark: Trial by Fire - Lessons Learned from a Pandemic. Save the Date! Spark will be held online Wednesday, December 9th, 2020 from 9:30-noon via Zoom. Librarians from all li…
In lieu of its traditional luncheon and membership meeting, IACRL is holding its membership meeting on Wednesday, October 21, from 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. All IACRL members (and potential members) are invited to attend our virtual annual meeting. At the m…
The Reaching Forward Committee invites you to submit a program proposal for its first virtual conference on Friday, May 7, 2021. While we won’t be able to meet in-person in 2021, the committee strongly believes we need to be together, even if t…
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