Dr. Clara M. Chu, Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor at the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs (on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus), has been chosen as the American Library Association’s repres…
(via Margaret Chambers, CARLI, on behalf of UMDCC) Registration ends Friday, July 29, for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting, taking place on August 9-11 at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Do…
(via Mark Beatty, ALA) Join us in Fort Worth, Texas, from November 17 to 20, at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel downtown, for the 2016 LITA Forum. This is a three-day education and networking event featuring three preconferences, three keynote sessions, mo…
Note: This event has already taken place, but a recording should be available soon. The Greater Midwest Region (GMR) and South Central Region (SCR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) present the first jointly-sponsored webinar i…
(via Molly Horio, OSF Saint Francis Medical Center) The HSLI Program Committee invites proposals for posters for the HSLI 2016 Annual Conference: “Running with It: Library Trends in 2016″, to be held from Wednesday, November 9, to Friday,…
(via Jacqueline Leskovec, National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region) The Merge & Converge Tech Forum Planning Group is looking for panelists who want to share their IT collaboration success stories as either a &ldqu…
(via David MacCaslin, CalTech University) I’d like to make my first call for submissions, as Editor-in-Chief, for the Journal of Access Services, also known as JAS. Paul Sharpe has done a great job guiding the journal, as Editor in the previous…
(via Tina Baich, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) On behalf of the RUSA STARS Nominating Committee, I am asking for your help in identifying nominees for leadership roles within STARS. If anyone has suggestions on individuals who wo…
(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is pleased to announce its new "Policy Statement on Open Access to Scholarship by Academic Librarians", which reads: "Scholarship by academic librarians adva…
(via ACRL) The Harvard Institutes for Higher Education annual Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians program, led by leading faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), details important leadership concepts and applies them to t…