IACRL Newsletters

Sign up to receive the IACRL Newsletter

 

Spring 2024, Volume 47, Issue 1
In this issue: 

  • Message from the IACRL President
  • Candidate Statements for IACRL Elections
  • News about your colleagues, including Member Spotlight
  • Unconference Report from the 2023 ILA Annual Conference

Fall 2023, Volume 46, Issue 2
In this issue: 

  • Message from the IACRL President
  • Conversations with new IACRL officers and award-winning colleagues
  • Unconference Report from the 2023 ILA Annual Conference
  • Recent publications by IL Academic Librarians

Spring 2023, Volume 46, Issue 1
In this issue: 

  • Message from the IACRL President
  • Candidate Statements for IACRL Elections
  • News about your colleagues, including Member Spotlight
  • Unconference Report from the 2022 ILA Annual Conference

2022 Fall, Volume 45, Issue 2
In this issue:

  • Message from the IACRL President
  • News about your colleagues, including Member Spotlight
  • Unconference at the 2022 ILA Annual Conference
  • IACRL's DEI Task Force Report

2022 Spring, Volume 45, Issue 1
In this issue:

  • Candidate Statements for IACRL Elections
  • News about your colleagues, including Member Spotlight
  • Unconference Report from ILA 2021
  • Update on IACRL's DEI Task Force

2021 Fall, Volume 44, Issue 2
In this issue:

  • ILA Virtual Conference and IACRL Unconference Preview
  • Meet new IACRL officers, a featured member, and an award-winning colleague
  • Update on IACRL's DEI Task Force
  • Recent publications by IL Academic Librarians

2021 Spring, Volume 44, Issue 1
In this issue:

  • Message from the president and election information
  • IACRL Introduces new DEI Taskforce
  • Illinois library event announcements and reports
  • News about your colleagues, including Member Spotlight

2020 Fall, Volume 43, Issue 2
In this issue:

  • ILA Virtual Conference Preview and IACRL Virtual Annual Meeting
  • Meet new IACRL officers, a featured member, and award-winning colleagues
  • Upcoming Illinois library events
  • Recent publications by IL Academic Librarians

2020 Spring, Volume 43, Issue 1
In this issue:

  • Message from the president and election information
  • IACRL Journal Article Discussion Club report
  • Illinois library event announcements and reports
  • News about your colleagues, including Member Spotlight

2019 Fall, Volume 42, Issue 2
In this issue:

  • Upcoming ILA Annual Conference in Tinley Park
  • Conversations with new IACRL officers and award-winning colleagues
  • Illinois library event announcements and reports
  • Recent publications

2019 Spring, Volume 42, Issue 1

In this issue:

  • ACRL: Preview and list of IL Academic Librarians Presenting
  • Message from the President
  • New RAILS networking group: solo & small academic libraries
  • Recent publications

2018 Fall, Volume 41, Issue 2

In this issue:

  • Upcoming ILA Annual Conference in Peoria
  • Leadership and networking events for librarians in Illinois
  • Info about your colleagues and new IACRL officers
  • Recent publications

2018 Spring, Volume 41, Issue 1

In this issue:

  • The upcoming Information Literary Summit at Moraine Valley
  • The Scholarly Communication RoadShow at the U of I
  • Librarians lobbying in Washington with ILA
  • News about your colleagues, including new ILA executive director Diane Foote
  • Information about upcoming IACRL elections

2017 Fall, Volume 40, Issue 2

In this issue:

  • ILA Conference Preview
  • Bloomberg Receives 2017 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial/Demco Award
  • CARLI Update
  • Meet the new officers

2017 Spring, Volume 40, Issue 1

In this issue:

  • ACRL 2017 Conference Preview: find out when and where your Illinois colleagues will be presenting

  • messages from  IACRL President Lindsay Harmon, CARLI Senior Director Anne Craig, and ILA President Melissa Gardner

  • profiles of award winners, including Library Luminaries Jesse White and Kip Kolkmeier, and Atkinson Award Winner Dee Brennan

  • how libraries are serving refugees and asylum seekers

Download the 2017 Spring IACRL Newsletter

2016 Fall, Volume 39, Issue 2

In this issue:

  • messages from incoming IACRL President Lindsay Harmon and new CARLI Senior Director Anne Craig, and a look at the career of retired CARLI Senior Director Susan Singleton

  • profiles of award winners, including Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year Pattie Piotrowski and Illinois Library Luminary Dr. Allen Lanham

  • a preview of the ILA 2016 Conference and reports from this year’s ALA and Great Lakes Resource Sharing meetings

Download the 2016 Fall IACRL Newsletter

2016 Spring, Volume 39, Issue 1

In this issue:

  • IACRL Conference Preview
  • Legislative Update: Omnibus Spending Bill and the Cybersecurity Act of 2015
  • New Resource for Chicago Researchers: Explore Chicago Collections
  • Honors and Awards for Illinois Librarians
  • Recent Publications by Illinois Librarians
  • Message from the President

Download the 2016 Spring IACRL Newsletter

2015 Fall, Volume 38, Issue 2

In this issue:

  • Dennis Krieb, 2015 Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year
  • Emily Knox Receives 2015 ILA Intellectual Freedom Award
  • Message from Incoming IACRL President Gwen Gregory
  • ILA 2015: All-For-One Conference Preview
  • Hugh Atkinson Names Illinois Library Luminary
  • Member Spotlight: Joelen Pastva
  • Academic Librarians Participate in Synergy

Download the 2015 Fall IACRL Newsletter

2015 Spring, Volume 38, Issue 1

In this issue:

  • Robert Seal, ACRL Academic Librarian of the Year
  • Legislative Update: Illinois Budget Situation
  • ACRL 2015 Conference Preview
  • Member Spotlight: Devin Savage
  • Chen on List of Top 20 Librarian Authors

Download the 2015 Spring IACRL Newsletter

Past issues

2014 Fall
2014 Spring

2013 Fall
2013 Spring

2012 Fall
2012 Spring

2011 Fall
2011 Spring

iREAD Summer Reading Programs

Since 1981, iREAD provides high quality, low-cost resources and products that enable local library staff to motivate children, young adults, and adults to read.

Visit the iREAD website »

Latest Library JobLine Listings

Browse all JobLine listings »