Position Changes & Job Listings in IL Academic Libraries: Fall 2021

Illinois Association of College & Research Libraries Forum (IACRL)

September 23, 2021

Compiled by Jill Harper, Heartland Community College

  • Alissa Droog started at NIU as an Assistant Professor, Education & Social Sciences Librarian on April 1, 2020, but ended up working the whole last year remotely from Canada. She will finally be moving to Illinois in September!
  • As of June 1, Susan Franzen is the Interim Associate Dean for Public Services and Organizational Development at Milner Library, Illinois State University. She was previously the Nursing Librarian at Milner.
  • Emily Gilbert has accepted the position of Assistant Professor/Liaison Librarian to the College of Medicine at UIC and will start on November 22.
  • This August, Elizabeth Hollendonner moved from Visiting Library Instructor to Assistant Professor at Millikin University’s Staley Library, where she is Research and Instruction Librarian and Access Services/Electronic Resources Coordinator.
  • This semester, Jennifer Lau-Bond started as full time Library faculty and Coordinator of Library Instruction at Harper College.
  • Nestor Osorio has been appointed the head of the Reference and Research Department at Northern Illinois University Libraries

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