Illinois Academic Librarians Present at DLF 2016 Forum

Illinois Association of College & Research Libraries Forum (IACRL)

December 31, 2016

A number of Illinois academic librarians gave presentations at the DLF (Digital Library Federation) 2016 Forum. The event took place in Milwaukee from November 7 to November 9 and was preceded by a liberal arts colleges pre-conference on November 6. The Forum, which was first held in 1999 and used to include separate spring and fall meetings, gives DLF members the opportunity to share their knowledge, projects, and ideas in digital librarianship and related areas.

The librarians and their sessions are listed below. For presentations that had multiple speakers, just those from Illinois libraries are included. For more information on each session, click on the title.

Digital Library Pedagogy Incubator: A Workshop to Design Instruction with Digital Collections

Eleanor Dickson and Lisa Hinchliffe (both University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

(Re)skilling the 21st Century Librarian: Empowering Librarians to Support Text Analysis Research (part of the “Text Analysis” joint session)

Eleanor Dickson and Harriett Green (both University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Predictive Coding and Email Preservation (part of the “Email/Ethics” joint session)

Joanne Kaczmarek (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

The Impact of the Biodiversity Heritage Library on Scientific Research (part of the “Open Science” joint session)

Kelli Trei (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Bridging Gaps: Creating (Safe) Passage for Data Curation Training, Platforms, and Services for Humanities Scholars

Harriett Green and Mara Wade (both University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

What’s on the Digital Library Pedagogy Menu? A Working Lunch

Eleanor Dickson and Lisa Hinchliffe (both University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Managing a Portfolio of Projects (part of the “Project Management” joint session)

Jennifer Young and Dan Zellner (both Northwestern University)

Digital Literacy in the Classroom

Harriett Green (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Josh Honn (Northwestern University)

Building History: Using Omeka and Neatline to Explore Campus History (part of the “Teaching” joint session)

Adam Strohm (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Pedagogy (part of the “Open Invitations” closing community session)

Eleanor Dickson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Developing an Enterprise-Wide Digital Preservation Strategy (part of the “Preservation Strategies” joint session)

Carolyn Caizzi (Northwestern University) 

The full list of presenters is available here. For more information on the conference itself, click here. The 2017 meeting will take place from October 23 to October 25 in Pittsburgh.

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