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…
(via Krista Bowers Sharpe, IACRL Communications Committee Chair) The IACRL Communications Committee is highlighting recent career changes and publications by Illinois academic librarians in the next IACRL Newsletter. If you have: changed positions si…
The polls for the IACRL People’s Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing have closed, and the votes are counted. Congratulations to JJ Pionke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who received the highest number of votes, for his article &#…
(via Emily Gilbert, Rasmussen College) Are you looking for more ways to get involved with professional development? Do you want to meet more of your peers in academic libraries across Illinois? Would you like to give back to the Illinois academic lib…
The ILA Small and Rural Libraries Forum hosted a discussion of how small and rural libraries are responding to reopening. A panel of library directors discussed what worked, how they adapted to challenges and altered plans when needed, and …
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