Month: April 2023

Hello Everyone! 

Here are some professional development opportunities for May. There are some deadlines to sign up coming at the end of the week, so act quickly!

Preserve this:

• • Protecting Your Collection: Mold and Pests
  • Preservation of Photographic Materials (SIGN UP BY APRIL 28th)

• Library Juice Academy (All start May 1st, so register soon!)
  • Enhancing your LibGuides
  • Presevation of Archival Collections
  • Curriculum Mapping Information Literacy for Academic Librarians
  • Creating Digital Exhibits
  • Python for Librarians
  • Coaching as a Leadership Skill
  • Serials Cataloging
  • LSSC Elective Competencies: Access Services
  • Everyday Statistics for Librarians
  • Writing for the Web
  • Introduction to Digital Humanities for Librarians
  • Introduction to Accessibility and Universal Design in Libraries
  • Charting a Course for the Future through Strategic Planning
  • RDF, RDFa and Structured Data Vocabularies
  • Foundations of Early Literacy 
  • Digital Repository Fundamentals and Design
  • Introduction to Digital Preservation
  • Using MarcEdit
  • Dewey Decimal Classification 

• RUSA
  • Webinars:
    • Taking Charge of Your Career: Creating and Assessing Your Development Plan
    • Shared Goals to Enhance Library Planning
  • Online Courses:
    • Who Manages, Who Leads Part One: Developing Your Career Plan 
    • Business Reference 101

• ACRL
  • Webcasts:
    • Strategies for Teaching Adult Learners
    • From Dall-E to ChatGPT: Navigating AI in Academic Libraries
      
  • Online Courses:
    • Increasing Engagement Using Active Learning Techniques

• InfoPeople
  • All Work is Team Work
  • Basic Spanish for Library Staff

• OCLC Webinars
  • WMS Connect x DevConnect -Let Me See Your License: Adding Title Level Notes to Limited-Access Ebooks
  • Enhance the mobile experience for library users with CapiraMobile
  • Library Safety and Security: A Holistic Approach
  • DevConnect 2023: Seamless smart fulfillment between Tipasa, Alma, and Primo
  • School Librarians Lead Learning and Transformation

• Core Webinars
  • There When You Need Us: Crisis Collecting Support (Free)
  • Networking Strategies Improve Disaster Readiness (Free)
  • Servant Leadership Principles Applied Practically
  • Making the Most of One-Shot Instruction Sessions
  • Core Webinar Series: Library Marketing 101
  • Library Marketing 101 Series (Part 1): Intro to the Basics

• Choice 360 Webinars
  • Beyond Bibliometrics—Using Scopus to Assess Collections and Support Faculty
  • Inclusive Workplace Practices to Support Mental Health in Higher Education
  • The role of the library in the DEI journey
  • Uncovering archival materials in AM’s Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914
  • What role do, and can, librarians play in supporting the UN SDGs and sustainability research?

• Conferences:
  • RBMS Spring Conference will be in Indiana this year from June 27-30th, and it is offered in person and online
  • ILA/ACRL-IPAL Spring Conference will be held in Dubuque, Iowa from May 24-25

Happy Spring!

If you’ve renewed your ILA/ACRL membership, thank you and we look forward to another year together (and hope to see you at our Spring Conference). If you meant to renew and just haven’t yet, there’s still time! We’re not mean. The ILA renewal date is the end of this week; renew at bit.ly/ILARenew2023

If you renewed your ILA membership and forgot to renew your ILA/ACRL membership? Please contact ILA and those fine folks will get you onboard.

Thanks on behalf of

The ILA/ACRL Membership Committee

ILA/ACRL Spring Conference Registration – Now Open! 

“Breaking Barriers” – May 24-25 – Loras College Library, Dubuque, Iowa

Registration

Registration is now open for the ILA/ACRL & IPAL Spring Conference. Register here. Be sure to register before May 15. 

Lodging

Holiday Inn Dubuque. Guests can contact the hotel at 563-556-2000 or use the group booking link below. Be sure to mention you are part of the ILA – ACRL & IPAL Spring Conference. The block of rooms is available until April 24. Holiday Inn Reservations here: ILA – ACRL & IPAL Spring Conference

Academic Libraries in Iowa encounter numerous barriers in their efforts to best serve their communities. The greatest among these today are dwindling budgets and shrinking staff sizes. At the same time, we remain committed to reducing any barriers our patrons may encounter as they seek to access our physical spaces, collections, and services. During our time together, we not only will address the barriers that stand in the way of academic success, but more importantly creatively strategize how we might work to overcome these obstacles in our libraries and our profession.