Month: August 2023

Greetings Iowa ACRL Members,

Here are some professional development opportunities coming up in September.

Preserve This

• Preservation of Photographic Materials – 4 weeks starting Sept. 11
• Oral History: Theory and Methods – 4 weeks starting Sept. 11
• Intro to Archival Collections Management Systems - 4 weeks starting Sept. 18
• Intro to Preservation Metadata – 4 weeks starting Sept. 18

Reference & User Services Association (RUSA) 

• Reluctant Leadership: Using your hesitancy and authenticity for self-acceptance and confident in building leadership skill – Sept. 27
• Project Management in Libraries – Sept. 18 – Oct. 16

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) 

• Developing Signature Pedagogies in Information Literacy – September 25-October 20, 2023

OCLC Webinars

• Bridgebuilding: Fostering Community Engagement and Dialogue Sept. 14
• Evidence-based decision making: Using data to right-size your print collection – Sept. 19
• Putting the pieces together with WMS and EZproxy: Analyzing library data to support student success – Sept. 21
• Climate Action Planning (Part 2): Disaster Preparedness and Community Resilience – Sept. 26
• Leveraging Choreo Insights: Aligning your library collections with emerging curriculum priorities and trends – Sept. 28

Core webinars

• New Perspectives on the Preservation of Children’s Books – Sept. 12
• Opportunity in the Face of Crisis– Sept. 13

Infopeople

• All Upcoming Training
• Graphic Design for Libraries: Designing materials for your library, from image editing to social media Sept. 5 – October 2, 2023

Choice

• What Libraries Need to Know Now About the Research Data Lifecycle – Sept. 7
• Empowering Students with Primary Sources – Sept 14
• CLEARer Dialogues with AI: Unpacking Prompt Engineering for Librarians – Sept. 19
• How Artificial Intelligence Drives Scientific Research – Sept. 28

NNLM Training

• OnTheMap for Emergency Management and My Community Explorer Data Tools – Sept. 12
• Prime Time Nourish: Discussing Food and the Human Experience through the Lens of Children’s Books = Sept. 13
• Building Successful Collaborations with Communities – Sept. 15
• Wellness in the Library Workplace – Sept. 18 – 29
• Why Comics Work for Risk Communication – Sept. 20
• 5 Steps to an Accessible Document – Sept. 21
• Building Resilience in Harm Reduction – Sept. 26
• Graphic Medicine Virtual Book Club: Emergency Preparedness and Recovery – Sept. 27
• Cataloging with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) – Sept. 29

Library Juice Academy (Courses begin the first Monday of each month (with a few exceptions)).

• All Courses
• By Course Topic

ILA/ACRL Town Hall Meetings have been scheduled for the fall 2023 semester via Zoom. You are invited to attend the meetings for discussions on different topics.

• Town Hall Meeting, Thursday, September 7, 2023 from 10:00 to 10:50 a.m., Topic: Informal Conversations
• Town Hall Meeting, Wednesday, October 4, 2023 from 1:00 to 1:50 p.m., Topic: ILA Fall Conference
• Town Hall Meeting, Thursday, November 2, 2023 from 10:00 to 10:50 a.m., Topic: TBD
• Town Hall Meeting, Wednesday, December 6, 2023 from 1:00 to 1:50 p.m., Topic: TBD

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Watch your inbox for Zoom links.

Ellen Neuhaus

on behalf of the ILA/ACRL Electronic Communication Committee [Jenny Parker (chair), Claire Bowling, Ellen Neuhaus, and Sarah Young]

 

Hello ILA/ACRL members,
Beginning 8/24/23 there will be a new procedure for sending out an email to the ILA/ACRL listserv. Please see the information below, which is also posted on the website https://www.iowaacrl.org/membership/

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ILA/ACRL members are automatically added to the listserv. To post to the list, send an email message to iowaacrl@ila.simplelists.com. To successfully send, you must be a current ILA/ACRL member, and be sending from the email address that you provided when you renewed your ILA/ACRL membership (or joined). If you have any questions about the listserv, please contact admin@iowalibraryassociation.org.

Happy Fall Semester!

The Awards Committee of ILA/ACRL invites applications for the Fall Conference Scholarship. You can see the application requirements and submission form here. Submissions are due September 22, 2023, and the winner will be notified by September 30, 2023.

You can read more about the 2023 ILA Annual Conference here.

We hope to see you in Dubuque in October.

On behalf of the Awards Committee
(Amandajean Nolte, Damien Ihrig, Anna Schmall, Cara Stone)