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Register Now for the CARLI Annual Meeting

The 2015 CARLI Annual Meeting will be held Friday, November 13 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign. Staff at any CARLI member library are invited to attend. The meeting, celebrating 35 years of I-Share and 10 years of CARLI, will feature a look back at the original vision for online academic library cooperation in Illinois and a discussion of this cooperation in the present context, an overview of CARLI in 2015, and a discussion about the future of academic libraries, and of CARLI over the next 5-10 years. To view the full agenda and to register, visit the event page.

October 14, 2015
By: Michelle Haake

Melanie Schoenborn, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Why does a library do a video inventory? Should you do a sampling or a complete inventory? Reinvent the process or use tried and true methods? What, where, and how are the policies and procedures for doing an inventory? The answers to these questions reveal that an inventory allows the collection to be analyzed and the quality of this part of your library to be validated.

October 13, 2015
By: Elizabeth Clarage

Miriam Centeno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Have you ever had the experience of having a retired professor walk in to your library with an 8 mm film reel and not having the equipment to play it? Or has a donation come in for your archives with VHS tapes that are all covered in mold? How often do you worry about the state of your media collection? Have you ever tried to plan for its preservation?

October 13, 2015
By: Elizabeth Clarage

Boopsie, an industry leader in making mobile apps for libraries, is offering a special discount pricing opportunity for CARLI libraries. Boopsie supports over 4,000 library locations worldwide, including the libraries of Vanderbilt University, Brown University, USC Health Sciences, and the University of Colorado School of Law.

October 9, 2015
By: Margaret Chambers

From EBR Million Man March (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) in CARLI Digital Collections.

Note the digital date stamp on this photograph documenting the Million Man March: '10 16 95'. Exactly one week from today marks the twentieth anniversary of the historic event at which African-American men from across the U.S. demonstrated unity by congregating on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

October 9, 2015
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Susan Singleton, CARLI Executive Director and Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois, will retire in July 2016. Singleton, who has held the position since January 2006, was the first Executive Director hired after CARLI was created from the merger of the Illinois Cooperative Collection Management Program (ICCMP), the Illinois Digital Academic Library (IDAL), and the Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO). 

October 8, 2015
By: Margaret Chambers

From Daily Life Along the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad (Newberry Library) in CARLI Digital Collections.

Train travel leads to time travel with a historic photo of a young boy killing time in a Lincoln, Nebraska, railway depot.
 
 

September 28, 2015
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Dennis Krieb, Director of Institutional Research and Library Services at Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, Illinois, and a member of the CARLI Board of Directors since 2011, is the recipient of the Illinois Library Association Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year Award for 2015.

September 21, 2015
By: Michelle Haake

Save the Date: CARLI Annual Meeting

The 2015 CARLI Annual Meeting will be held on Friday, November 13 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign. Staff at any CARLI member library is invited to attend. Look for registration information later this month.

September 14, 2015
By: Michelle Haake

Illinois State Library has been selected as a service hub for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The Illinois State Library will share Service Hub responsibilities with the Chicago Public Library, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. 

September 11, 2015
By: Michelle Haake

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