The theme of this year's 2-day OER Summit is "Engage and Empower." Join librarians, educators, instructional designers, students, and OER professionals from across Florida and the U.S. as we explore existing trends, look towards innovative directions, and discover how OER positively impacts students, faculty, and institutions.
This event is held on May 21, 7:30-4:00 p.m. and May 22: 8:00-4:00 p.m.
Hosted by FLVC.
Registration to attend the 13th Annual CARLI Instruction Showcase is now open!
To register: Use the link above.
We hope you've saved the date! Registration to attend the 13th Annual CARLI Instruction Showcase is now open. This free virtual event is hosted by the CARLI Instruction Committee and will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, May 21, from 9:00 am to 2:30 p.m CDT. Please share with anyone at your institution who may be interested: we welcome all library staff and LIS students to this event in the hopes of expanding our community of practice.
This year’s program continues the committee’s year-long theme of “Instructional Possibilities,” which invites librarians to reflect on their praxis and explore ways to refresh their teaching. The day begins with the keynote presentation, “Framing Our Values for the Future of Information Literacy.” Merinda Kaye Hensley is an associate professor and the research programs liaison and instruction librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She leads a variety of undergraduate research efforts including publishing several undergraduate research journals, she manages the Savvy Researcher workshop series, and she designs and teaches library-related workshops supporting research skills. She served on the ACRL task force that wrote the Framework for Information Literacy, she was Chair of the Instruction Section in 2017, and she is currently the ACRL representative to the IFLA Information Literacy Standing Committee. Her research focuses on the intersections of information literacy and scholarly communication.
Presentations by librarians from a variety of CARLI institutions will explore diverse themes clustered around Navigating Instructional Currents: Culture, Teaching, and Collaboration and Establishing New Waters: Emerging Technology and Developments. We’re also delighted to host two panels of graduate students addressing these themes, so we can hear from emerging voices.
The event will end with a networking opportunity. We are encouraging our grad student participants to stay and build community with current instruction librarians: if you can set aside the time to join us and share your experiences with current and future colleagues, that would be wonderful.
The deadline for registration is Tuesday, June 18 by 8:00 a.m.
Please join us!
If you have any questions about this program, please contact the CARLI Office at support@carli.illinois.edu
Brief Schedule
If you can set aside this time to join us and share your experiences with current and future colleagues, that would be wonderful.
Please send any questions to support@carli.illinois.edu
The CARLI Discovery Primo VE Committee meets monthly via Zoom.
The Office Hour for this week is canceled. We will be back next week. If you have some questions you need answered before then, please email support@carli.illinois.edu.
Please join CARLI Staff to learn about the latest opportunity to join I-Share! Registration for this webinar is required and the event will be recorded. Please invite your staff whom you believe would benefit from this information.
To register click the "Register" Tab above.
The Zoom link for the event will be provided one day before the event.
If you have any questions, please send them to CARLI Support.
Since 2001, Cataloging Maintenance Center (CMC) Staff at Illinois Heartland Library Service (IHLS) staff have been cataloging local authors, local history, local genealogy, special collections, and government documents for any library in good standing in Illinois. Their special collections cataloging services include world language materials, CDs, kits, 3D objects, realia, newspapers, or any items that your library considers special collection material.
Recently, many of you have expressed the need for specialty cataloging services for your collection(s) and have reached out to CARLI to help find solutions. CARLI is now working with the CMC to link their services to your library’s cataloging needs.
Please join staff from the CMC for a presentation to CARLI Member Libraries about this service.
If you have specific collections that need to be cataloged or you have questions please share them on the registration form.
Connection information will be shared with registrants on May 21.
Sanford Berman and his colleagues at Hennepin County Library (HCL) created a unique subject authority file for the HCL collection (1973 to 1999) and demonstrated that a catalog is far more than a list of holdings or a list of terms. David Lesniaski will give a short overview of the process used to recreate this catalog, but will focus on examples demonstrating the utility of a catalog that links subject headings to each other and to relevant bibliographic records in a coherent and user-friendly manner. He argues that a catalog, at its best, shows relationships between terms and leads users from what they know to an expanded conceptual map of vocabulary, concepts, and bibliographic items relevant to their inquiry. The HCL catalog and subject authority file can still serve as a model for subject authority practice today, because of the sustained intellectual effort of Sanford and his colleagues over several decades. A catalog of alternative terms that show conceptual relationships could be more useful to practicing catalogers than the plethora of vocabulary lists currently circulating.
This event is part of the Engaging with Critical Cataloging Past and Present webinar series which introduces Library of Congress Subject Headings from the perspective of catalogers engaged in subject authority work. Learn about some of the key historical figures and projects in Minnesota radical cataloging. Hear from contemporary catalogers inspired by this radical history to continue working towards critical, equitable, and respectful cataloging standards.
Presenter:
David Lesniaski is now Associate Professor Emeritus, having recently retired from 20 years of teaching in the St. Kate’s MLIS program. Prior to that he was on the faculty of St. Olaf College, serving in several roles from music cataloger to co-college librarian, and, prior to that, was a cataloger at the University of Minnesota, cataloging Polish and Ukrainian materials for the Immigration History Research Center. He was awarded a Fulbright to serve as a consultant for the creation of a graduate-level music library in Athens, Greece. He has a doctorate in music composition and theory from the University of Arizona, and continues to compose and perform.
Register to attend this session or register to attend all sessions of interest in this webinar series.
Sponsored by Minitex
Gather with CARLI staff and your technical services colleagues to discuss Alma technical services topics, from acquisitions and cataloging workflows for physical resources to electronic resources management. Each session will include how-to presentations, discussion of consortial practices, and opportunities for questions and answers from CARLI and colleagues alike.
Register in advance for access to the session.
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