Events

Thu, Jul 17, 2025 / 1:00pm to 2:00pm

This book talk and “live” webinar offers a moderated discussion and audience Q&A with Katina Strauch, a distinguished librarian, visionary, and founder of the Charleston Conference, established in 1980. The conversation aims to explore the origins, evolution, and impact of this influential conference, as well as Katina’s personal journey, as detailed in her memoir, Doing the Charleston: A Personal History of the Charleston Conference. The discussion will begin by delving into the initial inspiration and early challenges of organizing the conference, tracing its growth from a small gathering to an international event, and highlighting the support it received from the Charleston community and the College of Charleston.

The webinar will then transition to key reflections and milestones, including how the conference cultivated open dialogue among diverse stakeholders—librarians, vendors, and publishers—and how it has adapted to changes in scholarly communication over the years. A personal segment will explore Katina’s experience writing her memoir, what she hopes readers will gain from it, and advice she would offer to aspiring conference organizers. The session concludes with an audience Q&A, inviting attendees to submit questions about the future of the Charleston Conference and evolving trends in scholarly publishing.

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Hosted by ASERL

Mon, Jul 21, 2025 / 11:00am to 12:00pm

The CARLI Discovery Primo VE Committee has established several Local Fields at the consortial level that each I-Share library can choose to configure in Primo VE for display, search, and facet. These fields are in addition to the default Primo VE configurations for Display, Search, and Facet. This webinar will explain what Local Fields are and demonstrate how to set them up in your library’s Alma Configuration for use in Primo VE.

Registration is required. Registration deadline: Friday, July 18.  Zoom connection information will be sent to registrants a day before the session.

The session will be recorded.

Agenda:

  • Overview of default Primo VE configurations for Display, Facets, and Search
  • What are Local Fields for Primo VE?
  • Which Local Fields have been set up for I-Share by CARLI?
  • How to configure consortial Local Fields for Full Record display, Brief Record display, Advanced Search, and Facets
  • Q&A
Tue, Jul 22, 2025 / 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Understanding and implementing cultural competence is an important leadership quality. This webinar will explore the meaning and history of cultural competence and how leaders can implement this skillset into their management, supervisory and leadership toolkit. This is the 3rd webinar in a 3 part series

Join Dr. Suzanne Morrison-Williams, EdD, MPA, BSc as she discusses:

  1. Defining cultural competence
  2. Explain the importance of cultural competence in organizations
  3. Define how cultural competence is used and displayed in leadership
  4. Explain how to develop cultural competence as part of leadership strategies
  5. Examine how to create and develop internal strategies to increase leadership skill and potential in teams

Presenter:
Dr. Suzanne Morrison Williams has worked in the field of higher education for over 25 years. Dr Morrison-Williams has worked in all facets of education from being a University Registrar, Faculty member, Department/Program Chair, Assistant Dean, Associate Dean, then a Regional Vice President of Academic Affairs. She has also worked as a National Trainer for a large school chain, a Campus Director as well as the Chief Administrative Officer of colleges. In April 2023, she took a deviation from the field of campus based Higher Ed to take on a Chief Academic Officer (CAO) role at a Florida based library consortium, Library and Information Resources Network.

In her role as the CAO at LIRN, Dr Morrison-Williams is focused on managing the LIRN Librarian Service and providing support to all of the LIRN subscribers through a variety of services including (a) librarian services (b) orientation (c) accreditation and licensure support and finally (d) ongoing training and professional development for faculty and librarians.

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Hosted by FLVC

Wed, Jul 23, 2025 / 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Join the CARLI Preservation Committee for a second showcase of impressive digitization projects at Illinois libraries. This webinar is part of the Summer Digitization Webinar Series: Dive into Digital in partnership with the Florida Virtual Campus. 

Project 1: “Picturing Lincoln: Digitizing a Physical Collection at the ALPLM” presented by Kelsey Wise and Matthew Deihl, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

The initiative to digitize the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum’s ‘Picturing Lincoln’ collection was a large undertaking but well worth it for the preservation and accessibility of the collection. The Picturing Lincoln online collection reduces the wear and tear of handling the physical materials while also removing the barrier of location-based, in-person only access to audiovisual materials related to Abraham Lincoln. A generous grant from the Illinois State Library made the work possible. Kelsey Wise and Matthew Deihl will cover the entire process of digitizing this archival collection; from applying for the grant that funded the work and procuring a vendor to scan the materials to creating and promoting the online collection.

Project 2: “Building a 3D Archival Collection: Experiential Student Learning with the Curtis Trout Collection” presented by Abigail Mann, Liz Bloodworth, and Dagan Turcotte-Cutkomp, Illinois Wesleyan University

Rooted in the goals of preserving and presenting university history by creating a digital archive of the Curtis Trout Collection, Abigail Mann and Liz Bloodworth will share Illinois Wesleyan University’s endeavor to address the challenges of 3D digitization and narrative storytelling in the digital humanities through an experiential learning opportunity for an undergraduate student.  Over his 30-year career as a scenic designer and theater professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, Curtis Trout created more than 100 designs for the School of Theatre Arts and amassed an impressive archival collection of his work that surpasses the amount of physical space available in the University Archives. The physical reality of that collection necessitates the development of workflows and strategies to digitally preserve a wide array of materials, many non-textual, in a way that prioritizes accessibility and engagement.

Speakers:

Kelsey Wise is an Audiovisual Librarian at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM). She took the lead on ALPLM’s Picturing Lincoln project when its progress had been stalled due to staff turnover and an unfortunate hard drive crash. With the assistance of her colleague and fellow Audiovisual Librarian, Matthew Deihl, the digitization for the project was complete. Digitizing materials from the audiovisual collection to fulfill patron photo duplication requests is also a part of her everyday work.

Kelsey earned her Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She lives in Springfield, Illinois with her husband, Tyler, and their pets: a snake named Cecil, a cat named Hekapoo, and a dog named Fennec.

Matthew Deihl has served as an Audiovisual Librarian with the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library for 1 ½ years. During this time, he has digitized countless images from ALPLM’s Audiovisual Collection for use by researchers from around the world. He understands that creating digital surrogates reduces the need to handle the physical items, thus preserving them into the future. That is why he was more than happy to work with his colleague and ALPLM’s other Audiovisual Librarian, Kelsey Wise, to see the Picturing Lincoln digitization project come to fruition. With 1,001 records already uploaded to Picturing Lincoln’s digital collection in the Illinois Digital Archives, he continues the behind-the-scenes work to upload the remainder of the collection soon. 

Matthew earned a Master of Arts degree in Library and Information Science from University of South Florida’s School of Information. He loves music, movies, and playing with his daughter.

Abigail Mann is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University. Prior to receiving her MSLS, she was a tenured English professor, and has taught a broad variety of courses in diverse formats. As a Digital Scholarship librarian, a significant research focus has been on creating digital scholarship partnerships between teaching faculty and librarians to support innovative research and pedagogy, particularly at less resourced institutions. She has also built a Digital Humanities program at IWU that has offered 10-12 students/ year the opportunity to develop and execute a DH project.  She also provides pedagogical support for digital projects across the curriculum, ranging from International Education to English to History.

Liz Bloodworth is the University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at the Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan University. She holds an MA in History from Illinois State University and an MLIS with an emphasis in Archival Studies from the University of Missouri - Columbia. Prior to her position at IWU, she worked in special collections and regional museums. Her research interests include primary source literacy instruction, building more representative collections, and the use of digital tools, including artificial intelligence, in archival description and outreach.

Dagan Turcotte-Cutkomp is entering graduate school at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign this fall to study Library and Information Science. They recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in History and Music from Illinois Wesleyan University, where they worked in the Tate Archives & Special Collections for four years.

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Learn about other sessions in the Summer Digitization Series: Dive into Digital.

 

Wed, Jul 23, 2025 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Do you have questions about the Illinois Support for the Creation of Open Educational Resources grant (SCOERs) or the OER funding from the Secretary of State/Illinois State Library? Do you need guidance creating your OER or ancillary materials?  

If so please feel free to join us with all your OER related questions. Registration is not required.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84245967645?pwd=VkVQeGRQQVIvdXA2dWg4Umx4UU5rQT09

Meeting ID: 842 4596 7645
Password: 271282

Thu, Jul 24, 2025 / 10:00am to 11:00am

Libraries can’t hold everything, but deciding what not to keep is every bit as complicated as developing the collection to begin with. In this webinar we will discuss four ventures into managing print collections, including notes from library-scale deselection and the logistics of large projects, to tackling smaller bites of the whole in focused collections and popular literature and media.

Presenters:
Laura Bright, East Carolina University
Donna Capelle Cook, Tulane University
Del Hamilton, Tulane University
Edward Lener, Virginia Tech
Christina Torbert, University of Mississippi

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Hosted by ASERL

Thu, Jul 24, 2025 / 1:00pm to 2:00pm

This session offers a hands-on, historically grounded approach to teaching with and about synthetic media, tracing the long history of image manipulation from spirit photography to deepfakes to build critical media literacy. Participants will examine archival photographs, test their verification skills, and fabricate their own fake historical images using prompts and open-access collections. Along the way, we’ll address the ethical stakes of misinformation, the limitations of conventional “spot the fake” strategies, and how well-meaning detection methods can sometimes reinforce ableist assumptions about the human body. This session shares both practical tools and approachable frameworks that librarians can use to engage others in meaningful analysis of AI-generated images.

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Hosted by ASERL
 

Thu, Jul 24, 2025 / 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Join Danielle Borasky, Vice President of NoveList, for an exclusive walkthrough of the newly redesigned NoveList interface! This webinar will showcase the updated design, improved navigation, and smarter search features that make readers’ advisory faster, easier, and more intuitive for both staff and patrons. Danielle will highlight key changes and demonstrate how the new layout supports common workflows - like finding read-alikes, curating booklists, and discovering appeal factors.

You’ll also get a sneak peek at upcoming enhancements and learn where to find support materials to help your team transition smoothly. Whether you're a longtime NoveList user or new to the platform, this session will equip you with the insights and confidence you need to get the most out of NoveList’s powerful readers’ advisory tools.

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Hosted by NC LIVE

Thu, Jul 24, 2025 / 1:00pm to 2:00pm

In April 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a major update to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), establishing clear standards to ensure that websites and other digital services provided by state and local governments are accessible to individuals with disabilities. For public libraries, state libraries, and academic libraries at public institutions that serve populations of 50,000 or more, the deadline to comply is April 24, 2026.

Achieving accessibility compliance can be complex, even without the pressure of a regulatory deadline. Factoring in the added legal concerns, library staff responsible for digital content may be asking:

  • What is WCAG 2.1 AA?
  • Which types of library content are covered—and which are exempt?
  • Are there tools to help non-experts with accessibility remediation?
  • What steps can my library take to get started?
  • How can we proactively create accessible web pages, PDFs, and other digital materials?
  • Who determines whether my library is in compliance?
  • This session will provide a practical overview of the updated rule, explore strategies for evaluating and improving digital accessibility, and offer space for discussion about the unique challenges libraries may face in implementing the new requirements.

Please note: This webinar is intended for informational purposes only and should not be considered legal advice.

Presented by Minitex staff: Greg Argo (He/Him), Open Education and Affordable Content Librarian; Anne Hatinen (She/Her) Electronic Resources Librarian; Scott Hreha (He/Him) Web Product Manager & Developer.

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Thu, Jul 24, 2025 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Join J.B. Hwang, Lucas Schaefer, and Penny Zang as they share their enthusiasm for libraries and chat about their debut novels during this webinar hosted by LibraryLinkNJ.

All attendees will be eligible for a chance to win book-related prizes from our sponsors.

J.B. Hwang received her MFA in Fiction from the University of Florida, and her short fiction and translation can be found in The Temz Review, The Denver Quarterly, Oxford Magazine, and december magazine. She lived in San Francisco for eight years and worked as a mail carrier during the pandemic. She currently lives in Philadelphia.

Lucas Schaefer's debut novel, The Slip, will be published in June 2025 from Simon & Schuster. His work has appeared in One Story, The Baffler, Slate and other publications. He lives with his family in Austin, Texas.

Penny Zang's debut novel, Doll Parts, is forthcoming from Sourcebooks in August 2025. She is from Maryland and graduated with an MFA in Fiction from West Virginia University. Her work has appeared in the Potomac Review, Louisville Review, and South 85, among others. She lives in South Carolina, where she teaches English.

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