Events

Events

Wed, Oct 29, 2025 / 9:00am to 3:30pm

Join us for the upcoming Digital Lending Summit, hosted at Boston College on Wednesday, October 29, 2025. This Summit will provide a forum to discuss future directions and strategies to expand digital lending practices in libraries. We invite you to join us for an exciting day to learn about the landscape of digital lending practices in libraries, collaborate across organizational silos, and chart the foundations of a broader community of practice to bring actionable and aspirational change to the digital lending ecosystem. Registration is free and open to all library workers. Space for in-person attendance is limited, so we encourage you to register early and secure travel arrangements soon. On-site registration includes parking and meals during the event. A remote viewing option will be available to those unable to attend in person.

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Hosted by BLC

Wed, Oct 29, 2025 / 2:00pm

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, Oct 30, 2025 / 10:00am to 11:30am

The CARLI Technical Services Committee meets monthly via Zoom. Contact committee co-chairs or CARLI Office Staff with questions.

Thu, Oct 30, 2025 / 1:00pm to 2:00pm

In this session, the presenters will share the results of their recent survey about library professionals’ social media use for professional development and networking. Hear what platforms respondents used to use, which ones are most common now, and why they switched.

Learn what activities respondents are doing on social media and what they aspire to do in the future. We will invite you to share your own experience with social media for professional development and/or networking in the library sphere. The session will close with an open discussion covering the survey results and your experiences.

Presenters: 

Margot Hanson (she/her), Science Instruction Librarian, UC Berkeley, loves to read the comments section, and appreciates the various ways library workers interact online to lift each other up and create community. She has worked in reference, instruction, and outreach roles at several academic libraries.

Lee Adams (she/her), E-Resources Librarian, California State University, East Bay, finds connecting with colleagues to be valuable and engaging for her own professional development and is interested in understanding new ways colleagues can connect and learn from each other. Her library responsibilities include e-resources management, collection development, reference, and instruction.

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Hosted by FLVC
 

Sun, Nov 2, 2025 / 2:00am to 3:00am

Ex Libris will perform maintenance on our I-Share Alma and Primo VE environments to apply the latest Quarterly Feature release.

This upgrade will occur between 2:00am-3:00am Central.  Access to your environment may be unavailable during the time of installation.

Release and Maintenance Schedule
Alma Release Notes
Primo VE Release Notes
Ex Libris System Status Page - CARLI I-Share Environments are on ALMA NA06 and PRIMO VE NA06

Mon, Nov 3, 2025 / 1:00pm to 2:00pm

The Reentry Resource Program at the Education Justice Project (EJP) publishes practical guides for people returning home from prison and for those being deported from the US. These roughly 200-page guides, published in English and Spanish, offer empowering information and resources for individuals going through often-traumatic transitions. Lee Ragsdale will discuss the resources, how to access them, anticipated updates, and more. In addition, Lee will talk about EJP’s Reentry Guide Project through which the organization provides a year of technical and financial assistance to organizations to create their own reentry guides. Those already published though this project can be found here. 

Presenter:

Lee Ragsdale

Lee Ragsdale directs the Education Justice Project's Reentry Resource Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The Reentry Resource Program connects people with the resources they need for a healthy transition to life after prison or deportation. EJP has produced the Illinois reentry guide, Mapping Your Future: A Guide to Successful Reentry since 2015. As a college student at Loyola University Chicago, Lee participated in the Campaign to End the Death Penalty in Illinois and later tutored in San Quentin Prison in California. As the partner of a formerly incarcerated and deported person, she has personal experience with the effects of incarceration and deportation on families. Lee has a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and MAs in Spanish and English Linguistics from the University of Illinois. She lives with her husband in Mexico where they run the nonprofit organization, Mexipets Animal Rescue.

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Hosted by CARLI

     

    Mon, Nov 3, 2025 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm

    Join CARLI Staff to discuss the November Release Update to Alma and Primo VE!

    Meeting URL: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/88181892012?pwd=D393A3rcvDBtHOhhBxrX75v2fMXDBh.1&from=addon
    Meeting ID: 881 8189 2012
    Password: 883771

    November Alma Release Notes (will be linked when available)

    November Primo VE Release Notes (will be linked when available)

    Slides (PPT) (will be shared at least one day prior to the event)

    Slides (PDF) (will be shared at least one day prior to the event)

    Tue, Nov 4, 2025 / 1:00pm to 2:30pm

    The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee meets monthly.

    This virtual meeting is held via Zoom / Conference Call.

    Contact  for attendance details.

    Tue, Nov 4, 2025 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm

    Short on staff, strapped for time, and stretched thin? For small and mid-size library workers, collaboration isn’t just helpful, it’s essential.

    This session will share strategies for building meaningful partnerships with faculty, student-services offices, and administrators to break barriers and strengthen campus connections. Participants will also explore practical approaches to managing burnout and compassion fatigue, practicing self-advocacy, and sustaining a clear sense of purpose in their work.

    Presenter: 

    Camille Abdeljawad, Director of Library Services & First-Year Experience Assistant Professor, Park University, where she teaches information literacy and research skills to a diverse student population, including distance and non-traditional students. She earned her master of library science degree at Emporia State University. Her research interests include source authority and misinformation as well as college library services. Camille is the editor of The Small to Mid-Size Academic Library Series from ACRL Press.

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    Hosted by FLVC
     

    Wed, Nov 5, 2025 / 10:00am to 11:00am

    Colleagues at Southern Illinois University Carbondale discuss how opportunities to develop reparative archival collections emerged and have been pursued in collaboration with underserved Black and LGBTQ+ communities in the southern Illinois region. The panel reflects on expected and unexpected benefits and challenges of coordinating initiatives and building collections with internal and external partners and stakeholders and offers thoughts on best practices based on their experiences.

    Presenters:

    Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm (she/her), Associate Dean, Library Affairs

    Dr. Pamela Smoot (she/her), Professor of History

    Juniper Oxford (she/her), Director of the Paulette Curkin Pride Resource Center

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    Hosted by CARLI

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