Events

Events

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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Tue, Jul 29, 2025 / 10:00am to 3:00pm

Chancellor Ballroom
I-Hotel and Conference Center
1900 South First Street
Champaign, Illinois

The purpose of this two-day conference is to raise awareness of the ongoing work in Illinois around creating and adapting OER, specifically to showcase the Open Educational Resources (OER), textbooks and ancillary materials, created by CARLI members and to highlight consortial support for OER from across the country, including the U.S. Department of Education Open Textbook Pilot consortial grant recipients.

With this conference, CARLI wants to celebrate along with the Illinois SCOERs recipients and learn how it can continue to support its members in their open education efforts!

The conference will take place at the I Hotel and Illinois Conference Center in Champaign. 

Agenda to come.

CARLI has set up room blocks at both the Holiday Inn and the I Hotel. Rooms are available on a first come, first served basis until all the rooms in the blocks have been taken. The blocks expire on June 28.

  • Holiday Inn: To reserve a room from the block set up at the Holiday Inn, use this link: Soaring with OER.
  • I Hotel: Use this booking link: ILSCOERS. At that link you will enter this block information to access the special rate: 
    • Group/Block Code: ILSCOERS
    • Guest Password: Fe6&K

The Illinois SCOERs Conference is partially supported by funding from the Illinois SCOERs grant, Open Textbooks Pilot grant, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) in the U.S. Department of Education.

Illinois SCOERs was developed under a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. Contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

Thu, Jul 31, 2025 / 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Chronicle, Levine Querido & W. W. Norton, publishers of award-winning fiction and nonfiction, share their noteworthy books for Summer and Fall 2025 during this webinar hosted by LibraryLinkNJ.

All attendees will be eligible for a chance to win upcoming books from all three publishers as well as literary prizes from our sponsors.

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Thu, Jul 31, 2025 / 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Join CARLI Staff to discuss the August 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

August Alma Release Notes (will be linked when available)

August 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)

Sun, Aug 3, 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.

Primo VE semi-annual indexing is ready.

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

Sun, Aug 10, 2025 / 2:00am to 3:00am

If needed, Ex Libris will perform a release update on our I-Share Alma and Primo VE environments to make adjustments to the latest release that was applied the week before.

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

The Premium Sandbox refresh occurs with the Release Update.

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

Mon, Sep 1, 2025 / 12:00am to 11:45pm
Sun, Sep 7, 2025 / 2:00am to 3:00am

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

Sun, Oct 5, 2025 / 2:00am to 3:00am

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

Tue, Oct 21, 2025 / 9:00am to 10:00am

Quad Room
I Hotel and Conference Center
1900 South First Street, Champaign

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