Events

Events

Thu, Jun 5, 2025 / 8:00am to 5:00pm

CARLI, Illinois State University, and Illinois Wesleyan University, are pleased to sponsor the ACRL Assessment in Action Roadshow.

In this full-day interactive workshop on strategic and sustainable assessment, participants will identify institutional priorities and campus partners, design an assessment project grounded in action research, and prepare a plan for communicating the project results. Librarians, library staff, and library administrators will learn how to design and implement robust assessments, collaborate with key institutional partners, and communicate assessment activities in engaging and effective ways. Presented by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).
 
Designed for:

  • All librarians, library staff, or library administrators who seek to design and implement a student success assessment project
  • Library staff or administrators who want to identify and improve relationships with campus partners and stakeholders
  • Library staff of administrators who want to align library assessments with institutional priorities
  • Library staff or administrators with little or no previous experience with the assessment cycle

Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Location and Parking: 

This event will be held at the Illinois State University Alumni Center, Room 1161101 N. Main Street, Normal IL 61761

Directions

Free parking is available to attendees in the lot adjacent to the Illinois State University Alumni Center. There are 6 ADA compliant parking spaces located outside the Alumni Center.

Parking map

Registration:

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Attendance is limited to 100. The non-refundable registration cost is $50, payable by credit card.

Fri, Jun 6, 2025 / 11:00am to 3:30pm

This workshop will offer hands on experience with archival arrangement and description. Participants will have the opportunity to work through a hands-on processing activity using a real archival collection, tour the National Louis University Archives, and network with others doing archival work.

Workshop Outline:

The program will begin promptly at 11:00 a.m.

  • Introduction
  • General Processing Information
  • Supplies
  • Discuss Readings
    • Readings will be shared prior to the workshop.
  • Hands-on Activity
  • Lunch - Provided
  • Tour of National Louis University Archives
  • Wrap-up and Discussion

Date and Location:
June 6, 2025
11:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
National Louis University
122 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Il 60603

Directions:
122 South Michigan Avenue is across Michigan Avenue from the Art Institute of Chicago.

Parking:

  • Grant Park North Parking Garage is nearby. Weekday rate is $47 for 3-6 hours. You can prepay prior to the day of the event for approximately $16.00.
  • ParkWhiz can help identify other parking options.

Registration: To Register for this workshop, please click the "Register" Tab above. As this program has limited space, registration is limited to two people from the same CARLI institution. All that register will initially be placed on a waitlist. You will receive a confirmation email to let you know if you are registered for the program. If space remains after May 19, additional people from an institution may be able to attend.

Registration Deadline: May 30, 2025 (or until full).

A box lunch will be provide. When you register, you may select either a vegetarian or non-vegetarian option. Our caterer is working in a commercial kitchen where a wide variety of other foods are being prepared, often using some frozen and/or processed products that may have unknown trace ingredients. As a result, we are unable to guarantee that the food is kosher, vegan, gluten free, and/or peanut free. Attendees with strict, specific dietary restrictions should plan to provide their own food.

Speakers:

Pam Hackbart-DeanPam Hackbart-Dean is Professor and Head of Special Collections & University Archives and interim Associate Librarian at the University of Illinois Chicago. She has been in this position since 2019. Additionally, she has conducted numerous workshops on arrangement and description, published articles, and co-authored How to Manage Processing in Archives and Special Collections (SAA, 2012).

Marcella_Lees_bio_pic.jpgMarcella Lees (she/her) serves as the Digital Archivist for Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. In this role she leads digitization initiatives and works to collect, preserve, and provide access to born-digital and digitized records documenting the university and Southern Illinois history. Marcella also serves as an instructor in the history department teaching archival processing and digital archives and is currently acting as the interim University Archivist providing reference, instruction, and collection development. She holds an MSLIS from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign specializing in Archives and Preservation.

Meghan_Ryan.jpgMeghan Ryan has worked with National Louis University’s Archives and Special Collections since 2014. Initially hired to re-establish the Archives program in the absence of an archivist, in 2018 she became full-time faculty and the Special Collections and Cataloging Librarian. Meghan manages the Archives and Special Collections, as well as catalogs library resources. She received her MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, and previously worked on CARLI’s Preservation Committee from 2015-2021, and is currently serving on the Archives Task Force.

Sponsored by the CARLI Archives Task Force.

Sun, Jun 8, 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, Jun 10, 2025 / 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Leadership skills can be learned. The purpose of this webinar is to highlight leadership traits and use scenarios to allow participants to see how various leadership skills can be learned and implemented over time.

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

  1. Exploring the different the types of leadership and leadership models
  2. Developing individual Leadership traits for success
  3. Avoiding Toxic Leadership Traits
  4. Understanding the role of neutrality in Leadership
  5. Exploring various Leadership development tools and resources

This is the second webinar in a three-part leadership webinar series. It is designed to enhance both emerging and ongoing leadership training for librarians across all areas of librarianship, including public, private, and academic sectors. 

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, Jun 11, 2025 / 10:00am to 11:00am

The Commercial Products Committee meets monthly via Zoom.

Wed, Jun 11, 2025 / 10:00am to 11:00am

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming every stage of the research cycle, from discovery to dissemination. This series will explore the evolving role of AI in shaping research workflows, addressing both the opportunities and challenges it presents.

Join experts across various fields as they delve into how AI is enhancing research processes, improving efficiency, and raising new questions about ethics, transparency, and the future of knowledge creation. Join us as we build on our AI & the Research Cycle series with Phase II.

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Hosted by Minitex

Wed, Jun 11, 2025 / 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Mike Appleby, Director of Software Engineering, and Jonathan Manton, Director of Digital Special Collections and Access at Yale Library, will explore the thoughtful integration of artificial intelligence into Yale Library’s digital collections ecosystem. 

Mike will introduce a prototype application, Digital Collections AI, which leverages large language models (LLMs) to analyze OCR-transcribed texts from Yale’s digitized collections. This tool can rapidly summarize content, extract entities such as people, places, and subjects, and even perform stylistic analyses, thereby enhancing researchers' ability to explore and interpret vast amounts of digitized material.

Jonathan will provide strategic context, outlining how this tool aligns with Yale Library’s broader goals for responsible innovation and sustainable stewardship of the library’s digital collections. Together, they will reflect on the opportunities and challenges of embedding AI in cultural heritage workflows, offering insights for institutions navigating similar paths.

This webinar begins the Summer Digitization Series, a joint effort of FLVC and CARLI to share digitization programming on Wednesdays in June and July.

Speakers: 

Michael Appleby is the Director of Software Engineering in Library Information Technology at Yale University Library.  His previous roles at Yale include Head of Information Technology at the Yale Center for British Art, and Associate Director in Yale's Information Technology Services unit.  He is also an editor of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) technical specifications.  Michael has an M.Phil. in Classics from Yale.

Jonathan Manton is Director of Digital Special Collections and Access, for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, at Yale University. In this role he leads a unit that provides leadership, services and strategic direction that facilitates access to digitized and born digital special collections content across Yale Library. Jonathan’s previous roles include Associate Director for Special Collections at the Gilmore Music Library at Yale University. In this role he oversaw Music Special Collections (including Historical Sound Recordings and Oral History of American Music) at Yale, including arrangement and description, preservation, digitization, access, research services, and exhibits. Before joining Yale, Jonathan was Sound Archives Librarian at Stanford University's Archive of Recorded Sound. Jonathan serves on the Executive Committee of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) consortium. Jonathan received his MSc in Information and Library Management from the School of Computing, Engineering, and Information Sciences at the University of Northumbria, UK and MMus in Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Arts from the University of East Anglia, UK.

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Hosted by FLVC

Wed, Jun 11, 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, Jun 12, 2025 / 10:00am to 11:30am

Resource Sharing Committee, 10:00am-11:30am

Thu, Jun 12, 2025 / 12:30pm to 2:30pm

Instruction Committee Monthly Meeting, 12:30- 2:00 pm

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