The CARLI Technical Services Committee meets monthly via Zoom. Contact committee co-chairs or CARLI Office Staff with questions.
Events
Sun, Jul 5, 2026
/ 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.
Alma Repository semiannual 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
Wed, Jul 8, 2026
/ 1:00pm to 2:30pm
The University of Illinois’ Sousa Archives and Center for American Music is both a special collections music archives and museum whose historical collections document diverse music cultures, legacies, and technologies in North, Central, and South America as well as portions of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Our collections are meant to be actively engaged by people of all ages and music backgrounds and abilities. Our philosophy is grounded in providing access to our music collections using all available resources and technologies to enable our visitors to engage with our collections physically, intellectually, and actively.
This philosophy for archives and museums might seem obvious to librarians. However, many archives and museums’ music collections frequently remain silent, dead, and forgotten. The music and instrument’s voices no longer speak for themselves because they are either carefully exhibited behind glass or preserved in specialized storage cabinets as music paperweights until discovered and explored by specialized music scholars.
Today’s technologies hold much promise for archives and museum’s music collections because these digital resources and tools now make it possible for scholarly researchers and the public to actively engage with these unique historical collections both on-site and online from anywhere in the world. In this presentation, Scott Schwartz will highlight how the Sousa Archives approaches on-site and online public engagement to its music collections using some of today’s digital technologies.
This is the fourth webinar of the summer Digital Possibilities webinar series, a CARLI and FLVC joint collaboration.
Presenter:
Scott W. Schwartz is the Director and Archivist for Music and Fine Arts for the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to his arrival to Illinois in September 2003, he worked as an archivist for the Duke Ellington and American music collections at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. In 2022 he was recognized by the American Bandmasters Association with the Edwin Franko Goldman Citation award for his contributions to the preservation of America’s wind band traditions. Previous recipients of the Goldman citation include composer Meredith Willson of The Music Man (1964), leading Sousa scholar Paul Bierley (1974) and John Philip Sousa III (1989), President William Jefferson Clinton (1994), University of Illinois alumnus John Haynie (2007), and composer John Williams (2020).
Hosted by CARLI
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Wed, Jul 15, 2026
/ 10:00am to 11:00am
The Chicago Collections Consortium (CCC) is a membership organization of 60+ institutions composed of public and private universities, public libraries, special libraries, museums, and other repositories with collections that chronicle the rich history of Chicago. Its portal, EXPLORE Chicago Collections, is its flagship initiative, providing "one stop shopping": a site for researchers, teachers, students, and the public to find digital images and locate archival holdings on Chicago topics without searching individual institutions' online catalogs one at a time. Founded in 2012 with twelve governing members, CCC has since grown to 60+ members. Ellen Keith, Executive Director, will discuss the portal, the organization's other outreach activities, and the organization's next steps in its second decade.
Revs Institute will share how they are embracing emerging technologies and digital dissemination to expand access, enhance discovery, and preserve specialized knowledge. Arthur Carlson, Director of Archives and Research Center - Revs Institute, will highlight current projects at Revs Institute including a machine learning metadata generation project, the development of a specialized large language learning model to support research, and efforts to document and share specialized at-risk knowledge and share that with the world.
This is the fifth webinar of the summer Digital Possibilities webinar series, a CARLI and FLVC joint collaboration.
Presenters:
Ellen Keith is the Executive Director of Chicago Collections Consortium. Keith joined Chicago Collections in January 2026 after over 13 years at the Chicago History Museum as the Director of Research and Access and Chief Librarian. While at the Museum, she was engaged in CCC through serving on the Cooperative Reference Committee, the Strategic Planning Task Force, as Board Secretary and finally as Board Chair from 2020-2025. Previous library positions include Saint Xavier University, Columbia College Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Johns Hopkins University. She received her undergraduate degree from Vassar College and her Master of Library and Information Science from Dominican University and her Master of Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins University.
Arthur Carlson, Director of Archives and Research Center – Revs Institute, is archivist and historian who oversees the Revs Institute Archives and Research Center (ARC) in Fort Myers, Florida. His work focuses on applying emerging technologies and best practices to enhance access and discovery of the rich archival resources held at Revs to create the most useful automotive research resource available in the world. He has published and presented on a wide range of archival topics including digital preservation, sports history, and documenting popular culture.
Hosted by CARLI
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Wed, Jul 15, 2026
/ 10:00am to 11:00am
The Public Services Committee meets monthly.
This virtual meeting is held via Zoom / Conference Call.
Contact CARLI Support for attendance details.
Wed, Jul 22, 2026
/ 11:00pm to 11:45pm
These monthly, informal, agenda-free meetings provide a platform for you to talk with other directors about topics on your radar and/or updates from your library. CARLI usually provides updates as well. CARLI rotates the meetings (day of the week, time of day) to accommodate busy calendars. We do our best to avoid conferences, holidays, and other conflicts. Please let me know about times/days that never work for you. If you cannot attend, you may send a representative. We look forward to seeing you all for conversation and updates!
Check your CARLI Governing Directors email for connection information.
The meetings are recorded. The link to the recording will be sent via the CARLI Governing Directors email list as soon as it is available and can be viewed for 30 days after the meeting.
Wed, Jul 29, 2026
/ 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Liz Bloodworth, Illinois Wesleyan University, will discuss the use of AI tools for transcription of both oral history interviews and handwritten text documents. With increasing demands on staff time, especially in small shop archives, AI offers an opportunity to enhance the discoverability of archival materials through efficient transcription. Liz will share tips for using AI tools ethically and responsibly, stressing the importance of human review throughout the process.
Then, Chris Levesque will discuss digital engagement in the University of West Florida’s Citizen Archivist Projects. During Library Week 2025 and 2026, the UWF University Libraries hosted participatory transcription events of letters and ship logs from their Digital Archives. This effort built on the well-known National Archives' Citizen Archivist model to engage students, faculty, and the larger UWF community. This talk will discuss selection of materials, implementation of the project, and lessons learned.
This webinar is the sixth of the summer Digital Possibilities webinar series, a CARLI and FLVC joint collaboration.
Presenters:
Liz Bloodworth has served as the University Archivist & Special Collections Librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University since 2023. She holds an MLIS with an archives specialization from the University of Missouri - Columbia and an MA in History from Illinois State University. Her research focuses on enhancing the archival research and learning experience for undergraduates.
Chris Levesque holds a joint appointment as a Digital Collections Archivist at the UWF University Libraries and as Archivist at the UWF Historic Trust. As an archivist, Chris is most interested in digital preservation of at-risk archival materials. His work as a historian focuses on the soldier’s experience of war and connections between war and religion.
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Sun, Aug 2, 2026
/ 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