Events

Events

Mon, Jan 20, 2025 / 12:00am to 11:45pm
Wed, Jan 22, 2025 / 9:00am to 10:00am

Monthly Committee meeting: Contact support@carli.illinois.edu for attendance details.

The CARLI Public Services Committee meets on the fourth Wednesday of each month from 9:00-10:00am.

Wed, Jan 22, 2025 / 10:00am to 11:00am

This program will assist participants to:

  • identify sources of grant funding from private and public funders;
  • highlight the essential elements of grantsmanship;
  • complete a grant proposal application package according to a Notice of Funding Opportunity;
  • take action on the proposal based on the results of the funder’s decision;
  • understand the most common missteps in preparing an application package.

Themes:

  • Review of the grant submission process;
  • How to avoid common pitfalls;
  • Tips to help your application shine.

Objectives: To have a basic understanding of the grant application process and to be a more successful grant author.

Presenter: 

Anne Craig

Since July of 2016, Anne Craig has had the privilege of serving as the Senior Director at CARLI, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, a unit of the University of Illinois System. CARLI counts 125 academic and research libraries as its members. Anne has also been an instructor for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign iSchool since 2018, teaching “Grant Writing for Libraries” and “State Libraries and Library Consortia.”

Current grant projects: 

  • In August 2024, the University of Illinois System/CARLI was awarded a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian planning grant for $140,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. 
  • In January 2024, the Secretary of State/Illinois State Library awarded $300,000 to the University of Illinois System/CARLI for programmatic administration of their Open Educational Resources grant program. 
  • In September 2021, the University of Illinois System/CARLI was awarded a three-year $2 million grant from the US Department of Education’s Open Textbooks Pilot Program. 

Prior to July 2016, Anne was the Director of the Illinois State Library for 11 years under Secretary of State Jesse White, holding various roles at the ISL since 1989.

Register to attend. 

Sponsored by CARLI

Wed, Jan 22, 2025 / 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Recordings from the sessions will be posted; please do not register just for the recording if you will be unable to attend the session.

To Register: Use the "Register" tab at the top of this page.

Planned topics:

  • Overview of Alma Fulfillment
    • How to log into a fulfillment workstation and change locations
    • Review of Alma screen for fulfillment staff
  • Staff searching for item records
    • Review of item records
  • Staff searching for user records
    • Review of user records
    • Creating Internal user record
    • Editing Internal user record
    • Review of External user records
  • Fulfillment functions:
    • Checking an item out
    • Modifying due dates at time of charge
    • How to check in items
    • How to check an item in or out when the barcode is missing or illegible
    • How to set an item status to "missing"
    • Loan renewals

We plan for these sessions to be "hands on" with examples provided to attendees so they can follow along.
If the Alma Sandboxes are too slow for this in real-time (we will find out!), attendees will be asked to watch during the session, and will be provided with a recording of the session to do the examples on their own time (contacting CARLI staff with questions).

Fri, Jan 24, 2025 / 10:00am to 12:00pm

Recordings from the sessions will be posted; please do not register just for the recording if you will be unable to attend the session.

To Register: Use the "Register" tab at the top of this page.

Planned topics:

  • Overview of Alma Fulfillment
    • How to log into a fulfillment workstation and change locations
    • Review of Alma screen for fulfillment staff
  • Staff searching for item records
    • Review of item records
  • Staff searching for user records
    • Review of user records
    • Creating Internal user record
    • Editing Internal user record
    • Review of External user records
  • Fulfillment functions:
    • Checking an item out
    • Modifying due dates at time of charge
    • How to check in items
    • How to check an item in or out when the barcode is missing or illegible
    • How to set an item status to "missing"
    • Loan renewals

We plan for these sessions to be "hands on" with examples provided to attendees so they can follow along.
If the Alma Sandboxes are too slow for this in real-time (we will find out!), attendees will be asked to watch during the session, and will be provided with a recording of the session to do the examples on their own time (contacting CARLI staff with questions).

Wed, Jan 29, 2025 / 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Recordings from the sessions will be posted; please do not register just for the recording if you will be unable to attend the session.

To Register: Use the "Register" tab at the top of this page.

Planned topics:

  • How to manage:
    • fines and fees
    • lost processes
    • patron blocks
    • patron notes
    • fulfillment notes

We plan for these sessions to be "hands on" with examples provided to attendees so they can follow along.
If the Alma Sandboxes are too slow for this in real-time (we will find out!), attendees will be asked to watch during the session, and will be provided with a recording of the session to do the examples on their own time (contacting CARLI staff with questions).

Fri, Jan 31, 2025 / 10:00am to 12:00pm

Recordings from the sessions will be posted; please do not register just for the recording if you will be unable to attend the session.

To Register: Use the "Register" tab at the top of this page.

Planned topics:

  • How to manage:
    • fines and fees
    • lost processes
    • patron blocks
    • patron notes
    • fulfillment notes

We plan for these sessions to be "hands on" with examples provided to attendees so they can follow along.
If the Alma Sandboxes are too slow for this in real-time (we will find out!), attendees will be asked to watch during the session, and will be provided with a recording of the session to do the examples on their own time (contacting CARLI staff with questions).

Wed, Feb 5, 2025 / 9:00am to 10:30am

The CARLI OER Committee meets monthly.

This virtual meeting is held via Zoom / Conference Call.

Contact for attendance details.

Wed, Feb 5, 2025 / 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Recordings from the sessions will be posted; please do not register just for the recording if you will be unable to attend the session.

To Register: Use the "Register" tab at the top of this page.

This session will have pre-requisite video to watch that explains some of the background in I-Share policies and workflows.

Planned topics:

  • Logging in and Retrieving Requests
  • Processing Requests that Can Be Filled
    • Processing Requests that Need Additional Attention
  • Processing Requests that Cannot be Filled
  • Preparing Filled Request for Sending
  • Route Items in for the Hold Shelf
  • Charging Materials from the Hold Shelf to the Patron
  • Return Items to Item's Home Library
  • Route Items in to "Return Home"
  • Review of documentation on these topics:
    • Determining the current status of your patron's request
    • Staff Workflow for Placing Requests on Behalf of a Patron
    • Best Practices: Alma Hold Shelf Maintenance
    • Best Practices: Handling Local/AFN Requests When Library is Closed

We plan for these sessions to be "hands on" with examples provided to attendees so they can follow along.
If the Alma Sandboxes are too slow for this in real-time (we will find out!), attendees will be asked to watch during the session, and will be provided with a recording of the session to do the examples on their own time (contacting CARLI staff with questions).

Thu, Feb 6, 2025 / 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Save the date for a webinar on Interview Question Design presented by Ben Mead Harvey! 

This event is open to Illinois libraries and members of the Professional Development Alliance. Registration will open by December.

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