This month's installment features a summary of the Assessment Panel Presentation held in March 2014 as part of the IACRL Preconference. Thanks to all who attended, and the Instruction Committee looks forward to seeing you on June 18, 2014, for the Instruction Showcase at Illinois Valley Community College!
Instruction Assessment Panel and Breakout Session
From Design Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago) in CARLI Digital Collections.
Start/stop, in/out -- such binary simplicity. Choosing an image to feature from the 174-and-counting CARLI Digital Collections -- so many possibilities!
The election and appointment process for new members of the CARLI Board of Directors has been completed. Directors elected to 3-year terms beginning July 1, 2014 are Tammy Kuhn-Schnell (Lincoln Land Community College), Richard Darga (Chicago State University) and Felice Maciejewski (Dominican University).
Patrick Dawson (Northern Illinois University), Karen Schmidt (Illinois Wesleyan University) and Frances Whaley (Illinois Valley Community College) have accepted one-year appointed seats on the Board.
Please join us in welcoming these new members of the CARLI Board.
This is the kind of exciting thing we should all be doing! -- collaborating to virtually combine our complementary materials into a single comprehensive resource. Illinois Wesleyan has done it with the David & Sarah Davis Family Correspondence, and they have done it well.
The CARLI EBL eBook Patron Driven Acquisitions Pilot Project is now live for all CARLI Governing Member institutions.
You have two ways of discovering and accessing these eBooks: a) by going directly to an EBL website for the project, or b) from MARC records in your catalog.
Chicago telephone directory (1892)
“The Mail is Quick. The Telegraph is Quicker, but the LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE Is Instantaneous and you don’t have to wait for an answer.” So reads the footnote advertisement in the Chicago Telephone Directory from 1892. It is hard to imagine, in these days when email, texting, and Skype are all everyday terms, a time when using a telephone was a novelty and considered the height of convenience.
In this document from the Swedish-American Historical Book Collection at North Park University, Swede Rosalie Roos writes of her travels in the southern United States during the early 1850s. She used the trip to test the strength of her independent spirit, as well as the American Dream. Her diaries and letters home over the course of the four years spent in South Carolina were forgotten for many years but discovered and extracts published in the late 20th century by her granddaughter.
Voting is now open for seats on the CARLI Board of Directors. Each of the CARLI constituencies—Community Colleges; Private Colleges and Universities; and Public Universities—will elect one new Board member for a three-year term (July 1, 2014–June 30, 2017).
Voting will remain open until 5 pm on Friday, May 9, 2014.
Overwhelmed by the two drafts of the new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education that will update the current standards from 2000? >Read on to find a quick list of links to discover what other librarians are saying on the subject and join in on the discussion.
The weather is decidedly springlike outside, and though I've learned more than once not to declare this winter over until some time in mid-July, I've decided to tempt the fates. I was rather enjoying the winter, frigid cold and all, but the beautifully hand-colored View of Sacred Bridge at Nikko has given me a bad case of spring fever. The rushing water of the Daiya River and green of the foliage make me wish I were somewhere other than behind a desk, though it's the vibrant red hue of the bridge that initially caught my eye, striking even in thumbnail form.
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