Month: March 2024

Here are the April 2024 professional development opportunities both free and paid opportunities!

If you know of webinars, classes, conferences, publishing opportunities, etc. that would be of interest to fellow Iowa library folks, please pass it along to one of us on the ILA/ACRL Professional Development Committee. 

Sarah Slaughter
Laura Kerr
Liz Riordan
Sarah Voels

Free Opportunities

News Literacy Project

• Detect and Debunk Misinformation, AI Generated and Human-made April 29^th, 2024

Network of the National Library of Medicine NNLM 

OCLC (selected)

• Unlocking the power of your e-resources with EZproxy Analytics April 9^th, 2024
• The Power of Collaboration: Cross Departmental cooperation and resilience April 10^th, 2024
• Proving your library as a critical asset: Aligning library spending with your institution’s academic programs April 17^th, 2024
• See synchronous webinars
• On-demand webinars

Paid Opportunities

Online Learning from ACRL

• Beyond the Framework: What’s Next for Your Equity Practice – A Four-Part Series April 3-April 24, 2024

ALA Core Webinars

• Best of Core Forum: Evaluating Your Library Assessment Program April 9^th, 2024
• Best of Core Forum: Python for Data Visualization April 10^th, 2024
• Best of Core Forum: “What is Cataloging?” An Analysis of Job Postings April 23rd
• See More Webinars 

Infopeople

• Technology in Libraries April 9^th-May 20^th, 2024

Library Juice Academy (Selected)

• Real World Objects: Linked Data in Library Metadata & Cataloging April 2024
• Python for Librarians April 2024
• Ethics and Sustainability for Digital Curation April 2024
• See More Courses

Preserve This (selected)

• Preservation Metadata
• Grant Writing Basics
• See More

RUSA

Upcoming Conferences

• Information Literacy Summit April 19, 2024 – Glen Elyn, IL
• Midwest Archives Conference May 2-4, 2024 – Des Moines, IA
• 2024 ILA/ACRL-IPAL Spring Conference May 29-30, 2024 – Ames, IA

More information about the organization can be found on the ILA/ACRL Website.

2nd Call for ILA/ACRL Awards Applications!

ILA/ACRL Research Award:

• A $500 grant to be awarded to an ILA/ACRL member for a presented or published scholarly work.
• Deadline: Sunday, March 31, 2024.
• Submit an application for the Research Award.

ILA/ACRL Mary Iber Spring Conference Scholarship:

• Helps to fund attendance at the Iowa ACRL and IPAL Joint Spring Conference, May 29-30 at Iowa State
  University.
• Deadline: Monday, April 8, 2024.
• Apply for the Spring Conference Scholarship.

More information about the organization can be found on the ILA/ACRL Website.

Dear members,

• Thursday, March 21 from 1:00 to 1:50 pm. Topic: Update on the Iowa legislative session and informal conversations

Dear members,

The deadline for the ILA/ACRL Communications Survey has been extended to Friday, March 22. 

ILA/ACRL wants to find out how you gather information so we can improve communication with our members. Your responses will help us figure out if we are using the right communication channels to effectively connect with you.

ILA/ACRL Communications Survey form

Ellen Neuhaus on behalf of the Electronic Communications Committee [Ellen Neuhaus, chair, Eleanor Ball, and Claire Bowling]

Dear members,

We need one more volunteer to serve a one-year term (January 2024 – December 2024) on the Iowa ACRL Electronic Communications Committee.

The committee is responsible for running the mailing list and maintaining the ILA/ACRL Web site and social media, including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. This involves adding new information to the Web site and pushing it out via social media, as needed, updating existing information, deleting or archiving old information, improving the design of the Web pages, and general maintenance of the pages. See the committee’s description on the ILA/ACRL Committee’s page.

The work is generally moderate and spread-out over the year. We work mostly via email, with the occasional virtual meeting when necessary. Conference attendance is optional.

If you’re interested in this important work or want to learn more, please contact me (ellen.neuhaus@uni.edu).

Thank you for your consideration,

Ellen Neuhaus on behalf of the Electronic Communications Committee [Ellen Neuhaus, chair, Eleanor Ball, and Claire Bowling]