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Congrats to Zane Collett! About the scholarship: The Mary Hammond Iber Spring Conference Scholarship helps to fund attendance at the ILA/ACRL and IPAL Spring Conference. This year’s conference was held at the Cowles Library, Drake University on May 28-29, 2025. About the winner: Zane Collett is a U2G (undergraduate-to-graduate) student in the School of Library […]

Academic librarians from around Iowa met at Drake University on May 28 and 29 for the annual joint meeting of the Iowa Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and Iowa Private Academic Libraries (IPAL). Seventy people attended the conference, and another 9 members attended virtually. The theme of this year’s conference […]

The ILA/ACRL Awards Committee invites applications for the Mary Iber Spring Conference Scholarship Award on this form. Mary Hammond Iber was an exceptional librarian, mentor, and friend.  A librarian and archivist at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, she died unexpectedly on January 2, 2014. Mary was known for her kind, creative, and helpful nature and […]