The 2015 Library Research Showcase was just a sampling of the research pursued by University of Illinois Library faculty and academic professionals. In the course of the Fall you could also find them representing Illinois and sharing knowledge with their colleagues at a wide range of events, often invited to speak due to their prominence in the field. Below are some of the places you may have found librarians addressing such issues as research data management, digital preservation, information literacy, discovery, inclusiveness…and more.

• Bryant, Rebecca, Ruth Allee, Kate McCready and Julie Speer. “Facilitating Researcher Discovery Across all Disciplines: Challenges and Strategies for Implementing Campus Researcher Profiles for Humanists and Social Scientists.” DLF Forum, Vancouver, BC, October 26, 2015.
• Coskun, Esra, Joe Lenkart, Tom Teper, and Mara Thacker. “Measuring and Sustaining the Impact of Area Studies Collections in a Research Library.” Poster Presentation at Charleston Conference, Charleston, SC, November 2-7, 2015.
• Dougan, Kirstin. “You Can’t Get There from Here, or One Size Does Not Fit All.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Music Library Association, Louisville, KY, October 16, 2015.
• Habing, Thomas, Bertrand Caron, Andreas Nef, and Nancy Hoebelheinrich. “Testing the Proposed METS 2.0 Data Model,” Workshop presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES 2015), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, November 2, 2015.
• Harris, Joshua. “Item vs. Collection Level Censuses in University Libraries.” Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Annual Conference, Portland, OR, November 18-21, 2015.
• Harris, Joshua S., Bethany G. Anderson, and Laila Hussien Moustafa. “Lessons from World War II and the Holocaust: What can be done to save Cultural Heritage and Memory during times of War?” What Do We Lose When We Lose A Library? Leuven, Belgium, September 9-11, 2015.
• Hensley, Merinda Kaye. “Librarians’ Perceptions and Understandings of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.” Keynote speaker at LOEX Fall Focus, Ypsilanti, MI, November 13, 2015.
• Hensley, Merinda Kaye, and Rhonda Huisman. “Project-Based Learning: Connections For High-Impact.” Poster Presentation at 2015 Assessment Institute, Indianapolis, IN, October 26, 2015.
• Hensley, Merinda Kaye. “Innovative Teaching and Learning Using the ACRL Framework.” Colorado State University Libraries’ Master Teaching Initiative, Online webinar, October 15, 2015.
• Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke, Sarah Crissinger, Aaron McCollough and Emily Hardesty. “Publishing Our Own Work: Contributing to the Professional Literature Through Systematizing Sharing of Library Reports.” Charleston Conference, Charleston, SC, November 2-7, 2015.
• Hsin-liang Chen, Philip Doty, Carol Mollman, Xi Niu, Jen-chien Yu and Tao Zhang. “Library Assessment and Data Analytics in the Big Data Era: Practice and Policies.” ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2015, St. Louis, November 6-10, 2015
• Imker, Heidi J. “Capitalizing on Research Data:  Management, Dissemination, and Archiving.” Public Seminar on Research Data, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, November 11, 2015.
• Johnson, Jenny Marie and James Whitacre. “Are You Being Served? Debunking Highway Service Claims through Early 20th Century Population Distribution Reconstruction.” NACIS Annual Meeting 2015, Minneapolis, MN, October 14-17, 2015.
• Joseph, Lura E. “Guidebooks Associated with International Geological Conference Field Trips; Endangered?” Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, November 1-4, 2015.
• Mestre, Lori S. “Como la tecnología facilita los proyectos para mejorar el aprendizaje de los estudiantes:  La experiencia de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Illinois.”  Invited Presentation at Daniel O. Sonzine Library of the Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, September 21, 2015.
• Mischo, William H., Michael A. Norman, Mary C. Schlembach, Jason P. Heldreth. “The Bento Approach to Library Discovery: Web-Scale and Beyond.” Internet Librarian International 15, London, UK, October 21, 2015.
• Mischo, William H. “Library Services within the Total User Experience: Discovery and Digital Scholarship.” What’s New in Libraries? International Workshop at the National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India, January 21, 2015.
• Moustafa, Laila Hussien. “Middle East Primary Resources in Times of Conflict: The Future of Collections and Fieldwork.” Workshop at Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 21-24, 2015.
• Rudasill, Lynne. “Strategic Planning in the Information and Knowledge Society. Library Dynamics and Dialectics Panel.” The Library: Technology and Knowledge, XIII International Conference on University Libraries, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, October 28-30, 2015.
• Savonius-Wroth, Celestina. “The Church of England and Folklore Revivals in Washington Irving’s Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon.” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA, October 16, 2015.
• Song, Yoo-Seong.  “Creating new research skill sets in the areas of data analytics and technology consulting.” Innovation Immersion Program, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology, October 28, 2015.
• Song, Yoo-Seong. “Developing business plans and market assessment based on secondary research.” Digital Library Institute, Kyungsung University, Busan, South Korea, October 30, 2015.
• Song, Yoo-Seong. “Educating business research via international university alliances.” Nanyang Technological University, October 23,  2015.
• Sotomayor, Antonio.“The Sovereign Colony: Puerto Rico in the Olympic Movement.” Lecture for the 2015-16 University Theme “A Nation(s) Divided?” Sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Studies Byron S. Tucci Endowment, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, September 28, 2015.
• Tracy, Daniel G. “Library Publishing Services and Their Readers: Trends and Barriers in the Digital Collections We Create,” DLF Forum, Vancouver, BC, October 26-28, 2015.
• Trei, Kelli J., and Erin E. Kerby. “Purchasing eBooks from Life and Physical Science Society Publishers: Trends and Considerations.” Charleston Conference, Charleston, SC, November 2-7, 2015.
• Wiley, Christie. “Valuing an Academic Departmental Library,” Charted Institute of Library Information Professionals, Liverpool, England, July 2, 2015.
• Wiley, Lynn, Rebecca Seger, David Givens, Michael Zeoli. “Will It Ever Settle Down? The Impact of the Rapidly Shifting Ebook Business Models on Libraries and Publishers.” Charleston Conference, Charleston, SC, November 2-7, 2015.
• Yu, Jen-chien. “Big or Small? The dilemma between organization size and inclusiveness in libraries.” 2015 Conference on Inclusion and Diversity in Library & Information Science (CIDLIS), University of Maryland, October 15-16, 2015.