This year the American Library Association Annual conference will be hosted in Chicago, Illinois from June 22-27. The theme is “Transforming Our Libraries, Ourselves.” If you’re there, consider stopping by to see U of I librarians present their work at one of the events below!
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Sotomayor Wins José Toribio Medina Book Award
Antonio Sotomayor, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Librarian and Assistant Professor at the University Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has won the José Toribio Medina Book Award from The Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM).
Spring 2017 Publications by Library Faculty and Academic Professionals
As a companion to our previous post, today we feature some of the publications that our Library faculty and academic professionals have contributed this spring. Research data practices, data services, and publishing are key themes where the library made key contributions in conference proceedings, book chapters, research articles, and more. You can find those topics and others in the selected bibliography we are pleased to share below.
Stein Partners with Digital Library Federation Working Group on IMLS Grant
Ayla Stein, University of Illinois Metadata Librarian and Assistant Professor, is part of a Digital Library Federation working group that has been awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant that will allow the team to research the use cases and ideal functionality of a future toolkit for assessing the reuse of digital library objects in cultural heritage institutions. The grant period begins in July 2017 and will last for a year as the team conducts an extensive needs assessment.