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Join Us! Second Annual Library Research Showcase (November 12, 2014, 12:30-4pm)

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The University Library invites the campus community and friends of the library to its Second Annual Library Research Showcase from 12:30-4PM on Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Library faculty and academic professionals will present their research, which impacts a wide variety of library services as well as the global LIS profession and other scholarly fields. At the Showcase, you’ll find posters, tech demos, and lightning talks on digital humanities, the ethics of archives, information seeking behaviors, preservation both digital and analog, data, and more. A welcome and opening remarks by Dean of Libraries John Wilkin will precede the lightning talks.

Schedule

  • 12:30-1:30PM
    Poster Session and Tech Demos (Lunch Provided), Main Library Marshall Gallery and Room 106
  • 1:30-3PM
    Welcome and Opening Remarks, Dean of Libraries John Wilkin
    Lightning Talks, Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (South Side, Room 101)
  • 3-4PM
    Posters Remain Available for Viewing, Main Library Marshall Gallery

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Summer 2014 Publications by Library Faculty and Academic Professionals

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Summer 2014 publications by University Library faculty and academic professionals reveal how much of the research they perform drives the evolution of library services. Innovating instruction for the use of archives by students, using optical character recognition to support undergraduate research with mobile apps, implementing new metadata standards: you can find all of this and more in the recent work listed below.

Check out the links for openly accessible full text of articles or preprints in our institutional repository, IDEALS, where available.

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Summer 2014 Presentations by University of Illinois Faculty and Academic Professionals

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Before and after presenting at ALA (covered previously), librarians from the University of Illinois could be found presenting across the globe this summer. From Turkey to British Columbia to Wisconsin, they presented on diverse topics from media preservation to researcher profiles to data management. This post highlights some of the many places you might have seen Illinois research.

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Where to Find Us: University of Illinois Librarians Presenting at ALA’s 2014 Annual Conference

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The 2014 Annual Conference of the American Library Association will include presentations by University of Illinois Library faculty on topics including coordination of digital collections and shared print initiatives, resources for genealogy research, digital humanities, the value of instructional and undergraduate research services, and more.

The conference begins with preconference activities Thursday, June 26 and runs through Tuesday, July 1. If you will be there, consider dropping by to see one of the following presentations!

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