Where to Find Us: University of Illinois Librarians Presenting at ALA Annual 2019

This year the American Library Association Annual Conference will be hosted in Washington D.C., from June 20-25. The event will be attended by over 25,000 librarians, authors, publishers, business professionals, educators, and students (basically anyone who is eager to learn and shape the future of the industry or passionate about books and libraries). If you’re there, consider stopping by to see U of I librarians presenting their research at one of the sessions listed below or attend one of the other ALA-related events.

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Fall 2018 Publications by Library Faculty and Academic Professionals

As a companion to our previous post on presentations, we present some of the publications, peer-reviewed articles, and essays our Library faculty and academic professionals have published this past fall. Themes include academic copyright, library value assessment user experience in the academic e-book environment, data sharing and curation pedagogy. Peruse the selected bibliography we have provided below to learn more about these topics.

(Links to OA journal access, the DOI for individual articles, or the catalog record are provided when available.)

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Fall 2018 Presentations by Library Faculty and Academic Professionals

This past fall, our Library faculty, and academic professionals traveled the world to present on a wide variety of topics. As always, we congratulate our researchers on their important contributions to the University of Illinois and to the Library and Information Science department and other disciplines. A selected bibliography of these presentations is provided below.

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Rimkus Part of Grant Award-winning Project to Improve Access to Books for Those with Print Disabilities

Kyle RimkusPreservation Librarian Kyle Rimkus, along with others at the School of Information Sciences and Disability Resources and Educational Services, are participating in a multi-institutional grant led by University Librarian John Unsworth at the University of Virginia with the goal of improving access to digitized books for patrons with print disabilities.

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