July Library Office Notes

ANNOUNCEMENTS

FACILITIES NEWS

BUSINESS NEWS

HR NEWS

EVENTS AND TRAINING



ANNOUNCEMENTS: University Librarian Note
Happy July, everyone. I am traveling the first part of this month for ALA and some personal vacation. I hope you are all able to find time this summer for some recuperative time.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS: IOPN Partnering with U of I Press

IOPN is thrilled to announce our inaugural partnership with the University of Illinois Press. Get ready to dive into Bach’s cantatas with James A. Brokaw II’s English translation of Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach by the internationally recognized Bach authority Hans-Joachim Schulze. Brokaw has now made these essays available in English for the first time, opening up fundamental scholarship on Bach to a whole new audience. The book is available now in both print and web versions. Don’t miss out on these essential writings on Bach and the gateway to an innovative web-based resource. This online resource published under the Windsor & Downs imprint includes Brokaw’s translations of all 225 of Schulze’s essays alongside digital tools for searching, sorting, and bundling the commentaries according to date of composition, position within the liturgical church year sequence, and librettist. Read more about the publication on our blog. Stay tuned for other publications coming soon!

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ANNOUNCEMENTS: Cheers for Peers
To view the full Cheers for Peers submissions please view the Growing People blog.

Library Human Resources is happy to announce this month’s Cheers for Peers submissions. The following Library employees have been cheered by their peers:

  • Lee Whitacre
  • Paul Gowens
  • Norris Purdy

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ANNOUNCEMENTS: Senior Administrative Team Meeting Minutes

Please see detailed meeting minutes as follows:

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ANNOUNCEMENTS: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Update
Victor Jones, Jr., Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

We’re continuing the DEIA Educational Workshop Series this summer.  If you’re unfamiliar, or have not had the opportunity to attend Modules 2 or 3, we hope you will consider attending.  As we continue to align our strategic vision with University values, engaging in DEIA work will help us build a strong foundation of shared understanding, vocabulary, and focus on which to build.  The audience for these workshops is everyone—faculty and staff at all levels in our organization.  Supervisors, please do as much as you can to encourage and support employees in attending; this can be done on regular work time.  These workshops are a mixture of presentation and discussion, led by two library facilitators.

Please see EVENTS AND TRAINING below for more information about Summer DEIA Educational Workshops.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS: Collection Development Committee Notes
The most recent meeting minutes of the CDC are posted at:
https://www.library.illinois.edu/staff/committee/collection-development-committee/

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ANNOUNCEMENTS: Content Access Policy & Technology Meeting Minutes
The meeting minutes of CAPT (including workgroup reports) are posted at:
https://www.library.illinois.edu/staff/committee/content-access-policy-technology-capt/

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ANNOUNCEMENTS: Recognizing Excellence

Please share your award, recognition, or grant! To initiate a request for publicity, employees (or their supervisors) should submit this Awards/Recognitions/Grants Publicity Request Form.

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FACILITIES NEWS: Facilities Update
Tim Newman, Assistant Dean of Libraries for Facilities

Please pardon our dust as summer is fully upon us meaning facility remodeling and renovating within the libraries is in full swing.  A couple of bigger projects are or will be occurring in Grainger Library and Main Library.  A window wall is being installed on the 3rd floor of Grainger to help secure collections during evening hours and a reflection/meditation room is being constructed within the Main Library.  This is in addition to a multitude of other projects occurring.  Library Facilities has updated the project information tracker.  The new format will hopefully help everyone understand where projects stand and what might be happening within your library.  Please check it out through the Library Staff website at library.illinois.edu/staff/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/06/Project-Information-June-2024.pdf.

As always, if you have any facility-related issues/concerns please ensure you submit a ticket through Team Dynamix.

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BUSINESS NEWS: Professional Development Funds
Kim Johnson, Associate Director Fisc Operations – Lr Associate

Professional development funds:
https://www.library.illinois.edu/staff/bhrsc-business-services/basic-travel-support/

The new allotment for FY25 Professional Development funds starts July 1, 2024. New for FY25, individual Professional Memberships can be paid.

To request use of Professional Development funds, please submit a Professional Development Funding and Travel Form.

Please note that the Business Office only approves the funding source and amount of the funds available, we are not approving the actual travel and time away from the office. Travel should be approved by your supervisor prior to submitting the Professional Development Funding and Travel Form.

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HR NEWS: Departures

  • Lonnie Clark – Library Specialist – Teaching, Learning, & Academic Support – May 31, 2024
  • Sarah Blanco – Library Specialist – Teaching, Learning, & Academic Support – June 28, 2024

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HR NEWS: Civil Service Vacancies

  • Library Specialist – Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery – Interviews
  • Senior Library Specialist – Ricker Library of Architecture and Art – Closed June 28
  • Associate Software Developer/Software Developer SCaRS – Library IT – Opening soon

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HR NEWS: In Memoriam

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EVENTS AND TRAINING: Staff Events Calendar

To see the most up-to-date staff events calendar, please visit uiuc.libcal.com/calendar/staff.

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EVENTS AND TRAINING: Summer DEIA Educational Workshops
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the University Library DEIA Educational Workshop Series. This series was developed by Dr. Ellen Burts-Cooper of Improve Consulting in collaboration with the DEIA Task Force. These workshops are a mixture of presentation and discussion, led by two library facilitators. By attending this workshop, you will have the opportunity to meet colleagues from across the library and learn from each other.

  • July 8 from 2:00–4:00 PM: Module 1 – Library Culture & Engagement
  • July 23 from 2:00–3:00 PM: Module 3 – Library Teamwork & Engagement
    This workshop, Library Teamwork and Engagement, focuses on teamwork and collaboration, discussing trust and creating an environment of engagement.

To register for these workshops visit the University Library Employee Calendar.

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EVENTS AND TRAINING: CARLI PDA Events

These are CARLI Professional Development Alliance events. To register for these events visit the CARLI Event Calendar.

  • July 16 at 1:00 PM: Newspaper Digitization and Preservation at Illinois
  • July 23 at 2:00 PM: Digital POWRR: Digital Preservation 101
  • July 30 at 1:00 PM: Metadata in Digital Content: A Look at Shareable Metadata in Aggregation Services

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EVENTS AND TRAINING: Library Friends Webinar – Harold Osborn: 1922 Illinois Grad, 1924 and 1928 U.S. Olympian
July 25, noon – 1pm

A Special Presentation by Susan Jones and Elizabeth Osborn, Daughters of Harold Osborn

At the 1924 Games, Harold Osborn ’22 ACES, a high school teacher and former Illini track star, leaped to the pinnacle of his track-and-field career, earning a gold medal in the high jump and, just days later, another gold in the decathlon. In all of Olympic history, no athlete has won gold in the same Games in the decathlon and another event, a distinction that earned Osborn being named the “greatest athlete in the world” by an admiring press. All this, despite being blind in one eye.

Susan Jones and Elizabeth Osborn will be giving a presentation on their father’s Olympian story, and showing some of the materials they have donated to the Student Life and Culture Archives. This special presentation is taking place the day before the kick-off of the Olympic Games in Paris.

RSVP for the in-person event at the University Archives by Friday, July 19 here.

This event will be accessible online via Zoom, register here.

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If you would like to submit content for the August issue of Library Office Notes, please submit it to Heather Murphy by Friday, July 19, 2024.