Love Is Murder Conference XI – Feb. 6-8, 2009

Love Is Murder Conference XI – February 6-8, 2009. www.loveismurder.net. Join the participants at the Westin Chicago North Shore, 601 North Milwaukee Avenue, Wheeling, IL, 60090, by calling 847-777-6500 or 800–228-3000 for reservations at $89 per night. A stellar cast of authors, publishers, agents, and fans of mystery and romance and all genre fiction will gather at the Westin Chicago North Shore when the 11th annual LOVE IS MURDER conference opens at noon on Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 and runs to noon Sunday, Feb 8, 2009. This year’s conference features: Jeffery Deaver, Alex Kava, Steve Berry, Sharan Newman, Raymond Benson, and many more. Registration forms and more information can be found at www.loveismurder.net. All meals are included and fans can register for the full conference or attend on a daily basis. For more information call Marlene Leonardi at the Palatine Public Library District, phone: 847-358-5881 ext. 109. [nsls.info]

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2008 Health Science Librarians of IL, Nov. 6-7

Health Science Librarians of Illinois Annual Conference will be held on November 6-7, 2008 at Holiday Inn Select Chicago-Tinley Park Convention Center, Tinley Park, Illinois. Please join us to get connected with other librarians to brush up your professional skills.

This year’s conference focuses on your passage to professional knowledge, both as a practitioner and a leader.

Continuing Education courses include:

* PubMed Expert Searching, Holly Ann Burt, NNLM/GMR
* Patient Safety Resource Seminar: Librarians on the Front Lines, Holly Ann Burt, NNLM/GMR
* Gaining Leadership Skills Without Formally Supervising People, Natalie Reed, Midwestern University
* Getting Magnetized: Service Strategies for Nursing Excellence, Joy Kennedy, Northwest Community Hospital

The keynote address on Friday is “Let No One Steal Your Joy: Practical Tips for Dealing With Difficult People”, Janet Jensen, Riverside Medical Center, Kankakee. Janet presented to the Chicago & South Consortium, and we liked her so well that we invited her to speak at the HSLI conference. She’s a dynamic speaker and offers practical advice on this sensitive topic.

Room reservation can be made by calling (708)444-1100. Be sure to ask for the HSLI block. The conference rate is $109.00 per night plus tax.

Deadline is October 10, 2008 for conference rates. The hotel is not taking Web reservations at this time. For detailed information, please check the HSLI website:

http://www.hsli.org/conference [iacrl]

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Information in Society Fall 2008 Speaker Series

Apologies for cross-posting -

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois is pleased to announce the Information in Society Fall 2008 Speaker Series. The series was inaugurated in Spring 2008 as part of the newly created Information in Society doctoral concentration. All lectures are held at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign Illinois, 61820, USA. In addition to the lecture, speakers participate in a lunch discussion and office hour. Please visit our web site for more information:

http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/phd/infosociety/

Click on the following to join the speaker series announcement list:

https://mail.lis.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/infosoc_speakers

1. James Cortada: “How Demand-Side Computing Shaped the History of Digitization”

Monday, September 8, 2008

4:00-5:30 pm

LISB 126

Lecture Abstract: Normally the history of computing is told from the perspective of the engineers, firms, and the industries that invented, manufactured, and sold computers. It is also told largely as a US centric story. However, we are increasingly realizing that users were not passive players in this process; rather they used computers when it made sense to them and worked with vendors to develop what they needed. They also developed patterns of adoption that spread around the world. This talk will discuss how whole industries embraced computing and, in the process, changed how they performed their daily work.

Speaker Biography: Dr. James W. Cortada received his Ph.D. in Modern European History from Florida State University, and is the author of two dozen books on the history and management of information technology. His most recent project has been the 3-volume The Digital Hand, which surveys the use of computing in 36 industries over the past six decades. He leads research teams at the IBM Institute for Business Value that monitor use of computing around the world.

2. Alasdair Roberts: “Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age”

Monday, October 6, 2008

4:00-5:30 pm

LISB 126

Lecture Abstract: The last decade has seen an extraordinary increase in the number of countries that have adopted laws like the US’ Freedom of Information Act. Some people say that legal and technological change is producing a new age of transparency. But there are also complaints about new levels of secrecy — justified in the name of executive privilege, national security, and corporate confidentiality. How do we make sense of these conflicting claims? Is governmental secrecy on the decline, or getting worse?

Speaker Bio: Dr. Alasdair Roberts is the Jerome L. Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School. Dr. Roberts writes extensively on problems of governance, law and public policy. He is the author of Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age, and most recently The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government. Professor Roberts was elected as a fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration in 2007. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the School of Public Policy, University College London. He has had fellowships with the Open Society Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Dr. Roberts received a JD from the University of Toronto in 1984, a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University in 1994.

3. Laura DeNardis: “Global Internet Standards and Developing Nations”

Monday, November 10, 2008

4:00-5:30 pm

LISB 126

Lecture Abstract:TBA

Speaker Bio: Dr. Laura DeNardis is an Associate Research Scholar in Law and Executive Director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. The author of Information Technology in Theory (2007 with Pelin Aksoy) and numerous book chapters and articles, she is an interdisciplinary law and technology scholar whose research addresses the legal and political implications of information technologies and new media. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled “IPv6: Politics of the Next Generation Internet” and she is currently working on a new book, Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance, to be published by the MIT Press. She has previously taught at New York University and in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University. DeNardis received a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech, a Master of Engineering degree from Cornell, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Engineering Science from Dartmouth.

4. Daniel Headrick: “Telecommunications and Imperialism: Double-Edged Sword”

Monday, December 8, 2008

4:00-5:30 pm

LISB 126

Lecture Abstract: When the colonial powers introduced telegraphs to and within their colonial empires, they did so in large part to tighten the control of the metropoles over their colonies and that of the colonial governments over their subjects. Telecommunications had another effect, however, namely it spread the news from distant places, thereby stimulating new ideas that threatened to undermine the colonial status quo. The hopes that the imperialists placed in the controlling powers of telecommunication have so far proved to be misplaced.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Daniel Headrick is an international telecommunications historian and Professor Emeritus at Roosevelt University. He is the author of several publications, including The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940 (1991), When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850 (2000), and the forthcoming Power Over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present. He earned a PhD in History from Princeton University in 1971. [jesse]

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Helen Plum Library Offers Library Sciences Scholarships

The Helen M. Plum Memorial Library is accepting applications for its Carol Anne Robbins Scholarships. Five scholarships, two $500 undergraduate and three $2,000 graduate, will be awarded to support students in pursuit of studies in the library profession leading to an accredited degree. Application deadline is July 3 at 5 p.m. For more information, regulations and application. Illinois only. Graduate or undergraduate or LTA. [nsls.info]

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June 13-15 Community as Intellectual Space Symposium

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD!

The 4th Annual Community As Intellectual Space Symposium Registration is Open! http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CIS2008/

What:
The 4th Annual Community as Intellectual Space Symposium:
“Aesthetics as Resistance: The Act of Community Building”

Hosted by the Community Informatics Initiative, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.

This year promises to be an extraordinary event, exploring notions of the “art” of community building in cultural context: from murals to media, technology to teaching. Join us for an unprecedented celebration of cross-cultural community in the heart of the Paseo Boricua neighborhood of Chicago.

(Continuing professional development units for K-12 educators will be available.)

When: June 13-15, 2008

Where: Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Chicago

Who:
•Dr. Margaret Burroughs (invited), founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History •Internationally known muralist and artist Pablo Marcano

Other speakers include:
Dr. Carol Lee, Northwestern University,
Dr. Lisa Yun Lee, Director of Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois, Chicago;
Dr. Sarai Lastra, Turabo University, Puerto Rico;
Dr. Antonia Darder, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
Dr. Abdul Alkalimat, GSLIS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
Dr. Jacqueline Lazu, DePaul University;
Dr. Jose Lopez, Executive Director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center; Community and government representatives

Activities:
–A unique artist-led mural tour on the nationally known Paseo
–Community Informatics Initiative in Action workshops:
Curating Identity:  Newberry Library exhibit created by high school students as curators;
“Do You ‘Squeak’?”:  How to use creative technologies with early childhood learners;
Teens Going Green: How to inspire creative urban agriculture in the high school;
How to build a community library

•Premier of the third play in a trilogy by noted Puerto Rican author and playwright, Tato Laviera,  performed by Pedro Albizu Campos High School students •June 12, a Pre-Symposium reception is being hosted by the Humboldt Park Branch of the Chicago Public Library featuring Chicago Public Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey (invited) and artists
•And, of course, we will be attending the 30th Anniversary People’s Parade

Want to hear more? Visit our registration website: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CIS2008/

CONTACT:
Ann P. Bishop, Associate Professor
501 E. Daniel
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
217.244.3299
abishop@uiuc.edu
www.cii.uiuc.edu [jesse]

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Serving Our Littlest Patrons

The Youth Services Section of the Library Administrators Conference of Northern Illinois (LACONI) is holding their next program on Friday, April 25 at the Des Plaines Public Library.

The topic for the day is Serving Our Littlest Patrons.  The program runs from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm.  The morning is focused on programming for young children and the afternoon will feature specialized product demonstrations.  The cost is $25.00, which includes continental breakfast, lunch, and the fee for the program.

Information and registration form are available at www.laconi.org.

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“Grammar Girl” to Keynote at IOC 2008 – Still Time to Participate!

Please join us next week for the 6th Annual Illinois Online Conference for Teaching and Learning. Mignon Fogarty, host of the award-winning “Grammar Girl” podcast, will deliver a live, interactive webcast keynote on February 13, 2008, kicking off three days of exciting online collaboration and networking among hundreds of education and training professionals worldwide.

Register now at: http://www.ilonlineconf.org

IOC 2008 features over 75 education professionals delivering workshops and presentations as timely and diverse as “Navigating 3D Worlds” and “Green Schools: Benefits for Students, the Environment, and the Bottom Line”.  Participants from more than 10 countries will attend this truly global online event.

All live online sessions are recorded and available for viewing at any time, so there’s no need to adjust your schedule February 13-15 in order to take advantage of the conference.  Participate whenever you like!

In advance of IOC, the LearningTimes Green Room podcast team caught up with keynoter “Grammar Girl” to discuss the amazing success of her podcast and how it helps educators worldwide.  In their most recent episode, you’ll also learn the backstory about how Mignon wound up teaching a grammar lesson on Oprah Winfrey’s show! The interview is now available online at:

http://www.ltgreenroom.org/ 

For information on all the IOC 2008 presentations and conference activities visit the web site at:

http://www.ilonlineconf.org/

We hope to see you there!

Regards,

John Walber for the IOC 2008 Team
ioc@learningtimes.net

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Educating Library Leaders: Spring 2008 CE Offerings from Dominican GSLIS

Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science

Spring 2008 Continuing Education Offerings for LIS Students and Professionals

And the Entire Community of Learners

 

“Educating Library Leaders”

 

Dear Colleague:

 

This message extends to you well wishes for a rewarding and productive New Year as well as a personal invitation to take part in some of the exciting Continued Education programs sponsored by  Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science. In our goal of promoting leadership and innovation in the LIS profession, we are pleased to bring you some of the profession’s most compelling thinkers and doers. In addition to our ongoing ‘Emerging Library Leaders for the 21^st Century’ seminar series; newly appointed Follett Chair, Steve Herb, will look at the roles libraries play in bridging the burgeoning literacy gap. Later that month our active Alumni Council will sponsor their annual Career Day featuring keynoters Barbara Ford and Paul K. Whitsitt and a roster of library leaders. All programs are free of charge. Please share these programs with LIS students, with colleagues, with new and potential librarians, and across your organization’s learning community. We look forward to seeing you at one (or all) of these events!

____________________________________________________________

 

The 2008 Follett Lecture

Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 6:00 pm

Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness:

The Importance of Libraries in the Lives of Young Children

By Steven Herb

 

In this compelling address Steven Herb, past president of the Association for Library Service to Children and a three-term chair of the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee, presents a snap shot of our nation’s less-than-stellar support of literacy in the lives of young children and the important role that public libraries can play to develop a fully literate generation. After nourishment and shelter there are no more basic needs for our children than language and literacy development. According to Herb, our educational preoccupation with testing in public schools would become a historical artifact if only our national obsession focused on children entering school already reading and writing. Currently head of the education and behavioral sciences library at Pennsylvania State University and director of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, Dr. Herb was appointed to the Follett Chair in Library Science at Dominican University in August, 2007.

 

A reception will follow the lecture.

 

Dominican University

Eloise Martin Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building

7900 West Division Street, River Forest, IL 60305

Please RSVP attendance to (708)524-6845 or email gslis@dom.edu

 

 

11^th Annual Career Day Sponsored by the Dominican GSLIS Alumni Council

Saturday, February 16, 2008, 10 am-3 pm

Taking the Lead: Career Development and Networking

 

Keynoters Barbara Ford, director of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Paul Whitsitt, director of Libraries and Information Services at Chicago Public Schools will be featured at Dominican GSLIS’s Career Day program designed to support new and seasoned LIS professionals and current LIS students in setting and reaching their career goals. Library leaders including Paula Dempsey of DePaul University Libraries, Tamar Dougherty of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Greg Gosselin of North America Ex Libris, Betsy Adamowski of the Itasca Public Library, and Toby Rajput of Chicago Public Schools join Whitsitt and Ford in providing insights on emerging trends in librarianship and the importance of professional development and proactive networking in enhancing your career.

 

Lunch will be provided

 

Dominican University

Parmer Hall

7900 West Division Street, River Forest, IL 60305

Please RSVP attendance to (708)524-6845 or email gslis@dom.edu

 

 

Spring Semester 2008 “Emerging Library Leaders for the 21^st Century (ELL-21)” Series

 

January 21, 2008: 4-6pm

“Beyond the Margins or When Collection Development Leads to Staff Development: The Building of a Transgender Resource Collection”

Bleue Benton, Collection Development Manager, Oak Park Public Library

 

February 4, 2008: 4-6 pm

“Gaming and Libraries: Intersection of Services”

Jenny Levine, “Shifted Librarian” blogger and Internet Development Specialist & Strategy Guide, American Library Association

 

February 18, 2008: 4-6 pm

“Grant-writing for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know About the Aim, the Pitch, and the Score” 

Tracie D. Hall, Assistant Dean, Dominican Graduate School of Library and Information Science

 

March 17, 2008: 4-6pm

“Get a Voice: Why Writing, Blogging and Speaking Out Are Crucial to Advancing Your LIS Career” 

John Berry III, Editor-At-Large, Library Journal

 

March 31, 2008: 4-6pm

“Libraries:  What it Takes to Lead—An Interactive Workshop for Managers and Aspiring Managers”

Kathryn J. Deiss, Content Strategist, Association of College and Research Libraries

 

April 14, 2008: 4-6 pm

“Libraries, Advocacy, and the Power of the Personal Connection”

Emily Sheketoff, Associate Executive Director of the American Library Association (ALA), and Manager of the Washington Office

 

All ELL-21 Lectures will take place in the Rebecca Crown Library, Springer Suites

Dominican University

7900 West Division Street, River Forest IL, 60305

Please RSVP attendance to (708)524-6845 or email gslis@dom.edu

 

 

Tracie D. Hall

Assistant Dean

Dominican University GSLIS

7900 West Division Street

River Forest, IL 60305

(708) 524-6848 or thall@dom.edu

www.gslis.dom.edu

 

Dominican GSLIS…Have a Goal? We’ll Help You Reach It. 

 

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Synergy 2008

Applications are now being accepted for Synergy 2008: The Illinois Library Leadership Initiative. Synergy is the statewide library community’s proactive movement to recruit and nurture future Illinois library leaders. Applications must be post marked by Friday, November 30, 2007.

All applicants will be notified in regard to their application by late January 2008. Questions about Synergy may be directed to Patricia Norris, Vandella Brown, or Cyndy Colletti (1-800-665-5576, option #1) or Ellen Popit (1-800-455-4374, ext. 2024)

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fellowship announcement: information in society

Fellowships Now Available for Doctoral Study: Information in Society

The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science is recruiting a select group of doctoral students interested in pursuing the study of information in society, including policy, economic, and historical dimensions. Your interests may lie in any part of the emerging field of information studies, such as practices of information organization, library history, the political economy of information, or community information systems; your academic background may be in library and information science, history, law, communications or other fields—as long as you share our commitment to engaging deeply with the processes that structure information in society. Fellowship recipients should be seeking to prepare for careers as faculty members in schools of library and information science.

Apply by January 1, 2008 to begin study in Fall 2008

Contact: Professor and Associate Dean Linda C. Smith:
(217) 333-7742 |
Email: lcsmith@uiuc.edu

Visit the website at http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/phd/ [jesse]

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Apply for Synergy 2008: The Illinois Library Leadership Initiative

Applications are now being accepted for Synergy 2008: The Illinois Library Leadership Initiative. Synergy is the statewide library community’s proactive movement to recruit and nurture future Illinois library leaders. Applications must be post marked by Friday, November 30, 2007. All applicants will be notified in regard to their application by late January 2008. Questions about Synergy may be directed to Patricia Norris, Vandella Brown, or Cyndy Colletti (1-800-665-5576, option #1) or Ellen Popit (1-800-455-4374, ext. 2024). For more info, visit the ISL site. [nsls.info]

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