CALA – Midwest Chapter

OCLC’s conference for library developers and coders, will be held June 4 – 6, in Dublin, Ohio. This year’s conference will feature a slate of hands-on workshops to help you hone your skills, get more value out of your library’s OCLC services, and network with your peers. *Break out your laptops for these hands-on workshops* There will be six workshops at […]

Friday June 22, 2018, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Check the conference scheduler for locations when posted. Want to connect with female-identifying technology professionals who want to make change in their lives and professions for the better? Join others in the field to discuss the challenges, joy, and lessons learned at AvramCamp, LITA’s AdaCamp-inspired event. This one-day LITA preconference will […]

Elevate to Provide Professional Development Hours We are pleased to announce that school librarians attending Elevate Illinois Libraries will be eligible to receive approximately 6.5 PDHs. The deadline to apply has been extended to give people from all library types an opportunity to respond. We’ve already had great response, and in our first year we are really hoping to get a broad […]

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1 p.m. Eastern | 12 p.m. Central Everyone is talking about fake news. People are more aware than ever that when they see a “news” story, they need to dig a lot deeper than the headline or sometimes even the article to decipher whether what they are reading is fact or speculation, opinion, or outright fiction. In our role as […]

The ACRL International Perspectives Discussion Group will host a free webinar discussion on Central Asia. Here’s the program and info:   Title: Library/Information Sciences Research Experiences in Central Asia   Date/Time: August 7, Monday at 9 am PST / 11 am CST / 12 pm EST   Webinar Links:  Event Login Page:  http://ala.adobeconnect.com/ewq793y770ms/event/login.html Event Registration Page:  http://ala.adobeconnect.com/ewq793y770ms/event/registration.html   Summary: This webinar will cover […]