CARLI News June 26, 2024

Free People Read Freely: Literacy, Inclusion, and Democracy

University of Illinois System President Tim Killeen proudly invites you to a celebration of scholarship and the role of education in our democracy The symposium "Free People Read Freely: Literacy, Inclusion, and Democracy" will be held August 20-21 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and the I Hotel and Illinois Conference Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

An opening keynote conversation will feature authors Clint Smith and George M. Johnson, with moderator Ruby Mendenhall, the Kathryn Lee Baynes Dallenbach Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences and Urbana Poet Laureate. The second day will open with a keynote from writer, activist, and Professor Tony Diaz, who led the 2012 Librotraficante Caravan to smuggle banned books back into Arizona in defiance of the state's ban of Mexican American studies at that time. Attendance at the event is free but advance registration is required. Box lunches are available for purchase during registration. 

The symposium will include panel discussions and presentations addressing issues around book banning, censorship, and the importance of reading to inclusion and citizenship; and will feature alumni of the Education Justice Project sharing their views about reading freely. 

University of Illinois System units the University of Illinois Press and the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois will present the event. 

For the detailed agenda or to register visit https://www.carli.illinois.edu/Free-People-Read-Freely.

CARLI Annual Meeting and Annual Directors Meeting 

Please join us for the 2024 CARLI Annual Meeting on Tuesday, October 22, at the I Hotel and Illinois Conference Center in Champaign. Registration is now open. The agenda will be added to the registration page as soon as it is finalized. 

A meeting of the CARLI Governing Directors will precede the Annual Meeting. Directors should also register for this meeting if they are planning to attend. Separate registration is required for each meeting. 

Space is limited. Registration for both meetings closes Monday, October 14.

CARLI staff have obtained a small block of rooms at the reduced rate of $159.00 for guests that would like to stay in Champaign at the I Hotel the night before the meetings. You can call the hotel at 217-819-5000 or make the reservation online with this information. 

• Group Code: CARLI24
• PW: &7EPK

The room block expires on September 6, 2024. You must have the Group Code and Password to make a reservation. 

CARLI Announces Recipients of Scholarships for 2024–2025 Academic Year

CARLI is pleased to announce recipients of the CARLI 2024–2025 Academic Year Scholarship that helps support the education of the dedicated staff of CARLI member libraries. The recipients are Amanda Helm, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library; Grace Kraus, Prairie State College; Quinn Sluzenski, Newberry Library; Michelle Thole, Greenville University; and Alexandria Vlahos, Lewis & Clark Community College. 

The scholarship is funded by donors who have generously supported this important program, helping CARLI to grow the profession.

“I am thrilled to accept the CARLI UIUC scholarship to the I-School! All the coursework, faculty, and collegiality have been amazing so far and I look forward to completing the program to officially join the ranks of professional librarians at CARLI,” Thole said.  

The recipients were selected based on their responses to a personal essay question regarding their professional goals and objectives in pursuing a library career that demonstrates a commitment to the profession and the strength of their references.

Sluzenski added, "I am honored to have been selected for a CARLI scholarship this year. I've already learned so much at the iSchool and am thrilled to continue my program with support from CARLI's donors. I look forward to completing my degree this year and moving into the next stage of my digital library career!"

The CARLI Scholarship provides financial assistance to current employees of CARLI Governing Member Libraries pursuing graduate studies leading to a Master′s Degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

The CARLI scholarship is funded by donations. 

OEN Engage! 

Registration is open for OEN Engage!, the Open Education Network community's annual get-together happening July 22-26. CARLI is a member of OEN, and all CARLI-member libraries are invited to participate. 

Centering on Less Conference…More Connection, the OEN hopes that the event helps you feel supported by your colleagues, connected to our community, oriented to the tools and opportunities available to you as a member, and invigorated for the academic year to come.

See this year's full session lineup including the comprehensive Open Pedagogy Resources Overview, the new Introduction to OER Publishing Workshop, and so much more.

Register by July 12. 

The event is free to attend and takes place virtually to facilitate equitable access. General sessions will be recorded and shared afterwards for those who are unable to attend the live event.

Newberry Library Tour at Society of American Archivists

CARLI members attending the Society of American Archivists (SAA) Annual Conference are invited to an in-person tour of the Newberry Library at 60 W. Walton St., Chicago on Thursday, August 15 from 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. The tour will include an overview of the nineteenth-century building and general and special collections reading rooms. Participants will then head up to the Newberry's conservation department for a tour of the lab space and historic bindery and a peek into exciting projects staff are working on. The visit will end in time for attendees to view the library's exhibit on Chicago journalist Mike Royko and explore the Gold Coast's lunch options!

Please register to attend! Space is limited.

Developing an Archives: Embracing the Messiness of the Real World

Are you responsible for a storage room full of disorganized materials, or are you uncertain about what archival materials are on your shelves? The prospect of organizing and developing your archive can be daunting. If the process is divided into simple tasks, the process becomes much easier to manage. Where does one begin? Please join the CARLI Archives Task Force for an Archives & Special Collection workshop on September 18 at 1:00 p.m. for Developing an Archives: Embracing the Messiness of the Real World.

The session will include a panel of three archivists from various institution types who will discuss how to assess and plan for the care and development of your archive. The conversation will apply to all sizes of collections, from a small storage cupboard to the contents of a large storeroom.

Panelists:

• Rebecca Fitzsimmons, Illinois State University
• Ashley Howdeshell, Northeastern Illinois University
• Meghan Ryan, National Louis University
• Moderator: Elaine Page, Elmhurst University

This program will be recorded and added to the CARLI Archives and Special Collections Resource Page. 

Registration is now available.

EBook Updates

Thank You for Your Support

CARLI is thrilled to announce that because of the generous financial support of our members CARLI Governing Members will continue to have access to ebooks from Wiley and Oxford University Press and will now have access to titles from the University of Illinois Press.

I-Share libraries will not need to do anything to add the MARC records for this content. CARLI will share MARC records for these titles in the Network Zone for access in Primo VE. For additional information about using the resources, access to usage statistics, and for information about MARC records for non-I-Share libraries visit the CARLI Ebooks Program page. 

Wiley Online Books

CARLI has completed an updated agreement for access to Wiley Online Books for CARLI Governing Members. As of July 1, 2024, members will have access to online books in all subject areas that have been added to the Wiley Online Library from 2020 – June 2025. All titles have unlimited access for CARLI members through June 30, 2025, and may be used as course materials or for course reserves. Direct links may be embedded into course management systems; however, materials may not be used to fulfill interlibrary loan requests until after titles have been purchased for perpetual access after the end of the access period.

Access to the Online Wiley Library is based on the campus IP ranges that member libraries have provided to CARLI. If you need to update this information, please contact CARLI Support. If your IP address is associated with your institution, you should already have access to these materials. Please see the program's website for information regarding other authentication options, such as EZProxy or OpenAthens.

Oxford University Press: Oxford Scholarship Online

CARLI has completed an updated agreement for access to a subset of subjects for CARLI Governing Members to Oxford University Press ebooks on their Oxford Academic platform. As of July 1, 2024, CARLI members will have access to titles in eight subject areas: Biology, History, Law, Music, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, and Sociology with online publication dates of 2020– March 2025.

All titles have unlimited access for CARLI members through June 30, 2025, and may be used as course materials or for course reserves. Direct links may be embedded into course management systems; materials may not be used to fulfill interlibrary loan requests from academic, governmental, or nonprofit libraries until after titles have been purchased for perpetual access after the end of the access period.

University of Illinois Press

CARLI has completed an agreement for access to the University of Illinois Press ebooks for CARLI Governing Members. As of July 1, 2024, members will have access to ebooks in all subject areas that have been added to the JSTOR platform from 2015 – June 2025. All titles have unlimited access for CARLI members through June 30, 2025 and may be used as course materials or for course reserves. Direct links may be embedded into course management systems; however, titles may fulfill ILL requests via secure means provided that such use is not at a volume that would substitute for an acquisition of access to a Book (for example, ILL of a Book shall be restricted to a single copy of a Book chapter).

Access to ebooks on the JSTOR platform is based on the campus IP ranges that member libraries have provided to CARLI. If you need to update this information, please contact CARLI Support. (link: support@carli.illinois.edu) If your IP address is associated with your institution, you should have access to these materials on July 1.

Purchasing Perpetual Access to Oxford University Press, University Partner Presses, and Wiley Ebooks

In July 2024, CARLI will share with each member a preliminary list of titles purchased for perpetual access. Included with that information will be local institutional usage that may contain titles not identified for purchase by the consortium. Governing members may purchase titles for perpetual consortial access through CARLI (member pays CARLI/CARLI pays vendor) using CARLI negotiated rate and discounts. CARLI will include the cost of purchasing titles in its message to members. The latest date to request an invoice is September 1.

Professional Development Alliance Events

The following programs from the Professional Development Alliance are currently on the calendar. Programs are offered on a wide variety of subjects. Check out everything the alliance is making available to our libraries!

• July 11: Cultivating an Inclusive Environment: Engagement and Outreach in Academic and Public Libraries
• July 16: Newspaper Digitization and Preservation at Illinois
• July 23: Digital POWRR: Digital Preservation 101
• July 23: A Recipe for Special Collections: Using Cookbooks to Create More Inclusive Collections
• July 24: Summer Book Bash: Book Buzz with Astra Books for Young Readers, Chronicle Books, and Levine Querido
• July 30: Metadata in Digital Content: A Look at Shareable Metadata in Aggregation Services
• July 31: Picture Book Party
   
• August 1: AI and the Future of Personal Computing: Implications for Libraries and Beyond
• August 20: Capturing Student Success in Libraries: Hands-On Evaluation with Excel and Tableau
   
• September 10: Library Workplace Morale: The Renewals Colloquium
• September 18: Developing an Archives: Embracing the Messiness of the Real World

To register, visit the CARLI Event Calendar. Recordings of past CARLI-sponsored PDA events are available on the Professional Development Alliance website when permitted by the presenter. 
 
Are you interested in presenting on a topic for CARLI members and the Professional Development Alliance? Or would you like to moderate a follow up discussion for an upcoming program? Email us to become more involved in CARLI's continuing education efforts!

Funding to Preservation: A Digital Content Life Cycle Webinar Series:

CARLI and FLVC are pleased to host a 6-part Funding to Preservation: A Digital Content Life Cycle Webinar Series!

Spend Tuesdays this summer learning about grant opportunities to fund digitization, workflows for processing born-digital materials, digitization best practices, digital preservation basics, and the importance of metadata in digital content.

Upcoming Sessions include:

Newspaper Digitization and Preservation at Illinois 
July 16, 1:00–2:00 p.m.

William Schlaack will detail newspaper digitization experiences and best practices at the University of Illinois. William will describe the selection, collation, quality control, and digital preservation elements to newspaper digitization. Special attention will be given to the work done as a part of the National Digital Newspaper Program. William Schlaack is the Digital Reformatting Coordinator and Coordinator for Digital Preservation Services at the University of Illinois. 

Digital POWRR: Digital Preservation 101 
July 23, 10:00–11:30 a.m.

This session is designed for smaller, under-resourced organizations who understand the need for digital preservation but are not sure how to begin creating daily workflows that incorporate accessioning, processing, and storing digital materials (both born-digital collections and files from digitization projects). The digital curation lifecycle will be viewed through a practical lens and the class will step through an end-to-end workflow for a hypothetical digital collection using simple, open-source digital preservation tools. This webinar is presented by Jamie Schumacher, Sr. Director of Scholarly Communications at Northern Illinois University.

Metadata in Digital Content: A Look at Shareable Metadata in Aggregation Services 
July 30, 1:00–2:00 p.m.

In the life cycle of digital content, shareable metadata is an important part of the process of both digitized and born-digital content to enable users to find the digital objects. Furthermore, metadata can be shared beyond the original environment to make the digital objects available to a larger audience, such as through aggregation services like the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). In this Funding to Preservation: A Digital Content Life Cycle Series webinar, Megan Pearson, Project Coordinator for the Illinois Digital Heritage Hub (IDHH), the Illinois Hub for the DPLA, will share her experience with aggregating metadata and working with metadata created by other institutions, including standardization practices and methods used by the IDHH, and offer some thoughts on how to create shareable metadata across environments.

Library Workplace Morale: The Renewals Colloquium
September 10: 10:00-11:30 a.m.

Join CARLI in welcoming Kaetrena Davis Kendrick as we host The Renewals Colloquium focusing on a comprehensive review of her ground-breaking research on library workplace morale. During this 90-minute webinar, attendees will learn about low-morale experience development, factors and systems that show up in various library workplaces and influences that challenge recovery from low morale. A brief review of emerging and established countermeasures will also be shared.

Other Library News

Cataloging Courses from the Cataloging Maintenance Center

Are you or one of your staff members new to cataloging? Need a brush up on the fundamentals? The Cataloging Maintenance Center can help.

The CMC has a Cataloging Basics course running from July 8 to August 18. CMC courses are asynchronous and free to Illinois library workers.

"This six-week crash course in basic cataloging dives into cataloging using RDA, the Resource Description and Access standards, and using MARC, the MAchine-Readable Cataloging standards. Eric McKinney will cover MARC fields 0XX-8XX and fixed-field elements, the most commonly used fields when cataloging library items."

For information about this and other CMC training opportunities, check the Illinois Heartland Library System's Upcoming Events page.

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Upcoming CARLI Events and Meetings

Consult the CARLI calendar to view the current list of meeting times and locations.

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