Events

These monthly, informal, agenda-free meetings provide a platform for you to talk with other directors about topics on your radar and/or updates from your library. CARLI usually provides updates as well. CARLI rotates the meetings (day of the week, time of day) to accommodate busy calendars. We do our best to avoid conferences, holidays, and other conflicts. Please let me know about times/days that never work for you. If you cannot attend, you may send a representative. We look forward to seeing you all for conversation and updates!

Check your CARLI Governing Directors email for connection information.

The meetings are recorded. The recordings are posted for 30 days here: https://www.carli.illinois.edu/membership/directors#

CARLI is pleased to offer a 3-week synchronous and asynchronous course on open educational resources.

May 1, 8, and 15, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm (materials for first session sent to participants beginning on April 24, live sessions via Zoom on May 1, 8, and 15).

Attendees should plan to attend each live session.

CARLI is planning to offer this program multiple times throughout the year.

The virtual program will contain both synchronous (3 live 90 minutes Zoom sessions) and asynchronous activities (readings, videos, etc.) to be completed before each live session. The live sessions will include some presentations, but the aim of the program planners is that these will incorporate a flipped classroom model to build community among participants as all share and discuss the topics.

Technology used for live sessions: Zoom, ideally participants will be able to use video as well as audio.

The asynchronous portions of the training, shared with participants weekly, should not take longer than one hour of your time prior to each live session.

The train-the-trainer program is designed to help the novice person learning about open educational resources to apply the information from this program to build their own local programs and workshops as they move up the Bloom’s Taxonomy from remember and understand to apply. 

The above graphic is from Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).

Registration: To Register for this course, please click the "Register" Tab above. The space available for this course is limited. CARLI plans to offer this course multiple times in the future.

Registration Deadline: April 29, 2025 (or until full).

If you have any questions, please send them to CARLI Support.

CARLI is pleased to offer a 3-week synchronous and asynchronous course on open educational resources. This virtual course includes material that was first shared with the CARLI membership during the Open Textbook Network Train-the-Trainer workshops.

This course will be offered May 2025 with the live sessions on May 1, 8, and 15, from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm. Attendees should plan to attend each live session.

The live sessions will include some presentations, but the aim of the course planners is that these will incorporate a flipped classroom model to build community among participants as all share and discuss the topics.

Technology used for live sessions: Zoom, ideally participants will be able to use video as well as audio.

Registration: More information on this course and instructions for registering can be found here.

If you have any questions, please send them to CARLI Support.

At the start of his term in June 2024, ACRL President Leo Lo established a task force to develop comprehensive AI competencies for library workers, aligning with the evolving needs of academic libraries. In this session, Dr. Lo and the co-chairs of the task force— Keven Jeffery and Jason Coleman—will present the most recent draft of the competencies, describe the processes used to create them, and discuss how they can be applied by library administrators, educators, faculty, and staff to help us and our patrons adapt to new ways of creating, consuming, analyzing, and describing information.

Presenters:

Jason Coleman is a professor and Academic Services Librarian for STEM at Kansas State University. In that role he provides instruction, research, and reference services to seven departments. Since the advent of ChatGPT, he has been focusing on the uses and implications of AI for document-based research and discovery.  He has presented on retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and literature mapping strategies and integrates these tools into his consultations and in-class presentations. In July 2024, he became co-chair of ACRL's AI Competencies for Library Workers Task Force. He holds a Master of Library Science from Emporia State University and bachelor's degrees in psychology and biology.

Keven Jeffery is a tenured faculty member at San Diego State University, where he holds the rank of Librarian. His responsibilities include investigating and implementing emerging digital technologies and applications for the University Library. Keven will present his work to develop a home-grown Gen AI discovery assistant at the ER&L 20th Annual Library Conference in March, 2025. In July 2024, he became co-chair of ACRL's AI Competencies for Library Workers Task Force. He holds a Master of Library & Information Science, and a bachelor degree in Anthropology from The University of Western Ontario.

Dr. Leo Lo is the Dean and Professor of the College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico. His work focuses on advancing AI literacy and developing training programs for library and higher education professionals. As President of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), Dr. Lo established a national task force to create a set of essential AI competencies for library workers and launched an AI Discussion Group to facilitate broader professional engagement. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Artificial Intelligence for Business from the University of Oxford and earned a doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a M.S. in Information Studies from Florida State University.

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