Events

Events

Tue, Oct 6, 2026 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm

As college students increasingly consume news and find information through social media platforms, it is more crucial than ever that libraries involved in teaching information literacy include this medium in their offerings. When social media is used as a source in both personal and academic searches for information, critical evaluation of its production, authority, and consumption becomes essential. 
 
This presentation highlights an online interactive tutorial one academic library developed to target social media literacy for freshman-level information literacy instruction, as well as featuring along the way some tips and tactics for creating digital learning objects such as the one demonstrated. 

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Hosted by FLVC 

Wed, Oct 7, 2026 / 10:00am to 11:00am

The Archives Committee meets monthly.

This virtual meeting is held via Zoom / Conference Call.

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Thu, Oct 8, 2026 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Monthly meeting of the CARLI Public Services Committee.

Contact the CARLI office for Zoom connection information

Fri, Oct 9, 2026 / 11:00am to 12:30pm

The Preservation Committee meets monthly.

This virtual meeting is held via Zoom / Conference Call.

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Fri, Oct 9, 2026 / 11:00am to 12:00pm

The Commercial Products Committee meets monthly via Zoom.

Tue, Oct 13, 2026 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm

As artificial intelligence becomes an essential skill across academic and professional settings, community colleges are uniquely positioned to prepare students for responsible and effective AI use. This webinar will guide educators, instructional designers, and academic leaders through the process of developing a comprehensive AI training course that can be delivered in multiple formats, including in-person, hybrid, and fully online self-paced learning environments. 

Participants will explore practical strategies for designing engaging and scalable AI instruction centered on three core focus areas:  

  • Building Effective Prompts: Teaching students how to communicate clearly with AI tools to generate high-quality, accurate, and useful outputs. 
  • Ethical Use of AI: Establishing guidelines and best practices for responsible AI use, including academic integrity, bias awareness, transparency, fact-checking AI tools and digital citizenship. 
  • Assessment: Developing meaningful assessment strategies that measure student learning, critical thinking, and AI literacy while maintaining academic rigor.  

Attendees will leave with actionable frameworks, curriculum ideas, and implementation strategies for creating AI learning experiences that meet the needs of not only today's diverse community college students, but also students across all instructional modalities. 

Register to attend.

Hosted by FLVC 
 

Wed, Oct 14, 2026 / 2:00pm to 2:45pm

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 link to the recording will be sent via the CARLI Governing Directors email list as soon as it is available and can be viewed for 30 days after the meeting.

Thu, Oct 15, 2026 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm

While libraries are traditionally academic hubs, they are also potential open spaces for student engagement and socialization. Post-pandemic, students spend less time on campus and even when on campus, they prefer solitude over peer-to-peer interaction. In an era of significant budget cuts and rising commuter student populations, college libraries face a unique challenge: how do we continue to serve our communities in new and impactful ways? A team of subject-liaison librarians from public service units sought to bridge this service gap and created events in support of student community engagement. With no prior history of student programming and no dedicated budget, the librarians launched a semester-long series of social events with a focus on building community and fostering connection. 
 
These events included trivia nights, scavenger hunts, game nights, and finals week: study breaks. We will share takeaways on securing funding, leveraging our existing resources, addressing unexpected and continuing challenges, and documenting the impact of the events based on our experiences at a public R1 university with a large commuter population. 

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Hosted by FLVC 
 

Mon, Oct 19, 2026 / 2:00pm to 3:30pm

The Collection Management Committee meets monthly.

This virtual meeting is held via Zoom / Conference Call.

Contact  for attendance details.

Tue, Oct 20, 2026 / 9:30am to 3:00pm

Elgin Community College
E Building 
1700 Spartan Drive
Elgin, IL 60123-7193
Campus Map

Please join the Technical Services Committee for an in-person forum held at Elgin Community College.  
9:30-10:00    Registration
10:00-10:15    Welcome and Logistics
10:15-10:35    Beyond the Barcode: Our Approach to a Complete Library Inventory Elizabeth Outler – DePaul University

The Vincent J. Rinn Law Library at DePaul University holds approximately 215,000 volumes. However, after a number of disruptions in 2020-2023 caused by (1) the pandemic, (2) migrating to Alma, (3) a major shifting, weeding, and collection relocation project to create more study spaces, and (4) multiple significant retirements, we started to question whether the volume and title counts that we were reporting were completely accurate. Given the upheaval of recent years and forecasting that the next five to ten years would continue to present significant changes in budget, space, and staffing, we decided the time was ripe for conducting an inventory and working to make sure the catalog contains as clear and correct a description of our collection as possible. We also learned that CARLI provides customized, hosted access to an interactive inventory tool that allows scanning items on the shelf and using the Alma API to make read-only calls to our catalog. Knowing that this tool was available, we began testing it and designing workflows that we hoped would enable us to launch a full inventory project and complete it within one year. We are now four months in, and we'd be glad to describe our process and lessons learned so far, for anyone who is thinking about embarking on an inventory project.

10:35-11:00    Serials Holdings for the Perplexed
Jill Walker – Northern Illinois University
Rebekkah LaRue – Dominican University

Are you unsure of the ins and outs of creating holdings for serials? Do you feel lost when you add or edit holdings for serials? Is your method looking at existing holdings for guidance? Then this session is for you! We will demystify the process of creating serials holdings in accordance with ANSI/NISO Z39.71 so you can have new confidence when creating or editing your institution’s holdings. We will cover:•An overview of the different holdings levels allowed under ANSI/NISO Z39.71•How to create Level 3 and Level 4 holdings with 866 summary statements (fields 883-855 and 863-865 will not be covered)•Provide many practice examples and practice exercises, time permitting

11:00-11:15    Break
11:15-12:15    Three Times the Audits: Performing Collection Audits in Multiple Ways 
Bryan Clark – Illinois Central College

In 2025, Illinois Central College performed an audit on various aspects of their collection.  First, to see what the ICC library had compared to other institutions, a subject audit was performed in Choreo Insights to determine how the collection compared to their peer institutions.  Second, looking at a specific LC range, librarians performed an author audit to determine if the area in question had a full range of voices.  Third, looking at the same LC range, librarians performed a classification audit.  They discussed whether items needed to be moved to different classification areas based on the main themes of the books.  Come see what we did and what we learned in order to move forward with your own audits.

12:15-1:00    Lunch – Provided by CARLI

1:00-1:45    Breakout Sessions

  • Tour the Elgin Community College Library
  • OCLC-Alma Data Workflows Discussion
  • Book First Aid: Processing and Repair Library Books
  • Serials Holdings Presentation - Continuing the Conversation

2:00-2:15    Break

2:15-3:00    Breakout Sessions Repeated
    

 

 

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