Events

Technical Services Committee Meeting

Wed, May 27, 2026 / 10:00am to 11:30am

The CARLI Technical Services Committee meets monthly via Zoom. Contact committee co-chairs or CARLI Office Staff with questions.

CARLI OER Office Hour

Wed, May 27, 2026 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Do you have questions about the Illinois Support for the Creation of Open Educational Resources grant (SCOERs), the OER funding from the Secretary of State/Illinois State Library, or the CARLI Member OER Initiative? Do you need guidance creating your OER or ancillary materials?

If so please feel free to join us with all your OER related questions. Registration is not required.

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Governing Directors Check-In

Thu, May 28, 2026 / 1:00pm to 1:45pm

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.

Technical Services Q&A: Finding Unique Copies

Thu, May 28, 2026 / 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Discussion on methods and reports used by CARLI and libraries to identify possible unique items in their collections.

Technical Services Q&A sessions offer staff at CARLI libraries the opportunity to share best practices and issues of concern with CARLI staff, with members of the Technical Services Committee, and with each other.

DEI Committee Meeting

Tue, Jun 2, 2026 / 1:00pm to 2:30pm

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee meets monthly.

This virtual meeting is held via Zoom / Conference Call.

Contact CARLI Support for attendance details.

Digital Possibilities Series: Tending the Community - Building and Sustaining a Crowdsourced Transcription Project

Wed, Jun 3, 2026 / 11:00am to 12:00pm

Newberry Transcribe invites volunteers to help unlock the Newberry Library's handwritten historical collections — one document at a time. In this webinar, Digital Services Librarian Jen Wolfe discusses the philosophy behind the project, the outreach strategies that have built an active volunteer community, and the ongoing work of sustaining a transcription program after launch. Attendees will come away with a framework for thinking about crowdsourced transcription not as a technical problem but as a community relationship — one that remains meaningful even in an age of AI.

This is the first webinar of the summer Digital Possibilities webinar series, a CARLI and FLVC joint collaboration.

Presenter:

Jen Wolfe is a Digital Services Librarian at the Newberry Library in Chicago, where she manages digital scholarship and outreach programs, including Newberry Transcribe, a crowdsourced manuscript transcription project. She has spent over a decade making archival materials accessible and engaging for non-specialist audiences through digital exhibitions, instructional resources, and public programming.

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Hosted by CARLI

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