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This program will assist participants to:

• identify sources of grant funding from private and public funders;
• highlight the essential elements of grantsmanship;
• complete a grant proposal application package according to a Notice of Funding Opportunity;
• take action on the proposal based on the results of the funder’s decision;
• understand the most common missteps in preparing an application package.

Themes:

• Review of the grant submission process;
• How to avoid common pitfalls;
• Tips to help your application shine.

Objectives: To have a basic understanding of the grant application process and to be a more successful grant author.

Presenter: 

Since July of 2016, Anne Craig has had the privilege of serving as the Senior Director at CARLI, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, a unit of the University of Illinois System. CARLI counts 125 academic and research libraries as its members. Anne has also been an instructor for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign iSchool since 2018, teaching “Grant Writing for Libraries” and “State Libraries and Library Consortia.”

Current grant projects: 

• In August 2024, the University of Illinois System/CARLI was awarded a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian planning grant for $140,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. 
• In January 2024, the Secretary of State/Illinois State Library awarded $300,000 to the University of Illinois System/CARLI for programmatic administration of their Open Educational Resources grant program. 
• In September 2021, the University of Illinois System/CARLI was awarded a three-year $2 million grant from the US Department of Education’s Open Textbooks Pilot Program. 

Prior to July 2016, Anne was the Director of the Illinois State Library for 11 years under Secretary of State Jesse White, holding various roles at the ISL since 1989.

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Sponsored by CARLI

In December 2024, Ex Libris released the "New Titles Search" experience for libraries. Aside from the sliding panels and stacked information, the new user interface streamlines some access to metadata and resource management functionality that should benefit catalogers. In this month's Q&A session, CARLI Senior Library Services Coordinator Ted Schwitzner will review how to setup and customize the UI, how to take advantage of changes to the search options and results, and changes in the UI that improve the ability to work records in fewer clicks.

Other possible topics (time permitting) may include searching and importing records from WorldCat and setting up templates for MARC records and item records. Your questions and tips are also welcome.

The CARLI Technical Services Q&A Webinar Series offers an opportunity to gather with CARLI staff and your technical services colleagues across the consortium to discuss technical services topics and services, including the use of Alma, OCLC services, and other library tech services platforms that affect acquisitions and cataloging workflows for physical and electronic resources. Sessions may include how-to presentations, discussions of consortial practices, and opportunities for everyone to ask and answer questions on different issues. Each session is recorded and archived.

Please register for this event in advance. Zoom connection details will be sent to registrants one day in advance of the session.

A new year of SCELC Channel One kicks off this week with a presentation by SCELC's Director of Strategic Library Services and Communications, M Ryan Hess, on the topic of developing the "guardrails" that library organizations like ours should consider when developing guidance on staff usage of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and other similar tools in a rapidly-expanding landscape.

Ryan's talk will open with general context for the current state of generative AI tools, including a high-level overview of machine learning, the role of data, and how AI really works, as well as general ethical and professional issues with AI. He will then focus in on our organizations' context by discussing:

• Likely impacts of AI on the various library professions
• Library-relevant skills for ‘running’ with AI

We will close with a brief review of SCELC's own staff policy for using AI tools, before opening up community Q&A and discussion on establishing similar guidelines for your own organizations.

Presenter:
M Ryan Hess, Director of Strategic Library Services and Communications, SCELC

This webinar is open to members of the Professional Development Alliance.

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