University Library Information Bulletin

LIB-Jan. 11, 2006 - #E-02

Mark Your Calendar!
Illinois Library Day
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Each spring, librarians, trustees, and library volunteers gather in Springfield to advocate for libraries throughout our state, it is an opportunity for librarians to bring attention to the value of each Illinois library to their respective community, whether that community is a college campus, a school district, a city, or a specialized setting such as a hospital.

Plans call for participants to gather at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and march en masse to the Lincoln statue on the east side of the state capitol building for a rally featuring speeches from library leaders. Participants will lobby their individual state senators and representatives before and after the rally. Organizers are hoping for a turnout of at least five hundred members of the library community.

National Library Legislative Day
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Holiday Inn on the Hill
415 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
Registration form will appear in the February 2006 ILA Reporter.

In 2007 Congress will have to consider current budget deficits and other budget expenditures when they fund library programs. Congress will also have to make decisions about telecommunications, copyright, and privacy legislation. It is once again extremely important for library activists take the opportunity to make sure their voices are heard and to advocate for increased library funding.

On The ARL Server (Jan. 9, 2006)
News and Publications
• Research Library Trends--Introduction to the ARL Statistics 2003-04
More than 31% of the library materials budget is spent on electronic resources [PDF] (Source: ARL Statistics 2003-04)

Meetings and Professional Development Opportunities
SPARC Welcomes 2006 Steering Committee Members
• ARL Events at the ALA Midwinter Meeting, San Antonio, January 2006
• SPARC-ACRL Forum at ALA Midwinter: Authors and Authority: Perspectives on Negotiating Licenses and Copyright, Jan. 21, 2006, 4 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Register for LibQUAL+ Workshops at ALA Midwinter 2006
• LibQUAL+™ 2006 Introductory Workshop, Jan. 23, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, no charge
• LibQUAL+™ 2005 Results Meeting, Jan. 23, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m., no charge
• Understanding Mean Comparisons and Relations with Your LibQUAL+™ Data, Jan. 24, 8 a.m.-11 a.m., $50

• LibQUAL+ International Workshop, Feb. 2-3, 2006, University of Westminster, London, UK
• Living the Future 6: WOW!--Where Next? cosponsored by the University of Arizona Libraries, ARL, and ACRL in Tucson, Arizona, April 5-8, 2006
• ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication, hosted by UCLA, July 12-14, 2006

CARLI - Upcoming Training and Meetings
There is no charge associated with any of these workshops/meetings. Please do register as there is limited space in some of the venues.

Jan. 26, 2006:
Workshop: Using the OCLC Collection Analysis Product, Milner Library, Illinois State University, registration and more information

Feb. 2, 2006:
Workshop: Attack of the Giant Mold Spore: Mold
Prevention and Remediation for Cultural Institutions; Grainger Engineering Library, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. More information.

Feb. 3, 2006:
Workshop: Integrated Pest Management: Beating the Critter Jitters; Grainger Engineering Library, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. More information.

Feb. 10, 2006:
CARLI Bibliographers' Meeting. Holiday Inn, Normal, Illinois. Please hold this date. Registration and more information will be available next week.

Frequently Used Web sites:

UIC Library:

UIC Library Home Page

About the Library
Note:  This site is updated regularly.

CITY2000
A collection of photographs from more than 200 photographers spending 365 days canvassing the city and chronicling its people, places and personality.

Special Collections and University Archives

Employee of the Month Award @ UIC Library

Library All-Staff Meetings

Library Faculty Committees

Library Hours

Library News:
The Library's Electronic Newsletter on Acquisitions and Initiatives

ULIB Search Engine

Others:

ACCC Servers
This page lists the availability of ACCC run servers like tigger, mailserv, icarus, calendar, etc.

CIC
An academic consortium of twelve major teaching and research universities in the Midwest.

CRL
A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries acquiring and preserving traditional and digital resources for research and teaching, making them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.

ICCMP
Works to meet the diverse information needs of faculty, students, and other library users in Illinois by encouraging cooperative library activity in order to make the best use of resources.

IDAL
Building a collection of full-text and full-image electronic resources that support instruction, study, and research by students, faculty and staff in all eligible Illinois institutions of higher education.

ILA Reporter
(a bimonthly newsletter of the Illinois Library Association)

ILCSO
Enhances and expands access to and effectively utilize information resources through collaborative partnerships among ILCSO members and with the Illinois Library community.

Important Web sites

Caxton Club
Includes information of current area exhibits, special library programs and events of bibliographic interest and speaker schedules for members luncheons/dinners.

Chicago Area Archivists
Includes information on programs and events taking place at archives and manuscript repositories in the greater Chicagoland area.

Chicago Botanic Garden
Promotes gardens and gardening since 1890.

Field Museum
An accumulation and dissemination of knowledge, and the preservation and exhibition of objects illustrating art, archeology, science and history.

HistoryMakers
Committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to an internationally recognized, archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories.

Libary Mosaics: The Magazine for Support Staff
It's our electronic subscription to a magazine specifically geared to library classified staff.

Newberry Library
Includes information on programs for the public and a calendar of weekly events.

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