University Library Information Bulletin

LIB-May 04, 2005 - #E-18

IACRL Workshops Cancelled
The IACRL Spring Workshops scheduled for this Thursday, May 5, 2005, at Illinois State University have been cancelled due to low registrations.

For more information, contact:
Scott Drone-Silvers
Director of Library Services
Lake Land College
5001 Lake Land Blvd.
Mattoon, IL 61938
(217) 234-5338 / FAX (217) 234-5533

Complete Survey to Help ALA Gather Demographic Information on Members
ALA has launched the first-ever demographics survey and it's really critical as many people respond as possible.

For many years, ALA has asked its members to provide information about three aspects of their work lives - type of library or other organization, principal area of work, and level of responsibility. It was determined that additional member information was needed to effectively advocate for ALA members, and to provide services more effectively. The ALA Committee on Diversity
and the ALA Membership Committee approved the work of a task force that developed a member demographics questionnaire. By undertaking this member survey ALA takes a big step toward knowing itself and being able to describe itself to others. The key to success in the effort is, of course, member response.

Please take a few minutes to answer the following six questions. Your individual response remains confidential, and ALA only will report about total responses. The survey takes less than 60 seconds to complete.

Please distribute this and encourage participation in this survey via your lists so that ACRL can benchmark our membership diversity. At present we have no demographic data on our members and the new strategic plan directs us to "increase ACRL's membership of under-represented ethnic and racial academic and research librarians." We can't measure progress without some baseline data and this project will help us gather much-needed baseline data.

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.

Daley Library Special Collections

Employee of the Month Award @ UIC LibraryLibrary All-Staff Meetings

Library Faculty CommitteesLibrary 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.

CMLS Workshops (including online registration)
UIC staff interested in attending any workshop must first secure permission from their supervisor to attend and justify why the library should pay for their participation. The request requires review by the University Librarian, who will make the final decision.

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.

Web sites You Should Know About

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 Area Librarians' Calendar
(published by the Chicago Library System)

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.

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

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