University Library Information Bulletin

LIB-Nov. 23, 2005 - #E-47

UIC Office of Access and Equity Classes
 
• Supervisor's Role: Avoiding & Responding to Charges, Complaints and Grievances, Tuesday, Nov.29, 2005
• Disabilities in the University Environment, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005
• Respect in the Workplace, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005

To register for any of the above classes, visit Human Resources Development registration.

Educause Midwest Regional Conference 2006
Mark your calendar now for the conference, "Leadership, Strategy, and Collaboration: Making IT Work at All Levels," March 13–15 in Chicago, Ill.

The 2006 theme is "Leadership, Strategy, and Collaboration: Making IT Work at All Levels." Whether your focus is administrative services, information resources, teaching and learning, technology infrastructure, or management within higher education, you'll find opportunities to learn, share, and connect with others in your field and from your part of the country. At the center of the conference are practical "how-to" sessions that offer valuable, region-specific information and ideas to help you manage and lead IT at your institution.

The sessions follow 6 key tracks:

• Building IT Communities: From Consensus to Collaboration
• Enterprise Systems
• Evolving the Learning Ecosystem
• Leadership, Strategy, and Professional Development
• The Next Best Thing: Emerging Technologies
• Corporate and Campus Solutions

On The ARL Server (Nov. 17, 2005)
News and Publications
• LibQUAL+™ Update, Vol. 3, No. 2 (pdf)--Learn more about the 2006 survey process and how to order a custom-discipline results notebook for your institution.
• LibQUAL+™ Grants for Libraries--application deadline December 20

Meetings and Professional Development Opportunities
• LibQUAL+™ Grants for Libraries--application deadline December 20
• Living the Future 6: WOW!--Where Next? cosponsored by the University of Arizona Libraries, ARL, and ACRL, Tucson, Arizona, April 5-8
• ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication, hosted by UCLA, July 12-14
• SPARC-ACRL Forum at ALA Midwinter: Authors and Authority: Perspectives on Negotiating Licenses and Copyright, Jan. 21, 4 -6 p.m.

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

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 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.

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 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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