Circulation Interest Group

Join us as we launch our Circulation Interest Group!  The Circulation Interest Group will serve as a space for library professionals working in areas of circulation to come together to discuss best practices, find support through challenges, and develop innovative ways to explore emerging trends.  Your participation will help to build a better sense of community and provide a place to turn to when presented with new ideas or problems.  

We will develop a list of topics we’d like to explore throughout the year and finalize the rest of the 2025 bi-monthly schedule at our kickoff meeting on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, at 11:00 AM, 

Have any questions?  You can contact the group facilitator, Becky Goode, at rgoode@waubonsee.edu.  

NILRC Endorses CARLI Statement on Academic Libraries

NILRC Board met to discuss the September statement from CARLI on the Importance of Librarians in Academic Libraries. The NILRC organization agrees and supports this statement. Full text is included at the link below.

NILRC endorses the CARLI Statement on the Importance of Librarians in Academic Libraries

Civic Engagement in the Library Webinar

Tuesday, October 8th, 2024

11:30 to 12:30pm

Civic engagement in the library: tools for teaching students to how to evaluate election information and disinformation

Join us for a webinar discussing different lesson plans, display ideas, and other tools and pedagogies concerning disinformation and the Nov elections.  We will discuss this for part of the webinar and will open the floor for participants to provide and discuss their own ideas and tools for civic engagement in the Library.  As we collect ideas from other NILRC librarians in the webinar, we will develop a resource list to distribute throughout NILRC community.  Please join us! 

Presented by

Katie Ediger, Andy Cougill, and Jason Ertz

Click HERE to join your colleagues for a webinar on Tuesday, October 8, at 11:30!

2024-2025 Monthly Meet-ups Schedule

Join your colleagues from member institutions for informal discussions and networking.  Each month, a guest co-host will join NILRC Director, Lois Bruno, to discuss a specific topic of interest. 
Meet-ups are held monthly on the third Wednesday (unless otherwise noted) from 2 - 3 PM. 
Be sure to add the following opportunities to your calendar!

 September 18

Topic: Reserves

Co-host: Bryan Clark, Illinois Central College

 October 16

Topic: Collection Development for Foreign Language Materials

Co-host: Amy Pinc, Triton College

 November 20

Topic: Community Outreach

Co-host: Sarah Hill, Lake Land College

 January 15

Topic: Marketing Your Library Using Canva and Similar Applications

Co-host: Guillermo Gasca, Morton College

 February 19

Topic: TBD

Co-host: Amanda Avery, Parkland College

 March 19

Topic: NILRC Board Elections

Co-host: Sam Suber, Moraine Valley Community College

April 16

Topic: TBD

Co-host: Morgann Quilty, Parkland College

 May 21

Topic: TBD

Co-host: Christine Kuffel, Harper College