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!

Information Literacy Committee Roundtable Discussion

NILRC’s Information Literacy Committee is hosting a roundtable discussion

“Generative AI tools on MY Campus”

Thursday, March 7th, 10 to 11:30 am. **

Hosted by the NILRC Information Literacy Committee, this discussion will revolve around what we are doing on our campuses with Generative AI tools. This will be a group discussion, without a presentation so that we can hear from you. 

Some of the questions we may tackle during this discussion include:

• What policies does your campus have on AI?

• Do you communicate Generative AI to students? If so, how?

• What are faculty most concerned about?

• Are there any assignments we’ve created that constructively use AI?

• Has it affected search engine results?

• Do you use it in your workflow? 

Please plan to join us!  We want to hear from you!

**A Google Meet link will be sent to the NILRC listserv. Please contact NILRC Director Lois Bruno at director@nilrc.org to be added to the list of recipients.

NILRC’s Professional Development Committee Webinar Series ~ Spring 2024 “Neurodiversity in the Library”

Tuesday, February 27, 2024, from 10 AM - 11 AM

We will be discussing Triton College library's initiatives and programs to help support neurodiversity on campus and in our community, beginning with the Neurodiversity Summit the library hosted in Fall 2023. This will be followed by a discussion about what other libraries are doing and ideas others have. Please bring your ideas! We want to show what we have done and learned on this topic but are eager to learn from other libraries and their successes and challenges. 

Presented by Amy Pinc, Director, Library Systems and Technical Services, Triton College Library
and Shekinah Lawrence, Faculty Librarian, Triton College

Tuesday, April 2, 2024, from 10 AM- 11 AM

Wearing Two Hats : one library's expanded role on campus providing support for a virtual bookstore

After transitioning to a virtual bookstore operated by the Follett Corporation, Morton College underwent a series of renovations meant to transform its spaces and services. The campus library, having temporarily moved to the shuttered bookstore space, was often seen by students as the place to ask questions about ordering textbooks and accessing eBooks for their classes. While library staff were directed to transfer questions to Follett's virtual support, it soon became apparent that staff training was needed to ensure effective, in-person customer service.  

This webinar will take a look at the Morton library’s experience in adjusting to a new role on campus, describe the challenges faced by staff in assisting students, and share recommendations on how to manage a smooth transition when adapting to different work responsibilities.

Presented by Thomas Mantzakides, Circulation Librarian, Morton College

Tuesday, April 20, 2024, from 10 AM - 11 AM

Library Collection Diversity Audits

Presented by Bryan Clark, Technical Services Librarian, Illinois Central College

Please note: The passcode required to enter all webinars can be found in the listserv messages sent by Committee Chair Amy Glass. Contact Lois Bruno at director@nilrc.org for more information.

NILRC’s Professional Development Committee Webinars are recorded.
Listen or watch previous webinars by clicking here.

NILRC Professional Development Fall Webinars

The NILRC Professional Development Committee (PDC) will be hosting the following webinars this Fall.

Please login to the Member Portal to access the links to the webinars. Contact Lois Bruno, NILRC Director for the password at director@nilrc.org.

 October 21st at 10 AM

 Title: Mental Health Awareness-Get to know NAMI

 Presenter: Teri Latter, ​State Program Director, NAMI Illinois

 Description: Take this opportunity to learn about NAMI-National Alliance on Mental Illness, what they do, and the resources they offer.

November 10th at 10 AM

Title: Library Outreach During COVID-19

Presenter: Valerie Moore, Prairie State College
Description: During the 2020-2021 academic year, the Prairie State College Library was only open by appointment. While we knew that faculty, staff, and students were overextended in their personal and professional lives, we wanted to continue offering programming and communications to showcase our work. This presented a unique opportunity to experiment with fully digital programming. We did so with low expectations and had mixed results. This presentation will cover what we did, what worked, what didn't, and how we intend to continue working with our students remotely, even now that the building is open again. 

December 7th at 10 AM

 Title: Introduction to MarcEdit

 Presenter: Natalie Hall, Moraine Valley Community College

 Description: Have you heard about MarcEdit but aren’t sure how to get started? This webinar is for you! This one hour presentation will introduce the most commonly used functions and tools in MarcEdit as well as best practices for working with MARC data within MarcEdit. Intended to be a practical introduction, it will use real-world examples to demonstrate how to add and delete fields, edit subfield and field data, change indicators, build new fields, and more! It will also cover some supplemental tools to make bulk editing easier including task lists and how to use MarcEdit to find errors in your MARC records.

Please login to the Member Portal to access the links to the webinars. Contact Lois Bruno, NILRC Director for the password at director@nilrc.org.

Hope to see you there!