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Best-Selling Author Traci Sorell named 2024 Preservation Week庐 Honorary Chair
CHICAGO–Preservation Week is happy to announce that best-selling author Traci Sorell is the 2024 Honorary Chair of Preservation Week, April 28 – May 4. Traci Sorell writes inclusive, award-winning historical and contemporary fiction and nonfiction in a...
Core Webinar Series: Creative Commons
CHICAGO—Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures is excited to present the four-part webinar series “Creative Commons” March-April 2024. This webinar series is from Creative Commons, an international nonprofit organization that empowers people to grow...
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Asking for Help in a Helping Profession
CHICAGO—Core hosts the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Asking for Help in a Helping Profession" on February 28, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. In our work as librarians we encourage all library patrons to ask for help. Librarianship is the profession of “Ask Us” and...
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Using Critical Reflection to Navigate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Issues" on February 27, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Over the last several years, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have become...
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Transformative Agreements; Twisting Open Access
CHICAGO—Core hosts the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Transformative Agreements; Twisting Open Access" on February 21, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Transformative Agreements are large academic publishers’ latest model for increasing revenue and exploiting the Open...
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Burnout in Libraries; A Research & Advocacy Panel
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Burnout in Libraries; A Research & Advocacy Panel" on February 20, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. In this panel discussion, participants will discuss burnout in libraries as researched and witnessed in both...
Core Adds More to the 鈥淏est of Core Forum鈥 Webinar Collection for 2023 Event
CHICAGO — Core is pleased to announce an updated list of selections for the second “Best of Core Forum” webinar collection. These webinars are based on programs presented at the 2023 Core Forum. The presenters are adapting the program content into live...
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Getting Our Money鈥檚 Worth with eBook Acquisitions
CHICAGO –Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Getting Our Money's Worth with eBook Acquisitions" on February 14, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. With more than six years of data from the Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) program of an R1 university, the...
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Data Visualizations and Dashboards; Lessons Learned
CHICAGO –Core hosts the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Data Visualizations and Dashboards; Lessons Learned" on February 13, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Like many libraries, Miami University's has storehouses full of operations data. However, challenges frequently...
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Creating an Inclusive Metadata Policy
CHICAGO–Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Creating an Inclusive Metadata Policy" on February 6, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. The Brigham Young University Library is creating an Inclusive Metadata Policy for metadata creators to use when creating and...
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: BIPOC Women Leadership in Academic Libraries
CHICAGO –Core hosts the webinar "Best of Core Forum: BIPOC Women Leadership in Academic Libraries" on February 7, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. This panel presentation is composed of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) women leaders, working in middle...
Ashley Mitchell Named a 2024 Core Emerging Leader
CHICAGO—Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures is pleased to announce that Ashley Mitchell has been selected as a Core Emerging Leader (EL). Mitchell serves as Adult Services Librarian at Camden County Library System in Voorhees, NJ. She has over 20...
Alison Van Norman Named a 2024 Core Emerging Leader
CHICAGO—Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures is pleased to announce that Alison Van Norman has been selected as a Core Emerging Leader (EL). Van Norman serves as the Outreach and Marketing Librarian for Elon University, where she plans and markets...
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Designing for Human Behavior
CHICAGO –Core hosts the free webinar "Best of Core Forum: Designing for Human Behavior" on January 17, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. This webinar discusses the different behavior and work patterns we have observed over our 30+ years of designing for public spaces...
Carrie McClain Named a 2024 Core Emerging Leader
CHICAGO—Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures is pleased to announce that Carrie McClain has been selected as a Core Emerging Leader (EL). McClain serves as the Chief Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Tulsa City-County Library, where she...
