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In 2015, The American Library Association (ALA) partnered with The Harwood institute for Public Innovation to offer the Public Innovators Lab for Libraries. By serving as a public innovator and having a better understanding of our communities, we not…

Care to be aware! Stop by this session and get a brief introduction about information security and what role we all have in keeping information safe. Remember, Control + Alt + Delete when you leave your seat!

Paper presentation overview: One of the most work-intensive tasks for digital image collections is creating the image metadata. At UIC, this work was traditionally done by the archivists. We've recently expanded that workflow to engage catalogers…

Paper Presentation overview: From fall 2015 to spring 2017, librarians at the IU Kokomo Library collaborated with program directors in speech communication and writing programs to assess information literacy in the general education curriculum in…

This keynote speech is about diversity in the Library and Information Science field, more specifically regarding Chinese-American librarians.

Conference program abstract of presentation on how to utilize an immersive learning games platform, Breakout EDU, for an information literacy course.

The presenter will discuss seven key issues librarians and library professionals should mindful of when developing student programming and interacting with student populations. This presentation will provide a basic framework for those who are…

Open educational resources (OER) have become more and more popular among academic institutions and libraries across America. They are usually referred to as freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, as well as other digital assets that are…

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has a collection of over seven hundred thousand eBooks across numerous platforms, available to download in multiple methods, and with a variety of purchase options. This presentation explains how UIC makes…

In 2007, the State Administration of Press and Publication of China initiated and led the Village Library Project（农家书屋）to meet the cultural needs of Chinese farmers.

This project aimed to establish a small library in each administrative village…