CARLI News

The CARLI Annual Meeting will be held on November 1, 2013 at the Hilton Garden Inn Conference Center in Champaign. The sessions will feature research findings based on CARLI information or from CARLI libraries. 

September 17, 2013
By: Margaret Chambers

From MC Student Life (Monmouth College) in CARLI Digital Collections.

Monmouth College's freshman class of 1917  
 
 
 

September 6, 2013
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Are you effectively assessing your library instruction? Do the students in your classroom understand the concepts you are teaching? Does your instruction have an impact on student learning? These are all important questions that every instruction librarian should be asking. Many of us struggle with determining what to assess and the best way to do it. Finding adequate time to plan assessment activities in the midst of everything else we do can sometimes be overwhelming.

September 3, 2013
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Read the CARLI News for the latest information on CARLI events, new and ongoing projects, product and service updates and upcoming deadlines. Issues are sent to all subscribers of the “Announce” listserv. ​

Save the Date: 2013 Annual Meeting and Directors' Meetings

The CARLI Annual Meeting will be held on November 1, 2013 at the Hilton Garden Inn Conference Center in Champaign. The sessions will feature research findings based on CARLI information or from CARLI libraries. 

August 28, 2013
By: Margaret Chambers

The CARLI Office is pleased to announce that the new index for the I-Share union catalog is now in place. The new index supports three major enhancements to the VuFind interface:

August 22, 2013
By: Margaret Chambers

CARLI has completed reindexing of all VuFind local catalogs. The reindexing takes advantage of new data elements in RDA catalog records, and also of some previously unexploited data elements in AACR2 and older catalog records. We expect a new index for the I-Share union catalog to be ready within the next few days.

August 22, 2013
By: Margaret Chambers

Read the CARLI News for the latest information on CARLI events, new and ongoing projects, product and service updates and upcoming deadlines. Issues are sent to all subscribers of the “Announce” listserv. 

July 12, 2013
By: Margaret Chambers

From John Wesley Powell Collection of Pueblo Pottery (Illinois Wesleyan University) in CARLI Digital Collections.

This week’s Featured Image installment is a chorus of voices responding to this photograph of a pueblo ceramic cooking jar. Ellen and I invited people to take a look and tell us what they thought about it. Here are the results.

June 26, 2013
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The Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912: Page 245
From Spalding's Soccer Foot Ball Guide (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) in CARLI Digital Collections.

When a collection title tells you pretty much exactly what you're going to get, it's the unexpected find that delights.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

June 19, 2013
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From Campus Archival Documents (University of Illinois at Springfield) in CARLI Digital Collections.

A 1970s political protest with style gets the "Featured Image" authors talking.

June 6, 2013
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