RLOE Network Leadership Program: Open Call for Participation

The RLOE Network Leadership Program supports leaders to build individualized strategic plans for Open Education that align with existing campus goals to support underserved and underrepresented students. The RLOE programming helps leaders structure plans that integrate the use, application and development of open education resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP). Scholarships available! Contact Dr. Karen Cangialosi with questions.

Professional Development Committee Webinar ~ Library Outreach During Covid-19

November 9th at Noon

 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. 

No registration is required. Click here for the Zoom link.


Vendor Spotlight Webinar: PowerNotes - New tools to maximize library resources and improve digital learning

NILRC and PowerNotes have partnered to provide discounted pricing and subscription benefits for member institutions. Join us for an introductory webinar to see what the PowerNotes tools can do. Current subscribers will also benefit from attending!

9:00 am on Tuesday, October 26 - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89661786551


3:00 pm on Wednesday, October 27 - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88563666932

What is PowerNotes?

PowerNotes addresses the challenges inherent to source-based research and writing in the digital environment and seeks to improve writing quality with tools that provide an efficient and continuous workflow through the entire digital reading, research, and writing process. Learn how PowerNotes can:

  • increase the accessibility of your databases with integrated OCR;

  • improve reading comprehension and retention in the digital environment;

  • prevent unintentional plagiarism and contract cheating;

  • combat procrastination while allowing students to reflect on their reading and writing activities;

  • enable students to gather, annotate, and save content and citation information efficiently;

  • put students in the best position to write by providing an efficient organizational framework;

  • provide instructors and librarians with visibility into the students’ research process;

  • prepare students to become proficient college-level readers and writers.

Kyle will also be showcasing their latest Automated Citations, Group Annotation, and Source Notes/Information Literacy features.

Contact Kyle Zegarac | Kyle@powernotes.com with questions.


Professional Development Committee Webinar: Introduction to MarcEdit

December 7th at 10 AM

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.

Click here to view the recorded webinar.

Professional Development Committee Webinar ~ Library Outreach During Covid-19

November 9th at Noon

 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. 

No registration is required. Click here for the Zoom link.


Call for NILRC Board Nominations

NILRC is seeking candidates for the 2021-22 Board. On Friday, May 7, 2021, members will vote for the Chair-elect and two (2) Member-at-large positions during our Annual Council of Delegates meeting. Due to the ongoing pandemic, this event will be on Zoom. Chair-elect is a three-year term beginning July 2021. Member-at-large is a two-year term beginning July 2021.

The nomination process begins with an open call for nominations for these positions. NILRC invites all members to nominate a colleague. Self-nominations are also encouraged. According to NILRC bylaws, nominees appearing on the slate must be from a full-member institution.

Submit a nomination HERE.

The deadline for submission of nominations is Wednesday, March 31, 2021.

Data Storytelling Concepts and Strategies Webinar

Storytelling has been happening for over a century in libraries, but its applications are too often presumed to be narrowly focused on serving children. The skills involved in navigating a dynamic exchange between teller, audience, and story are applicable to the most pressing problems facing libraries and librarians in the 21st century, those of communicating our knowledge and value. This talk will feature storytelling insights based on over 40 interviews from the Storytelling @ Work project, combining insights from librarians with those from storytelling applications in advancement and fundraising. Participants will leave with narrative structures for building informative and emotionally compelling stories from their own knowledge and experience to communicate their value.

Click HERE to watch the recorded webinar.

Click HERE to view webinar Power Point slides.

Save the Date for NILRC's 2021 Annual Meeting!

Network of Illinois Learning Resources In Community Colleges www.nilrc.org

Network of Illinois Learning Resources in Community Colleges
www.nilrc.org

Save the date

for

 NILRC’s 2021 Annual Meeting!

Friday, May 7, 2021

 9 am – 12:30 pm

 The Annual Meeting will be a virtual event on Zoom

 The morning will include:

·       Approval of our 2021-22 Budget
·       Board Elections
·      Committee Progress Reports
·      An opportunity to connect with other NILRC members

Join us!

For more information, please contact Lois Bruno,
Director of Member Relations and Consortium Business Manager
director@nilrc.org/262-287-8017

Pivot Tables: Establishing Relationships – Part Three

Pivot Tables: Establishing Relationships – Part Three Pivot tables are a way to view and manipulate your data. Queries are ways to import data. Power Pivot is way to create a shared pivot table through multiple data sets. Measures are ways to create formulas based off a shared pivot table. The next step (next webinar) will highlight the limitations of a shared pivot table and solutions to fix this. Database relationship theory will be discussed and practiced through sample scenarios. No prior experience with database design is necessary.

Join Sam Suber on Friday, November 20th at 10AM to learn new ways to make the most out of your data. This is Part Three of a three-part webinar series on Pivot Tables. No registration required; the Zoom links for all three webinars are below.

Pivot Tables - An Introduction - Part One

Pivot Tables – Making Connections – Part Two

Pivot Tables - Part Three - Establishing Relationships

NILRC Evaluating Sources Webinar

Jennie Archer (Carl Sandburg College) demonstrated methods she has used to put evaluating sources into classroom instruction, including finding time for it in one-shot instruction.  She will also be looking at how this fits into the national news and some of the tools that have been brought up nationally since this topic became so much more important. YouTube link

This session was recorded on Tuesday, March 21, 2017. 

 

NILRC Evaluating Sources Webinar Tuesday, March 21, 2017 Jennie Archer (Carl Sandburg College) demonstrated methods she has used to put evaluating sources into classroom instruction, including finding time for it in one-shot instruction. She will also be looking at how this fits into the national news and some of the tools that have been brought up nationally since this topic became so much more important.