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5th Annual PA Forward Information Literacy Summit
July 19, 2017
Located at the Penn State University Libraries in State College, PA  

The PA Forward Information Literacy Summit is back for 2017!  This summit will focus around libraries and maker culture, and will be relevant to any librarians interested or involved in teaching and learning, including academic, public, school, and special librarians, and other educators.

A detailed call for proposals will be shared at the end of January, and proposals will be due by March 15, 2017.  For more information, please contact one of the conference co-chairs:  Debbie Malone (debbie.malone@desales.edu) or Rebecca Miller (rkm17@psu.edu).  We look forward to reading your proposals and seeing you in State College in July!

The American Library Association’s Center for the Future of Libraries is pleased to provide a fellowship for an individual or group interested in exploring the future of libraries. The fellowship will provide a stipend of $10,000 to advance new ideas and perspectives for the future of libraries through the creation of a public product – report, white paper, video, resource, tool – that will help library professionals envision the future of library collections, partnerships, services, spaces, or technologies. Projects may build on existing work, research, or initiatives of the Association, its Offices, Divisions, and Round Tables, or explore new directions and interests.

Pennsylvania Libraries Research & Practice (PaLRaP) invites submissions for peer review for the Spring 2017 issue. Articles can fall under the category of research or practice, and must feature Pennsylvania libraries and librarians.

Full descriptions of the types of articles accepted, as well as online submission, can be found on the journal’s web site.

For full consideration of articles for peer review, please upload submissions by March 15, 2017.

Any questions can be directed to the journal’s editors, Anne Behler (behler@psu.edu), and Tom Reinsfelder (tlr15@psu.edu).

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine Training Office (NTO) is seeking your opinion on the types of educational opportunities you would like to see offered by the NN/LM. We want to hear from you about the types of courses you need and what formats you prefer. Your responses will help us to prioritize class development.

We estimate that this needs assessment will take 10-15 minutes to complete. You can save your responses and return later, by clicking “Save and Continue” at the top of the screen, after the first page. This feedback form will close November 30, 2016.

For questions, please reach out to us at nto@utah.edu

Survey link – http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3028892/NNLMTraining