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Save the Date: 2023 WRLC Annual Meeting
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In-person plenary and lunch : Tuesday, May 23rd
Gallaudet University
Concurrent sessions online: Wednesday, May 24th
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Enjoy a free lunch with your colleagues from the consortium!
We are excited to announce that the WRLC Annual Meeting will take place on May 23rd and 24th, 2023. This two-day event is an opportunity for us to come together as a community and celebrate our achievements, share our experiences, and plan for the future.
This year's meeting will be held both in-person and virtually. The plenary session will be in-person at Gallaudet University. We are planning a packed agenda filled with engaging discussions and opportunities for networking. Whether you are a new member or a long-time supporter, you won't want to miss this chance to connect with your colleagues and peers.
The following day, join us online for a day full of the concurrent sessions on topical issues in the WRLC.
In next month’s newsletter, we will be sharing more information about the program, and how to sign up to be a presenter. In the meantime, we encourage you to mark your calendars and plan to join us for this exciting event.
We look forward to seeing you in May!
- WRLC Sharing Expertise Committee
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Open@WRLC $2,000 Faculty Course Transformation Grant and $200 Open Textbook Library Review Stipend
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The Open@WRLC Textbook Affordability Working Group (TAWG) is pleased to announce the Open Educational Resources (OER) adopt grant inaugural Request for Proposals for the 2023- 24 Academic Year. The next mandatory informational webinar, for both the $2,000 Faculty Course Transformation Grant and the $200 Open Textbook Library Review Stipend, is Wednesday, February 15, 2023 1:00 PM (EST), Register Now!
Both the $2,000 grant and $200 stipend program work to assist faculty who are interested in replacing commercially published textbook materials with Open Educational Resources (OER) in their courseware material. Using no-cost or low-cost materials advances educational equity and directly impacts student retention and academic success.
You can learn more about the Open Textbook Library Stipend Eligibility Requirements and the Faculty Course Transformation Grant program on WRLC's Open@WRLC.org site.
Questions? Please contact your TAWG campus representative or the Open@WRLC staff at open@wrlc.org.
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Twice per year, Ex Libris refreshes all Sandbox environments. A refresh means that all data and configurations are copied from the corresponding production environment to the sandbox; these replace any data and configurations already existing in the sandbox.
Our first refresh of the new year is scheduled for Sunday, February 12, 2023.
WRLC will do its best to recreate all consortial user accounts created in the past six months (login information will be emailed to all applicable users), but if you find that you do not have access to the sandbox after Tuesday, February 14th, you can fill out the WRLC Sandbox Access Request Form to request a new sandbox user account.
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Preservation Week is Coming
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Preservation Week will be April 30-May 6, 2023 this year. Preservation Week inspires action to preserve personal, family, and community collections in addition to library, museum, and archive collections. It also raises awareness of the role libraries and other cultural institutions play in providing ongoing preservation education and information. WRLC’s Preservation Advisory Committee will be highlighting work that is being done in this area throughout our consortium both in this space and elsewhere. Preservation work takes many forms - from the physical repair and preservation of a historic photograph like this one at Georgetown University, to the ongoing migration of digital materials to PAW, the Preservation Archive for WRLC.
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Presenting? Let us Know!
Are you presenting? Hosting a webinar? Sharing a panel discussion with fellow colleagues? Well, we'd like to know and share in upcoming newsletters! Please use the following Google form to share your participation in upcoming presentations, webinars or other events! The WRLC and fellow library staff across all institutions are interested in knowing more, attending and helping you spread the word!
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Highlight a WRLC Colleague
Do you have a colleague that goes above and beyond? Do they contribute to the WRLC in a special way that deserves to be highlighted? Share their story (or yours) in the questionnaire below to be featured in a future newsletter!
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SUNY Peer 2 Peer Lending Pilot Program
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Want to see how our pilot program with SUNY is doing? Gloria Sena, working with Aaron Kebeck and Timothy Jackson, have developed reports to show the results of WRLC's resource sharing with SUNY. These reports are accessible and are updated on demand in the ALMA Network Zone and monthly on the intranet at https://www.libraries.wrlc.org/alma-resource-sharing-statistics-and-reports/resource-sharing-reports.
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Stay up to date on the latest events at the WRLC
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ASERL Sponsored Professional Development Activities
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ASERL offers a wide variety of webinars at no cost for members and other interested professionals. Follow the linked program title for full details and to register for an event.
NOTE: ASERL’s Code of Conduct is in effect for all webinar participants. See http://www.aserl.org/aserl_code_of_conduct/. ASERL webinars are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Feb 15, 2023 - 2:00 pm ET
Please join us to review Gale’s end-of-year offer available ONLY for ASERL member institutions! During this session we will be discussing Gale Primary Sources, Digital Scholar Lab, Case Studies, and eBooks. We’ll be giving an overview on how to take advantage of some incredible discounts topping off at a potential 55% off, good thru June […]
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Feb 16, 2023 - 2:00 pm ET
Sign up to hear about a recently launched archive documenting the black experience at the University of Pittsburgh through the years. Users contribute the content: photos, memories, and soon, audio and video. The project, “The Blue, Gold and Black Digital Archive”, is a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh Library System and the Office of […]
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Feb 20, 2023 - 2:00 pm ET
"Hopefulness and cautious optimism You are not alone..BIPOC librarians struggle to stay in the profession..it’s normal. " As a follow up to popular series "Why I Left the Profession --DEI Perspective" --- "Why Do I Stay --The DEI Perspective" series is taking a closer look at resiliency and optimism in the face of many obstacles […]
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Feb 22, 2023 - 1:00 pm ET
Establishing Design Principles to Center Accessibility into Everyday Decisions February 22, 2023 at 1pm Eastern Time Libraries are meant for everyone. While libraries have long claimed this to be true, exclusionary practices and inaccessible systems still exist and are extremely difficult to fully eradicate. The act of methodically creating a culture of accessibility hinges on […]
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Teaching and Assessment of Metacognition
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
2pm Eastern (11am Pacific | 12pm Mountain | 1pm Central)
Cost: Free
The Georgia Library Association Carterette Series Webinars presents
Teaching and Assessment of Metacognition
Metacognition is often an invisible by-product of information literacy. The active reflection and evaluation of what is being learned directly impacts how information literacy skills are understood and applied. This presentation is the result of a research inquiry examining the relationship between metacognition and information literacy. We will discuss how the concept of metacognition intersects with information literacy, why making that connection explicit is essential to the library's mission, and how we as librarians can incorporate specific metacognitive strategies into the library classroom.
About the Presenter:
Erin McCoy is the Coordinator of Library Services at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Massachusetts. Throughout the years, Erin has enjoyed combining her love of teaching and her natural curiosity to help students find what they need at any point in the research cycle that brings them to the library. She recently finished a Master’s degree from UMASS Boston in Critical and Creative Thinking, which allowed her to explore the intersections of information literacy in a variety of practical applications.
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To register for the online event
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Click here to register.
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Complete and submit the form.
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A URL for the event will be emailed to you immediately after registration.
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If asked for a password to attend the webinar use 0000.
The session will be recorded and available on the Carterette Series Webinars site approximately 1 week after the live program.
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Registration Now Open for Computers in Libraries 2023
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Computers in Libraries is finally back in person this coming March. Registration is now open and WRLC members have a 2023 discount code.
As in the past, CIL is offering library groups the opportunity to participate in their Group Discount Program. Our code is: WRLC23
PASSES
This year, the Gold Pass will be available for the group rate of $649 (regular rate is $899). The Full 3-Day Pass will be $379 (regular rate is $599). (No discount rates are available for the pre-conference workshops unless purchased as part of a Gold Pass.) In addition, a discounted price of $619 (regularly $749) on the Library Leaders Summit (includes all three days of CIL), is also available.
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