Technical Services SIG meeting May 20

The Technical Services SIG will hold their Spring meeting at Benedictine University on Friday May 20 from 10:00-11:30 a.m. Unfortunately, no one is available to do a presentation on Connexion but perhaps those of you who have been using Connexion could come prepared to discuss your experiences with it. We can also discuss any other cataloging issues of current interest.

Directions to Benedictine are available at the following link: http://www.ben.edu/about/directions.asp

Please e-mail your rsvp to Mary Sue Preisler by Wed., May 18 so that we can plan the refreshments. For more information, contact Mary Sue Preisler Mary.S.Preisler@wheaton.edu or Debbie Sarna dsarna@ben.edu.

Congratulations to our 2005-2006 Officers!

The winners of the LIBRAS Officer Elections were announced at yesterday's Annual Meeting. The officers for 2005-2006 will be:

• Vice-President/President Elect: Sally Anderson, North Park University
• Secretary: Jennifer Paliatka, Elmhurst College
• Treasurer: David Malone, Wheaton College

Congratulations and best wishes for a successful year ahead!

Reference/Instruction SIG Meeting May 25

From Rosemary Henders, Reference/Instruction SIG Co-Chair:

You asked for it! Now here is your opportunity to see some of our bravest and most generous colleagues demonstrating the best of their instruction repertoire. In evaluating our fall Information Literacy 101 workshop, several people commented that while it's fine to hear discussions of great teaching techniques, it would be so much more helpful to actually see someone demonstrate those techniques.

In response to those comments, four of our own members have volunteered to demonstrate some of their most effective instruction techniques. Lake Forest College has generously agreed to host our final RIS meeting of the year in one of their wired classrooms.

We will meet on Wednesday, May 25 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Box lunches will be available for purchase at $8.50, but must be preordered. This will give us a chance for a leisurely chat over lunch. Please come prepared to pay for the lunch you order. If you find that you will not be able to attend after you have registered, please let me know as early as possible so that we can cancel your lunch order.

Our "instructors" will be: Susan Augustine of Columbia College, Ayanna Gaines of Elmurst College, Ingrid Boyer of Trinity Christian College, and Rebecca Miller of Lake Forest College. I will share a brief video of our Personal Response System in use, since it would be too complicated to disconnect it and bring it along.

I know this is a busy time of year for many of us, but I hope that you will be able to find the time to join us for a day of sharing instruction ideas. This will be a great way to close out the year and gather new ideas to add to our teaching repertoires for the coming school year.

Please RSVP to me by Friday, May 20 stating whether or not you will be attending, and if you are, indicate your lunch choice. See the LIBRAS Web Site for complete details of the meeting and the menu.

On another note, if there is anyone out there who would like to take over as SIG Chair, I am willing to relinquish my crown and sceptor. Just say the word!

Looking forward to seeing you in two weeks, Rosemary

Rosemary Henders
Instructional Services Librarian
Oesterle Library - North Central College
(630)637-5707
rahenders@noctrl.edu

Not at ACRL? Catch up with LIBRAS reports

If you weren't able to attend ACRL in Minneapolis this year, you can get a taste of the goings-on by reading through LIBRAS attendees' reports of the conference on the Continuing Education page of the LIBRAS Web site. Over a dozen reports are now posted, with the remaining few to follow within the next few days.