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The Great Lakes Regional Pollution Prevention Roundtable has a new P2 Search box. Powered by Google, it searches EPA, the P2Rx Centers, DOE, Canadian, and international sites for pollution prevention and clean technology information. Give it a test drive at http://www.glrppr.org/search/. It's also available on the left side bar at Environmental News Bits (http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/). Comments welcome.
This upcoming year the public per capita grant requires you to provide an updated disaster plan or develop a new disaster plan for your library. It also requires that you describe for the State your method of orientation for newly hired staff as well as newly hired seated trustees.
LTLS will host two workshops to address these requirements. Both workshops will be on July 26, 2007. Details are being arranged and will be posted as soon as possible.
You may attend both or just one of the workshops. Look for more news soon!
LTLS will once again host a School Library Day! Mark your calendars for June 11, 2007, 9:00 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. Lunch will be provided; door prizes; 7 CPDUs; CLaSS members come free; non-subscriber fee is $80.00.
We have a great lineup of guest speakers. The day will focus on the unique projects and collections around the LTLS area. An event flyer will be coming to your school library soon!
Register by June 7 at: http://dot.lincolntrail.info:591/OnlineReg/onlinereg.html. See the event flier at http://www.lincolntrail.info/ceflierlibday062007.pdf.
Please check your shelves for The Wild, belonging to Marshall Public Library, bar code 33040000637253. Last checkout information: 2/28/2007, placed in transit 3/30/2007, never received. Contact Leanna Morris at lgm52@hotmail.com.
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center of Chicago have announced the third annual Community as Intellectual Space (CIS) Symposium - Our Barrio, Our Stories, Ourselves: The Role of Oral History in Community Building.
The theme for the conference acknowledges the essential role that individuals’ experiences play in the development, maintenance, and survival of the Puerto Rican community.
The symposium starts Friday, June 15, 2007, at 3:00 p.m. with registration, community walking tours and exhibits. It encompasses the Puerto Rican People’s Parade, with the theme “Retire #21 (for Roberto Clemente), dedicated to the 30th Anniversary of the 1977 Division Street Riots” on Saturday, and ends on Sunday, June 17, with the premier of an original play by Tato Laviera. Panel topics include: Children as Oral Historians, Narratives in Community Health, Construction of a Diasporic Puerto Rican Identity through Community Narratives, and Perspectives on Oral History and Community Building (with invited scholars from a variety of disciplines).
Students are invited to submit posters for exhibit during the symposium, which will also celebrate the first anniversary of the UIUC Community Informatics Corps master’s program on Paseo Boricua.
Continuing professional development credits will be available.
The $95 registration fee covers dinner on Friday night, continental breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings, light refreshments on Saturday afternoon, lunch on Sunday, and program materials. It also includes the symposium performance by Grupo Bembeteo, an original installation by Chicago artist Hector Arce-Espasas, and the Tato Laviera play performed by Café Teatro Batey Urbano.
For additional information and to register, please visit http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CIS2007/
The Illinois State Geological Survey has the following items to give away:
Program of Activities of the Chicago Academy of Sciences (vol. 1-8, incomplete)
Museum Activities – The Chicago Academy of Sciences (no. 3-29, incomplete)
News Bulletin of The Chicago Academy of Sciences (vol. 1:2, 1:3, 2:1-4)
Natural History Miscellanea – The Chicago Academy of Sciences (no. 6—8, 12, 42, 124, 150-212)
Chicago Academy of Sciences Special Publication 2, 8, 12
The Chicago Naturalist (vol. 1-10, incomplete)
Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences (no. 1, 3 & vol. 1-11, incomplete)
Contact Anne M. Huber, Librarian, at huber@isgs.uiuc.edu or 217-333-5110.
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), in cooperation with the UIUC Office of Continuing Education, has announced a limited number of registration openings in several on-campus and online Summer 2007 graduate level credit courses via the Community Credit Academic Outreach Program. Formal admission to the University is not necessary, but a bachelor's degree is required.
Those interested in taking a class should fill out the Request to Enroll in GSLIS Course(s) form. You will be contacted regarding availability and registration procedures. Summer Session One begins May 14 and ends June 8, but some of the courses are only two weeks long. Summer Session Two begins June 11 and ends August 2.
A list of classes available for the summer semester and the enrollment form are located at http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/Community_Credit/.
