Information Literacy

Current Professional Committees of Cowles Library Faculty (doesn’t include Drake University Committees, go here for the most recent listing of those):

Sam Becker:

• ILA/ACRL Committee on Diversity and Inclusion

Hope Bibens:

• Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, Society of American Archivists Congressional Papers Section
• Chair, Electronic Records Committee, Society of American Archivists Congressional Papers Section
• Constituent Service System Task Force, Society of American Archivists Congressional Papers Section
• Steering Committee Member, Society of American Archivists Congressional Papers Section
• Chair, Membership Committee, Association of Centers for the Study of Congress
• Co-Chair, Communications Committee, Association of Centers for the Study of Congress
• Digital Exhibit Task Force Member, Association of Centers for the Study of Congress

Dan Chibnall:

• Member, ALA-STS Conference Planning Committee
• Member, ALA-LIRT Conference Planning Committee
• ILA Executive Board
• IPAL Steering Committee
• ILA/ACRL Professional Development Committee

Carrie Dunham-LaGree

• ACRL-WGSS, Webmaster
• ACRL-WGSS, Executive Board, ex-officio
• ACRL-WGSS, Publications Committee
• ACRL-WGSS, 2018 Conference Program Planning Committee
• ACRL Professional Development Committee
• Iowa ACRL, Spring Conference 2018 Chair
• Iowa ACRL, Executive Board
• College and Research Libraries, Peer Reviewer

Claudia Frazer:

• 2017 ILA/ACRL Fall Program Committee
• Editorial Board, Drake Community Press

Bruce Gilbert:

• All Iowa Reads Committee
• Iowa ACRL, Spring Conference 2018 Committee

Marcia Keyser:

• Copyright Education Committee of the OITP section of ALA
• Chair, Library Committee of Grace United Methodist Church, Des Moines

Priya Shenoy:

• American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Library and Information Science Section (LIS)
  • LIS Communications Committee
  • LIS Membership Committee
  • Standing for LIS “Secretary of Knowledge Management” in Fall 2017

Andrew Welch

• Grand View Library Advisory Committee

CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE:
Below is a partial listing of some of the regional and national conferences that Cowles Library faculty have attended in the past year.

ALA Annual:
Sam Becker, Dan Chibnall, Carrie Dunham-LaGree, Teri Koch

ACRL (Biennial)
Bricks and Clicks: Mark Stumme

Carrie Dunham-LaGree, Asst. Professor of Librarianship, recently accepted a national appointment to the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Professional Development committee. The Committee’s charge is to provide advice “on matters related to professional development needs assessment, program development and evaluation, and elearning.” Her term begins July 1, 2016 and ends June 30, 2017. She also currently chairs the Iowa ACRL Professional Development committee.

Bruce Gilbert, Professor of Librarianship, was recently appointed to the All Iowa Reads (AIR) Committee. Established in 2003, the All Iowa Reads program is one of the first projects to be provided by the Iowa Center for the Book. (For the current year, the All Iowa Reads selection is Lila by Marilynne Robinson).

The primary work of the committee is to choose the All Iowa Reads title each year and to promote the program.   Members also make suggestions at the beginning of the process and familiarize themselves with the titles on the nominee list. 

Each committee member contributes to a variety of promotional and maintenance type efforts throughout the year, such as working on other reading lists, reviewing the Iowa Center for the Book AIR website, helping people who are doing book talks, and preparing for and participating in the Webinar that is held each January to kick off the AIR new year.

The purpose of All Iowa Reads is to foster a sense of unity through reading. We encourage Iowans statewide to come together in their communities to read and talk about a single book title in the same year. Libraries, book clubs, schools and other local organizations are encouraged to sponsor discussions of the title.

Marcia Keyser, Associate Professor of Librarianship at Cowles Library, recently had a poster presentation approved for the 2016 Kraemer Copyright Conference at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. The Kraemer Copyright Conference offers public, academic, special, and school librarians the opportunity to learn about U.S. Copyright Law and how it impacts the services we offer our patrons. The presentation is titled, “The Google Books Case Settlements: Gone But Not Forgotten,” and will explore the potential long-term ramifications of the Google Books Case.

Teri Koch, Professor of Librarianship at Cowles Library, participated in a panel on “The Importance of Outreach in Shared Print Projects” at the Charleston Conference on Nov. 4, 2015. This conference, held in Charleston, South Carolina, is the preeminent gathering of librarians, publishers, resource managers, and vendors that focuses on issues in book and serials acquisitions. Teri discussed the Central Iowa Collaborative Collections Initiative, a ground-breaking shared collection among Drake University and five other Iowa colleges and universities.