Contributor: Eugene Giudice
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Government Relations Committee Annual Report – 2024-25
REPORT SUMMARY: This report summarizes the activities of the GRC in 2024 – 2025 and plans for 2025 – 2026. 2024 – 2025 COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES I wish to thank the CALL board for the opportunity to serve as GRC chair this year. This opportunity has provided me with the opportunity to better understand some of…
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Government Relations Bringing Librarians Together
The Government Relations Committee is moving forward with plans to bring a webinar on advocacy and other issues facing our colleagues in public libraries, including ways in which law librarians can help advocate for public libraries and librarians.
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Stay tuned for more from the Government Relations Committee!
The Government Relations Committee is hard at work to curate programs and information of use to librarians in Illinois. Stay tuned for exciting opportunities, including the following: A special guest appearance from Illinois Secretary of State and State Librarian Alexi Giannoulias at the May CALL meeting A webinar on effective advocacy for libraries and libraries…
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Public Relations Committee Annual Report 2023-24
Chair Eugene Giudice Membership includes Jesse Bowman Report The committee was fairly inactive in the 2023-24 CALL year except for periodic updates to the CALL website for events like CALL meetings and meet-ups. Eugene would especially like to thank Jesse Bowman for his continued stewardship of the CALL website, including all updates during the 2023-24…
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It Was All About AI…..Or Was it? – AALL 2023 Grantee Report
I wish to start this article by thanking the 2022–2023 Grants and Awards Committee for providing me with resources to attend this year’s conference. I would encourage all CALL members to avail themselves of the opportunity that the Grants and Awards Committee offers each year to help subsidize attendance at the annual AALL conference. This…
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CALL Meetings Committee 2020-2021 Annual Report
Co-Chairs: Carrie Port Eugene Giudice – Co-Chair Committee Members Mike McMillan Jill Meyer – committee member The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic precluded any in-person events. The meetings committee, realizing the necessity to keep the librarian community connected, was able to put on a number of virtual events. The events that the committee planned this year were…
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CALL Meetings Committee 2019-2020 Annual Report
The committee consisted of Carrie Port and Eugene Giudice (co-chairs), Mandy Lee, Mike McMillan, and Jill Meyer.
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Special Library Association Conference Report
This year’s Special Library Association conference was held from 11 – 13 June 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. The theme of this year’s conference was “B’More” and there were ample opportunities for an information professional to gain the tools to truly Be More, from the educational sessions to the products on display in the exhibition hall.
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Meetings Committee Annual Report
The 2016-17 Meetings Committee was Eugene Giudice (co-chair), Carolyn Hersch (co-chair), Robert Martin, Sheri Lewis, Tamara Carson, and Todd Hillmer. Clare Willis was its board liaison.
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Transitions: A Life’s Journey
If there is one constant in life, it is change. We change daily, starting with daily physiological changes (nails grow, hair grows, cells generate and die off) to personal changes (changes in relationships, changes in where we live) to changes that effect many people (political changes, economic changes). We also change professionally. We call these…