On Friday, April 10, from 4:00-5:00 p.m., the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at the iSchool at Illinois will hold a seminar on the Academic Library Response to COVID-19. iSchool affiliate professor Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, who is professor and coordinator for information literacy services and instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, manager of surveys and research at Ithaka S+R, will present the CIRSS seminar

“Data Gathering and Dissemination in Real-Time: Academic Library Response to COVID-19.”

This talk will highlight the principles that guided the rapid development process of the U.S. Academic Library Response to COVID-19 survey, developed by Hinchliffe and Wolff-Eisenberg, which moved from conceptualization to deployment on March 11. Since then, it has been providing the academic library community with real-time reports and dashboards to inform decision making, benchmarking, and advocacy efforts by library workers at all levels, the infrastructures underlying the work, and how the co-leads manage the project working collaboratively at a distance—as well implications for crisis informatics and emerging thoughts on implications for leading libraries in emergency times.

All are welcome to participate via Zoom.

CINDY BRYA
Associate Director for Communications

School of Information Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
208 LIS Bldg | M/C 493
Champaign, IL 61820
217.333.8312 | brya@illinois.edu
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