Please join us virtually for our October speaker. Students, alumni, and the broader LIS community are welcome to attend all speaker series events.

• This month we’ll hear from an archivist to celebrate that October is American Archives Month. This event is co-sponsored by our student archives organization, SAA-SC.

If you are interested in getting involved, please find monthly meeting information on the chapter’s web page.

Burns has built a career in corporate archives as Archivist for Hershey Community Archives (HCA). She stewards the legacies of Milton and Catherine Hershey as well as the community and businesses they established. Not only are the Hershey corporate entities served by the archives but Burn’s supports HCA’s work serving the local community of Hershey, PA, various community organizations, and researchers from all over the world interested in all things Hershey.

When/where: October 30, 7:00 p.m. Eastern via Zoom

Registration & more info: https://events.iu.edu/luddy-indianapolis/event/1548473-lis-industry-speaker-series-tesa-burns-hershey-commu

All speaker sessions are recorded. You may view each semester’s lineup and follow a link to recordings of past speaker sessions from our series page: https://luddy.indianapolis.iu.edu/events/lis-speaker-series.html

• This program has been approved for 1 LEU (Library Education Unit) through the Indiana State Library. Please reference their continuing education site and approved providerspage for self-documentation guidance and more information.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) seeks early and second-career librarians interested in advancing equitable and innovative futures for biomedical libraries within five years of graduation to participate in a one-year fellowship that fosters the development of librarians seeking to lead in medical or health sciences libraries. A cohort of between 4 and 5 Associate Fellows will be selected for the 2025-2026 year.

What will you do?
As a National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow, you will:

*   Participate in projects on user services, collection, open science, artificial intelligence, health data standards, information discovery, scholarly communication, user engagement, archives, and training.
*   Grow professionally and learn in a cohort, participating in a formal curriculum taught by staff experts
*   Develop skills in data science (analysis, visualization)
*   Develop foundations for leadership (presenting, network building)
*   Receive support from experienced mentors
*   Attend a professional conference and a one-week practicum at a health sciences library

The NLM Associate Fellowship Program (AFP) offers a series of staff-taught sessions in user services and collections, research, and development, intramural and extramural research, development, and the lifecycle of the NLM web-based products and services, and the NLM engagement and education program. Associate Fellows develop a national and international perspective of the NLM role in health science and biomedical science. Associate Fellows choose projects to collaborate on and complete with NLM staff allowing them to gain valuable project experience in areas that aid their future career. Associate Fellow projects have led to peer-review publications and to services that became a part of the services and products of NLM.

Appointment Length:
This is a one-year research appointment starting July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026. The 2025 – 2026 Associate Fellowship Program year will be remote. Program hours will be 8:30 a.m.—5:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Qualification Requirements:

*   Master’s degree in an ALA-accredited library/information science program, earned by June of the year of appointment or within 5 years. Undergraduate degrees can be in any major.
*   United States citizenship.
*   Desirable, but not essential:
*   Work experience in a library or health sciences environment.
*   Demonstrated interest or experience in leadership.

Participant Benefits:

*   Annual stipend of $68,405.00
*   Health Insurance Supplement – The program offers a supplemental health insurance stipend for participants to purchase health insurance through a group health insurance plan via Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE).  Alternatively, participants may choose to hold outside insurance. Proof of health insurance is required for participation in this program. Participants are eligible to purchase health insurance through Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE).
*   Training and Travel Allowance that can be used for attendance at local and national conferences and other relevant training materials as determined by NLM and ORISE.

Apply online<https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/NIH-NLM-AFP-2025>. The application deadline is January 24, 2025, 3:00 p.m. EST. The NLM Associate Fellowship Program website<https://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/training/associate/applicinfo.html> provides more information about the application process.

More about NLM:
NLM is committed to recruiting and developing a workforce that is inclusive of a broad range of underrepresented people, including racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and individuals from economically or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. NLM’s commitment to workforce diversity extends to advocating for diversity of thought and plurality of methods. A commitment to diversity is grounded in the belief that full participation of a diverse workforce improves team performance, engendering a robust array of knowledge representations and culturally appropriate means of supporting discovery and delivering health information.

This program, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) through its contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to manage the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), was established through an interagency agreement between DOE and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Library of Medicine (NLM). Participants do not become employees of NIH, NLM, ORAU, ORISE, DOE, or any other agency, and no employment-related benefits exist.

For more information and to register, please click here. 

The job descriptions can be viewed via https://www.mphpl.org/employment/.

If you’re qualified and interested in either role, please email a cover letter and your resume to d.wargo@mphpl.org.

When: February 13-14, 2025

Where: Zoom, Virtual Conference

Register today: go.wisc.edu/w2uvnu

Join youth services managers and staff for two days of virtual learning. Sessions will focus on leveling up your leadership skills, best practices for serving your community, and how to best support your team. Each concurrent session will be presented live, and recordings will be available to registered attendees for 3-months.

Keynote Speaker – Kyle Lukoff

Kyle Lukoff is the author of many books for young readers. His debut middle-grade novel, Too Bright To See, received a Newbery honor, the Stonewall award, and was a National Book Award finalist. His picture book When Aidan Became A Brother also won the Stonewall, and his book Call Me Max has been banned in schools across the country. He is the recipient of the 2025 Children’s Literature Lecture award, and has forthcoming books for all ages on a variety of topics. While becoming a writer he worked as a bookseller for ten years, and then nine more years as a school librarian.

In addition to Kyle’s keynote, Power Up 2025, will offer a diverse array of sessions including:

• Leading Staff Through Change to Elevate Youth Services
• The Right to Inclusion: How Libraries can Extend Privilege’s to the Underserved
• Belonging at Work: An Inspiring Environment for Neurodivergent Employees
• Crafting Communication: Tools for Effective Youth Services Management
• And more!

Key links:

• Visit theconference website
• View the full Power Up schedule