Semlol - SouthEastern Michigan League of Libraries

03/14/2025

Save the Data: Sourcing, Securing, & Recovering Disappearing Information


The Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries, SEMLOL, is seeking presentations and speakers for the Spring membership meeting on the library’s part in ensuring continued access to information and data. Digital (and also print) information has certain vulnerabilities and we as library professionals have a duty to ensure that our users are able to access authoritative and reliable information to meet their needs. We will focus this meeting on ways of fulfilling that charge. The Spring 2025 SEMLOL meeting will take place Tuesday, April 8, 2025 from 2-4 p.m. on Zoom.

In this session, we would like to share and explore ways that each of us are able, within our own practice, to provide continuing access to information that may disappear from websites of organizations we have come to rely on. We are looking for presenters who can share website archiving practices or alternative sources of quality information we can turn to when our previously trusted sources have continuity issues, disappear behind paywalls, or are removed from public access altogether.

This could be an entry point for talks on: community outreach, stakeholder education, Open Education Resources, collection development (print v. digital), technological solutions, and copyright issues, among others.

We are looking for presentations of anywhere from 10-30 minutes. We would love to hear people talk about what they are doing, what they are planning to do, what others can do to help, and leave with ideas for action items. Live or pre-recorded content is acceptable, however we would like someone who knows the presentation to attend the meeting for Q&A.

Proposal Submission Deadline is end of day March 6th, 2025.

Submit a proposal by sending the title, name of speaker(s), and an abstract of no more than 250 words using this Google Form by end of day on March 6th, 2025. Accepted proposals will be notified shortly after.

We think this meeting will also be of interest to our colleagues in public libraries, special libraries, GLAM institutions, other fields of education, and LIS students. As always, they are encouraged to submit proposals and attend this meeting as well.

We look forward to your submissions!

SEMLOL Executive Board
Amy Seipke - Chair, Executive Board

11/14/2024

Please join us on December 6th from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. for an online SEMLOL local networking event to discuss topics related to your work! We will have breakout sessions for small group discussion on topics across all aspects of academic librarianship including:

-cataloging and metadata;
-instructional librarianship;
-collection development;
-publishing and archiving student and faculty research;
-access services (stack management, circulation, ILL)

What are you working on? What successes are you having? What challenges are you facing?

Please RSVP (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3Qy6Acilr2OlfTREx-GdYc9DHCZyWVB58OE3GTE7GBneFkg/viewform?usp=sharing) and suggest any other topics you would like to discuss.

Let us know if you are interested in joining the SEMLOL Board or helping in some other way with the planning or facilitating of our meetings.

Feel free to share this invite with all your friends and colleagues who may also be interested in joining us.

See you in December!

Amy Seipke (Chair)
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SEMLOL Executive Board
Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries
www.semlol.org

Please join us on December 6th from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. for a SEMLOL local networking event to discuss topics related to your work! We will have breakout sessions for small group discussion on topics across all aspects of academic librarianship including:

03/10/2023

Please join us for our Spring 2023 meeting on the Academic Library's role in protecting Intellectual Freedom! See our website at www.semlol.org for more information and register at https://tinyurl.com/2p83rsr9 to receive the link.

02/14/2023

After yesterday's tragic event, our thoughts and support are with the victims, families, our MSU colleagues, and the entire MSU and East Lansing communities. This tragedy touches us all. If you need help processing today or any day please avail yourself of the resources on your campus or dial 988 for the National Crisis line.
Today and everyday may we all be

09/28/2022

We are excited to share our new Call of Proposals! The November meeting will around the topic of providing access to multiple viewpoints within institutions of higher learning. Please send your proposals to [email protected] by October 7th!

05/27/2022

We are in the process of updating our records and we would like to invite you to re-engage with SEMLOL.

Please read our newly revised organizational guidelines (see comments for links) and if you would like to be involved with the organization please complete the membership form (also linked the comments).

There are still no fees for our member institutions. For full member organizations all we ask in return for your membership is a commitment to send at least one representative from your organization to our Spring member meetings (this can include virtual attendance online for no fee) to participate in the voting process and participate in our internal governance. There are no obligations at all for our associate members, we simply want to invite you to join with us in developing our profession.

SEMLOL was started in the late 1970’s as a way to facilitate resource sharing amongst academic libraries in SE Michigan and has grown to be a vehicle for networking in general and venue for professional development.

With the development of other new methods of resource sharing we have come to the decision that this is no longer going to be our main driver moving forward.

After much examination of our mission and deep consideration of our purpose as an organization, we have decided to continue on as an organization, maintaining our focus on academic libraries in southeastern Michigan, and continuing our unique focus on the needs of our members. We do however, continue to value the input and participation of organizations with similar and related interests and we would like to extend an offer of full membership to academic and liaison membership to non-academic libraries.

We are intent on connecting members of our profession through our commitment to offering low/no cost professional development and networking opportunities within the profession and related areas of interest and we welcome your participation. You can of course continue to attend these sessions for low/no cost by joining our list serve to stay up-to-date on events.

While our focus is on academic libraries in Southeastern Michigan (and as such our associate members do not have a voting role in the governing body of the organization) we have a deep appreciation for our associate members! We acknowledge and value the input and perspective of library and information workers outside our main focus area. We know that through our partnership, we can all share and give insights and perspectives which will lead to innovative solutions which can help us all to improve our professional practices.

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Amy Seipke, Chair SEMLOL Executive Board
Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries
www.semlol.org

03/29/2022

Register on EventBright and join us for our Spring meeting on "Trauma-Informed Librarianship"!
We will also be holding our annual business meeting after the presentations where we will discuss our new organizational governance. If you would like to preview the new governance documents prior to the meeting and you are not on our mailing list please email [email protected] to see a copy before the meeting.

03/11/2022

Our Call for Proposals has been extended until Wednesday March 16th. Please send in your proposals via email [email protected] and join our mailing list from our website semlol.org for all the up-to-date info and happenings.

11/17/2021

We are only two days away from our FREE fall 2021 meeting. Registration is required and is closing soon. So please register now at tinyurl.com/5hc6hf4r or visit our website www.semlol.org
Hope to see you there!

10/28/2021

Please join us for our free Fall meeting "That Was Then, This is Now: Libraries Adapting for the Future" online November 19th 2-4pm.
Register at our Eventbrite link: tinyurl.com/5hc6hf4r and you will be emailed the meeting link on the day of the meeting.

10/09/2021

Greetings! Welcome to our new page.
Please save the date: Friday, Nov. 19, 2021 2:00-4:00PM for our free Fall program titled “That was Then, This is Now: Libraries Adapting for the Future” which will be hosted on Zoom.
In the meantime, please follow this page and add yourself to our mailing list at https://freelists.org/list/semlol-lin to receive updates.
Invitation link coming soon.