Continuing Professional Development Resources

UI Current LIS Clips

UI Current LIS Clips is an electronic current awareness service covering some of the latest issues in library and information science. This free service offers easy-to-read summaries of the key recent publications in the field for practicing librarians, information professionals, and academics. Each issue focuses on a topic of concern to the Library and Information community. UI Current LIS Clips is a joint project of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the Library and Information Science Library.

Center for Children's Books

The Center for Children's Books, accompanied by its review journal, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, provides continuing professional development opportunities for librarians and teachers. The Center contains an examination collection of more than 14,000 books for and about children and young adults that represents some of the finest modern literature published for young people in the country. In addition, the collection includes over 800 professional and reference books on children's literature. The Center's Bulletin is one of the most prestigious critical review journals of literature for children and young adults.

The Inquiry Page Project

One part of the Inquiry Page Project is a free website that offers resources to facilitate continuing professional development for those interested in inquiry-based learning including information about inquiry workshops, links to articles on inquiry, a calendar of events, links to professionals who collaborate with teachers to create rich learning environments, and the Inquiry Units. You may use the Inquiry Unit Generator to produce online lesson plans, project outlines, workshop plans, and you may search the database of available Units for ideas.

ISRL - Information Science Research Lab

ISRL supports research into and about the design, impacts, analysis, and evaluation of information technologies, including information and its properties, information services and access, and the creation/management of information content. Along with focused, single-area efforts, ISRL supports and facilitates multidisciplinary and collaborative research that involves GSLIS investigators across differing subject areas, as well as GSLIS collaborations with researchers in other academic and organizational units at UIUC and elsewhere.

Publications Office

The Publications Office supports the mission of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and continuing professional development via intellectual nourishment by producing a variety of scholarly and practical publications for LIS professionals around the globe. Drawing on more than 50 years as non-profit publishing specialists, they provide subject-specific publications that address current issues and also serve as historical archives.

The Publications Office recommends visiting their Web site for a catalog of quality books, journals, papers, and conference proceedings for teaching, scholarly reading, and daily application.

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