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News from LACUNY
« on: January 22, 2015, 05:20:44 PM »
[Posting on behalf of Frans Albarillo]

The LACUNY Institute will be held at John Jay College of Criminal Justice on May 8. The keynote speaker is Rainey Reitman, Director of the Activism Team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  Registration will start in February. The Deadline to submit a proposal is January 23 For more information please visit the Institute website: http://2015lacunyinst.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

LACUNY will be hosting its annual Spring 2015 Dialogues LACUNY Dialogues on Friday, Feb 6, 10am-12pm at the Graduate Center, Segal Theater. The topic is "The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: Opportunities, Challenges, Controversies."

The "Transliteracy, Technology, & Teaching" collaboration with SUNYLA was postponed.

There is a new LACUNY archives finding aid. The physical archives are of LACUNY can be found at the City College of New York at the Morris Raphael Cohen Library Archives and Special Collections: http://lacuny.org/about/lacunys-history/lacuny-archives-finding-aid/

The Winter meeting and Grace Ellen McCrann lecture series was held at LaGuardia Community College on December 11 from 2-4PM. The theme for this meeting was pop culture & librarianship, for more information on the topics please go to http://lacuny.org/annual/grace-ellen-mccrann-lecture-series/

The next LACUNY executive council meeting will be on March 20, 2015