Call for Nominations: 2025 CARL Executive Board Offices
The 2024-25 CARL Nominations & Elections Committee is pleased to open the call for nominations (self-nominations encouraged!) for the following CARL Executive Board offices: 
- Vice President (3-year term)
- Director-at-Large, UC (2-year term)
- Director-at-Large, CSU (2-year term)
According to CARL Bylaws, Article IV, Section 2, every member of CARL has the right to hold any office within the Association. Officer duties are described in the CARL Bylaws and CARL Standing Rules.
Terms for these offices begin in January 2025, with a request to attend the December 2024 board meeting. Elected officers must plan to attend four CARL Executive Board meetings per year (either four virtual or 2 virtual, 2 in-person).
Important Deadlines:
Please send nominations for the above positions to Shamika Simpson at ssimpson@lbcc.edu by October 7, 2024.
Feel free to contact any member of this committee with questions. Additionally, if you are interested in serving on the Nominations & Elections Committee, please reach out. We look forward to hearing from you!
Thank you,
2024-25 Nominating and Elections Committee
Shamika Simpson, CARL Past President
Rayheem Eskridge, CARL President
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CARL Mentoring Program: Call for Participants
Are you interested in becoming a mentor, a mentee or a program supporter? 
The CARL Mentoring Program facilitates one-to-one mentoring relationships that connect mentees with mentors. The official length of the formal relationship will be one year and can be extended by mutual agreement.
Mentors:
We recommend that mentors are mid- to late-career librarians who have worked in academic libraries for at least five years. The dynamic of the mentor to mentee relationship is mutually agreed upon by the mentor and mentee. Mentoring relationships are confidential.
Mentees:
Mentees can be a graduate student, or librarian at any stage of librarianship. An interest form (completed by the mentee) is used to match mentees with the appropriate mentor.
Program Supporter:
We need librarians and library administrators who are willing to donate time to presenting or providing resources for online short workshops or webinars. All workshops or webinars will be held online and recorded for mentors and mentees to access on demand.
- Coffee Hour: Mentees can ask professionals questions about career paths
- Resume & cover letter writing
- Diversity statement writing
- LinkedIn and Orca accounts/activity
- And more...
The Mentoring Program webpage will be updated soon. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please feel free to email Shamika Simpson at ssimpson@lbcc.edu.
CARL Meetups
The CARL Craftmania virtual event didn't have a large turnout, but we will have this event again. It was nice to listen to great music, craft and have a show & tell afterwards. Let us know if you are interested in attending future virtual or in-person craft events. If you have other ideas for virtual or in-person meetups, please let us know at membership@carl-acrl.org.
CARL Job Listings
CARL hosts a list of job openings at California academic and research libraries. Looking for a new opportunity? Hiring at your library? Read or submit listings at https://carl-acrl.org/jobslist/.
Interest Groups
CARLDIG-S (CARL Discussion Interest Group - South)
 CARLDIG-South is hosting its annual half-day Fall Program (9 am - 1 pm), December 6, 2024 at Citrus College. While the program will be hybrid for attendees, feature presenters are encouraged to present in-person, where we’ll be offering door prizes and food. However, accommodations can be made if a presentation needs to be conducted remotely.
Call for Proposals:
Titled “21st Century Toolkit: Empower Your Inquiry!”, this program will offer an opportunity for library professionals to share their tools and resources for reference services. Questions to consider as you reflect on your own experiences:
- What tools and resources have helped support your reference services?
- What new innovations and initiatives have you tried at your library?
- How has your library worked to improve inclusion and equity?
- What methods of outreach have helped promote your services?
- What things have helped with productivity, achieving goals, or fulfilling your role?
This year we’re looking for tools and resources that help foster success. In particular, we’re excited for presentations that emphasize practical takeaways!
The Program Review Committee invites proposals for the following formats relevant to the program theme:
- Feature Presentation (20 minute presentation + 5 minute Q&A)
- Virtual Poster Presentation (PDF, PowerPoint, or Video [5 minutes or less] presentation that will be posted with a space for asynchronous questions)
Proposals should be no longer than:
- 500 words for Feature Presentations
- 300 words for Poster Presentations
Presentations will be recorded via Zoom and presenters will be asked to provide their presentation materials in PDF, Word, or PowerPoint format ahead of time, so that they can be provided to attendees.
Deadline to submit is Friday, September 27, 2024.
Accepted presentations will be confirmed by Friday, October 25, 2024.
Please use this Google Form to submit your proposal for our program taking place on Friday, December 6, 2024
For more information, please visit CARLDIG-S LibGuide or contact the CARLDIG-South Program Chair, Shonn Haren, at smharen@cpp.edu.
Registration:
Registration is open at https://carl-acrl.wildapricot.org/event-5882060.
Prices are:
- CARL members (onsite): $30
- Nonmembers (onsite): $45
- CARL student/retired members (onsite): $15
- Online attendance: $10
SCIL (Southern California Instruction Librarians)
The SCIL 24/25 board is preparing for SCILWorks 2025.
We are seeking volunteers for the planning committee. Responsibilities can include:
- Setting conference theme
- Seeking proposals
- Evaluating proposals
- Session moderating/introductions
If you are interested, please respond to Ariana Varela (avarel34@calstatela.edu) by Friday, September 27. Please forward to any colleagues, MLIS students, or early-career folks who might be interested in gaining experience with external committees.
ALIGN (Academic Librarians' Interest Group North)
Visit the ALIGN website or contact Ken Lyons at kbplyons@ucsc.edu for more information about this interest group.
DIAL (Diversity in Academic Libraries)
Visit the DIAL website or contact Nicollette Brant at nicollette.brant@csulb.edu for more information about this interest group.
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Appointments
Paul de Barros has joined the staff at Santa Clara University as its new Business and Data Services Librarian. Previously, he was the Lead Research Librarian for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Retirements
Dr. Lesley S. J. Farmer retired after 25 years as the Teacher Librarian Program Coordinator at CSULB. She continues to manage the MERLOT ICT literacy community.
Río Hondo College Library would like to announce and congratulate our newly retired library personnel:
- Robin Babou, Librarian (24 years of service)
- Karen Bourgaize, Part-Time Librarian (24 years of service)
- Rudy Martinez, Library Media Technician (25 years of service)
Western University of Health Sciences would like to congratulate our newly retired library staff and thank them for their years of service:
- Lurlene Moreno, Resource Sharing Specialist (28 years of service)
- Mary Helen Ellis, Special Collection and Events Specialist (36 years of service)
Science Fiction Against the Margins at UCLA
 As part of Getty's "PST ART: Art & Science Collide" initiative, UCLA Library will host Science Fiction Against the Margins, from October 4 to December 14, 2024.
Over 12 nights, this series will showcase nearly 40 independent science fiction narrative features, documentaries, shorts, and television productions from 21 countries. It aims to challenge and disrupt the sci-fi genre by highlighting the works of filmmakers who explore social identity, cultural context, and material relations. The series will include conversations with renowned artists such as Alex Rivera, Larissa Sansour, Cauleen Smith, Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams, and others. Be sure to check out the trailer.
For the complete schedule, summaries of each program with in-person speakers, and brief film or episode synopsis notes, please refer to the press release.
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President
Rayheem Eskridge
Past President
Shamika Simpson
Vice President
(Currently vacant)
Secretary
Nery Alcivar-Estrella
Treasurer
Grace Skalinder
Director-at-Large, Community Colleges
Edeama Onwuchekwa Jonah
Director-at-Large, CSU
Laura Wimberly
Director-at-Large, Private Colleges & Universities
Jennifer Silverman
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Director-at-Large, UC
Melissa Beuoy
ACRL Chapters Delegate
Melissa Beuoy
Membership Director
Kelli Hines
Website Coordinator
David Drexler
CSU Fresno
web@carl-acrl.org
Equity and Inclusion Coordinator
Nicole Crawford
equity@carl-acrl.org
Interest Group Coordinator
Shamika Simpson
ssimpson@lbcc.edu
Communications Officer
Kelli Hines
Western University of Health Sciences
communications@carl-acrl.org
Mentoring Program Committee Chair
Shamika Simpson
Long Beach City College
mentorship@carl-acrl.org
Newsletter Editor
Kelli Hines
Western University of Health Sciences
newsletter@carl-acrl.org
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