2024 Holtz Lecture with Featured Speaker Heather Jagman
In UIS Brookens Auditorium
Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 6:00 PM
On Thursday, April 25th, the Friends of Brookens Library will
co-sponsor the John Holtz Memorial Lecture featuring Heather Jagman, the
Head of Research, Instruction, and Academic Engagement at DePaul
University Library in Chicago.
John Holtz died in 2004, and this year’s Memorial Lecture will review
what has been happening in academic libraries for the 20 years since
his passing. John was a man ahead of his time. He was very involved with
the rapid changes occurring in academic libraries before his death,
such as transitioning from a card catalog to an online, searchable
catalog and the advent of journals appearing in full-text online.
Heather will give us her fascinating perspective on academic libraries
from the front lines of librarianship.
Heather
is immediate Past President of the Illinois Library Association and the
Head of Research, Instruction, and Academic Engagement at DePaul
University Library, where she is also the liaison to The Theatre School
& College of Education. She is the co-editor of the 2015
award-winning volume, Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to
Think About Information, published by the Association of College and
Research Libraries, and her article, “I Felt Like Such a Freshman:
First-Year Students Crossing the Library Threshold” (co-written with
Paula Dempsey), was named a top 20 article for 2016 by the ALA’s Library
Instruction Roundtable. Heather lives in Chicago with her spouse Arek
Dreyer, and their exuberant Bedlington Terrier, Mr. Harry Mochi. Her
entire professional career has been spent working in Illinois libraries.
Sponsored by the John Holtz Memorial Lecture Fund
