NILRC

The Network of Illinois Learning Resources in Community Colleges, along with ten partner libraries in community colleges in Illinois and Missouri, will build a diverse professional workforce that understands community-based library staffing and service strategies as well as the challenges of serving a non-traditional, diverse, commuter-based student population. The project will support the education of twenty students at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). GSLIS will collaborate with the university’s College of Education to provide a varied curriculum. The partner libraries offer the students mentoring throughout the graduate program and for six months following graduation.