Shared Governance and Library Faculty: Jazzing Academic Community
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Sue Wiegand, Periodicals Librarian at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. As Commencement season draws near, I thought again of lines from Dana Goia’s poem: “Praise...
View ArticleShifting the Focus: Fostering Academic Integrity on Campus
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Elise Ferer, Humanities Liaison Librarian at Dickinson College. When I was in library school I did not see clear links between my role as a librarian and promoting...
View ArticleFocusing the Mind, Practicing Attention in the One-Shot Library Session
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Jill E. Luedke, Reference & Instruction Librarian at Temple University. Scenario: Students arrive at the library instruction session, get seated, and log on to a...
View ArticleNominations Sought for ALA Intellectual Freedom Award
We recently received an email from the ALA Intellectual Freedom Round Table letting us know that nominations are open for the John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award. See below for more details — please...
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Tales of the Undead…Learning Theories: The Learning Pyramid
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Candice Benjes-Small, Head of Information Literacy and Outreach, and Alyssa Archer, Instruction Librarian at Radford University. “If I have to sit through YET ANOTHER...
View ArticleAccreditation Standards & Libraries: A Dangerous Ride Down a Devolving Course
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Beth Evans, Electronic Services Librarian and Africana Studies/PRLS/Women’s Studies Specialist at Brooklyn College, CUNY. The Middle States Commission on Higher...
View ArticleHigher ‘Professional’ Ed, Lifelong Learning to Stay Employed, Quantified...
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Bohyun Kim, Associate Director for Library Applications and Knowledge Systems at University of Maryland, Baltimore, Health Sciences and Human Services Library. This...
View ArticleLibrarians Meet the Commissioners, Live: The Middle State Accreditation...
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Beth Evans, Electronic Services Librarian and Africana Studies/PRLS/Women’s Studies Specialist at Brooklyn College, CUNY. If the recent town hall meeting of the Middle...
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From Public to Academic: Reflections on a Transition
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Raymond Pun, Research and Reference Services Librarian at New York University, Shanghai, China. Tweet him anything @oboro85 (yes, he can tweet in China!). As this...
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If At First You Don’t Assess, Try, Try Again
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Katelyn Tucker & Alyssa Archer, Instruction Librarians at Radford University. Instruction librarians are always looking for new & flashy ways to engage our...
View ArticleShifting Scholarly Communication Practices and the Case of Dr. Salaita
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Sarah Crissinger, graduate student in library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Many LIS practitioners are probably already...
View ArticleAssisting College Military Veterans in Academic Libraries
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Alejandro Marquez, Undergraduate Outreach and Instruction Librarian at North Dakota State University. Student retention has been a big issue here on the North Dakota...
View ArticleIntentional teaching, intentional learning: Toward threshold concepts through...
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Jennifer Jarson, Information Literacy and Assessment Librarian at Muhlenberg College. This fall marked the start of my tenth academic year as a librarian. It startles...
View ArticleManaging the Overwhelm
Please welcome our new First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger Lindsay O’Neill, Instructional Design Librarian at California State University, Fullerton. The minute I accepted Cal State...
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Bit of a Steep Learning Curve
Please welcome our new First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger Erin Miller, Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of North Texas. Having worked as a librarian for more than a decade...
View ArticleAn Open Letter Regarding the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher...
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Heather Dalal, Assistant Professor I-Librarian at Rider University. Some of the members of the ACRL-NJ/NJLA CUS User Education Committee and the VALE NJ Shared...
View ArticleMoving Beyond Standards: A Response to the Open Letter Regarding the...
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Ian Beilin, Instruction Librarian and Assistant Professor at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, and Nancy Foasberg, Humanities Librarian and Assistant...
View ArticleScholarship as Conversation: The Response to the Framework for Information...
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Jacob Berg, Director of Library Services at Trinity Washington University. The Association of College and Research Library’s (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy...
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“Sunrise, Sunset”: A Reflection on Assessment and the Framework for...
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Donna Witek, Associate Professor and Public Services Librarian at the University of Scranton. Photo by Moyan Brenn on Flickr When I first learned about assessment at...
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What’s the Matter with Threshold Concepts?
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Lori Townsend, Learning Services Coordinator at the University of New Mexico; Silvia Lu, Reference and Social Media Librarian and Assistant Professor, LaGuardia...
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