Current Issue: January 2026
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Marina Lee Narvaez
Junior Achievement
A Perfect Service Opportunity for Business Librarians
Business librarians play an important role in supporting research on companies, industries, markets, and marketing strategies. Entrepreneurship librarians, in particular, take this a step further by leveraging information in these fields to encourage the advancement of new and established businesses. ...
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Jane Hammons
Outdated Notion?
Teaching Plagiarism as Theft
Since 2023, librarians from the University of New Mexico and The Ohio State University have given several presentations on “Outdated Research Notions,” which are guidance that is provided to students, or shared understandings about research practices, that are no longer effective. This article, along with the companion piece “Outdated Notion? Teaching Scholarly Articles as the Gold Standard,” by Adrienne Warner and Alyssa Russo, provides an overview of an “outdated notion” that has generated ...
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Adrienne Warner and Alyssa Russo
Outdated Notion?
Teaching Scholarly Articles as the Gold Standard
Since 2023, librarians at The Ohio State University and the University of New Mexico have been collaborating on a project, including “Outdated Research Notions” workshops, to identify information literacy practices that may no longer work as well as we’d like.1 This article, along with the companion piece “Outdated Notion? Teaching Plagiarism as Theft,” by Jane Hammons, provides an overview of an “outdated notion” that has generated significant ...
The Way I See It
Megan Sapp-Nelson and Abigail Goben
The Missing Path
Data Librarianship at Mid-Career
As the subdiscipline of data librarianship is navigating the second decade of wide adoption in US academic libraries, many of the librarians who specialize in that discipline are approaching or are firmly mid-career. Data librarianship requires deep knowledge of policy, technology, strategy, and political environments ...
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Matthew Weirick Johnson
Fixing Work, Not Workers
Burnout as an Organizational Problem
Burnout has proliferated in popular discussion, become legitimized in scholarly discourse, and been ingrained in the context of librarianship, both as a prominent point of conversation and as demonstrated through research. In this process, discussions on the problem of and solutions to burnout have focused on individuals. This individual focus ...