Current Issue: October 2026
Feature
Pamela A. Jackson
The Ten Treasures
Structuring a Course Using Ten Primary Sources from Special Collections
San Diego State University (SDSU) has become a vibrant hub for comics scholarship, thanks to the transformative role of its Special Collections & University Archives’ Comic Arts Collection. What began as a modest assortment of ...
Making Assessment Matter
Becky Croxton, Megan Oakleaf
AI as Assessment Partner
Practical Applications and Critical Cautions, Part 2
Making Assessment Matter is a five‑part C&RL News series focused on maximizing the impact of academic library assessment. The first article introduces strategies for launching assessment projects designed for action and impact. The second explores how centering ...
Feature
Kathryn Senn, Samantha Peter, Shannon M. Smith, Elena Payne, and Aralynn Juarez
Finding the Power in Mini
Rethinking Library Tutorials with Microlearning
We have all been there where we create tutorials in a variety of formats (e.g., videos, LibWizard Tutorials, embedded tutorials) and students simply do not engage with them. This is where the University of Wyoming (UW)Libraries was in spring 2024 ...
The Way I See It
Nina McHale
Rank Promotion and Tenure in the Library
How Criteria and Process (Still) Favor Reference and Instruction Work
In a The Way I See It essay in the July/August 2000 issue of C&RL News, Rodger C. Lewis briefly recounted the history of how librarians came to have tenure in the 1950s and 1960s. He noted that this movement was not without controversy, and that...on many campuses there were a couple of interesting bumps on that road to a new identity: the teaching faculty began to feel threatened by the possibility of having to share whatever wealth and privilege there might be with a ...
Academic Library Workers in Conversation
Tia Phillip, Caitlin Perkins, and Daniel Burnett
From the Classroom to the Field
A Year of Exploring Why We Choose Librarianship
Academic Library Workers in Conversation is a C&RL News series focused on elevating the everyday conversations of library professionals. The wisdom of the watercooler has long been heralded, but this series hopes to go further by minimizing barriers to traditional publishing with an accessible format. In past issues, the topics were proposed by the authors. However, during 2026, this feature will focus on the ...
Feature
Kanu A. Nagra
Toward Inclusive Library Instruction
Guidelines for Integrating Inclusive Practices
Inclusion involves engaging all learners, regardless of their backgrounds, abilities, challenges, or disabilities.¹ As higher education institutions continue to prioritize equity, diversity, and inclusion, academic libraries play a critical role in advancing these values through their instructional practices. By designing learning experiences that are accessible and responsive to diverse needs, libraries can ...