Current Issue: January 2021
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Ornat et al.
Ain’t no party like a LibGuides Party
’cause a LibGuides Party is mandatory
What is currently on your librarian backburner? We’d be willing to make a few bets on the content of those pots growing cold. Maybe we would find a weeding project on pause, a draft of an article gathering dust, or that meeting agenda ...
ACRL TechConnect
Dragan Gill
Creating an asset map for student and community success
Finding our strengths through a campus partnership
Rhode Island College (RIC) has a history of collaboration both across campus departments and within the larger Providence and Rhode Island ...
International Insights
Liladhar R. Pendse
Academic libraries and research in flux
Global conversations in times of COVID-19
In March 2020, Alameda County, where the University of California (UC)-Berkeley is located, issued a shelter in place order as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The UC-Berkeley Library was one ...
Perspectives on the Framework
Jane Hammons
No need to go big
Teaching Framework concepts with small teaching
The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education encourages librarians to engage students with big ideas related to information creation, access, and use. One way that librarians may be able to do this is through a small teaching approach. In Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, James M. Lang uses insights from educational research to highlight small instructional interventions that support student learning. Although Lang does not specifically call out librarians as instructors, some of these strategies could be used to engage students with Framework concepts, even within a single session. ...
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Izenstark et al.
So you want to publish
Becoming a researcher
New librarians, experienced librarians, and those considering a change in career may want to start writing or researching for a variety of reasons, including meeting professional requirements. In this article, we share some tips for getting started, or perhaps inspiration for bringing old ideas back to life.
Gathering your ideas and research
Starting a project from scratch can feel intimidating, so consider whether you have current or past projects to build on, such as a thesis you have written, a paper from graduate school, or a project you’re working on that may be relevant for others. ...
Scholarly Communication
Ohler and Pitts
From peril to promise
The academic library post–COVID-19
As in so many other parts of our society, COVID-19 has forced many changes to the ways in which academic libraries operate. The response of higher education to the pandemic has revealed both how vital academic libraries are to the academic enterprise and to scientific advancement at-large through open access initiatives. It has also highlighted that libraries are not alone in confronting the long-term challenges of sustainability with respect to the current scholarly communication marketplace, and the affordability of higher education more broadly. For academic libraries to assume a leadership role in higher education’s search for solutions, we must first reconcile our own identity in the new landscape. ...