Current Issue: November 2020
Feature
Frye et al.
Continuing a love affair after a separation
Ways to promote books for World Book and Copyright Day
Perhaps for the first time since the founding of American libraries, most librarians were divorced from their physical collections as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although college ...
Feature
Jennifer Kirk
What is in those compact shelves?
Auditing and quantifying a government documents collection
As academic libraries evolve, the complexity and breadth of federal government documents collections pose challenges to librarians. These materials are often shelved under the Superintendent ...
ACRL TechConnect
Guarnieri, Kry, and Porter-Fyke
The eyes have it
Using eye-tracking to evaluate a library website
When Western New England University announced its intentions to switch over its entire website from a legacy homegrown system to a brand new CMS, we were faced with moving all content on the library’s website from one platform to another ...
Feature
Elrod and Kester
Diverse BookFinder
BIPOC collection development for children’s and young adult collections
The Education Library at the University of Florida (UF) supports the teaching, research, and learning needs of the College of Education (COE), including early childhood education, elementary education, English education, ESOL/bilingual education, and reading and literacy education programs.
As a support to preservice teachers, students, and researchers, the Education Library has a robust children’s and young adult (YA) collection. This collection consists of approximately 13,000 titles appropriate for preK–12th grade. It also supports several children’s and YA literature courses that require ...
Feature
Hudson-Vitale and Waltz
Caring for our colleagues
Wellness and support strategies for remote library teams
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed many challenges for academic and research libraries and those working within them. Nearly everything that we do has been questioned and re-envisioned, and our days are filled with new work, uncertainty, and isolation. Because of this, one of the areas that library leaders must invest in re-envisioning is how we can best support the well-being and morale of our library colleagues. This article identifies and discusses simple, informal, practical, and easy strategies that library leaders can use to support the physical, emotional, spiritual, professional, social, and mental well-being of their teams in remote and ...
The Way I See It
Aubrey Iglesias
Stop, reflect, replace
Renovating our foundation for inclusive participation
"As in many academic libraries all over the country, attracting and retaining people of color has been a continuous, uphill battle."
"It is a troubling reality that our current librarian ranks do not represent the communities served by libraries."
Sadly, both of these statements, from 2001 and 2003, still hold true today. Sustained attempts to lower barriers for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), such as through residency programs, have not resulted in their long-term retention, and white librarians still make up the vast majority of degreed librarians. Now is the time to stop this cycle ...