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Connecting Students to Free Course Materials

An eTextbook Portal Using Digital Commons and WordPress

When you think of textbook affordability, your mind likely goes to open educational resources (OER). Numerous academic libraries are involved in OER efforts, and institutions with successful OER programs see entire departments or large classes adopt OER instead of traditional, costly textbooks. However, even with the most successful programs, not every class will use OER. ...

Getting Around Minneapolis for ACRL 2025

Here’s What You Need to Know

We look forward to welcoming you to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul for ACRL 2025! Sometimes spring comes early and we break out the shorts and sunscreen in March; some years we don’t put away the shovels until May. While Prince reminds us that “Sometimes It Snows in April” ...

Peer Reviewing Sources

A Framework-Informed Approach to Information Literacy in First-Year Writing

Scholarship on peer review has demonstrated its value for students. Standard peer review processes, however, tend to focus on students’ writing rather than their engagement with the sources they work with, leaving the evaluation of students’ information literacy skills to instructors. In the course of our research, we observed in interview transcripts that minoritized students, in some cases, had very different experiences with sources than their majoritized peers, describing strategies for navigating and redressing sources that were biased against some aspect of their identity. ...

Embedded Librarianship

Why Getting Out of the Library Made Me a Better Librarian

2023: Every morning, I walk across my campus—past the library—and head to my office in our school of nursing. I greet my colleagues—none of whom are librarians—and we chit-chat about our work and our lives while we pour coffee or alert one another that someone brought doughnuts.

These morning chats are never about who’s on the reference desk or last-minute instruction requests from demanding faculty. They are instead about our nursing students’ participation in our campus flu shot clinics, or about an upcoming nursing licensure exam. These conversations are about ...

From Book Space to People Space

Using Oral History to Celebrate and Reflect on a Major Milestone Anniversary in an Academic Library

Major milestone anniversaries in libraries provide library administrators, library workers, and the wider community with rich opportunities for both celebration and reflection. In 2023, the University of Toronto Libraries celebrated the 50th anniversary of its flagship library branch, the John P. Robarts Research Library, a monumental Brutalist building that has become an iconic part of the university’s identity and the city skyline. One of the initiatives undertaken to celebrate this milestone was an oral history project to interview past and current library employees and community members about their ...