Current Issue: November 2026
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Sean Baker, Nick Richbell, Kelly Riddle, and Jessica Serrao
Clemson University’s Founding Document Comes Home
A Look into Stewarding Thomas Green Clemson’s and Anna Calhoun Clemson’s Wills
In March 2024, Judge Danny Singleton, newly appointed probate judge of Oconee County, South Carolina, reviewed the last will ...
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Kate McManus
Implementing LibGuides’ Publishing Workflow
Three Easy Steps
In 2022, Urszula Lechtenberg of the University of Pittsburgh and Helene Gold of the New College of Florida presented on “When All You Have Is a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a LibGuide” at LOEX.1 They began ...
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Sarah Steiner and Elisabeth Wallace
Designing Personalized Research Guides
An Outreach Strategy for New Teaching Faculty
Across academic libraries, subject specialists routinely partner with new faculty to help them launch or strengthen their research agendas. That commitment guides our work at ...
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Rachel Borchardt, Ameet Doshi, and Christina Miskey
Trust Us, but We Forgot to Tell You Why
The Role of Open Access in the Age of Societal Impact
Recent developments in federal funding over the past two years have highlighted that eroding trust in higher education and the research it produces has contributed to a dangerous narrative, increasingly reflected in public and political discourse, that research institutions hold little to no value for the general public or the communities they serve. The sudden precarity of federal funding has led to a ...
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Julie Adamo and Caro Pinto
Finding Your Anchors
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 ...
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Natalia Umaña
Where Is the Love? (/Rage/Joy, Etc.)
Making Sense of the Missing Affect in the Framework as an Early Career Bibliotecóloga
If you visited my former third grade classroom, you would find the “sentence frames” pictured on the wall, along with a visual dictionary of a variety of emotions. These visual anchors served to support my young multilingual students’ language and psychosocial skill development foundational to elementary education ...