Current Issue: July/August 2026
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Lilly E. Linden
National Chemistry Week
An Outreach Opportunity in Academic Libraries
I started my library career as a college science librarian at an undergraduate-only small liberal arts college. The scope of the job was broad, and being part of a small library team meant that it was all hands on deck when it came to most projects...
Making Assessment Matter
Megan Oakleaf, Becky Croxton
AI as Assessment Partner
Practical Applications and Critical Cautions, Part 1
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 ...
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Ambra Gagliardi, Dorothy Terry, Jasmine Kirby
A World of Collaboration
A World of Collaboration
The 2025 Area Studies Teaching & Collections Symposium was a two-day in-person event hosted collaboratively by the University of Utah (UU) and Brigham Young University (BYU), which share a US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center (NRC)...
The Way I See It
Deborah Lee
Technology Redux
A Librarian’s AI Journey
The year was 1992. I had the opportunity to serve as a trainer at the liberal arts college where I worked as it first joined the Internet. A strange new world of “FTP” and “Telnet” was introduced, but even in the earliest days, it was obvious that this was going to touch every aspect of our work in the library. The response of one of my colleagues has always stayed with me. At a staff meeting I excitedly shared what this ...
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Jeehyun Davis
Leading through Loneliness
Personal Reflections on Surviving Burnout
If you’ve spent any amount of time leading in an academic library, you already know: This work will stretch you, inspire you, break your heart, and—on the worst days—make you wonder why you ever signed up for it. And that is perfectly OK to say out loud. Most leadership literature still ...
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Jamillah R. Gabriel, Quetzalli Barrientos, Dianne N. Brown, Ning Zou
Inclusive Reference
In 2021, the Research Services Team at the Gutman Library at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) was preparing to onboard two new colleagues. As we developed checklists and other orientation documentation to help our new librarians acclimate to their roles, we talked at length about our research consultation practice ...