Each year, the ACRL Government Relations Committee, in consultation with the ACRL Board of Directors and staff, formulates an ACRL Legislative Agenda. Drafted with input from key ACRL committees, ACRL leaders, and the ALA Washington Office, the ACRL Legislative Agenda is prioritized and focuses on issues at the national level affecting […]
The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) filed a “friend of the court” brief on April 25, 2013, in support of Georgia State University (GSU) in the appeal of Cambridge U. Press et al. v. Mark P. Becker et al. In its brief, LCA argues that GSU’s e-reserves policy is consistent with widespread […]
Zach Coble is Systems and Emerging Technologies Librarian at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Zach has been an ACRL member since 2009, is a 2013 ALA Emerging Leader, and your ACRL member of the week for April 29, 2013. 1. Describe yourself in three words: Adapting, creative, pragmatic. 2. What are you reading […]
ACRL is offering two preconferences prior to the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago on Friday, June 28, 2013. Helping Non Innovators through Innovation: Managing Change: Change can be difficult to deal with in any workplace, but the fast pace of change in libraries is particularly difficult. Designed for library […]
Ana Elisa de Campos Salles is Adult and Teen Librarian at the Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Branch of the District of Columbia Public Library in Washington, DC. Anna Elisa has been an ACRL member since 2012, is a 2013 ALA Emerging Leader, and your ACRL member of the week for April 22, 2013. […]
In conjunction with the ACRL/LLAMA Joint President’s Program at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference, the Program Committee is excited to offer all ALA members the opportunity to reflect on memorable moments of leadership that have inspired insights into their own leadership or potential. The committee wants to hear about these […]
The ACRL Instruction Section is now accepting applications for the Instruction Section (IS) List Administrator position. The IS List Administrator serves a two-year term and is responsible for maintaining the Section’s closed committee discussion lists, under the general direction of the IS Executive Committee and through consultation with the IS Web Site […]
Understanding the Implications of Open Education: MOOCs and More The open access movement has focused on making scholarship freely available, expanding distribution while lowering barriers for re-use. The open educational resources movement has focused on making teaching and learning materials freely accessible and openly licensed. The skyrocketing rise in the […]
Holli (Beckmann) Duggan works in Access Services at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska. Holli has been an ACRL member since 2012, is a 2013 ALA Emerging Leader, and your ACRL member of the week for April 15, 2013. 1. Describe yourself in three words: Optimistic, Driven, Inquisitive. […]
As part of the association’s commitment to scholarly publishing and open access, the full archive of ACRL’s official scholarly research journal College & Research Libraries (C&RL) is now freely available online. The online C&RL archive now contains the complete contents of the journal from its beginnings in 1939 through the […]
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