Christina Chan-Park is a science librarian at Baylor University in Waco, TX. She recently joined the presenter team for ACRL’s new licensed workshop Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM Into Your Liaison Work. Christina has been an ACRL member since 2013 and is your ACRL member of the week for February […]
Don’t miss this opportunity to help drive a lively discussion with your colleagues in academic libraries about how open infrastructure and open workflow tools can support the creation, preservation, and dissemination of open content. Register before February 22, 2017, for this Association of Research Libraries (ARL)/Association of College & Research […]
The 2017 candidates for ACRL vice-president/ president-elect will participate in an open online forum at 3 p.m. CDT on Monday, March 6. Come hear José Aguiñaga and Lauren Pressley discuss their platforms and vision for ACRL. Aguiñaga is library faculty/archives coordinator at Glendale Community College (Arizona), and Pressley is associate […]
Are you looking for ways to expand your professional network and contribute to ACRL? Committee volunteers help shape ACRL by advancing its strategic plan and influencing the direction of academic and research librarianship. Serving on a committee or editorial board is a great way to become involved and make an […]
Join us for the free ACRL Presents webcast, “Using Fair Use to Preserve and Share Disappearing Government Information: A Guide for Rogue Librarians” on Tuesday, February 21, 2017, from 1:00 — 2:00 p.m. Central time (11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Pacific | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Mountain | 1:00 – 2:00 […]
From the ALA Washington Office… On February 3, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revoked all of the designations of Lifeline Broadband Providers and ordered the retraction of multiple reports, including the “E-rate Modernization Progress Report” and “Improving the Nation’s Digital Infrastructure.” ALA is dismayed by these actions to reduce […]
Registration is now open for the ACRL 2017 Virtual Conference, offered March 22-24, 2017, during the ACRL 2017 conference in Baltimore. The Virtual Conference provides an affordable opportunity to participate in conference activities online. For librarians with reduced support for professional development or travel, the Virtual Conference is a great […]
The February 2017 issue of C&RL News is now freely available online. Working with first-year experience courses is a staple of many library instruction and information literacy programs. Irina I. Holden writes about her experiences at the University at Albany in “Expanding instruction beyond library topics” through teaching a first-year course on […]
Harriet E. Wintermute is the catalog and metadata librarian at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska. Harriet has been an ACRL member since 2011 and is your ACRL member of the week for February 6, 2017. 1. Describe yourself in three words: Creative, introvert, dedicated. 2. What are you reading (or listening to […]
ACRL announces the publication of Choosing to Lead: The Motivational Factors of Underrepresented Minority Librarians in Higher Education, edited by Antonia P. Olivas, Ed.D. Through case studies, promising practices, and specific strategies for cultivating diversity in academic library leadership, this is a resource for both librarians of color who wish […]
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