RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage – Spring 2020

May 29, 2020 Dawn Mueller 0

The Spring 2020 issue of RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage is now freely available online. Visit the RBM website for complete contents of RBM and its preceeding title Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship from 1986 to the present. RBM became an open access journal in Spring 2016. Editor’s Note Richard Saunders. “Editor’s Note (this is to […]

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Volunteer for ACRL Diversity Alliance Task Force

May 27, 2020 Allison Payne 0

The ACRL Board of Directors has approved the establishment of the Diversity Alliance Task Force. The Diversity Alliance Task Force will oversee the ACRL Diversity Alliance program and will be tasked to carry out the recommendations from the current oversight task force, whose terms expire in June 2020, to grow […]

Around ACRL: May 22, 2020

May 22, 2020 Gena Parsons-Diamond 0

Want to know what is happening in ACRL and its sections, interest groups, and discussion groups? Check out ACRL Insider every other Friday to keep up-to-date on activities from around the association. Sad about missing your colleagues in Chicago this summer? Don’t fret! ACRL is pleased to host ACRL Together Wherever, […]

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ACRL Member of the Week: Alex Mitchell

May 18, 2020 Gena Parsons-Diamond 0

Alex Mitchell is a first year experience librarian at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Alex has been a member of ACRL for 3 years and is your ACRL Member of the Week for May 18, 2020. Describe yourself in three words: Creative, empathetic, Ravenclaw. What are you reading […]

Jennifer K. Sheehan Named RBM Reviews Editor

May 15, 2020 David Free 0

Jennifer K. Sheehan of the Grolier Club has been appointed to the post of Reviews Editor of RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, ACRL’s journal covering issues pertaining to special collections libraries and cultural heritage institutions. Sheehan will serve a three-year term beginning July 1, 2020. […]

ACRL Together Wherever Virtual Event – June 8-12

May 14, 2020 Margot Conahan 0

Sad about missing your colleagues in Chicago this summer? Don’t fret! ACRL is pleased to host ACRL Together Wherever, a week of virtual programming and networking opportunities for the academic and research library community to be held June 8-12, 2020. Keep up with what’s going on in the profession at […]

CHOICE to Launch Patron Driven Podcast

May 14, 2020 David Free 0

This June, CHOICE is launching a brand new podcast called Patron Driven. The series features a multi-episode narrative format that combines interviews and storytelling to spotlight the breakthrough programs, hard-won advocacy, community connections—and the personalities behind them—that are being achieved in academic libraries. Our first series of Patron Driven is […]