Willie Miller is the associate dean for communication and technology at IUPUI in Indianapolis, IN. Willie has been a member of ACRL for 8 years and is your ACRL Member of the Week for February 28, 2022. Describe yourself in three words: Bold, precise, experimental. What are you reading (or […]
After careful consideration, the RBMS 2022 Conference: What Now? Reflection, Reckoning, and Recovery will shift to a virtual-only event held June 21 – 24, 2022. This very difficult decision was made by RBMS and ACRL leadership based on several factors that made the in-person portion of the conference inadvisable. While […]
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) was designed to allow workers with careers in public service – including many library workers – to have their federal student loans forgiven after 10 years of payments. In practice, PSLF has not always lived up to its charge. As ALA noted in a 2021 […]
ACRL announces the publication of Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Handbook for Academic Libraries, edited by Corliss Lee and Brian Lym with Tatiana Bryant, Jonathan Cain, and Kenneth Schlesinger. This thorough book captures emerging practices that academic libraries and librarians can use to create more equitable and […]
Recently, to open a meeting of ACRL team leaders, I told a joke. Jokes can be fraught, but they can also help us to see things in a new light, to reassess situations that have been taken for granted. This one helps me look at identity and naming: A grasshopper […]
ACRL is excited to offer the free ACRL Presents webcast “Supported to Stay: A Discussion of Retention Experiences and EDI-informed Approaches” at 11:00 a.m. Central on Thursday, March 3, 2022. We want to talk about why we stay in library work and what practices might motivate our reason to do […]
The 2022 Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week is taking place this week, February 21-25, 2022. Commissioned by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week is “is an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. It is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities […]
Symphony Bruce is a critical pedagogy librarian at New York University. Symphony has been a member of ACRL for 4 years and is your ACRL Member of the Week for February 21, 2022. Describe yourself in three words: Silly, anxious, encouraging. What are you reading (or listening to on your […]
The recording of the February 16, 2022, ALA/ARL Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity: A Framework Update is now available on our YouTube channel. Christina Fuller-Gregory, assistant director of libraries, South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, and Mark A. Puente, Associate Dean for Organizational Development, Diversity, and Inclusion, […]
The ACRL Education and Behavioral Sciences Section Research Committee invites proposals for presentations at their virtual research forum, to be held online in early May 2022. Our charge is to investigate and propose ways for education and behavioral science librarians to share ideas about new directions in education and behavioral […]
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