ACRL, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the American Library Association’s Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services (ODLOS), and the Public Library Association (PLA) announce the formation of the Building Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity Framework Task Force. The task force is charged to create a framework for cultural […]
The ACRL Board of Directors approved a new Framework for Access Services Librarianship (PDF) at its spring virtual meeting. Consisting of four sections, the framework defines access services, suggests competencies for access services librarians and managers, examines marketing and outreach of access services, and suggests opportunities for professional engagement for […]
ACRL, at the request of its Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS), has endorsed the Protocols for Native American Materials. In April 2006 a group of nineteen Native American and non-Native American archivists, librarians, museum curators, historians, and anthropologists gathered at Northern Arizona University Cline Library in Flagstaff, Arizona. The […]
Ever felt frustrated or confused when attempting to document your scholarly impact, such as for rank, tenure and/or promotion? Ever wondered why there was a disconnect between academic librarian scholarship and institutional expectations for scholarship? The ACRL Impactful Scholarship and Metrics Task Force is proposing a new ACRL framework that […]
The ACRL Board of Directors approved a revision of the ACRL Policy Statement on Open Access to Scholarship by Academic Librarians at its April 2019 virtual meeting. Written by ACRL’s Research and Scholarly Environment Committee (ReSEC), the revision addresses the sense of the “across the lifecycle” nature of scholarly communication […]
The ACRL Academic Librarians Standards and Guidelines Review Task Force was formed by the ACRL Board of Directors with the charge of reviewing and revising ACRL documents related to the status of academic librarians. In order to gain a sense of current thinking and relevance related to the status of […]
The ACRL Impactful Scholarship and Metrics Task Force was formed in 2017 with the goal of creating a new ACRL framework designed to address gaps between current scholarly evaluation practices and impactful scholarly activities within academic librarianship, including ways to evaluate and measure the impact of a wide range of […]
The ACRL Board of Directors has approved a new revision of the association’s Guidelines for Media Resources in Academic Libraries. Prepared by the ACRL Guidelines for Media Resources for Academic Libraries in Higher Education Task Force, the revision incorporates evolving technology used in teaching, learning, research, and scholarship has created new challenges […]
The ACRL Board of Directors, at its June 23, 2018, meeting, in New Orleans at the ALA Annual Conference, approved the establishment of the ACRL Academic Librarians Standards and Guidelines Review Task Force to review the proposed Guidelines for Academic Librarian Employment and Governance Systems, to consider the recommendations of […]
The ACRL Research and Scholarly Environment Committee (ReSEC) is seeking community input on proposed revisions to the ACRL Policy Statement on Open Access to Scholarship by Academic Librarians, approved by the ACRL Board of Directors during the 2016 ALA Annual Conference. The policy statement was initially developed by ReSEC with […]
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