Happy New Year From ACRL!
Wishing you all the best in 2020! The staff of the Association of College & Research LibrariesMary Ellen K. Davis, Executive Director
Articles by Mary Ellen Davis
ALA Governance Study and Discussion Groups at Annual Conference
At the 2018 Midwinter Meeting in Denver, a call was issued for ALA Council, Committees, Round Tables, Divisions, and the myriad Communities of Practice to consider what it would take to align ALA’s organizational structure, policies, and rules with the Association’s mission and its 21st century values, key action areas […]
ACRL @ Council of Independent Colleges Information Fluency Workshops
I had the chance this week to attend a great workshop bringing together subject discipline faculty, librarians, and administrators to collaborate on improving student learning. ACRL is pleased to cosponsor these information fluency workshops offered by the Council of Independent Colleges.
ACRL Joins Other Scholarly Associations To Defend Tenure and Academic Freedom in Wisconsin
ACRL has joined with 21 other scholarly societies in a statement protesting proposed changes to the structure of the University of Wisconsin system that threaten to undermine tenure, shared governance, and academic freedom in Wisconsin. Read the full statement below. Membership in ACRL supports this work to advocate for the interests of academic […]
Final Framework Version Coming Soon!
We at ACRL would like to thank the academic and research library community for your interest in the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. We appreciate your enthusiasm and know you are eager to begin working with the document. ACRL staff are working on creating a copyedited HTML version […]
C&RL Editor Joe Branin
It is with much sadness that we share the news of C&RL Editor Joseph Branin’s untimely death. Joe made many significant contributions to the profession, most recently for ACRL as editor of our research journal, College & Research Libraries. He continued the efforts of his predecessors to seek a way […]
White House Petition on School Libraries
Please see the request below from the ALA Office for Library Advocacy to sign a petition to the Obama Administration to ensure that every child in America has access to an effective school library program. I hope that you will consider signing and sharing this information with your colleagues and […]
ACRL Website Migration
As part of ALA’s move to a new web platform, the ACRL website will migrate to Drupal CMS on Wednesday, December 7. During the migration process, we’ve worked to improve our site’s information architecture to make it easier to navigate and more user-friendly. As with any website project, we have […]
ACRL Adopts New Plan for Excellence
The ACRL Board of Directors has adopted a new Plan for Excellence for the association. Developed over the course of the past year by the Board, with continuous input from the ACRL membership, the Plan for Excellence takes the place of ACRL’s current strategic plan, Charting Our Future: ACRL Strategic […]