Attending ALA’s first-ever in-person LibLearnX meeting in New Orleans has me anticipating the upcoming ACRL 2023 Conference more than ever. We will be gathering in Pittsburgh in March for our first in-person meeting since 2019. If you have not been to Pittsburgh in a while (or ever) you are in […]
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join together each March to commemorate and celebrate the vital role of women in American History through the celebration of Women’s […]
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 […]
Since 1970, the U.S. has celebrated Black History Month. The singular importance of February for this special month arises, in part, from the birth dates of Abraham Lincoln (February 12) and Frederick Douglass (observed on February 14), dates that have been memorialized since the 19th century. It is this month […]
As we approach the holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I urge you to read his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” He penned this moving appeal, including the powerful phrase “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” under frightful conditions, drawing heavily on his faith for comfort. The letter, […]
As 2021 limped to a merciful end, I was reminded of our libraries as places of hope and found a renewed appreciation for those who preserve and enhance these spaces. In my town of South Bend, Indiana, our main library recently reopened after a major renovation. As I strolled through […]
Those of us in the academic and research library community look at censorship efforts in school libraries and public libraries with a range of emotions, from distaste to horror. Indeed, ACRL’s Standards for Libraries in Higher Education cites intellectual freedom as a professional value, noting that “The library resists all […]
Over the past 20 years, I have attended more than 100 professional conferences. These have included the History of Science Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Historical Association, and the American Council of Learned Societies, to name but a few. None of these prepared me […]
Now that six weeks have passed since I became Executive Director of ACRL, I would like to provide you some background on my career and my hopes for ACRL’s future. To start, I want to focus on what attracted me to this job, with a special emphasis on Equity, Diversity, […]
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