Editor’s note: April is Community College Month, and all month we are featuring community college librarians as the ACRL Member of the Week to celebrate! Stacey Shah is a professor and distance learning librarian at Elgin Community College in Elgin, IL. Stacey has been a member of ACRL for 16 […]
Chelsea Heinbach is a teaching and learning librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Chelsea has been a member of ACRL for 5 years and is your ACRL Member of the Week for June 21, 2021. Describe yourself in three words: Passionate, curious, empathetic. What are you reading (or […]
In summer 2018, the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) launched Humanities for All, with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to document and promote publicly engaged humanities research, teaching, preservation, and programming in U.S. higher education. The initiative brings together more than 1,500 examples, showcasing the range of humanities […]
This is the third request for feedback from the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC). In anticipation of a new edition of The Intellectual Freedom Manual, the IFC is in the process of updating intellectual freedom-related documents. The IFC would appreciate feedback on “Challenged Resources: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of […]
Over the past two years, longstanding political and social rifts in the United States have become deeper and more overtly hostile, embittering our already polarized public life. Various groups and individuals on our campuses and in our communities have experienced identity-based threats and marginalization that have led to heightened levels […]
ACRL/ ALA and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have extended the joint advisory task force to continue efforts to bring the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Academic Libraries Component up to date and in line with current library practices. ARL and ACRL formed a joint advisory task force […]
Individuals interested in contributing to creating two new ACRL learning opportunities on assessing library impact should apply by 5 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, July 14. The selected curriculum designer/presenters will create new opportunities that build on the work of the ACRL program Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success […]
Editor’s Note: This guest post comes courtesy of Educopia and the ETDplus Project. The ETDplus Project invites Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) program staff, librarians, faculty advisors, and graduate students to participate in a public review of the Guidance Briefs for Preserving & Curating ETD Research Data & Complex Digital Objects. About […]
The Coalition to Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries and Museums is currently administering a survey to help the library community develop learning opportunities better suited to your needs and interests. Please take 15 to 20 minutes between now and March 24th to complete this anonymous online survey.
As the higher education association for librarians, ACRL supports academic and research librarians as change leaders in their campus communities through programs like Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success (AiA). The more than 200 participating AiA teams are contributing to innovation in higher education assessment by creating approaches, […]
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