In a post last week I mentioned my disappointment in being shut out of the Instruction Session’s discussion about teaching and outreach methods (two back-to-back sessions). No one in this jam-packed room was debating if information literacy was still relevant to the role of academic librarian or if there was still a need for library [...]

Fellow academic librarian blogger Jill Stover, of Thinking Outside The Book, shares some of her thoughts about the ongoing “simplicity vs. complexity” thread in a post titled “K.I.S.S“. After reviewing the business world’s current infatuation with simplicity as the new competitive advantage, she asks: “But is simplicity what librarianship is all about? Is our job [...]

Seems that misperceptions about what academic libraries contribute to their institution, and the need for librarians to lead them, are found in locations far beyond our own backyards. In this passionate editorial published in the Sierra Leone Awareness Times, Saa Mathias Bendu, a student at the Institute of Library, Information and Communication Studies (INSLICS) Fourah [...]