Program information for the first ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Joint Virtual Conference is now available and it looks like a feast for the senses if you’re interested in anything related to technology and the transformation of library resources, collections and services!
Innovate and Motivate: Next Generation Libraries will be online with synchronous and asynchronous programming on April 20-21, [...]

At your academic library is there a feeling, perhaps an underlying pressure, that new technology should be leveraged to a greater extent than it is. While academic librarianship has a good track record with technology experimentation and integration, it feels like we are entering a new phase in which there is a constant acceleration of [...]

Academic librarians often seek publishing and presenting opportunities. Whether one is on the tenure track or just wants to communicate his or her message, good writing and speaking abilities are important skills in the academic librarian’s toolkit. Based solely on anecdotal evidence I’m going to say that as a profession we tend to publish and [...]

Remember when Steve Coffman asked us “what if you ran your library like a bookstore?” (American Libraries, March 1, 1998.) Not just any bookstore, but a mega-chain that has its books selected centrally and doesn’t pay its floor workers much because, hey, reference services are an unnecessary extravagance anyway.
Now digital media consultant Joseph Esposito [...]

Let me add to that list of award winners our very own Mary Jane Petrowski, winner of the ACRL Instruction Section’s (IS) Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award. If you don’t know Mary Jane, she is the associate director of the Association of College and Research Libraries. The award honors Miriam Dudley, whose efforts in the [...]