Owing to circumstances beyond the control of the ACRLog blogging team, the last several days worth of posts were lost just yesterday. Our hosting service had a software failure that resulted in the loss of all posts from the last few days. Thanks to Bloglines, the content of the posts that were lost were available, [...]

I will readily admit that I’m lifting this title from one of the great all-time sports columnists, Bill Lyon, who not long ago retired after writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer for many years. Published every couple of Saturdays, “Sudden Thoughts and Second Thoughts” was something to look forward to, as it provided a delectable mix [...]

Here’s a worthwhile podcast (also can be viewed as streaming video) from the library at Arizona State University. They recorded a program featuring five of their students answering a variety of questions about using the library, their research behavior, and their use of technology.The program, “Academic Libraries in Transition: Here’s What Students Have to Say” [...]

I came across an interesting blog post titled “Are Databases Killing Research?” at a blog called BarBlog. The faculty member blogging this post suggests that because library databases (I’m assuming he means the databases to which the library subscribes as opposed to search engines) are relatively easy to search, they don’t teach students about the [...]

You probably heard by now that U.S. News & World Report recently issued its latest graduate school rankings. The big news was that for the first time in quite a few years U.S. News & World Report updated the library and information science program rankings. At their site, U.S News & World Report provides only [...]