I’ve been to a few conferences in my professional career (really, far more than I want to recall) but few stick out as engaging and thought provoking as the one I attended earlier this week. All too often conference sessions can just wash over one with brief – but only fleeting – notice. Not true [...]

Just last night one of our circulation desk student workers was showing me her new Sidekick and explaining to me how it works and its various features. I still marvel at the student’s ability to text out a message so quickly with just two thumbs. We should expect to see more of our students with [...]

It is time for change within the ACRLog blogging team. It is with some sadness that we bid farewell to Scott Walter. Many of you know Scott, Assistant Dean of Libraries and Visiting Assistant Professor of Teaching & Leadership at the University of Kansas, but few of you would know just how much he contributed [...]

Intergenerational learning plays an important role in the development and maturation of academic librarians. In addition to the many senior colleagues I’ve learned from in academic libraries where I have worked, I’ve also been privileged to participate in more formal mentoring programs such as the one for new college library directors. More than a few [...]

This one is a little off topic for ACRLog but I think it helps to point out the amount of good content out there that can help support what we try to do in the classroom through user education. I do a few instruction sessions where part of the exercise involves helping students to understand [...]