As we near the end of the first semester, I have more added to my plate than last minute reference questions concerning papers, projects, and presentations. A long time staff member has decided to make a career move to another institution and we will have to hire a replacement. As a result, I [...]

I’ve been thinking about trust a lot lately.
Maybe it’s because as we’re debating the mechanics of our campus honor code, we get more and more questions at the reference desk from anxious students about whether they’re broken a rule they don’t know about. When you have to swear over and over that you’re not [...]

ACRLog readers are probably familiar with the phrase “good enough is good enough”, particularly as it is applied to the student research environment. The phrase suggests that student research need only satisfy some vague level of accomplishment defined by acquiring the first available information acquired with a walk down the path of least resistance. In [...]

Ok. We know you are feeling over-surveyed. But this one will only take five minutes.
Now that the ACRLog blog team has been at this endeavor for just over one year, we’d like to know more about how you use ACRLog and how well it serves your needs. We’re also interested in your suggestions for improving [...]

Sometimes academic libraries hit the news in a big way. In the case of campus police using a Taser on a student in the UCLA library it even has become an international incident. As reported in many blogs and in Inside Higher Ed, this incident has not only has been widely viewed on YouTube, where [...]