Back in November I shared some information about the ACRL Summit on Technology and Change. A number of different themes emerged at the meeting. The Summit participants discussed the current environment for the academic library, but eventually the conversation turned to the future of academic libraries. One way in which the facilitators asked us to [...]

Well, you told us a lot, but I’m going to try to keep this to a reasonable length, so let me provide a summary and some highlights from our ACRLog survey. Many thanks to the nearly 250 readers who took time out of their busy day to complete the survey. We appreciate your participation. Overall [...]

Cambridge Information Group (parent of CSA, Bowker, RefWorks, and other odds and ends) has just announced it is acquiring Proquest Information and Learning to create one powerhouse group of academic, news, historical, and business databases.
There seems to be an urge to merge going on, but what it spells for academic libraries remains to be [...]

On Monday, December 12 several higher education news sources and metropolitan papers (here and here) reported on the AAUP’s 2006 Contingent Faculty Index. According the the AAUP site, “the Index provides data to document the increasing predominance of non-tenure-track faculty in America’s colleges and universities. This report draws on figures submitted by institutions to the [...]

Few of us are natural presenters. When you combine that with a growing dependence on PowerPoint visuals that are full of bullet points, the likelihood is that we’ll all be seeing more bad or mediocre presentations than really good ones. Adding to the challenge of pulling off a good presentation is the rising expectation that [...]