Today we learned who is our 2007 ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year – which just happens to be the highest honor our profession bestows upon one of its own. This year’s the award goes to Lizabeth (Betsy) A. Wilson, Dean of University Libraries at the University of Washington. You can find all the details [...]

The exhibit floor at ALA Midwinter featured a video game playing demonstration at the ALA booth. I would venture to say that most boomer librarians, myself included, are not up to speed on the currently popular video games. This presented a good opportunity to learn and gather some intelligence. I watched a young man face [...]

The ACRL booth was easy to find at the Seattle midwinter conference. For the first time the ACRL booth was distributing our ACRLog flyer. Yes, to our ongoing disbelief, not every academic librarian reads ACRLog. So even we have to do a bit of promotion. Hopefully we picked up a few new readers who discovered [...]