Today is a half day, yet I’m not taking vacation time or sick leave for the remainder of the work day. The library is closing at noon, not for lack of business on Friday afternoons or a professional workshop that everyone’s attending, but because we have to leave town. Reel in the imagination–we are not [...]

We’d like to thank our first year academic librarian bloggers, Brett Bonfield, Kim Leeder, Melissa Mallon, and Josh Petrusa. In their posts they shared their experiences and gave voice to the special concerns of new librarians. Thank you all and good luck in your careers! We look forward to hearing from you in future guest [...]

It’s rankings time again. Just last week U.S. News & World Report released their Best Colleges 2009 rankings. If academic librarians think about college rankings at all I suspect that most take a peak simply to reassure themselves that their institution is still highly ranked, to see if it has inched ahead of that long-time [...]

Make no mistake that the newly released Ithaka Report titled “Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education” is essential reading for all academic librarians – and it’s chock full of easy-to-grasp charts – so you won’t get bogged down in reams of text in getting the important messages. But [...]

If you haven’t already updated all your instruction materials in anticipation of the coming fall semester you may wish to consider adding to them the spiffy new international logo for information literacy. The logo comes to us courtesy of the IFLA. At the logo site you can download several different versions. In a press release [...]