ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Maura Seale, Research and Instruction Librarian at Georgetown University Library. Now that the fall semester instruction rush is over, I have been able to spend some time catching up on my library blog reading as well as my own research. I recently read this post on Academic Librarian about [...]

ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Cori Strickler, Information Literacy Librarian at Bridgewater College. During idle times at the reference desk, or when the students are gone for a break, I find myself creating instruction “wish lists” of tools or gadgets that I’d love to have for my sessions. One item that has been on [...]

ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Mark Herring, Dean of Library Services at Winthrop University. Summer’s over, I know, but we must go once more to the breach of web privacy. A California librarian recently complained about Amazon’s new Kindle ebooks lending program for libraries. The complaint focuses on Amazon’s privacy policy and advertising. In [...]

ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Marcia Dority Baker, the Access Services Librarian at the University of Nebraska College of Law, Schmid Law Library. One of the great things about being an academic librarian at a law college is the ability to interact with a variety of departments. One such opportunity is a work in [...]

ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, a student at Arcadia University in Philadelphia who completing is her Masters with a focus in School Library Media Specialty. Finding the right technology to use in the library, particularly the kind of devices that will best suit the largest number of patrons, can be an arduous [...]