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Archive for 'ACRL News'

My Thoughts on ACRL’s Springboard Event

Today was an important day in the history of ACRL. Even from my newly-minted librarian perspective, I can recognize this as a momentous occasion. ACRL listened to the needs of their members and offered their first ever free webcast. Only members were able to participate in the webcast, something that I think is completely reasonable. [...]

For Members Only - A Free ACRL Webcast Event

In survey after survey, ACRL members report that access to continuing professional development is the most highly valued benefit of belonging to this association. In response ACRL has moved aggresively into the e-learning environment, and now offers a regular series of programs that members can access from the desktop. About the only negative response ACRL [...]

ACRL Announces Its Big Awards

Yesterday ACRL issued press releases about two of its most notable awards - the Academic/Research Librarian of the Year and the Excellence in Academic Libraries. Who won?
If you had asked me to predict who I thought would be this year’s Academic/Research Librarian of the Year, Peter Hernon would not have been my pick. If you’ve [...]

Top Ten Assumptions Morphs Into ACRL Environmental Scan 2007

If you happened to look over the just released ACRL Environmental Scan 2007 it may have looked familiar. That’s because it is a beefier version of the previously released “Top Ten Assumptions About the Future” which came out around the end of March (there was a session about the assumptions at ACRL in Baltimore). And [...]

Welcome To Our Fellow ACRL Blog - ACRL Insider

Maybe you thought that one ACRL blog could say it all. Well it turns out that one blog is not enough for ACRL - now there are two. We ACRLog bloggers welcome ACRL Insider to the blogging scene. We think it will help our readers to keep up with ACRL news and developments that we [...]