Archive for category ACRL News
On Being Valuable: Point-Counterpoint
The POINT: Amy Fry
On Tuesday, September 14, ACRL released Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report by Dr. Megan Oakleaf. The report lays out the current landscape of academic library assessment and seeks to provide strategies for libraries to demonstrate and quantify their value within the context of institutional missions and goals.
Oakleaf [...]
Posted: 17 September, 2010 in ACRL News, Assessment.
Comments: 3
ACRL 2011 National Conference Update – Paper/Panel Submissions
Just in! Some data on the number of submissions for the contributed paper and panel sessions (plus workshops and preconferences) for ACRL’s National Conference in Philadelphia in 2011. As you might expect – the number of submissions (mostly) continues to increase.
Here’s the data:
Contributed Papers
Number of submissions – [...]
Posted: 27 May, 2010 in ACRL News, Professional Development.
Tags: ACRL_national_conference
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ACRLog Welcomes Its Emerging Leaders
Editor’s Note: ACRLog is pleased to announce that a group of ALA Emerging Leaders was assigned to work with the ACRLog blog team (and ACRL Insider too), and use our little blog to share ideas that will enhance ALA conference attendance for both first-timers and veterans alike. Over the next few months we’ll feature occasional [...]
Posted: 17 February, 2010 in ACRL News.
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Maureen Sullivan – ACRL Academic/Research Librarian Of The Year
Maureen Sullivan, owner of Maureen Sullivan Associates and Professor of Practice in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science Ph.D. Program in Managerial Leadership, is the 2010 Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. The award, sponsored by YBP Library Services, recognizes an outstanding member of the [...]
Posted: 24 January, 2010 in ACRL News.
Tags: acrl_awards, sullivan
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Your ACRL Conference Planning Team
An enormous amount of work goes into planning the ACRL National Conference. No sooner does one end then the cycle of planning starts again for the next one. At ALA the 2011 conference planning committee had its first official meetings. We first met with members of the 2009 planning group for a debriefing session. Then [...]
Posted: 17 July, 2009 in ACRL News.
Tags: acrl_conference
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