Archive for category Buildings
The New York Public Library Central Library Plan and its Critics
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Polly Thistlethwaite, Acting Chief Librarian at the City University of New York Graduate Center Library.
NYPL made public its general plans for Reimagining the 42nd St. Schwarzman Building (now called the Central Library Plan or CLP) in February 2012 following December 2011 publication of Scott Sherman’s alarm in the [...]
Posted: 7 May, 2012 in Buildings, Graduate Students, Libraries and Community.
Tags: City University of New York, New York Public Library, public-academic library partnerships
Comments: 11
Collision Spaces
Please welcome Laura Braunstein to the ACRLog team. Laura is the English Language and Literature Librarian at Dartmouth College’s Baker-Berry Library. She has a doctorate in English from Northwestern University, where she taught writing and literature classes. She has worked as an index editor for the MLA International Bibliography, and serves as a consultant for [...]
Posted: 24 January, 2012 in Buildings, Faculty, Student Issues.
Tags: community, library as place
Comments: 8
The Distributed Library: Our Two-Year Experiment
This month’s post in our series of guest academic librarian bloggers is from Erin Dorney, Outreach Librarian at Millersville University, Pennsylvania. She also blogs at Library Scenester.
Last week, a small fire* forced all faculty, staff, and library users out of our nine-floor building for about an hour. As I stood the requisite 50 feet away [...]
Posted: 8 December, 2010 in Buildings, Marketing, Public Services.
Tags: embedded librarians, facilities, outreach, renovation
Comments: 9
My College Advice? Learn How To Do Research
The New York Times recently asked 7 academics to offer advice to students entering college. If they had asked me, my advice would have been to learn how to do research, to practice it, and get really good at it.
Of course, as an academic librarian, I may be biased. But as someone [...]
Posted: 11 September, 2009 in Books, Buildings, Information Literacy, Student Issues.
Comments: 1
Library As Place – For Air Conditioning Books
Here’s an interesting vision for the future of academic libraries from Adrian Sannier, Chief Technology Officer at Arizona State University. Sannier was the keynote speaker at the Campus Technology 2008 conference, and you can watch the video of his presentation, “A New American University for Next-Gen Learners” at the Campus Technology website. In his talk [...]
Posted: 19 August, 2008 in Buildings, Higher Education, Technology Issues.
Tags: information_technology, library_buildings
Comments: 11
