What are You Doing in September?
It’s time to start thinking about the annual effort to make libraries a site for conversation about freedom and democracy. Now in its fifth year, The September Project is a world-wide effort – and one...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleLengthening Our (Out)reach
I’ve written before about the faculty workshops we offer at my library. When we started to expand our offerings a few years ago we thought it would be a good opportunity both to promote our resources...
View ArticleThe Library is Open
For the past couple of years I’ve been wearing two main hats at my job: one as an information literacy librarian and the other as a lead on a collegewide pedagogical grant. I’ve had several...
View ArticleNavigating a New Campus
One of the challenges I’ve encountered as a new academic librarian – that I’m sure other new professionals can relate to – is navigating the campus outside the library. I don’t mean physically...
View ArticleMusings on Outreach as Instruction
Last week, librarians from many branches of our university gathered for a Teaching Librarians Retreat. The retreat was organized and hosted by a few wonderful colleagues, who I cannot thank enough for...
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Open Education Week 2015: A Reflection on IP, Infrastructure, and Interest
This year, Open Education Week ran from March 9th to March 13th. Open Education Week, like Open Access Week, is a celebration of what has been accomplished and what is currently being done within the...
View ArticleOER Outreach for Newbies, Part I: What I Would Do Differently
My library, in partnership with our Center for Teaching and Learning, recently launched a faculty stipend program for faculty interested in either replacing their traditional course materials with...
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OER Outreach for Newbies, Part II: Moving Forward
This post is the second in a three-part series devoted to OER outreach. Find the first post here. I’ll use this post to reflect on my next steps for OER outreach. I’ll also suggest that OER outreach...
View ArticleOur Responsibility to Voters: What Librarianship Should Look Like During the...
Since the RNC and DNC have taken place, the 2016 general election is at the forefront of everyone’s minds and news feeds. I wanted to use my final FYAL ACRLog post to talk about this topic of great...
View ArticleHolistic Advocacy, or The Case of the Annoyingly-Optimistic Librarian
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Courtney Block, Instruction, Reference, and User Engagement Librarian at Indiana University Southeast. Storytellers. It’s what all professional librarians end up being...
View ArticleHack the Stacks: Outreach and Activism in Patron Driven Acquisitions
As many others have said more eloquently than I could, everyday in libraries we make decisions about how to spend our resources: time, space, attention, but perhaps most obviously, money. In 2015, the...
View ArticleNavigating uncharted territory: Short Edition at Penn State
So, you might have heard of a machine that disenspers short stories. You’ll find these dispensers at airports, hospitals, gig cities, malls, and community spaces. With a press of a button, you can...
View ArticleGotta Catch ‘Em All: Campus Engagement with Pokémon Go
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Beth M. Whittaker, Director of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library and Associate Dean of Distinctive Collections at the University of Kansas. I’m not ashamed to say...
View ArticleLibrarianship in the Time of COVID
As I write this, I’m entering my third month as an Outreach and Engagement Librarian. I’m excited to be starting this new position in a new field, but must admit that this is a strange time to be...
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Student clubs and making zines
Slowly but surely we’re making it through this fall semester. For a librarian focused on student engagement and outreach, this semester has been a pivot (probably a large understatement). As Valerie...
View ArticleFinding the “yes and…” and getting out of my head
As the semester and end of the year approaches, I find myself reflecting on this question more frequently: “Am I currently just trying to make it through the day or do I have the capacity and...
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Outreach as a Resident Librarian
Being a library resident has made my first year as an academic librarian an interesting experience to say the least. Through my residency, I have a level of autonomy I’ve come to realize isn’t afford...
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Bad Art Day in the (Academic) Library
Last week, I hosted Bad Art Day, my second public program at Carroll Community College. Bad Art Day (or usually, Bad Art Night) is a popular program at public libraries, and it’s something I’ve wanted...
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