Sparking Curiosity – Librarians’ Role in Encouraging Exploration
In Brief Students often struggle to approach research in an open-minded, exploratory way and instead rely on safe topics and strategies. Traditional research assignments often... Read More
Updated Submission Guidelines for What We Publish
It’s been about a year since we updated our publication schedule, and we thought it a good time to revisit our submission guidelines and clarify... Read More
Social Media at The College of New Jersey Library
In Brief: This article discusses how and why The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) Library decided not to develop library-specific social media channels and why... Read More
Liaisons as Sales Force: Using Sales Techniques to Engage Academic Library Users
In Brief Liaison librarians are assuming a wide variety of new roles that serve their institutions’ students, staff, and faculty. An essential foundation of these... Read More
Critical Pedagogy, Critical Conversations: Expanding Dialogue about Critical Library Instruction through the Lens of Composition and Rhetoric
In Brief: As interest among academic librarians in critical pedagogy has grown, discussions about this concept and its implications for librarianship have been richly expanding... Read More
Library Lockdown: An escape room by kids for the community
In Brief Hoping to bring the unexpected to Nebraska City, the Morton-James Public Library applied for an ALA Association for Library Service to Children Curiosity... Read More
The Information Literacy of Survey Mark Hunting: A Dialogue
In Brief: This article makes connections between the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and the activity of survey mark hunting. After a... Read More
Putting Critical Information Literacy into Context: How and Why Librarians Adopt Critical Practices in their Teaching
In Brief Critical information literacy asks librarians to work with their patrons and communities to co-investigate the political, social, and economic dimensions of information, including... Read More
The Collective Approach: Reinventing Affordable, Useful, and Fun Professional Development
In Brief: In 2014, a small group of librarians at the University of Tennessee set out to redefine the library conference landscape. Frustrated by the... Read More
Pre-ILS Migration Catalog Cleanup Project
Image by flickr user ashokboghani (CC BY-NC 2.0) In Brief: This article was written to describe the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Library and... Read More