The Allegory of the Meniscus or Accepting the Reality of Middle Management in...
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Dustin Fife, College Librarian at Colorado College Library. As with so many people who have recently completed a dissertation, I worry/assume that it...
View ArticleA Born-Digital Librarian’s Reflection on Digital Educational Tools
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Senka Stankovic, Head of User Services at the Jean-Léon Allie Library, Saint-Paul University. As an early-career librarian halfway through a year-long...
View ArticleOER Legislation Update
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Emma Wood, Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Library. I contributed a guest post to ACRLog in 2023 about...
View ArticleBecoming an Audiobook Reader
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Sarah Clinton-McCausland, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Open Education Librarian at the University of Maryland. I never thought I’d lose my leisure...
View ArticleThe MLS Is Not the Problem: A Response
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Ben Rawlins, Associate Dean for Outreach, Engagement and Collections at the University of Kentucky Libraries. Bryn Geffert’s recent Inside Higher Ed...
View ArticleMentoring MLIS Students on the Job Market: How to make mentorship work for...
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Lexi Kadis, Teaching and Learning Librarian at the University of Maryland Libraries. I was in a state of perpetual déjà vu throughout the Spring 2026...
View ArticleFrom the Reading Room to the Recording Room: What a Digital Project about...
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Michael C. Weisenburg, Director of the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of South Carolina Libraries. The first...
View ArticleThe Chatbot Will See You Now: Concerns about Artificial Intelligence and...
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Rebecca Kyser, Research and Instruction Librarian at Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, The George Washington University. Disclaimer: All opinions...
View ArticleRefusing (to let go of) AI: An Ignatian Pedagogy for a Real AI Literacy
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Maxwell Gray, Digital Scholarship Librarian at Marquette University. My personal, professional relationship with generative AI (genAI) is complicated....
View ArticleCoaching as Critical Leadership Praxis
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Angela Pashia, who was an academic librarian for 12 years before becoming an ICF-Certified (ACC) leadership coach. For the first half of my library...
View ArticleExploring Coaching As a Leadership Skill
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Angela Pashia, who was an academic librarian for 12 years before becoming an ICF-Certified (ACC) leadership coach. When you think of coaching, what...
View ArticleI Bought Slop: A Conversation on the Accidental Purchase of AI-Generated...
Editor’s note: This guest blog post is by Natasha Finnegan, Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, Nicole Kulp, Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian, Sara Wheatley, Acquisitions Specialist, and Emily...
View ArticleReconsidering Rest: Interruptions and Invitations (Part 2)
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, MSLS, Founder, Renewals. (Activation notice: This post shares information about harmful workplace experiences and impacts on...
View ArticleReconsidering Rest: Interruptions and Invitations (Part 1)
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, MSLS, Founder, Renewals. (Activation notice: This post shares information about harmful workplace experiences and impacts on...
View ArticleFrom Clay Tablets to Central Archives: How European History Shaped Canadian...
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Scott Jones, MLIS, Class Facilitator at Mohawk College, Hamilton, Ontario. Archival theory and practice in Canada didn’t emerge in a vacuum—it’s deeply...
View ArticleCombating Library Hazing: Building a Safer Academic Environment
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Alejandro Marquez, Science and Engineering Librarian at the University of Denver Libraries. Hazing is the practice of initiation rituals often involving...
View Article“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question”
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled their...
View ArticleRethinking Wikipedia from a Library Perspective
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Nathan Sonnenschein, User Services & Experience Librarian at Montana State University Billings. During my first year as an undergraduate, my...
View ArticleOpen Letter to CRL from the academic wing of #CripLib
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from the academic librarians of #CripLib, which focuses on the intersection of disability and library work. Note: The focus is on our concerns about the...
View ArticleAuthors Against Book Bans
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest post from Jessica Olin, who was in the library field for close to twenty years, both as a librarian and a library director. For eight of those years, they were also...
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