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Editor’s note: This guest post has been authored by Alejandro Marquez. Alejandro is a Collection Development Librarian at the Auraria Library which serves the University of Colorado Denver, Met...

https://acrlog.org/2023/06/26/advocating-with-an-open-heart/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advocating-with-an-open-heart

I’m not saying I’m worried about faculty and students taking me seriously as a librarian, but harkening back to my days as a teenager who used to be a big fan of emo music: sometimes I feel m...

https://acrlog.org/2023/04/03/mysteries-of-liaison-librarianship/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mysteries-of-liaison-librarianship

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 ...

https://acrlog.org/2017/05/29/holistic-advocacy-or-the-case-of-the-annoyingly-optimistic-librarian/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=holistic-advocacy-or-the-case-of-the-annoyingly-optimistic-librarian

At the Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference a few months ago, Zeynep Tufekci gave a great keynote presentation.  Tufekci, who grew up in Turkey’s media-controlled environment,  researches ...

https://acrlog.org/2015/02/07/mixed-messages-missed-opportunities-writing-it-better/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mixed-messages-missed-opportunities-writing-it-better

By now you’ve probably heard all about #OAMonday: May 21st, when the folks behind the open access advocacy site access2research.org unveiled the site and kicked off the push to petition the Whi...

https://acrlog.org/2012/06/01/push-us-over-the-edge-friday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=push-us-over-the-edge-friday

I live in New York City and have been following the Occupy Wall Street activities here (and associated activities elsewhere) since they began last fall. I hadn’t been directly involved, but rec...

https://acrlog.org/2012/05/18/open-access-beyond-the-academia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=open-access-beyond-the-academia

It’s a phrase often heard at the end of a meeting: what are our next steps? When I worked as a web editor and project manager we called them action items (which is, admittedly, corporate jargon...

https://acrlog.org/2012/02/24/what-are-the-next-steps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-are-the-next-steps

Yesterday I was flabbergasted to read about the Research Works Act (hat tip to @CopyrightLibn and @RepoRat), legislation which is strongly supported by the Association of American Publishers. As ...

https://acrlog.org/2012/01/06/stop-making-sense-scholarly-publishing-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stop-making-sense-scholarly-publishing-edition