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As I sit here in the deep dread and horror of the U.S. results we woke up to, literally fighting the urge to throw up, I am thinking about the National Archives. Why? U.S. Archivist, Colleen Shog...

https://acrlog.org/2024/11/06/do-not-obey-in-advance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=do-not-obey-in-advance

Editor’s Note: This guest post has been authored by Shaharima Parvin (Senior Assistant Librarian at East West University in Dhaka, Bangladesh) and Md. Abdul Latif (Assistant Librarian at East W...

https://acrlog.org/2024/11/04/iot-in-bangladesh-libraries-a-path-to-transformation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=iot-in-bangladesh-libraries-a-path-to-transformation

Editor’s Note: Please join us in welcoming Brianna Calomino, Digital Projects Librarian at the University of Calgary, as a new First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger for the 2024-2025...

https://acrlog.org/2024/10/30/open-access-its-not-just-a-nice-thing-to-do/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=open-access-its-not-just-a-nice-thing-to-do

Editor’s Note: Please join us in welcoming Jonathan Rowe, Associate Instruction Services Librarian at Boston College, as a new First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger for the 2024-2025...

https://acrlog.org/2024/10/21/approaching-first-year-library-instruction-in-an-election-season/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=approaching-first-year-library-instruction-in-an-election-season

Editor’s Note: Please join us in welcoming Heidi Yarger, Health Sciences Librarian at Baylor University, as a new First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger for the 2024-2025 year here at...

https://acrlog.org/2024/10/15/information-literacy-beyond-fact-checking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=information-literacy-beyond-fact-checking

Back in March, I wrote about my experiences chairing a double search committee. I ended that blog post with questions around onboarding and what happens after a hire is successful. I’m happy to...

https://acrlog.org/2024/10/10/lessons-learned-from-onboarding-new-colleagues/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lessons-learned-from-onboarding-new-colleagues

Editor’s Note: This guest post has been authored by Amber Pierdinock-Weed. Amber is the Teaching and Learning Librarian at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she works closely with...

https://acrlog.org/2024/10/08/what-to-do-when-youve-been-approached-for-a-potential-partnership/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-to-do-when-youve-been-approached-for-a-potential-partnership

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about mindset and attitude. For starters, I’ve taken on an interim position at another campus within my institution this year while continuing to manage my o...

https://acrlog.org/2024/10/04/on-being-open-to-being-open/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-being-open-to-being-open

Summer’s done, in case you haven’t heard. Tree leaves are turning yellow and being blown off their branches. We’re putting away our camp collar shirts, Birkenstocks, and frozen cocktails, a...

https://acrlog.org/2024/09/12/back-to-school/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=back-to-school

As we enter a new academic year, we’re looking to bring on a few new first year academic librarian (FYAL) bloggers here at ACRLog. We’d like to thank our 2023-2024 FYAL bloggers Nery Alcivar-...

https://acrlog.org/2024/09/03/fyal-2024-recruitment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fyal-2024-recruitment