ACRLog » Maura Smale

As the year comes to a close, I’m seeing more and more people and organizations leave Twitter behind. This is not a new trend by any means — many deactivated their accounts after the 2016 U.S...

https://acrlog.org/2023/12/21/more-media-less-social/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-media-less-social

As the semester winds down to a close, I’m finding myself thinking often about communication within our libraries. Like many colleges and universities, mine is still firmly in a hybrid work mod...

https://acrlog.org/2022/12/22/communication-successes-and-challenges/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=communication-successes-and-challenges

This semester I’ve had a few opportunities to think and talk through my librarian and pre-librarian work, and especially my commitment to open scholarship and teaching. First I was delighted to...

https://acrlog.org/2022/11/13/committing-and-recommitting-to-open/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=committing-and-recommitting-to-open

With the fall semester well underway, we’re all adjusting to more classes and services on the 25 campuses of my university than last year. There are more students on our campuses which is lovel...

https://acrlog.org/2022/10/02/new-year-new-job/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-year-new-job

We’re coming to the end of another year of grappling with pandemic-related changes across higher education, and the ACRLog blog team thought this might be a good time to check in on how things ...

https://acrlog.org/2022/04/29/how-are-you-doing-redux/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-are-you-doing-redux

About a year ago I was knee-deep in scheduling focus group sessions with students at one of the colleges at my university, along with my fellow team members as part of our Data Doubles research. ...

https://acrlog.org/2022/03/18/thinking-about-space-still/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thinking-about-space-still

We are still in the winter intersession at the college where I work, and I’m trying to use some of these quieter January days to work on projects that take a bit more focus (though I admit that...

https://acrlog.org/2022/01/16/mentoring-musing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mentoring-musing

We’re welcoming a new colleague to our library this semester. I’ve read some great pieces about transitioning to a new position this very unusual year, including from fellow ACRLogger Hailley...

https://acrlog.org/2021/11/15/hiring-during-and-beyond-the-pandemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hiring-during-and-beyond-the-pandemic

I’m a couple of weeks later than I’d hoped to be with this blogpost, one result of what’s continuing to be an unusually hectic and unusually uncertain semester for me (and probably for many...

https://acrlog.org/2021/09/30/short-cuts-for-the-easily-distracted/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=short-cuts-for-the-easily-distracted

With all of the changes in our work over the past year, I know I’m not the only one who’s spent lots of time recently thinking about both the pre-pandemic past as well as the always uncertain...

https://acrlog.org/2021/07/15/every-year-is-someones-first-year-in-academic-librarianship/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=every-year-is-someones-first-year-in-academic-librarianship