ACRL Presents Webcasts
Recent Recordings
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ACRL Presents: Getting Hired - A Practical Guide to the Academic Librarian Job Search with ACRL Presidents - Tuesday, October 29 from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Central
Join the past, current, and president-elect of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) for a 60-minute, comprehensive webinar designed to guide library program students through every step of the academic librarian job search process. From preparing in library school to analyzing job ads, crafting effective CVs and cover letters, and acing interviews, this session provides insider tips on how to stand out and succeed. You’ll also learn how to negotiate job offers and explore the benefits of joining ACRL for continued professional growth.
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ACRL Presents: Assessment and Advocacy: Using Project Outcome for Academic Libraries - Tuesday, October 1 from 1:00pm-2:00pm Central
In celebration of Project Outcome’s fifth anniversary, Assessment and Advocacy: Using Project Outcome for Academic Libraries collects case studies demonstrating how a variety of libraries have used Project Outcome to make improvements in their practice and highlighting the value the toolkit has brought to institutions and the academic library profession. Join us for a free webinar to hear from case study authors about how they have used the toolkit to measure learning outcomes to drive change, make data-informed decisions, and demonstrate the impact and value of academic libraries.
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Voices from the Stacks: Lived Experiences of Library Folks with Disabilities
The ACRL EDI Committee is hosting a guided discussion panel on the barriers to academic librarianship for people with disabilities. This panel seeks to present the experiences and perspectives of academic library workers with disabilities and share ways the field could improve accessibility and inclusion. The questions that guide this panel are:
- How have you handled disclosing your disability at work? What institutional or cultural barriers have impacted your decision to disclose? What was the outcome?
- How have you sought out accommodations during hiring or in the workplace? This could be self-accommodations, informal accommodation within your library, or formal and documented accommodations through HR. What experiences, positive or negative, have you encountered in any or all of these processes?
- How have you navigated professional service, scholarship, and/or tenure if applicable? Are there barriers to professional involvement for librarians with disabilities?
- What advice would you provide to nondisabled academic librarians looking to be more inclusive of disabilities and supportive of disabled colleagues
- How can ACRL improve disability inclusion in the organization or library field at large?
The panel will be moderated by Katie Quirin Manwiller, Education Librarian at West Chester University. Katie is chronically ill and dynamically disabled.
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The Threshold Achievement Test for Information Literacy (TATIL)
TATIL is a powerful tool to add to your assessment program. It will facilitate conversations on your campus and throughout the profession about what information literacy means to students today and into the future. Inspired by the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, TATIL provides librarians and other educators evidence to better understand the information literacy capabilities of their students. These data-driven insights inform instructors of weak areas, guide course instruction, affirm growth following instruction, and prepare students to be successful in learning and life.
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ACRL Presents: Youth Services to Academia - Transitioning Positions within Librarianship
The experience of librarians serving youth populations in public and school libraries can differ greatly from the work of an academic librarian. Moving from one area of the field to another can seem incredibly daunting and difficult. Will your skill sets translate to the new environment? Are you going from veteran to novice status? How in the world do you deal with the tenure process? This panel of former youth services and school librarians who made the change to academia will discuss the ins and outs, pros and cons, problems and solutions that they have encountered. Though it may seem like you are a unicorn in your new academic setting, others are on the same path, and we can bring our expertise from servicing youth to enhance our academic libraries.
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ACRL Presents: Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity — A Framework
Learn more about the Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity Framework. The framework is a tool both theoretical and practical in its orientation, as a guide for developing personal, organizational, institutional, and systems-level knowledge and understanding of the nature of racism and its many manifestations. The framework is not intended to be liberatory practice in itself—an instrument or agent that will abolish racial inequity or a step-by-step guide—but, rather, to provide the grounding needed to effect change in thinking, behavior, and practice that will lead to better outcomes for racialized and minoritized populations.
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ACRL & PLA Present: Data Tools for Library Groups and States
Join ACRL and PLA staff to discuss the data and assessment products, Project Outcome and Benchmark, and how they can help your group, consortia, or state library administrative agency. Libraries across the country use these tools for benchmarking, understanding trends, advocating for better resources, and assessment. Utilizing the group functionalities of these tools will allow you and your group’s member libraries to easily use peer data, standardized measurements, and robust interactive reporting tools to demonstrate the value of library programs and services.