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Choice publishes white paper exploring academic library support for changing research workflows
MIDDLETOWN, CT - Choice announces the publication of the sixth in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. Despite the fact that the paper, “ Supporting Scholarly...
Constructing library buildings that work
CHICAGO — When it’s time to start planning for a renovation or construction project, you don’t need a book that covers everything from A to Z. Instead you need a concentrated set of tools and techniques that will guide you and your team to find the best...
New from ACRL - 鈥淪haring Spaces and Students: Employing Students in Collaborative Partnerships鈥
CHICAGO - The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the publication of “ Sharing Spaces and Students: Employing Students in Collaborative Partnerships” by Holly A. Jackson. The book is full of plans, ideas, and case studies on how...
CHICAGO — Though the daily news is filled with reports of climate change, severe weather, environmental distress, and endangered species, children’s librarians and educators might be uncertain how to incorporate these topics into their current curriculum...
Recruiting and retaining younger generations for library boards, Friends groups, and Foundations
CHICAGO — According to 2016 Pew Research Center survey data, Millennials are more likely to have visited a public library in the past year than any other adult demographic. But despite being core library users, millennials and other younger generations...
New from ACRL - 鈥淗idden Architectures of Information Literacy Programs鈥
CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the publication of “ Hidden Architectures of Information Literacy Programs: Structures, Practices, and Contexts,” edited by Carolyn Caffrey Gardner, Elizabeth Galoozis, and...
CHICAGO— ALCTS Publishing has released its latest publication in the Sudden Selector’s Guide series, the Sudden Selector’s Guide to Geography and GIS. Authored by Carl Olson and Kim Ricker and edited by Helene Williams, this new guide provides the...
Celebrating how library workers are making a difference for their communities
CHICAGO — Libraries are community connectors, places where people come together, think together, and learn together. Libraries support and nurture strong, resilient communities. Day in and day out, the library workers at these institutions are doing much...
Choice launches Patron Driven podcast
MIDDLETOWN, CT - This week Choice launches a new five-episode podcast called Patron Driven. The series combines interviews and storytelling to spotlight the breakthrough programs, hard-won advocacy, and community connections—including the personalities...
CHICAGO — Laying the groundwork for building children’s curiosity, openness to learning, ability to persist in the face of failure, and interest in connecting learning from one subject to the other are important objectives for today’s libraries...
Information literacy and democracy
CHICAGO — We are all deluged with information. Much of it is useful, valuable, or enriching. But a lot of it is of dubious quality and provenance, if not downright dangerous. Misinformation forms part of the mix. The ability to get the most out of the...
New from ACRL - 鈥淭he Engaged Library: High-Impact Educational Practices in Academic Libraries"
CHICAGO - The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the publication of " The Engaged Library: High-Impact Educational Practices in Academic Libraries," edited by Joan D. Ruelle. The book provides case studies, examples, and...
Ready-to-use gaming programs for libraries
CHICAGO — Gaming programs offer many benefits: they encourage patron participation, strengthen community bonds with the library, and when done right they can be incredibly popular. Elyssa Kroski, a bestselling author as well as an avid gamer herself...
Open access digital scholarship in action
CHICAGO — Many in the world of scholarship share the conviction that open access will be the engine of transformation leading to more culture, more research, more discovery, and more solutions to small and big problems. “ Open Praxis, Open Access: Digital...
No-nonsense guidance on research support and scholarly communication
CHICAGO — As academic libraries move away from simply providing access to existing information and towards helping users create new knowledge, there is an opportunity for them to develop new services for the research community. To do this successfully...
