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Lately, I’ve been in a marketing frame of mind. The information literacy committee I’m on is busy coming up with ways to spread the information literacy word and develop new and exciting PR techniques....
View ArticleWhat are You Doing in September?
It’s time to start thinking about the annual effort to make libraries a site for conversation about freedom and democracy. Now in its fifth year, The September Project is a world-wide effort – and one...
View ArticleFacebook or Facadebook?
From time to time a discussion on a list such as ILI-L generates a post so intriguing that I think it deserves a wider audience. (Not that ILI-L doesn’t have a wide audience; it has over 4,700...
View ArticleThe Art Of The Electronic Message Display
Editor’s Note: At MPOW we are ramping up to use a prominently positioned video display near our entrance for promotion. I realized I had no idea how to approach it. It seems so many academic libraries...
View ArticleIs There A Social Media Librarian In Your Library’s Future
Academic libraries are leveraging social networks to increase opportunities to connect with students and faculty. Facebook or Twitter are the primary social media tools used for this purpose, but...
View ArticleThe Distributed Library: Our Two-Year Experiment
This month’s post in our series of guest academic librarian bloggers is from Erin Dorney, Outreach Librarian at Millersville University, Pennsylvania. She also blogs at Library Scenester. Last week,...
View ArticleLengthening Our (Out)reach
I’ve written before about the faculty workshops we offer at my library. When we started to expand our offerings a few years ago we thought it would be a good opportunity both to promote our resources...
View ArticleMake it Work!: Starting a Makerspace in an Academic Library Phase 2
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Hannah Pope, Emerging Technologies Librarian at Appalachian State University. As anyone who has gone through the steps of creating a new library space knows, it can be...
View ArticleHolistic Advocacy, or The Case of the Annoyingly-Optimistic Librarian
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 up being...
View ArticleDisplays in Academic Libraries
Whenever I’m running low on display ideas, I have my favorite go-to methods for finding ideas and inspiration: Consult Chase’s to find interesting or relevant upcoming holidays or anniversaries! Refer...
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