Reflections on Active Collecting During Difficult Times
by Kyna Herzinger and Rebecca Pattillo In Brief At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Archives and Special Collections Library at the University of... Read More
Dismantling the Evaluation Framework
(Atharva Tulsi, Unsplash, https://unsplash.com/photos/RVpCAtjhyuA) By Alaina C. Bull, Margy MacMillan, and Alison J. Head In brief For almost 20 years, instruction librarians have relied on... Read More
Service Ceiling: The High Cost of Professional Development for Academic Librarians
By Bridgette Comanda, Jaci Wilkinson, Faith Bradham, Amanda Koziura, and Maura Seale In Brief Academic librarian salaries are shrinking, but conferences and professional membership fees... Read More
Equitable but Not Diverse: Universal Design for Learning is Not Enough
By Amanda Roth, Gayatri Singh (posthumous), and Dominique Turnbow In Brief Information literacy instruction is increasingly being delivered online, particularly through the use of learning... Read More
Ethical Financial Stewardship: One Library’s Examination of Vendors’ Business Practices
By Katy DiVittorio and Lorelle Gianelli In Brief The evaluation of library collections rarely digs into the practices or other business ventures of the companies... Read More
We Need to Talk About How We Talk About Disability: A Critical Quasi-systematic Review
By Amelia Gibson, Kristen Bowen, and Dana Hanson In Brief This quasi-systematic review uses a critical disability framework to assess definitions of disability, use of... Read More
Culturally Responsive Community Engagement Programming and the University Library: Lessons Learned from Half a Decade of VTDITC
By Craig E. Arthur, Dr. Freddy Paige, La’ Portia Perkins, Jasmine Weiss, and Dr. Michael Williams (Good Homie Signs’ “Hip Hop @ VT” mural 7/18)... Read More
Creating a Student-Centered Alternative to Research Guides: Developing the Infrastructure to Support Novice Learners
In Brief: Research and course guides typically feature long lists of resources without the contextual or instructional framework to direct novice researchers through the research... Read More
Power and Status (and Lack Thereof) in Academe: Academic Freedom and Academic Librarians
In Brief Academic librarians do not experience full academic freedom protections, despite the fact that they are expected to exercise independent judgment, be civically engaged,... Read More
The Library Commons: An Imagination and an Invocation
By Jennie Rose Halperin In Brief Commons theory can provide important interventions within neoliberal managerial information capitalism when applied to the library as an institution.... Read More