Avoid open-ended questions.

We sued the tech companies for their diversity figures. The results don’t look good for either Silicon Valley giant: Especially in leadership jobs, women and people of color are left out.

ACRL’s “2016 Top Trends in Academic Libraries” noted a “shift to the incorporation and integration of more continuous, ongoing, flexible, and sustainable review of collections,” and “an increasing need” to align collection development with “institutional research and curricular requirements.” This article describes these trends playing out at a top-ranked research library. Given the library’s long history of collecting print books, the article examines the monographic acquisitions program from multiple angles, including circulation, expenditures, approval plans, and e-book usage. There are also suggestions for additional metrics to evaluate collections as a service, as well as questions posed to frame an ongoing research and assessment agenda. The models described in this case study and the proposed research and assessment agenda can be adapted by other academic libraries, both to fit local institutional needs and as collection development and “collections as a service” are increasingly realized within interinstitutional collaborative networks.

Who Succeeds in Higher Education? Zoe Fisher The Academic Library in Times of Change California Academic & Research Libraries (CARL) Conference April 15, 2018 San Francisco, California Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to be here to speak with you today. I am very grateful to the co...

Institutional Assessment Worksheet Take a Closer Look: How Inclusive Is Your Library to Transgender and Non Binary Folks?   Your Library Challenges for transgender folks Possibilities for change Policies -What do nondiscrimination policies include?  -What do harassment and disruptions pol...

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By A.L. Carson This is the first post in the bloggERS series #digitalarchivesfail: A Celebration of Failure. ____ They say you learn more from failure than from success. FIAT was a great teacher. T…

“Successful technologies rely on social resources.” – Susan Brown The Digital Humanities (DH) is an interdisciplinary methodology that spans departments, faculties, institutional divisions—including libraries—and nations.

No, it's not only you—some user interfaces today intentionally want to confuse and enroll.

User-testing ethics.

Data inventory tool.