The UWM Libraries are committed to preserving the digital content that makes up a significant number of library collections. This includes, but it not limited to: digitized text, images, video, and audio; digital maps; and digital archival materials and electronic... Read More

Research librarians have a unique role to play in assisting technical researchers as they navigate emerging issues of privacy, ethics, and equitable a

ACRLog welcomes a guest post from AJ Robinson, Islamic Studies & South Asian Studies Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis.  "Some people don’t expect to see themselves in the library." This comment from Vivek Shraya, 2015 recipient of the South Asia Book Award, was a moment of clarity a

On the 18th of February 2016 we opened Digital Social Science Lab (DSSL) at The Faculty Library of Social Sciences / Copenhagen University Library. DSSL is an open platform for events focusing on d…

The idea that academic libraries acquire a great many books that are never used, and that this is because traditional collection development – i.e., professional librarians purchasing books based on subject expertise and local knowledge of student and faculty needs and interests – is ineffective, has been repeated frequently during the last decade. This claim has been used as justification to change collection practices and to bolster ideas about new organizational models for libraries and their work. A closer look at the literature, however, reveals that the data being cited to support this claim has been communicated, for the most part, in an inaccurate and misleading way by its proponents and that a great deal of data exists, in fact, to refute it. This article outlines the genesis and propagation of this idea in the context of the actual findings of libraries’ collection use studies to both refute a claim that librarians seem to have been unduly uncritical in accepting and repeating, and also to question why we have done so.

Being a black professor at a predominantly white university can be just as uncomfortable as—if not more so than—being a black student at one.

The final page has a table of "how to design/assess a new service" that is classroom-ready.