(via Anna Ferri, Colorado State University) Join the ACRL Health Sciences Interest Group for this First Friday Forum discussion for the ACRL Health Sciences Interest Group on October 6, at 11:00 AM CDT. Artificial intelligence in PubMed’s Best Match algorithm: Raising awareness about AI when using and teaching PubMed PubMed’s Best Match sorting algorithm became the…
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Registration Open for ACRL Online Learning Course “Developing Signature Pedagogies in Information Literacy”–Mon., Sept. 25 – Fri., Oct. 20
(via ACRL) Join ACRL from Monday, September 25, to Friday, October 20, for the Online Learning Course “Developing Signature Pedagogies in Information Literacy”. Signature pedagogies are specific ways of teaching that move students to develop the habits of mind of a professional or disciplinarian. This concept is widely discussed in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning…
ACRL Science & Technology Section Holding Next Book Club Meeting Online Fri., Dec. 1, 12:00-1:00 PM CDT–Book to Discuss is Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
(via Hannah Gascho Rempel, Oregon State University) Interested in joining the ACRL STS (Science & Technology Section) Book Club? Feel free to join us for our next book: Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard. We will meet online Friday, December 1, from 12:00 to 1:00 PM CDT. If you would…
Reminder: Chapter Proposals for Upcoming ACRL Publication Teaching the Whole Student: Compassionate Instruction in the Academic Library Due Fri., Sept. 15
(via Elena Rodriguez, College of Charleston) I am excited to invite chapter proposals for Teaching the Whole Student: Compassionate Instruction in the Academic Library, an edited volume to be published by ACRL. About the book:Compassion at its simplest definition is the “sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it” (Merriam-Webster). The cognitive,…
Call for Presenters: ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section’s Fall Webinar, “Cool Things We Cataloged”–Deadline Fri., Sept. 15
(via Andrea Schuba, University of Maryland) The Bibliographic Standards Committee of the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section is seeking presenters for our Fall Webinar, “Cool Things We Cataloged”. This will be the third year that we have hosted a webinar with this topic. We are looking for a broad range of presenters (catalogers, archivists,…
Registration Open for SLA and ACRL A&E Inside Bytes Webinar on Escape Rooms for Libraries–Fri., Sept. 8, at 12:30 PM CDT
(via Elizabeth Webster, Michigan State University) The next free webinar in the A&E Inside Bytes series, hosted by the Special Library Association Academic & Education Community and ACRL’s EBSS Education Committee, will occur at 12:30 PM CDT on Friday, September 8. It will feature Kelly Giles and Brian Sullivan (James Mason University), who will share their experience with…
Registration Open for ACRL Education and Behavioral Sciences Section Webinar “AI for Education Librarians: A Virtual Forum”–Wed., Sept. 27, 12:00-1:00 PM CDT
(via Alison Lehner-Quam–Lehman College, City University of New York) Registration is open for the webinar “AI for Education Librarians: A Virtual Forum”. It will take place on Wednesday, September 27, from 12:00 to 1:00 PM CDT. In this virtual forum, hosted by the ACRL Education and Behavioral Sciences Section’s Instruction for Educators Committee, attendees will learn…
UIUC Mortenson Center’s Dr. Peggy Nzomo is ACRL Member of the Week
via ACRL) Dr. Peggy Nzomo, International Library Initiatives Specialist Senior Associate for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, is the ACRL Member of the Week for August 28 – September 3. To read her Member of the Week interview, including how she works to promote international librarianship on the…
Call for Chapter Proposals Extended: Upcoming ACRL Publication Teaching Information Literacy in Political Science, Public Affairs, and International Studies (TILPSPAIS)–New Deadline Fri., Sept. 8
(via Rachel Olsen, University of North Carolina Greensboro) The editors of the upcoming ACRL publication Teaching Information Literacy in Political Science, Public Affairs, and International Studies (TILPSPAIS) seek chapter proposals. The book is scheduled for publication in 2025. Book Description As undergraduate students enter classrooms in this pandemic-changed, politically charged social climate, teaching information literacy skills has…
Call for Bloggers: First Year Academic Librarian Experience Series at ACRLog–Deadline Sun., Sept. 10
(via Hailley Fargo, Northern Kentucky University) As we enter a new academic year, we’re looking to bring on a few new bloggers here at ACRLog. We’d like to thank our 2022-2023 FYAL bloggers Rosemary Medrano and Emily Zerrenner for their terrific posts this past year in our First Year Academic Librarian Experience series. We’d also like to encourage new academic…