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Don’t Make It Easy For Them: New Post on ACRLog


I was recently asked to guest post on one of my favorite blogs, ACRLog. I always find their stuff valuable, and I was happy to get an opportunity to contribute. Here’s a short teaser: “I love customer service in libraries. I love improving our systems and services so they are more user-friendly. I love helping [...]

7 Ways to Cross-Pollinate Yourself and Your Staff


The staff at our library recently had a meeting in which we were brainstorming new ideas. The question that the director asked to guide our brainstorming was “if time was not a factor, what would you really like to work on or do?” We could think as big or small as we wanted and we [...]

Poll Everywhere In Library Instruction


I recently wrote about effective uses of technology in the classroom. This past week our group of teaching librarians has been using another technology that was also really successful. We are teaching information literacy in about 30 sections of CORE 110 classes which is an interdisciplinary first year class called Concepts of the Self. In the class, students are [...]