Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)

ACRL Presents – Intellectual Freedom & Academic Libraries: How Can the Office for Intellectual Freedom Help?

Join ACRL and the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Central on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, for the free ACRL Presents webcast "Intellectual Freedom & Academic Libraries: How Can ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Electronic Libraries Can’t Be Academic

It’s not easy being an academic librarian these days. Speculation persists that we may soon be the higher-education equivalent of the Maytag repairman, as the Internet becomes the first place students ...
Las Cruces Sun-News

The relevance of academic libraries in the contemporary university

Do libraries still have a place in today’s university? This is a question I often encounter in conversation, with some suggesting that due to the web libraries have outlived their usefulness and are ...
American Libraries

ACRL Day Three: Recasting the Roles of Academic Libraries

At the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2021 Virtual Conference on April 15, the creators of We Here, an online community for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in LIS ...
Inside Higher Ed

3 Questions on Academic Library Staffing for ACRL’s Mary Jane Petrowski

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Q: From what I understand, the IPEDS data that I highlighted are inadequate for telling the story of ...
Inside Higher Ed

3 Questions on Academic Library Budgets for an Assessment and Planning Librarian

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Sarah R. Fitzgerald, an assessment and planning librarian at the University of Massachusetts at ...