Academic and Research Libraries Serving the Needs of Mixed Race Students, Faculty and Staff

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This post is by Karen E. Downing, Education Liaison Librarian, University of Michigan, Donovan Johnson, Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan, and Prakruthi Manjunatha, Graduate Student, University of Michigan https://www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-study/events-and-exhibits/today-and-upcoming/being-mixed-race-mono-racially-organized Academic and research libraries are highly committed to contributing to their campus diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) efforts. Through the library’s collections, staff, services and […]

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Library Publishing Through the IFLA Global Lens

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This posting is sponsored by the Library Publishing SIG and published in cooperation with the ARL Section. This post features Talea Anderson, a Scholarly Communication Librarian at the Washington State University, USA. I manage our university’s institutional repository, where we publish unique materials including theses, dissertations, student culminating projects, and datasets. In addition, I have […]

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Library Publishing Through the IFLA Global Lens

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This posting is sponsored by the Library Publishing SIG and published in cooperation with the ARL Section. Members of the Library Publishing SIG reach out to library publishers and invite them to respond to a series of questions. This post features Jesper Boserup Thestrup, who is an Information Specialist at the Royal Danish Library (https://www.kb.dk/en) (RDL) in Aarhus (https://www.kb.dk/en/visit-us/victor-albecks-vej-aarhus). […]

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Combatting Digital Amnesia: The Crucial Role of Librarians in the Age of Information Overload

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This posting is by the ARL Section. This post features Shaharima Parvin, a  Senior Assistant Librarian at the East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Email: shaharima@ewubd.edu Last semester, while walking through the library’s laptop charging zone, I overheard a conversation that captured a common struggle: “I forgot, wait, try with Google! We don’t need to remember, Google […]

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Library Publishing Through the IFLA Global Lens

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This posting is sponsored by the Library Publishing SIG and published in cooperation with the ARL Section. Members of the Library Publishing SIG reach out to library publishers and invite them to respond to a series of questions. This post features Markus Putnings, a Senior Librarian at the University Library of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany, in charge of FAU […]

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Library Publishing Through the IFLA Global Lens

This posting is sponsored by the Library Publishing SIG and published in cooperation with the ARL Section. Members of the Library Publishing SIG reach out to library publishers and invite them to respond to a series of questions. This post features Paul Royster, Linnea Fredrickson, and Sue Ann Gardner, who are responsible for the library publishing program at […]

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A Symposium on “Open Science beyond Open Access: Accessible, Global and Democratic Knowledge” in São Paulo, Brazil

This write-up is by Adriana Cybele Ferrari, Brazil Always present in the perspective of librarians, teachers and researchers, Open Access to knowledge has been and continues to be a working premise. In recent decades, this view has gathered more and more defenders, including scientists. Science itself has increasingly been considered a public good, which must […]

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