Teaching Critical Evaluation of News in a (Mis)Information Environment
Oxford Dictionaries declared post-truth as the 2016 Word of the Year, and it has become almost impossible to avoid commentary […]
The ‘E’ is for equity: Building an O.E.R. and affordable textbooks movement on a community college campus
Textbook costs are a common barrier to students accessing and succeeding in a course. OER adoption is an opportunity to […]
Academic Librarians in Transition: Stories, Narratives and Job Strategies on Moving into Different Library Careers
What if you were an academic librarian and wanted to move into special or public libraries? How would you do […]
What Do You Meme? Pop Culture in the Information Literacy Classroom
Popular culture has been seen as a tool for making information literacy more relatable to students. However, when thinking about […]
The Pedagogical and Scholarly Prospects of Web Archiving
Who among us has not experienced anguish at encountering a broken link? A website that has disappeared? Whether supporting student […]
Is Free Speech Really Free? Reframing Free speech on Campus
Academic libraries have always stood for freedom of expression, but today’s campus climate seems different. In a number of recent […]
Spoken Word Poetry in the Library: Why Hip Hop has a Place in Academic Libraries
Academic libraries have always included programmatic elements, but these have traditionally been staid events that focus on academic lectures and […]