Blog Posts

by Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub Links to previous reports: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day Four: Saturday, March 18 The final day of the conference was more lightly attended than the rest of the week, but sessions were still going strong and were still well...

By Donald T. Hawkins The 2023 R2R hybrid conference in London on February 21-22 drew about 200 attendees, of which about 50 attended online. It featured a mix of several types of sessions: plenaries, panel discussions, workshops, and lightning talks. According to the...

by Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub See the previously published reports from Day 1 and Day 2. Day 3: Friday, March 17 Due to travel on Saturday and a day of rest of Sunday, the report from Friday is coming out a bit later than usual! Day 3 of ACRL was...

By Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub (Link to report from Day One) Day Two: Thursday, March 16 Thursday was technically the second day of the conference but the first full day of conference content. The theme “Forging the Future” was evident in the...

by Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub Against the Grain is coming to you live, once again, this time from Pittsburgh, PA, for the 2023 ACRL meeting. Attendance is just over 2,100 people (including both in-person and virtual attendees), and there are 147...

By Derek Law, University of Strathclyde This title is a slight paraphrase of lyrics from the Foo Fighters great song “My Hero” recorded in the mid-1990s. The lyricist Dave Grohl wrote it in admiration of the hard work and perseverance of ordinary people. The song is...

By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries Eduardo Mendieta is a professor of Philosophy and Latina/o Studies at Penn State University whose research takes a multi-disciplinary approach to social and...

by Jim O'Donnell, University Librarian, Arizona State University Editor's Note: This week's blog post comes from the ATG "Back Talk" column published six years ago this month, in the v29 #1 February 2017 issue. When I was ten years old, I wanted to read Mickey...