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The article reports on the release of the eighth white paper "Implementing and Managing Streaming Services in Academic Libraries" by the periodical "Choice" in 2021. Topics discussed include the focus of the paper on factors to be considered when adding streaming services to institutions, role of University of California-Berkeley Film and Media Services librarian Gisele Tanasse as researcher and writer of the paper, and the financial contribution of Infobase to the research.

The author describes the creation of an assignment that combined physical and digital resources for an archival journey into Japanese American incarceration and internment for the first Asian American Politics seminar offered at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. The author explains how the assignment worked for students by engaging them with the library, consulting with liaison librarian, reevaluation of archives and college libraries and research agenda development.

The article presents an expansion of a paper on designing and delivering a program for library staff professional development originally presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in 2020. Topics discussed include an overview of a professional development program developed at the Dartmouth College Biomedical Libraries, lessons from the LibAnswers training program, and a competency-based training for information access assistants.

The article talks about RE:BOOK, a National Library Week contest held by Claremont Colleges Library (CCL) in Claremont, California. The author says despite the success of the event, which invites students to submit art projects that use worn-out books and other types of cast-off paper, RE:BOOK has caused controversy regarding questions on the inviolability of books from students and teachers. The article discusses the two year history of the contests and presents some of the projects submitted.

The article reflects on two publications by the Association of College and Research Libraries in 2013 titled "Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy: Creating Strategic Collaborations for a Changing Academic Environments," and "Common Ground at the Nexus of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication". Topics discussed include a meeting on changing roles of academic librarians, and information literacy and scholarly communication for academic libraries.

The article focuses on the use of artists' books as primary source materials to engage students in meaningful ways amidst the challenges of remote and hybrid learning environments. Topics include the definition and significance of artists' books as contemporary primary sources, strategies for incorporating them into classroom discussions to foster student engagement and critical thinking, and examples of successful implementation in educational settings.

The author recounts her experience as an academic librarian on how toxic mold impacted her health. Topics discussed include evidence of mold outbreaks in libraries, well-known causes that contribute to mold in indoor buildings, and adverse health effects of biotoxin illness, including severe brain fog, vertigo, and asthma.

The article presents short profile of Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) candidates for 2020. It mentions that Lynn Silipigni Connaway is the director of library trends and user research at OCLC Research. It reports that Julie Garrison is dean of university libraries at Western Michigan University, a position she has held since 2016.

The author reflects on ways to find a research topic, problem statement, or a question that is worth publishing being an academic librarian. Topics include writing process, working with coauthors about research methods, and about the publication process, and engaging the scholarly dialogue or a topic that has meaning and may raise awareness in the profession.

The article reports on announcement regarding addition of films from the Josefina Barrera Fuentes and Antonio Rodriguez Fuentes Family Papers to the National Film Registry by Mary and Jeff Bell Library Department of Special Collections and Archives at Texas A&M University.

The author describes the experience and value that was derived from a week-long visit to Shanghai, China with a group of graduate students to learn firsthand about international business. He talks about how all Master of Business Administration (MBA) students at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business are required to undergo a foreign trip to improve their knowledge of international business. The concept of embedded librarianship is explained. Recommendations for academic librarians regarding their outreach and assessment initiatives are also discussed.

The article looks at the intersection of scholarly communication and information literacy through an undergraduate research experience that let students coauthor disciplinary book reviews. It explores the purpose of a book review and how it aligns with the Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and suggests an undergraduate research team composed of students, faculty and librarians.

The article focuses on several aspects of university library's information literacy curriculum and content analysis of student prefocus essays. It mentions about the information literacy program of the Colgate University having an on-going presence in the Core Curriculum, First-Year Seminar courses and requests for library instruction in upper-level courses. It also mentions that student narratives seemed to be a particularly rich source of data for college librarians.

The article offers information related to various grants and acquisitions related to college and research libraries. Topics discussed includes receiving of 4 million dollar grant by the College of New Rochelle (CNR) from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, receiving of grant by the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries and acquisition of literary archive of dramatist Paula Vogel by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

The article announces the officials of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) for 2023 including board of directors president-elect Leo S. Lo, dean and professor at the University of New Mexico, director-at-large Elisandro Cabada, librarian at the University of Richmond in Virginia, and Anthropology and Sociology Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect Ilka Datig, head of instruction outreach at Nazareth College in New York.

The article informs on several publications of the Association of College (ACRL). Topics include the books "Academic Library Mentoring: Fostering Growth and Renewal" and "Ethnic Studies in Academic and Research Libraries;" Keeping Up With, online current awareness publication series issuing concise briefs on trends in academic librarianship and higher education; and ACRL 2023 Conference to be held from March 15–18, 2023, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The article reports that American Library Association's (ALA) Public Policy and Advocacy Office was busy in the congressional decision-making and the release of new policy resources. It notes that the House Appropriations Subcommittee oversees funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) proposed a $25 million increase in funding for IMLS, $17 million of which would go to libraries.

The article discusses research and publication as a part of academic librarianship, and offers advice for academic librarians on how to conduct research and publish findings. Benefits of conducting research including improving resumes, learning about new research and innovations, and intellectual stimulation are examined, and suggestions on selecting research topics, gaining financial and logistical support for research, and finding publication outlets are presented. An overview of types of library publications is also offered.

The article focuses on Internet resources on the usefulness of Speculative Realism as a philosophical movement and emerging discipline in academic librarianship. The web site of the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews contains summaries which can be used both as a reference resource and collection development tool for subject specialists. It is stated that the blog Speculative Heresy announces related conferences, calls for papers and participating in philosophical discussions which are published in books and other multimedia related to Speculative Realism.

The article explores approaches to relationship building among academic libraries and other college departments. Topics discussed include ways in which librarians need and accomplish goals of building relationships and connections with faculty; importance of time-intensive library events, partnerships, and outreach; and role of focusing on high-impact relationship-building opportunities.

The article offers briefs related to Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). Topics include ACRL's monograph publishing program active during 2020–21, releasing books, including titles on information literacy, library outreach, open educational resources, student wellness, as well as practitioner research; and the ACRL Awards Program has recognized and honored the professional contributions and achievements of academic libraries and librarians.

The article talks about the author's experience of being a librarian with a group of business undergraduates and how he build relationships with the students. Topics discussed include his idea of making a Friday E-Mail List for students who can contact him via e-mail with a specific subject or thesis, the benefits of the list in solving student's paper or any problems, and the drawback of doing the Friday E-Mail List in the form of time consumption.

The article discusses the 2014 version of the Experiences with Information Literacy module, a short set of add-on questions where educational institutions may choose to administer to their students and asks about information use of undergraduates. The survey was launched by survey instrument National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) in partnership with college and university librarians. The survey can also be used to assess efforts to develop information literacy skills in college students.

The article focuses on several librarians to integrate digital infrastructure and resources within academic libraries. Topics include considered that the LHRC Project brings students from different backgrounds together to learn from the unique perspectives and strengths of one another and reports that students from numerous cultures and fields of study have brought their various talents, skills, and interests.

The article discusses the use of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education to improve connection with returning adult students and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students. Topics explored include the expansion of the library instruction offerings of the Chattanooga State Community College library, the acknowledgment of learning needs of adult students, and the benefits of the Framework to librarians.

The article offers news briefs on notable academic librarians. Assistant professor of library administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lura Joseph has received the Best Paper Award from the Geoscience Information Society. Rand Bellavia has been appointed director of the Montante Family Library at D'Youville College in Buffalo, New York. Jan Chindlund has been appointed library director at Columbia College-Chicago, Illinois.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium titled "Advocacy From the Front Lines," which focuses on the exploration of advocacy in academic libraries is presented. The importance of academic libraries and the role that advocacy can play in promoting the library to multiple constituencies was emphasized. The symposium featured several librarians and other staff of the Mississippi State University including Camila Alire, Frances Coleman and Peter Rabideau.

The article discusses the implications of fake news on student learning. It mentions academic librarians are still exploring their roles in addressing the fake news issue, they consistently argue the importance of information and media literacy education. It also mentions extracurricular programs focused on fake news that attempted to raise awareness of the problem in ways that went beyond traditional classroom learning.

The article highlights that Wellesley College's library staff has held SpeedShare events for interaction between the library and first generation students. Topics include its planning by instruction librarians and archivists to introduce Wellesley First-generation college students to the libraries and their staff.

The article lists few resources for online research and study related to animal law for academic libraries. It reports that animal law is the body of statutory and case law governing the treatment of nonhuman animals, including wildlife, companion animals, and animals used for research, entertainment, and food.

The article explores approaches to relationship building among academic libraries and other college departments. Topics discussed include ways in which librarians need and accomplish goals of building relationships and connections with faculty; importance of time-intensive library events, partnerships, and outreach; and role of focusing on high-impact relationship-building opportunities.

The article offers information related to curriculum mapping, which is the purposes of an academic library of reviewing a degree-granting department's curriculum side-by-side with library learning objectives to situate information literacy instruction within the sequence of courses that a student will take. It further discusses difficulties of finishing a curriculum map and ways to resolve these difficulties.

The article discusses about the gender inclusivity and equity in the academic library workplaces in a fluid non binary gendered society, academic librarians and researchers from major world regions including Africa, Asia and Africa. It further explains the term Gender as three dimensions concept including physical, identity and sociocultural how gender equality in libraries is settled or overlooked.

The article discusses the issue on open access (OA) to information resources as a library service, and return on investment (ROI) of the institutional repository (IR). Information on academic libraries and librarians, who are engaged in both providing and promoting OA, through IR services with roles as creators, disseminators, publishers, and preservers of scholarly content, is also discussed.

The article focuses on several aspects of taking sabbaticals by academic librarians in the U.S. It mentions that the reasons for sabbaticals include an antidote to stress and burnout, helping an organization move forward, and serving to provide equivalency to teaching faculty and less number of librarians actually take their sabbaticals in the library literature.

The article discusses academic library assessment, an area of research that informs practice or as an area, where practice engages systematic research methods for continuous improvement. It is linked to university and higher education transformations, performance, and effectiveness across the globe. Academic libraries advance the disciplines, where an engineer can read about policies and laws and an accountant can understand the political environment.

The article reports on collection weeding in library operation. Topics discussed include the Community College Library Consortium (CCLC) of California, the approach of CCLC to shared collection management, and project planning. Also being discussed are the topics like reviewing the collection and appeals process.

The article reports on the collaboration of the TRiO Student Support Services (SSS) programs with the Miami University-Hamilton Campus in the U.S. Topics discussed include the TRiO SSS at Miami University regionals, the impact of libraries on student success, and the libraries'academic impacts on student success.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experiences during her first year as technical services librarian and assistant faculty in a U.S. school in 2015.

The article informs that how librarians advocate, particularly with a focus on outcomes that clearly enumerate to stakeholders how students benefit from having access to librarians. It mentions that encouragement can help students mentally stay persistent in completing the task that is ahead to maintain constant activity from completing the next assignment.

The article focuses on the Writing and Critical Inquiry (WCI) classrooms held at the University at Albany-SUNY on September 7, 2017. Topics discussed include students working with immersive games platform, BreakoutEDU, seminar helping students learn the thinking, reading mindsets and strategies necessary for academic careers and connection between the collaborative nature of writing and research.

The article presents views of Karen Munro and Penny Beile, vice-president/president-elect of Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) on their nomination for ACRL and sharing their plans with the membership. Topics discussed include commitment to providing leadership and membership opportunities for academic and research librarians, framework for Information Literacy and addressing equity and diversity gaps.

The article discusses the coparticipation of academic library professionals and students in the design and delivery of library resources and services. It cites on the Fondren Fellows program that supports student research which benefit both the library and the broader scholarly community. The article also discusses the students selected as fellows who will pass through a competitive application process and work on a project proposed by a library staff mentor.

Several personal narratives are presented which explores the authors' opinions on the study titled 'Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning' released by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) in 2017.

The article focuses on a writer's retreat of graduate students and faculty looking to improve their writing and publication skills. At the Dartmouth College Biomedical Libraries in Hanover, New Hampshire, librarians worked with a writing specialist to carry out the program. It discusses the purpose of the retreat and how the librarians planned the program.

The article offers information on the #ThankALibrarian campaign during the 2016 National Library Week at the Duke University Libraries. The campaign aims to recognize the contributions of Duke Library's staff, highlight the ways on how libraries can help the users and increase social media engagement with library users and supporters.

The article offers information on the Student Financial Literacy, a survey of librarians at Academic Institutions. Topics discussed include development of Leadership Competencies Model for the Library Leadership and Management Association; Mental Illness Stigma experienced by academic librarians; and increasing number of download rates of academic journals.

The authors discuss mobile information literacy and how librarians can adapt to changing technology in order to better serve library users. They argue that academic librarians must teach students information literacy on mobile communication devices. The authors suggest that academic librarians become familiar with authoritative mobile information applications, request information from vendors, and displaying mobile interfaces to patrons.