Association of College & Research Libraries

09/03/2026

The September issue of C&RL News is now available! This month we feature articles on mapping the sociomaterial, presentation consultations, , algorithmic literacy, in assessment and authorship and more. Check it out today - https://bit.ly/4yj5Ujk

09/03/2026

REMINDER! Join us for the webinar “Negotiating Intellectual Freedom-Compliant Contracts” with ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom coming up on Tuesday, September 8. Learn more on ACRL Insider and register today!

ACRL is excited to co-sponsor the webinar "Negotiating Intellectual Freedom-Compliant Contracts" with ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) at 2:00 pm Central on Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Every day, in every type of library, librarians are making decisions about which library management s

09/02/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 Leab Award recipient for Excellence in Description Digital Catalog Category: Oskar Diethelm Library, Weill Cornell Medicine Psychiatry in New York, New York, for "Psychiatry, Insanity, and Religion in the Trial of Charles Guiteau," curated by Nick Brenner and Nicole Topich. Learn more about this catalog on ACRL Insider - https://bit.ly/4gEJuTy

09/01/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 Leab Award recipient for Excellence in Content and Innovation in Audience Engagement Digital Catalog Categories: Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History (Fulton County Library) in Atlanta, Georgia, for “Softness Was Always Ours: A Tender Tribute to Black Women and Girls,” curated by Jami Adkins Murphy. Learn more about this catalog on ACRL Insider - https://bit.ly/4gEJuTy.

09/01/2026

New on ACRLog... The Allegory of the Meniscus or Accepting the Reality of Middle Management in Higher Education https://bit.ly/3T7lwaD

Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Dustin Fife, College Librarian at Colorado College Library. As with so many people who have recently completed a dissertation, I worry/assume that it will not find a broad audience, which is okay. However, there was one aspect of my study that felt

08/31/2026

Your ACRL Member of the Week is Sandy Rodriguez, the associate dean of the library at Wake Forest University!

Sandy Rodriguez is the associate dean of the library at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. Sandy has been a member of ACRL for 2 years and is your ACRL Member of the Week for August 31, 2026. Describe yourself in three words: Curious, intentional, authentic. What are you reading

08/28/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 Leab Award recipient for Best in Show, Innovation in Design, and Innovation in Inclusion and Representation Digital Catalog Categories: Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for “Disembodied Reembodied” by Jenny Schmid, Emily Beck, Jaime Konerman-Sease, and Lois Hendrickson. Learn more about this catalog on ACRL Insider - https://bit.ly/4gEJuTy

08/28/2026

New on ACRLog... A sensory room in the library https://bit.ly/3SvHuE8

As the new semester gets ready to kick off, among other things, I’m getting ready for a new Project SEARCH intern. In preparation, we’re thinking about the work they might do at the library, including working on our sensory room. Which brings me to the topic of this post: the sensory room itself...

08/27/2026

We're now accepting proposals for ACRL-sponsored education programs at the the 2027 ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition to be held June 24-June 28, 2027, in New Orleans. The conference explores critical issues impacting libraries and their communities, with diverse programming on timely research, innovations, and best practices. Learn more on ACRL Insider and submit your proposals by September 21. https://bit.ly/4qF3qJr

08/26/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 Leab Award recipient for Innovation in Design and Innovation in Inclusion and Representation Print Catalog Categories: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library in Urbana, Illinois, for "'We are each other's Harvest': Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of Black Literary Canon" by Cait Coker, designed by Chloe Ottenhoff. Learn more about this catalog on ACRL Insider - https://bit.ly/4gEJuTy



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