Academic Libraries and Mental Health: LIS Mental Health Week
This week is LIS Mental Health Week, organized by Cecily Walker and Kelly McElroy. The event involves “a week-long series of posts, Twitter chats, podcasts, and resource sharing about mental health...
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Librarianship Doesn’t Need Professionals
Check out our post on HLS today too! Heidi Johnson, ACRLog FYAL blogger, reflects on the greatest differences between grad school and professional life in “Structuring My Time.” See more information...
View ArticleAcademic Interviews from Both Sides
Brenna and Maura were asked to write collaboratively to explore academic interviews from both sides– job applicants and administrators. HLS is also featuring this post today. Brenna is a student at the...
View ArticleThe Slow Gradual Veer to Academic Librarianship
Check out our post on HLS today too! Jen Jarson, ACRLog blogger, reflects on the importance of place and work environment in “Room to Grow?” See more information about the HLS/ ACRLog collaboration...
View ArticleExperience Necessary
Check out our post on HLS today too! Nicole Helregel, ACRLog guest blogger and former HLS blogger, provides some tips for how to get involved in ALA and ACRL. See more information about the HLS/ ACRLog...
View ArticleWrapping Up Our Collaboration (And Many Thanks)
Our collaboration with Hack Library School (HLS) ends today. The collaboration helped bring a lot of new voices to both of our blogs and, we think, fostered really invigorating and important...
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The Born Librarian: My Professional Identity in Librarianship
Michelangelo Buonarroti [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsYou may have noticed from my last post that lately I have been grappling with questions of my professional identity. For example, I tried...
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Peer Mentoring in the Profession
I talk a lot about peer mentoring and my network in some of my other ACRLog posts (see “Don’t Underestimate Your Peers” in my tips for LIS students post). The last few months of being a new...
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Making strategy more transparent
I’m not one to make new year’s resolutions, per se. Still, I have been trying to work on something resolution-esque in the past few months, or maybe even for a year now, although it didn’t begin with...
View ArticleGetting rejected in the library world. What now?
I would like to address something that might be slightly uncomfortable topic for some. Rejection. I know it’s definitely uncomfortable for me. I had planned to write about this topic, but I had...
View ArticleSomething’s Always Wrong – Depression and the First Year
I intended to write about something else entirely, but the past two months have been particularly difficult so I decided to share my story now. To be clear, I am not depressed because I am a first-year...
View ArticleMore Than Just Meetings: Thinking about Service to the Institution
Today was a Friday full of meetings for me that mostly took place outside of the library. I started out in the morning at the monthly(-ish) meeting of my college’s General Education Committee, along...
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