Second Semesters: Meeting Expectations and Setting Goals
Classes started this week. Utah State University seems to go back to school earlier than other institutions I’ve been associated with, whether this is a truth or just a feeling based on my always busy...
View ArticleConfessions on Owning and Honing Your Weaknesses
The month of June marks the ramp up to fiscal close in my neck of the library wood. In the otherwise quiet summer of academia there is this corner of buzzing frenzy. Staff work though last minute...
View ArticleSilent Fireworks, HRC, and #ALAAC2017
Battling summer sinobronchitis — not allergies as it turns out — certainly puts a damper on conference travel. It has also contributed to feeling less than celebratory leading up to the Independence...
View ArticleRelationship Priorities from the Forest to the Library
A post shared by True Rath (@truerathbrarian) on Aug 4, 2017 at 12:34pm PDT I just returned from my annual family vacation in Colorado. Amidst the forest bathing and a slower daily pace, I always...
View ArticleWords, Censor, and Professionalism when WTF?!
That quaint blog post I published last month squeaked out just before Nazi rioters marched, threatened, and violently harmed counter protesters (killing one) in Charlottesville, VA. This post comes at...
View ArticleDeveloping a Peer Support Group
There’s been a lot written here on ACRLog about the importance of mentorship, and I echo what many others have said: there is enormous value in learning from and being supporting by experienced...
View ArticleEmerging as a Community-Engaged Librarian: Reflections on the Emerging...
Context of the workshop Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to participate in the Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop (EESW), sponsored by the Engagement Scholarship Consortium. This workshop is...
View ArticleFor the Public Good: Social Distancing with Online Events
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Verletta Kern, Digital Scholarship Librarian, and Madeline Mundt, Head of the Research Commons at University of Washington Libraries. Everything was going smoothly!...
View ArticleGetting out of the funk
If I were in a movie, we would be at the part where the scene speeds up and you see me, moving through the weeks. My outfits change, and I move around my one-bedroom apartment, sitting and standing in...
View ArticleService as a Resident Librarian
Though I often heard about the importance of membership in a professional organization and had some exposure to the concept of service as a graduate student, professional service is something I wasn’t...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....