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ACRL Publications Catalog

ACRL publishes a range of monographs to assist academic librarians in developing their professional careers, managing their institutions, and increasing their awareness of developments in librarianship.

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PIL 61
Framing Library Instruction (ACRL Publications in Librarianship #61) 
John M. Budd
This book presents a complete examination of the cognitive aspects of students’ perceptions and uses of information. Examples that can be adapted for courses or class sessions are an integral part of the book.

Stats08

ACRL 2008 Academic Library Trends & Statistics
Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship, University of Illinois
The complete data set from ACRL's comprehensive statistics-gathering project encompassing all academic libraries. Data from 1,533 academic libraries in all Carnegie classifications is included. The statistics are available in three volumes: Associate of Arts volume, Doctoral-granting volume, Masters/Baccalaureate volume, plus a three-volume set...

Working Together

Working Together: Collaborative Information Practices for Organizational Learning
Mary M. Somerville
Presents a framework for comprehensive redesign of library organizations using workplace examples illustrating the efficacy of collaborative information practices orchestrated by inclusive leadership principles.

CLIP40

ClipNote 40: Emergency Response Planning in College Libraries
Compiled by Marcia Thomas and Anke Voss and edited by Marcia Thomas
Provides information on disaster and emergency response planning and management to assist librarians in the creation and updates of emergency response plans.

Instruction cookbook
The Library Instruction Cookbook 
Ryan L.Sittler and Douglas Cook 
A practical collection of “learning recipes,” each of which includes a plan for conducting a specific type of learning session and which indicates how the recipe reflects specific ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.

PIL60
Teaching Literary Research: Challenges in a Changing Environment: ACRL Publications in Librarianship #60 
Kathleen A. Johnson and Steven R. Harris
Teaching Literary Research: Challenges in a Changing Environment is a collection of essays that explores the relationship between information literacy and literary research...

Influencing without Authority

Influencing without Authority (ACRL Active Guide #2) 
Melanie Hawks
The second ACRL Active Guide is designed to help individuals develop the skills they need to influence peers, library administrators, college and university faculty, students, and external stakeholders.

Informing Innovation

Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies at Ohio University (A Research Report)
Char Booth
This book presents findings from an environmental scan conducted at Ohio University, which investigated the convergence of students, libraries, and emerging information, communication, and academic tools.

Also available as a digital download.

CMC Directory

Directory of  Curriculum Materials Centers, 6th edition
Compiled by the Curriculum Materials Centers Directory Ad Hoc Committee of the Education and Behavioral Sciences Section
The 6th edition of this directory lists and describes curriculum materials centers or collections at institutions that responded to an electronic questionnaire sent out in the spring of 2007...

LIBRARY RX
Library Rx: Measuring and Treating Library Anxiety
Martina Malvasi, Catherine Rudowsky, and Jesus M. Valencia
In response to the scenarios and conversations revolving around library use, library anxiety, Millennials, and alternate modes of teaching, two librarians at Bailey Library at SRU with the help of an SRU economics professor skilled in statistics, researched solutions. They believe that students who view the library as an ally and a user-friendly tool in the research process will be more likely to use the library, seek help, and continually build upon their research skills. This book contains their findings....

proceedings09

Pushing the Edge: Explore, Engage, Extend, Proceedings from the ACRL 14th National Conference 
Dawn Mueller, editor
This book contains the proceedings of ACRL's 14th National Conference held in Seattle, WA, March 12-March 15, 2007. The 3 invited papers and 39 contributed papers explore the latest thinking and research into issues facing academic librarians today...

design talk

Design Talk: Understanding the Roles of Usability Practitioners, Web Designers, and Web Developers in User-centered Web Design 
Brenda Reeb 
This book brings together and differentiates the scope of responsibilities and activities of usability practitioners and web designers. Included in the volume are descriptions of and instructions for conducting different types of usability tests and discussion of web design issues...

Trends and Statistics 07

ACRL 2007 Academic Library Trends and Statistics
Library Research Center, University of Illinois
The complete data set from ACRL's comprehensive statistics-gathering project encompassing all academic libraries. Data from 1,100 academic libraries in all Carnegie classifications is included. The statistics are available in three volumes: Associate of Arts volume, Doctoral-granting volume, Masters/Baccalaureate volume, plus a three-volume set...

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PIL59

Academic Library Research: Perspectives and Current Trends
Marie L. Radford and Pamela Snelson, editors
Volume 59 in the Publications in Librarianship series updates traditional topics that have undergone exceptional, and in some cases, unexpected change since 1990 as well as reaching into new areas that have developed. It combines theoretical scholarship as well as research designed to inform practice, including case studies and user surveys...

Gaming in Academic Libraries

Gaming in Academic Libraries: Collections, Marketing, and Information Literacy
Amy Harris and Scott E. Rice, Editors
This collection describes issues related to games as a collection format, the cataloging and circulation of games, the use of games to market the library and the use of games to help students achieve information literacy...

Informed Learning

Informed Learning 
Christine Susan Bruce
This important volume by noted Australian learning theorist, Christine Bruce, provides a unique perspective on helping students become successful learners in fluid and fast moving information environments...

Desk and Beyond

The Desk and Beyond: Next Generation Reference Services 
Sarah K. Steiner and M. Leslie Madden, editors
This collection is intended to provide inspiration for potential reference services at your library; each chapter provides an introduction to an innovative service concept and an annotated list of sources for additional research...

Practical Pedgagoy

Practical Pedagogy for Library Instructors: 17 Innovative Strategies to Improve Student Learning
Doug Cook and Ryan L. Sittler, editors
This practical casebook is of great advantage to librarians who have had little formal training in education. Cases included cover the broad spectrum of education from behavioral to cognitive to constructivist. Each chapter is grounded in the educational and library literature and explores the potential of using pedagogical approaches which closely match instructional aims...

 

Life Work Balance

Life-Work Balance
Melanie Hawks
This is the first issue of a new occasional series published by ACRL. This series will provide practical guidance on workplace and professional issues...

Information Literacy Instruction handbook

Information Literacy Instruction Handbook
Christopher N. Cox and Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, editors 
Information Literacy Instruction Handbook is designed primarily for librarians new to teaching or management of information literacy instruction. In addition, it serves as a one-stop refresher source on key topics for more experienced librarians

CLIP39

Copyright Polices, CLIP Note #39
Patricia Keogh and Rachel Crowley, compilers
CLIP Note 39 has been developed to serve as a resource for those who create or update academic library and campus copyright policies

Trends and Statistics 06
 

ACRL 2006 Academic Library Trends and Statistics
Library Research Center, University of Illinois
The complete data set from ACRL's comprehensive statistics-gathering project encompassing all academic libraries. Data from 1,100 academic libraries in all Carnegie classifications is included. The statistics are available in three volumes: Associate of Arts volume, Doctoral-granting volume, Masters/Baccalaureate volume, plus a three-volume set...

Library 2.0

Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries
Laura B. Cohen, editor
This publication is a combination edited monograph and post-publication wiki presenting case studies of significant Library 2.0 initiatives in academic libraries...

Updated reports available at: http://acrl.ala.org/L2Initiatives

Information Literacy in the Digital Age

Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online
Alice Daugherty and Michael F. Russo, compilers
This book showcases the array of online information literacy programs that have cropped up across the country.  Included is a vast spectrum of program types, starting with the broad breakdown of tutorials and credit courses... 

Kaleidoscopic concern

The Kaleidoscopic Concern (PDF 2,023 KB)
This annotated bibliography on racial and ethnic diversity in librarianship by Kaetrena D. Davis-Kendrick includes new areas of study such as gender issues and white privilege with regard to racial minority and ethnic librarians. It covers the concerns, goals and strategies surrounding the recruitment, retention, and advancement of librarians of color and contains over 80 years of the profession’s earliest training initiatives and current best practices.

Available as a free, digital publication only!

Studying Students

Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester*
Nancy Fried Foster and Susan Gibbons, editors
This book provides a view into the groundbreaking application of ethnographic tools and techniques to the understanding of undergraduate students and their use of information...

*Also available as a digital publication.

Global Evolution

Global Evolution: A Chronological Annotated Bibliography of International Students in U.S. Academic Libraries
Kaetrena D. Davis
This chronological, annotated bibliography shows the evolution of the issues concerning undergraduate and graduate international students in American academic libraries and contains many possible guidelines and ideas for meeting the basic and advanced information needs of an increasingly diverse patron group

(Also available as a digital publication)

CLIP38

User Surveys in College Libraries, CLIP Note #38
Doreen Kopycinski and Kimberley Sando, compilers
Using the CLIP Notes guidelines, the compilers developed a survey based on that found in the 1995 User Surveys in College Libraries to allow for an historical comparison...

CLIP 37

Library Plagiarism Polices, CLIP Note #37
Vera Stepchyshyn and Robert S. Nelson, compilers
This is a pragmatic resource for college libraries, their faculty, their staff, and their administrators to use to develop policies on the prevention and detection of plagiarism. The study gathered data and documents from small college libraries and presents them for the reader’s consideration when examining the issue of student plagiarism and its relationship to the college library...

Teaching Info Lit Skills

Teaching Information Literacy Skills to Social Sciences Students and Practitioners 
Doug Cook and Natasha Cooper, editors
This volume is based on the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards and presents cases on learning situations and how they can be analyzed and addressed. Also included are descriptions of instruction sessions for each case, notes, and teaching resources...

Student Engagement

Student Engagement and Information Literacy
Craig Gibson, editor
This book addresses information literacy in a framework inspired by higher education scholarship and dialogue as it relates to student engagement. Articles are based on what librarians and faculty know about how students learn, how different learning environments affect engagement, and how different groups on campuses can collaborate on student engagement and learning...

PIL 58

Centers for Learning: Writing Centers and Libraries in Collaboration, Publications in Librarianship No. 58 
James K. Elmborg and Sheril Hook, editors
This book examines the potentials inherent in partnerships between libraries and writing centers. By focusing on shared concepts and practices, the editors suggest that such partnerships might respond more coherently to the needs of today's students...

PIL 57

Colleges, Code, and Copyright: The Impact of Digital Networks and Technological Controls on Copyright and Dissemination of Knowledge in Higher Education, Publications in Librarianship, no. 57 
Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright
This is the Proceedings of a symposium held by the Center in June 2004. The goal of the symposium was to assemble stakeholders to discuss the technological, legal, and practical issues that influence the dissemination of information on campus and the protection of intellectual property...

PIL 56

The Changing Academic Library: Operations, Cultures, Environments, Publications in Librarianship no. 56
John M. Budd
This book has been completely updated and revised to reflect the dynamic states of higher education and academic libraries. It presents a critical examination of major issues facing colleges and universities and the unique challenges that their libraries must come to grips with...


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