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Community College Librarian Needs Assessment: Academic Status And Research Interest, Christine (Mi-Seon) Kim, Stephanie Delano Davis

Publications and Research

This pilot study explores the results of the Spring 2023, “Needs Survey for Community College Librarians” conducted by the Community and Junior College Libraries Section (CJCLS).  CJCLS is a section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). One hundred and seventeen individuals participated in the survey. The survey asked community college librarians about their academic employment status and publication requirements, their interest in research, and the support for research available to them at their institutions. The key findings of this research show a broad range of academic status classification among …

Supporting Bibliodiversity And Access Through Library Resource Sharing, J. Silvia Cho

Publications and Research

Librarians, with their core values of access, intellectual freedom, stewardship and democracy, share bibliodiversity advocates’ vision of an eco-social system of diverse cultures and reading as a democratic and emancipatory practice. Librarians bolster bibliodiversity by collecting inclusively, critically reviewing and decolonizing library collections, and centering access. Building on previous discussions on the role of open access in strengthening bibliodiversity, this paper acknowledges and articulates how interlibrary loan and library resource sharing also support bibliodiversity. Doing so is important to augment advocacy and support for these services. Advancing solutions to challenges in resource sharing means also advancing towards bibliodiversity goals, supporting …

Journal Publishing On Digital Commons, Alice Sherwood

Library Class: Lunch & Learn

Have you visited Digital Commons@TMC, the institutional repository before?

Take your research to the next level and learn about the basics of how you can publish your open access student-led (faculty advisor needed) or professional journal on this platform and the steps getting started. DigitalCommons@TMC is viewed by 165+ countries, 2500+ institutions, with more than 120k downloads monthly.

Donation Of Books On Local Tn & Al History To Nancy O'Neal, Oct. & Nov. 1991, William Lindsey Mcdonald

Correspondence

Correspondence from William Lindsey McDonald to Nancy O'Neal regarding books she gave to him about local Tennessee and Alabama history as well as more general interest history.

Donation To Florence-Lauderdale Public Library Of Native American Resource Book, Juanita Tate, Oct. 16, 1991, William Lindsey Mcdonald

Correspondence

Correspondence from William Lindsey McDonald to Juanita Tate thanking her for her donation of her book Johnson County, Oklahoma to the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library's Native American Reference Collection.

Juanita Tate was a member of the Chickasaw Nation and was inducted into their hall of fame in 2008. For more information on Tate visit the Chickasaw Hall of Fame website. Additionally, as the letter suggests, Mrs. Tate was a descendant of the Colbert family of North Alabama.

Tmc Library Newsletter: From Its Past To Present, Alice Sherwood

Library Staff Publications

This presentation describes the early beginnings of our library newsletter, and the progress of its technology changes over time. "The TMC Library Newsletter" started out in 1998 as a quarterly print newsletter, "Library Lines", and evolved into a web-based one, "The Insider," published 6 and then 12 times a year through 2013. Since 2015, its name changed to what it is today and is also available on Digital Commons, an open journal available for the community and beyond. As an open journal using Digital Commons as its platform since April 2025, the items in this journal has grown to more …

Personalizing Outreach For Scholarly Communication Initiatives At Mississippi State University, Julie D. Shedd

Presentations and Posters

Mississippi State University Libraries' Scholarly Communication Team provides a range of scholarly communication services and information. This presentation details the Team's outreach philosophy.

Panel presentation for the U.S. Repository Network's Community Call: Promoting Your Repository (11/9/2026).

Patton - Weeden - Brahan Papers Correspondence To Dr. James S. Leonardo, Sept. 29, 1988, William Lindsey Mcdonald

Correspondence

Correspondence from William Lindsey McDonald to Dr. James S. Leonardo of Des Moines, Iowa concerning the Patton - Weeden - Brahan Papers housed at the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library in Florence, Alabama. The papers contain information on various local historic sites connected with the respective families.

Faculty-Librarian Partnerships: Making It Work!, Joy Urbina, Isabel Baca

HIIT 2026

By sharing our experience with co-teaching a technical writing course, both of us, the instructor and the librarian, will describe how we collaborated to enhance students’ writing and research skills, integrated AI, and built a true partnership. In doing this, we will focus on both the instructor’s and librarian’s challenges and how to overcome these, highlighting the benefits of such collaboration.

Attendees will have the opportunity to network with each other and the presenters on how they can collaborate with each other. Attendees who teach are welcome to bring a research-based assignment they would like to redesign to incorporate information …

Students’ Sense-Making In Clinical Chaos: Two Librarians’ Perspectives, Nena Schvaneveldt, Kay Strahan

Journal of Graduate Librarianship

Health professions students at the transition to clinical education are becoming professionals in the midst of chaos and uncertainty. As they seek to provide patient care, they both use information and process their own developing expertise and doubt. Following up on a report of a qualitative study of graduate-level health professions students, here we present Dervin’s Sense-Making theory and methodology as a framework to better understand the experiences of these students. By engaging with Sense-Making, librarians can develop a deeper, humanistic view of students as they bridge the gap from learner to practitioner, and can help them build productive mindsets …

Impostors In The Library: Addressing Graduate Students’ Impostor Feelings, Micaela Carignano

Journal of Graduate Librarianship

Impostor phenomenon—feeling like a fraud and a failure while misattributing all successes to chance—is very prevalent among graduate students. This common experience is associated with depression, anxiety, and leaving graduate school. Impostor phenomenon is often triggered in students who feel unprepared because they have not yet learned the skills they need to perform research in their discipline. Because impostor phenomenon is closely linked to the process of acquiring academic research skills and disciplinary norms, it is highly relevant to the work of librarians who support graduate student scholarship. Yet the topic of student impostor phenomenon is largely overlooked in library …

Book Catalogue Of Southern Library Association, 1903, Southern Library Association, Florence, Alabama

Documents

A book catalogue from the Southern Library Association, a citizen library housed on the campus of State Normal College, 1903.

When Cost-Per-Use Isn't Enough: Creating A Resource Evaluation Rubric, Johanna Boyle, Marcia Masters

Presentations

This project explores Grand Valley State University Libraries and Art Museum’s experience setting up a rubric to standardize collections renewal decisions. The end goal of the project is to ensure resources that support smaller departments are evaluated fairly, to weather rising resource costs, and to facilitate communication with those outside of the collections team. This project was presented virtually at the 2026 Charleston Conference on November 5, 2026.

The collections team worked to create a rubric to serve as a starting point for evaluating electronic resources. This rubric incorporates resource cost, cost per use, course enrollment, and overall subject area …

Opening The Black Box: Using Public Records To Analyze Privacy In Library Vendor Contracts, Michele Gibney, Scott Schmucker

University Libraries Librarian and Staff Presentations

Academic libraries are running on data, yet the contracts governing the usage of that data remain locked in a black box. Proprietary secrecy and non-disclosure baselines prevent institutions from auditing what vendors actually do with patron information - and block libraries from effectively benchmarking their contracts against industry standards.

We decided to crack the box open. After conducting a rigorous content analysis of 50 public higher education license agreements gathered via systematic open records requests, this session moves past policy theory to expose real-world contract patterns. We map out distinct structural trends across critical privacy variables, including data privacy addendums, …

Book Catalogue Of Southern Library Association, 1903, Southern Library Association, Florence, Alabama

Documents

The book Catalogue of the Southern Library, a citizen's library housed at the State Normal College library, 1903.

B3 Research Guides: A Utrgv Library/Obi Collaboration, Charles Roush, Carlton Nelson, Andrés R. Amado, Andrew Portner

Bilingualism in Higher Ed Summit

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 61, No. 07, November 2, 2026, Grand Valley State University

Volume 61, August 10, 2026 – current

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

November 2026 Library & Learning Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library & Learning Dean's Office Communication Team

Library & Learning Newsletters

PDF version of the November 2026 (Volume 5, Issue 3) Library & Learning Newsletter.

Harnessing The Winds Of Change: Faculty Collaboration To Enhance Library Services, Rachel E. Scott, Mitchell Scott, Lindsey Skaggs

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

In order to understand and meet the needs of their communities, academic librarians develop relationships with key stakeholders–especially teaching faculty. Although these partnerships vary by discipline and institutional culture, successful collaborations share vital commonalities: they are proactive, feedback-driven, and build upon high-impact initiatives. The value of library services such as open access publishing support and textbook affordability programs is clear to teaching faculty, enhancing the visibility of library services and elevating the profile of librarian collaborators.

In this session, a collection strategist, scholarly communication librarian, and head of a technical services unit will share their experiences and strategies for soliciting …

Burnout, Boundaries, And Benchmarks: Developing A Library Faculty Workload Policy, Grace Allbaugh, Emily Baldoni

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

For librarians with faculty status, issues of burnout may be compounded by the additional pressure of balancing librarianship with the service and scholarship expectations required for tenure and promotion, without the flexible schedules afforded to teaching faculty. Workload policies may be one tool for addressing the structural causes of burnout, but little guidance exists on the creation of such policies. This case study explores these issues by tracing the development of a library faculty workload policy at a public R2 university. Following unionization of tenure-line library faculty, library administrators and faculty were tasked with creating a workload policy, in accordance …