The forum will feature presentations by Deb Baker, Manchester (NH) Community College, on failing forward when a student success intervention doesn’t work. Liz Cheney, California State University-Northridge, will share affordable learning solutions for student success at a Hispanic-serving institution, and Kathleen Baril, Ohio Northern University, will discuss how personalizing student services for developmental writing students can improve academic and retention outcomes.

Registered attendees will receive a link to the recorded webcast.

Join ACRL at 1:00 p.m. Central on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, for the free ACRL Presents webcast “An Insider’s Guide to Preparing for Promotion: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

ACRL’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee will lead this interactive discussion on the promotion process in academic libraries. The distinguished panelists will discuss all aspects of the promotion process including the value that promotion and tenure bring to librarianship, how to prepare your documentation, and where to find support from within your institutions or professional organizations. If you are new to the profession, or are facing the daunting task of beginning this process, this webinar will be of value to you. Challenges including the mysterious process of determining when you are ready, and dealing with the likelihood of imposter’s syndrome will also be discussed. The panelists invite you to submit your questions in advance through the online registration form, so they can shape the program best around the problems of greatest importance to attendees.

Speakers

Wanda Kay Brown, Director of Library Services, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC

Marcela Y. Isuster, Liaison Librarian and Digital Scholarship Hub Coordinator, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Derrick Jefferson, Associate Librarian, American University, Washington, DC

Curtis Small, Associate Librarian and Coordinator of Public Services, Special Collections Department, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Join us at 11 a.m. Central on Thursday, February 18, for the free ACRL Presents webcast “Let’s Keep Doing This! Found UX Opportunities in the Midst of the Pandemic.”

ACRL’s New Roles and Changing Landscapes Committee is focusing on the role of user experience (UX) librarianship during this pandemic time. How have the users’ experiences, needs, and desires shifted? How have we as academic libraries pivoted in what we do to meet these needs? In the summer and early fall, we focused on what we had to let go of or do differently during the pandemic to meet these user needs. But now we can begin to explore what we have learned from this time and want to keep doing.

In these lighting talks, presenters from the Committee will each share a UX initiative established during the pandemic that is working well and that they hope to continue post-pandemic. They will also share key points or resources you’ll need if you want to put the initiative into place at your institution.

Speakers

Amy Dye-Reeves, Associate Education and History Librarian, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Erica Watson, Electronic Services Librarian, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA

Theresa Westbrock, Dean of Library Services, University of Northern Iowa

Adoria Williams, Co-Chair, Merritt College Library, Oakland, CA

Beth Filar Williams, Associate Professor, Head of the Library Experience and Access Department, Oregon State University Libraries

Moderator

Erin Smith, Chair of the New Roles and Changing Landscapes committee and Chief Information Officer, Westminster College, Pennsylvania

The ACRL RoadShow program brings high quality workshops directly to campuses covering a wide range of topics that help academic librarians tackled the greatest issues facing the profession today. The program, however, has been on hold due to the impact of COVID-19.

Now, workshop teams are pivoting the same great content from these workshops into new Off-RoadShow virtual learning opportunities. Current Off-RoadShows are being presented as multi-part webcast series designed for individual or group participation. RoadShow teams are working to develop additional opportunities that may be licensed to individual institutions, chapters, and consortia for a more customized experience.

Upcoming Off-RoadShowWebcast Series

Scholarly Communication

During this interactive three-part webcast series, participants are invited to explore what scholarly communication looks like in 2021.

• Webcast One: The Lay of the Land: Framing the Issues Impacting Scholarly Communication
  Thursday, February 11, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Central

• Webcast Two: Scholarly Sharing Off-Roadshow
  Thursday, February 18, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Central

• Webcast Three: (Re)Building the Road as We Go
  Thursday, February 25, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Central

Learn more and register!

Open Educational Resources & Affordability

This three-part webcast series will help you understand the basics of open educational resources (OER) and how libraries can be involved in affordability initiatives at your institution.

• Webcast One: Foundations of OER
  Wednesday, February 24, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Central

• Webcast Two: Library Roles and Campus Partners
  Wednesday, March 3, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Central

• Webcast Three: OER in Your Institutional Context
  Wednesday, March 10, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Central

Learn more and register!

Be on the lookout for additional Off-RoadShow opportunities covering library assessment, the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, research data management, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and the ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education.

For more information, contact Chase Ollis, collis@ala.org. Stay up to date with the latest offerings by subscribing to email updates from ACRL.

Join us at 1 p.m. Central on Tuesday, January 12, for the free ACRL Presents webcast “Using the New ACRL Framework for Impactful Scholarship and Metrics.”

Academic librarians face a wide range of expectations for scholarship in their job responsibilities, including for rank, tenure, and promotion, as well as for establishing seniority and leadership in non-faculty systems. The range of scholarship produced by academic librarians reflects this diversity of expectations. As a result, impact can be difficult to contextualize or even quantify.

At the same time, critical concerns have emerged regarding the accessibility, equitable production, and “gate-keeping” practices associated with many traditional and emerging forms of scholarly communication.

The new ACRL Impactful Scholarship and Metrics Framework (PDF) is designed to facilitate the work of academic institutions as they establish, evaluate, or update their guidelines for measuring the impact of academic librarian scholarship. The framework outlines a wide variety of scholarly outputs, and creates two primary categories of impact—scholarly and practitioner—with a variety of metrics, measures, and altmetrics within each. Task force representatives will discuss their background research, introduce the framework, and discuss it in the context of ACRL’s open access and equity initiatives.