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A Mini-Conference About You: How to Academic-Librarian-Interview
This past summer, I spent much of my time writing cover letters and organizing my schedule for interviews. Starting from late Spring, I applied for positions globally, and had 7 first-round interviews and 2 second-round interviews, with some positions only having one round.…
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Towards a “pedagogy of the depressed”
“Okay guys, genuine question. How long until we’re justified in killing people over this?”1 Alarmed, I tried to reroute our whole-class discussion. I asked students to refocus on the prompt I’d provided: Choose one of the AI-related issues we’ve discussed this semester and…
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Student Loans for Librarians: Now More Difficult!
I’m back to talk about everyone’s least favorite subject: student loans. I wrote about student loans in July 2025: On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt. In that post, I showed readers the math. I had been paying around $450/month on Biden’s SAVE…
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You Can’t Ask the Librarian You Don’t Know Exists: Outreach Experiments
Editor’s Note: Please join us in welcoming Hilary Turner, Business Librarian at Baylor University, as a new First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger for the 2026-2027 year here at ACRLog. I’m New Here As a first-year academic librarian serving as the sole instruction and…
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Disability Pride Month
Last week, MSU held the third iteration of its Disability Summit, a symposium on disability and accessibility on campus and in academia more generally. The event brings in a guest speaker to discuss their work and the summit’s theme. Then, depending on the year, there are other…
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Three Pieces of Advice for First-Year Academic Librarians
I thought my first year at Vanderbilt had flown by, but as it turns out, the first semester of my second year seems like it’s moving even more quickly! As I finish up the first five weeks of the semester, I’ve been thinking a lot about how different this year feels from last…
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Making the Cross-Border Jump as an Academic Librarian
Moving to the United States, especially at this sociopolitical moment was not something I was expecting (re: see Violet’s most recent post here), however, a dream position came up that I couldn’t turn down! I wanted to take this first post as a regular contributor to ACRLog and…
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Library of Congress: “POTUS pawns”
In March 2025, I wrote about anticipatory obedience at the Library of Congress, describing how LC fast tracked changes to the Library of Congress Subject Headings relating to the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali. When Trump issued an executive order on August 27th directing…
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The Allegory of the Meniscus or Accepting the Reality of Middle Management in Higher Education
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Dustin Fife, College Librarian at Colorado College Library. As with so many people who have recently completed a dissertation, I worry/assume that it will not find a broad audience, which is okay. However, there was one aspect of…
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A sensory room in the library
As the new semester gets ready to kick off, among other things, I’m getting ready for a new Project SEARCH intern. In preparation, we’re thinking about the work they might do at the library, including working on our sensory room. Which brings me to the topic of this post: the…