For academic institutions seeking to thrive amidst the constantly shifting world of higher education, libraries have become the heart of the spirit of collaboration and innovation–going beyond being ...

Like researchers and administrators throughout higher education, academic librarians have heard the drumbeat of accountability—the call to prove the usefulness of what they do on an institutional ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s plan to drop data on libraries as part of its main postsecondary data system has generated intense blowback from academic librarians. The federal government’s ...

From rare historical archives to genealogy records, academic libraries are evolving into powerful learning hubs. Blinn College Library offers digital tools, instruction sessions, and curated databases ...

After arguments over whether scientific research should be open to all rather than stuck behind paywalls, a new initiative in the U.K. is granting online access to journals in public libraries. The ...

To mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day—and recognize the American Library Association adding sustainability as a core value—American Libraries returns with its ongoing sustainability series. In ...

U.S. institutions of higher education and U.S. local governments are under extraordinary pressure to cut costs and eliminate from institutional or governmental ledgers any expenses whose absence would ...

Library utilisation encompasses the full range of student engagement with physical and digital resources, study environments and support services. A growing body of evidence indicates that thoughtful ...

The first draft of this blog post was written before I published a post on Jan. 22 titled “How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money?” That initial post generated some strong reactions on Twitter, ...

Giannoulias launches Illinois’ first statewide digital library program, giving residents free access to EBSCO databases, ...