In accordance with the Bylaws of the Greater New York Metropolitan Area Chapter/Association of College and Research Libraries, Inc., ACRL/NY is dedicated to improving library services, encouraging the exchange of ideas and information, providing networking opportunities for librarians and seeking greater cooperation among academic and research libraries. ACRL/NY promotes professional standards, mentors librarians, and enhances professional development through a variety of educational programs. The Chapter encourages local participation in national issues relating to academic and research libraries.
Announcements
- Call for Applicants: 2023 ACRL/NY Symposium Scholarships 09/28/2023Call for Applicants: ACRL/NY Symposium Scholarships 2023 ACRL/NY Symposium: Embracing Slow Librarianship https://acrlny.org/2023symposium/ Deadline: Oct 6, 2023 In conjunction with our annual symposium, ACRL/NY is offering three different scholarships. Awardees receive a waiver to attend our annual symposium and are also awarded a full year of membership in the organization. For those who attend in person, breakfast and lunch are ...
- Register Now! 2023 WLA Hybrid Annual Meeting – Librarianship in the 21st C – How Library Schools are Moving Forward 05/06/2023Click here to register for WLA Registration Payment Options: $20 Students/Retirees $25 Member $30 Non-member Paypal (Please click here to pay). Pay at conference check-in with personal or institutional check, payable to Westchester Library Association Mail Payment to by May 9th to: Donna Gehlmann, WLA, POB 8258, White Plains, NY 10602 Questions: Email: Donna Gehlmann or Elaine Provenzano Membership Become a Member of ...
- Writing Together 05/06/2023Are you looking for a community of writers to join? The ACRL/NY Research & Writing Support Group is excited to build a community of writers, writers helping writers. I invite all writers in various stages of their production journey to join on May 17th @ 6pm, on Zoom. Register to receive a confirmation email containing information about ...
- Future Librarians Day (SUNYLA) 04/04/2023SUNYLA is happy to ask you all to join us virtually for our second annual Future Librarians Day (FLD) on April 21, 2023, from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm EST. What is FLD? FLD is an event that allows students in Library and Information Science (or those interested in academic librarianship) to learn about the various career ...
- Registration is now open- LACUNY Institute 2023 04/03/2023LACUNY Institute 2023 The Evolving Library through Professional Development May 11 & 12, 2023 (virtually) Register online at https://lacuny.org/event-5147611 If you are a speaker or require a discount code, please email Mark Aaron Polger at markaaron.polger87@login.cuny.edu This year’s plenary speakers are Professor Sarah Aponte (CUNY Dominican Studies Institute), Dr. Brenda Greene (Medgar Evers College), and Dr. Christina Katopodis (Transformative Learning in the Humanities at ...
Upcoming ACRL/NY Events
- ACRL/NY Discussion Group: First-Year Experience in the Age of ChatGPT (11/10/2023)ACRL/NY’s First Year Experience Discussion Group co-chairs Carl Andrews (Bronx Community College) and Derek Stadler (LaGuardia Community College), invite members to attend our Fall 2023 meeting. How can we as librarians compete with and possibly utilize AI technologies such as ChatGPT? Please join our discussion that will cover these themes: In what ways do you feel ChatGPT has ...
- Pre-Register now! ACRL National- Library Marketing and Outreach Interest Group- Greater NYC Virtual Meeting- Fri Aug 4, (3:00pm-4:30pm)Pre-Register Now! ACRL National Library Marketing & Outreach Interest Group (LMOIG) (Greater NYC Meetup) Library Programs Promoting Mental Wellness: Strategic Planning and Development Pre-Register via Zoom —> https://bit.ly/ACRL-LMOIG-NYC-aug2023-meeting Summer 2023 virtual meeting Fri Aug 4, 2023 3:00pm-4:30pm via Zoom meeting (Eastern) For our Summer 2023 virtual meeting, we present 6 short, lightning round presentations that showcase how libraries develop events and programs that promote mental wellness like ...
- June 16 Professional Development Discussion with Prof. Grace LiuThe ACRLNY Professional Development Committee, ACRLNY Open Discussion Group, and LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable invite you to a Summer 2023 conversation with Grace Liu. Our informal conversation will start with reflections on her current IMLS grant-funded project on Data Quality Evaluation and will continue by talking to her about her professional growth over the past years, ...
- Call for Lightning Round Talks — ACRL National Library Marketing and Outreach Interest Group — Summer 2023 meetingCall for Lightning Round Talks Library Programs Promoting Mental Wellness: Strategic Planning and Development Summer 2023 Virtual Meeting ACRL National Library Marketing and Outreach Interest Group (LMOIG)- Greater NYC Meetup Fri Aug 4, 2023 via Zoom (3:00pm-4:30pm eastern time) Submission form is here Libraries have frequently promoted wellness programs such as therapy dogs or meditation, which are staples in hospitals, schools, ...
- Call for Proposals — ACRL/NY 2023 Annual SymposiumCall for Presentations, Lightning Talks, Panels, & Posters ACRL/NY 2023 Annual Symposium Embracing Slow Librarianship December 1, 2023 Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY) Deadline: June 15, 2023. Please submit proposals using this form. In response to the growing fetishization of productivity in academia’s increasingly corporatized climate, writer and librarian Julia Glassman suggests that library communities might benefit from an approach ...
- ACRL/NY sponsors the Critical Pedagogy Symposium May 17-19, 2023Registration is now open for the Critical Pedagogy Symposium, which will be held virtually May 17th – May 19th, 2023, 12pm – 4pm EST. The virtual event is open to everyone: faculty, students, and the general public. Use this link to register ACRL/NY is proud to once again sponsor the Critical Pedagogy Symposium (CPS.) CPS is ...
- ACRL/NY User Experience Discussion Group “Virtual Meet & Greet” April 20, 2023 (10:30am-11:30am) Eastern TimeThe New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL/NY) invites you : ACRL/NY User Experience (UX) Discussion Group: “Meet and Greet” Spring 2023 virtual meeting (via Zoom) Thursday, April 20, 2023- 10:30am-11:30pm (eastern time) Pre-register via Zoom meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvc-mrqzkqG9HwEY7CUvsiS_0x_wwzfsuv Below is a short questionnaire so we can collect suggestions from those who cannot attend the Zoom ...
- Information Literacy/Instruction Discussion Group (February 17, 2023)ACRL/NY members, please join the Information Literacy/Instruction Discussion Group for a presentation on “You’re the Boss of Your Money: Financial Literacy for our Students Through MoneyBoss Workshops.” College students are woefully unprepared to manage their money. The MoneyBoss workshops were created at LaGuardia Community College to educate students on how to create a budget, learn about their credit, ...
- How Motivation and Increased Productivity can Lead to Burnout (March 3, 2023)ACRL/NY Professional Development Committee’s Spring 2023 program How Motivation and Increased Productivity can Lead to Burnout Speaker: Madeline Ruggiero, Librarian, Queensborough Community College, CUNY WHEN: Friday, March 3, 2023, 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. SLIDESHOW PRESENTATION Program Summary Presenter, Madeline Ruggiero, responded to a book chapter proposal after the pandemic related to burnout, hoping to write about being a “self-identified boomer” and ...