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		<title>Learning to Embrace the Uncomfortable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please welcome Veronica Wells to the ACRLog team. Veronica is the Access Services/Music Librarian at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She is currently in her first professional position after earning an MLIS and Master of Arts in Music from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Veronica&#8217;s research interests include assessment of music information literacy instruction, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acrlog.org/2012/02/02/learning-to-embrace-the-uncomfortable/</link>
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		<title>Game Up Your Unconference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I was delighted to head down to the University of Maryland for THATCamp Games, an instance of the popular humanities and technology unconference devoted specifically to games in education. It&#8217;s been a while since I attended an unconference &#8212; my last one was LibCampNYC in 2009 &#8212; and THATCamp Games reminded me how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acrlog.org/2012/01/30/game-up-your-unconference/</link>
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		<title>Convenience and its Discontents: Teaching Web-Scale Discovery in the Context of Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Pete Coco, formerly of Grand Valley State University, now Humanities Liaison at Wheaton College in Norton, MA.
With the continued improvements being made to web-scale discovery tools like Proquest&#8217;s Summon and EBSCO&#8217;s Discovery Service, access to library resources is reaching a singularity of sorts: frictionless searching. Providing a unified interface [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acrlog.org/2012/01/27/convenience-and-its-discontents-teaching-web-scale-discovery-in-the-context-of-google/</link>
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		<title>Collision Spaces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please welcome Laura Braunstein to the ACRLog team. Laura is the English Language and Literature Librarian at Dartmouth College&#8217;s Baker-Berry Library. She has a doctorate in English from Northwestern University, where she taught writing and literature classes. She has worked as an index editor for the MLA International Bibliography, and serves as a consultant for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acrlog.org/2012/01/24/collision-spaces/</link>
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		<title>Stop Making Sense (Scholarly Publishing Edition)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was flabbergasted to read about the Research Works Act (hat tip to @CopyrightLibn and @RepoRat), legislation which is strongly supported by the Association of American Publishers. As described on the AAP website:
The Research Works Act will prohibit federal agencies from unauthorized free public dissemination of journal articles that report on research which, to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acrlog.org/2012/01/06/stop-making-sense-scholarly-publishing-edition/</link>
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		<title>Unpacking Assessment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Lisa Horowitz, Assessment Librarian at MIT Libraries.
As an assessment librarian, I am always looking for different ways to think about assessment. Most librarians aren&#8217;t statisticians, and for some, even the word itself, assessment, is daunting in that its meaning is unclear. Additionally, it&#8217;s such a broad topic that many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acrlog.org/2011/12/27/unpacking-assessment/</link>
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		<title>Considering Conferences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This semester I went to two academic conferences that weren&#8217;t library conferences. While I&#8217;ve attended conferences outside of librarianship in the past, both before I was a librarian as well as more recently, this is the first time in my library career that I&#8217;ve intentionally gone to non-library conferences. At both conferences I was making [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acrlog.org/2011/12/20/considering-conferences/</link>
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		<title>The Limits of Mobility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some interesting articles about mobile technology caught my eye last week as I was finishing up the leftover turkey. Apple has come under fire for the reported inability of Siri, the voice recognition application on the new iPhone 4S, to find abortion clinics. As reported by CNN, quoting the American Civil Liberties Union:
&#8220;Although it isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acrlog.org/2011/12/07/the-limits-of-mobility/</link>
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		<title>On Technologies and Library Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Maura Seale, Research and Instruction Librarian at Georgetown University Library.
Now that the fall semester instruction rush is over, I have been able to spend some time catching up on my library blog reading as well as my own research.  I recently read this post on Academic Librarian about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acrlog.org/2011/11/28/on-technologies-and-library-space/</link>
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		<title>Clickers, or Does Technology Really Cure What Ails You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Cori Strickler, Information Literacy Librarian at Bridgewater College.
During idle times at the reference desk, or when the students are gone for a break, I find myself creating instruction &#8220;wish lists&#8221; of tools or gadgets that I&#8217;d love to have for my sessions. One item that has been on my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acrlog.org/2011/11/22/clickers-or-does-technology-really-cure-what-ails-you/</link>
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