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Current Issue: May 2024 Social Media Connect with CRLPublish with CRL Learn More about SubmittingEditorial • May 2024 Connecting with Co-workers to Build Trust Kristen Totleben I read Denise Brush’s Trust in Academic Libraries: How to Build Connections between New Co-workers,” in the April 2024 issue of CollegeResearch Libraries News . Many of her points resonated with my own experiences working in my institution’s library. Trust has become a recurrent theme—across many professions’ organizational cultures—since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Trust can erode when there is a lack of connection with other library staff, new or veteran. The library is constantly growing, changing, or adapting to sync with the institutional community’s research and instructional needs, current and anticipatory; and new colleagues—across various departments—arrive as steadily long-time library staff retire, or seek new opportunities. Such constant change and growth can make it challenging to build connections with new employees. ... MoreArticle • May 2024 Librarians and Academic Libraries’ Role in Promoting Open Access: What Needs to Change? Shlomit Hadad, Noa Aharony Profound changes due to Open-Access (OA) publications lead to organizational changes in universities and libraries. This study examines Israeli librarians’ perceptions regarding their role and the academic library’s role in promoting OA-publications, including the barriers, challenges, needs, and requirements necessary to promote OA publishing. Lack of a budget for OA-agreements, no cooperation from university management, and researchers’ unfamiliarity with OA were among the most prominent barriers. Librarians see great importance in their role of advising researchers regarding OA. However, they insist on a regulated OA-policy at the national and institutional levels to strengthen their status as change-leaders of the OA-movement. ... MoreArticle • May 2024 Exploring Social Media as an Information Source in IL Instruction Kathia Salomé Ibacache Oliva, Elizabeth Novosel, Stacy Gilbert According to a 2021 Pew Research report, over 80 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds use social media. Studies also show that higher education students use social media in both academic and everyday life. However, there is minimal research about how, or whether, librarians utilize social media in their library instruction as a source of information for students’ academic work. We examined 162 responses to a survey sent to an uncounted number of librarians in higher education, asking them about their teaching practices regarding social media to enable us to answer the following research questions: (1) How are teaching librarians using social media as an information source in their instruction?; (2) What are the benefits teaching librarians perceive regarding the use of social media in instruction? ... MoreArticle • May 2024 Longitudinal Associations between Online Usage of Library-Licensed Content and Undergraduate Student Performance Felichism Kabo, Annaliese Paulson, Doreen Bradley, Ken Varnum, Stephanie Teasley Seeking to better understand the longitudinal association between online usage of library-licensed content and short- and long-term student performance, we linked EZproxy logs to institutional university data to study how library usage impacts semester and cumulative GPAs. Panel linear mixed effects regression models indicate online library usage is significantly associated with both semester and cumulative GPAs. The library usage effect is larger for semester GPA, and varies by on- and off-campus residency. The effect on semester GPA is larger for off-campus students, while for cumulative GPA the effect is larger for on-campus students. Longitudinally linked library-institutional data offers key insights on the library’s value. ... MoreArticle • May 2024 Inviting Knowledge: Enhancing Archival Discovery through Information Design David J. Williams Information design—incorporating research in graphic design, typography, visualization, and usability—is a user experience practice directly applicable to contemporary museums, libraries, and archives. Information design principles and guidelines improve engagement at every point of service, effectively and efficiently complementing the mission of knowledge organizations. This historical survey explores information design in the context of contemporary user experience design, and provides an overview of information design principles and guidelines developed over 40 years of research and professional application. Applying elements of information design to archival finding aids enhances usability, while also preserving descriptive and contextual structures. ... MoreBook Review • May 2024 Unframing the Visual: Visual Literacy Pedagogy in Academic Libraries and Information Spaces Reviewed by Maria Atilano Visual information is everywhere. Not only that, but visuals are multidisciplinary, making it imperative to be able to analyze, examine, modify, read, and question them both as a part of everyday life, as well as in higher education. While for years librarians have been steeped in the concept of teaching information literacy, Unframing the Visual encourages us to consider the importance of visual literacy education to students, faculty, and the overall campus community. ... More© 2024 Association of College and Research Libraries , a division of the American Library Association Print ISSN: 0010-0870 | Online ISSN: 2150-6701 ALA Privacy Policy ISSN:...