Are you interested in federal legislation and policy affecting libraries, connected in your campus community, and willing to work with your members of Congress for change? ACRL needs you! We’re seeking to expand our group of ACRL legislative advocates and just named Mike McLane as our new visiting program officer to help in this regard. We invite to you to apply to become an ACRL legislative advocate.

Listen to Jonathan Miller, Director of Olin Library at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, talk about his experience as one of the inaugural group of ACRL legislative advocates. In this interview, recorded October 2007, he encourages others to join, saying, “Grassroots librarians with links to others in our communities are our legislative power.” He believes that talking about legislative and policy issues with administrators and faculty on campus has changed their perception of the library for the better. For Jonathan, being an ACRL Legislative Advocate is a lot of fun, a great role and requires just 1 hour a month.

Check out the member profile of another ACRL legislative advocate, Aaron Dobbs, Systems & Electronic Resources/Web Librarian at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. Read more about the responsibilities, duties and apply online by July 11, 2008.

Time: 10:09

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In this podcast, University of Vermont librarians Daisy Benson and Selene Colburn, along with UVM student Matt Linder, talk with College & Research Libraries News editor-in-chief David Free about the party photo phenomenon and using students as models to promote the UVM Libraries Ask A Librarian service. Benson and Colburn’s article on the project appears in the April 2008 issue of C&RL News. UVM Top Model photos are available on Flickr.
Time: 14:44

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In this podcast, Henry Jenkins, the Co-Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities at MIT talks with College & Research Libraries News editor-in-chief David Free about presenting online, participatory culture, libraries, and rapper Soulja Boy as the poster boy for new media literacy. Jenkins was the featured speaker at the 2008 ACRL Springboard webcast.

Time: 19:39

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In this podcast, ACRL President Julie Todaro talks with College & Research Libraries News editor-in-chief David Free about the proposed ACRL bylaws change to allow the creation of Interest Groups. The proposed change appears on the ballot in the 2008 ALA/ ACRL Election.

Time: 11:08

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