Author Archives: Ariana

This post was originally published on August 31, 2020 on ACRLog. Since 2008, ACRLog’s “First Year Academic Librarian (FYAL) Experience” series has annually featured 1-2 academic librarians in their first year on the job in an academic library. This new series, “Where Are They Now?: Former FYALs Reflect,” features posts from past FYAL bloggers asContinue reading “Reflecting on Seven Years of Librarianship”

Happy 2020, everybody! It’s that time of year for reflecting on the past and setting new goals for the future! Actually, it’s a week or so past that time, I think I’m a bit behind… Of course, we can and should reflect and set goals whenever we want to. It doesn’t have to be justContinue reading “Celebrating Small Wins”

This year I participated in the 2018-19 SPARC Open Education Leadership Program, an intensive year-long professional development program to develop open education leaders in libraries. I was thrilled to be selected for this program and it really helped guide me in my first year as the OER Coordinator at my institution. There’s a lot IContinue reading “Sharing My SPARC #LeadOER Capstone Project”

Although Open Education Week 2019 was nearly a month ago, I still want to take a moment to share what the University of Houston did and reflect a bit on our first time participating. This post on UH Libraries News shares information on Open Education Week and how we celebrated. Here’s a little more aboutContinue reading “Reflecting on Open Education Week”