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September 2026

LOEX Currents

LOEX 2027 will be held online on May 11-14, 2027.

- The Call for Proposals for breakout sessions is posted – submit yours by November 30, 2026!


LILAC 2027 will be held on April 21-23, 2027 at the University of London.

CCLI (California Conference Library Instruction) 2027 will be held on June 11, 2027 at Cal State Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA. Centering Our Students: Accessible, inclusive, and responsive pedagogies. Call for proposals is open until October 21, 2026.

26th Annual Brick & Click academic library conference will be held at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, MO on November 6, 2026. Registration is open.

ACRL 2027 will be held April 7-10, 2027 in Portland, OR. Rooted in Community. The call for community chat, lightning talk, poster session, roundtable discussion, and virtual presentation proposals is open and submissions are due October 16, 2026. Registration opens in October.

ALA Annual 2027 will be held June 24-28, 2027 in New Orleans, LA.


LOEX News

Since the new academic year recently started, be sure to have any librarians who are new to your institution contact LOEX to add them to the E-list; conversely, if anyone has recently left, let us know that as well so they can be removed. Remember, if your institution is a member of LOEX, *all* librarians are a member of LOEX.



ALA and ACRL News

Building Equitable, Actionable Feedback Cultures, a 60-minute live webinar, will be held November 11, 2026 at 2:00pm Eastern. Registration costs $89.00; $80.10 for ALA members; $57.85 for CORE members.


ACRL Virtual Immersion Program - Information Literacy Instruction in Changing Information Environments, a four-week primarily asynchronous Course, will be held October 19 - November 13, 2026. Registration costs $329.00; $296.10 for ALA members; $213.85 for ACRL members.


The ACRL Privacy Literacy Interest Group hosts their Fall event on November 5, 2026 from 2:00-3:00pm Eastern. This free webinar is on personal data privacy and its implications for library instruction.


The ACRL Instruction Section Featured Online Learning Objects (FOLO) Committee aims to feature several excellent learning objects each year. You are invited to submit or nominate a learning object for review by October 30, 2026 to be considered for feature during the 2027 cycle. Learning objects (LOs) may include online modules/tutorials, videos, podcasts, or other relevant media created or substantially updated within the past five years. Please see the linked form for additional submission/nomination and scoring criteria. Reach out to Committee Co-Chairs, Aimee Gee and Emily Bush, with any questions.

Call for papers and book reviews: LOEX Quarterly

Share your instruction ideas and innovations with the thousands of LOEX member librarians. The focus is on substantive, but practical articles, so do not miss an opportunity to share with others your interesting programs, experiences, ideas or insights. Submissions are relatively short: between 1250-2000 words. Email LOEX if you have any questions. Deadline for the next issue: November 15, 2026.

Critical AI Literacy for College Students, a new open textbook written by University of Louisville librarians Tessa Withorn and Amber Willenborg, has recently been published.

If your institution would like to list an instruction-related job, just send your job posting to contact@loex.org; follow the format of the listings below. Be sure to provide a URL, not an attached file, with the full job information.

CA (Fullerton) - Marshall B. Ketchum University - Health Sciences Librarian - Open until filled.


CA (Riverside) - University of California Riverside - Associate University Librarian (AUL) for User Services, Research and Technology - Next review date is December 1, 2026.


CO (Colorado Springs) - University of Colorado Colorado Springs - Instruction & Research Librarian - Priority will be given to applications submitted by October 25, 2026.


KS (Lawrence) - University of Kansas - Associate Director/Head of Kenneth Spencer Research Library Public Services - Application review begins by October 15, 2026.


MA (Williamstown) - Williams College - Research and Instruction Librarian - Application review will begin on October 5, 2026.

Readings

Sarah Morris (September 2026). Putting Algorithmic Literacy into Conversation with the ACRL Framework: Insights, Ideas, and Innovations. College & Research Libraries News, 87(8), 349-355.

Becky Croxton and Megan Oakleaf (September 2026). AI as Assessment Partner: Practical Applications and Critical Cautions, Part 2. College & Research Libraries News, 87(8), 356-364.

Caitlin Ratcliffe (September 2026). Teaching Source Evaluation to Undergraduate Nursing Students: Comparing the CRAAP Test and the Source + Beyond the Source Framework. College & Research Libraries, 87(5), 555-580.

Megan Heuer and Julia Anderson (September 2026). The Role of Reading in the Search for Scholarly Articles: An Empirical Study of Undergraduate Students. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 52(5), 1-17.

Awais Aftab (September 29, 2026). What if A.D.H.D. Isn’t About Attention at All?. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/.

Sarah Berman (September 25, 2026). If They Didn’t Learn It, We Didn’t Teach It. Retrieved from https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/.

John Warner (September 24, 2026). AI for Me, but Not for Thee: Dartmouth’s provost raises a tension we should examine. Retrieved from https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/just-visiting/.

David Crotty (September 23, 2026). AI and Scholarly Reading: Foxes versus Hedgehogs. Retrieved from https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/.

Zeynep Tufekci (September 22, 2026). This Is a Rare Arena in Which People Think A.I. Is Helping. It’s Making Things Worse. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/.

Alex Klee and Isabela Pierry (September 21, 2026). Op-eds, academic articles by Dartmouth Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram. Retrieved from https://www.thedartmouth.com/.

Jeffrey R. Young (September 8, 2026). Librarians Take the Lead on AI. Retrieved from https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/jagged-intelligence/.

Sabrina H. Ottaway (September 3, 2026). It’s Not Just the Phones. Harvard Has a Lecture Problem. Retrieved from https://www.thecrimson.com/.

Emanuel Maiberg (August 27, 2026). The AI ‘Ghosts’ Contaminating Academic Publishing. Retrieved from https://www.404media.co/.

MIT Ad Hoc Committee (August 2026). AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training. Retrieved from https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/.

"Recent college graduates in majors particularly vulnerable to artificial-intelligence disruptions are seeing worse initial job outcomes, according to a new government working paper. The working paper found that graduates of the most AI-exposed programs are experiencing a decline in their likelihood of initial employment after graduation, as well as a decline in initial earnings. Graduates in the top 10 percent of AI-exposed majors saw a 5-percent decline in their likelihood of employment in the first three months (or quarter) after graduation, compared to graduates in less-affected majors. Those same AI-exposed graduates also saw a 13-percent drop in earnings over those first three months, relative to the more insulated majors."
Chronicle for Higher Education (September 22, 2026)


"The combined monthly global trading volume on Kalshi and Polymarket – the two leading prediction markets – more than doubled in the span of two months. It rose from $26 billion in May to $53 billion in July, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from The Block, a digital assets media and information firm. This increase was mostly due to a large uptick in sports trading."

Pew Research (September 23, 2026)



...and: the "LIFE Magazine: Interesting Page of the Month"

- from September 24, 1971 (pg. 58)

Brad's thoughts - "Mom, I'm drinking malt liquor every night, not champagne. Jeez! I'm not irresponsible!" Oh. I guess, some people just know how to live™

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