Welcome to the November 2017 issue of C&RL 
News. The continued focus on the accuracy of in-
formation in both traditional and social media pro-
vides an important opportunity for academic and 
research librarians to provide information literacy 
instruction that is meaningful to students beyond 
their classroom assignments. In their article “Says 
who?” librarians from Aquinas College provide in-
sight into a variety of classroom approaches to ad-
dressing “fake news” with undergraduate students.

Librarians at the University of California-Merced 
took a variety of approaches to highlighting media 
literacy on campus, including a library exhibit, fac-
ulty workshop, special events, and a social media 
outreach campaign. Sara Davidson Squibb writes 
about their efforts in her article “Be aware: Elevate 
your news evaluation.”

The ACRL Publications Coordinating Commit-
tee recently conducted a demographic survey of 
ACRL’s editorial boards as part of their committee 
workplan. Emily Ford, Wendi Arant Kaspar, and 
Peggy Seiden discuss the results of the survey in 
“Diversity of ACRL publications, editorial board 
demographics.”

In this issue’s Scholarly Communication article, 
ACRL President Cheryl A. Middleton discusses 
“Closing the divide” between subject and scholarly 
communication librarians to help reach common 
campus goals around open access and other 
scholarly communication issues.

Librarians continue to use the ACRL Framework 
for Information Literacy in creative ways. Four art 
and design librarians from different institutions 
write about their collaborative efforts to apply the 
Framework to Studio Art classes in their article 
“CREATE.”

Make sure to check out the other features and 
departments this month, including a look at apply-
ing user experience design principles to library sig-
nage, Internet Resources on “Community engage-
ment in higher education” by Anne Marie Gruber, 
a The Way I See It essay on “Reference, reading, 
and nonreading” by Evan F. Kuehn, a preview 
of the November issue of College & Research 
Libraries in the C&RL Spotlight department, and 
the ACRL 2019 Call for Participation.

Thanks as always for reading the News!
—David Free, editor-in-chief, dfree@ala.org

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