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January 2018 5 C&RL News

Welcome to the January 2018 issue of C&RL 
News. Nearly every field or industry has 
experienced disruption over the past sev-
eral years, and librarianship is no exception. 
Susan M. Ryan and W. Tandy Grubbs dis-
cuss the concept of “Library self-disruption” 
through the lens of their collaboration bring-
ing 3-D printing to the Stetson University Li-
brary and Chemistry Department.

The ACRL Framework for Information Lit-
eracy can easily been seen as disrupting the 
library instruction world. Andrea Falcone and 
Lyda McCartin discuss using the Framework 
to facilitate student learning outcome devel-
opment, changing the approach to instruction 
at their institutions, in their article “Be critical, 
but be flexible.”

At Rice University, Marcel LaFlamme and 
Shannon Kipphut-Smith disrupted their tradi-
tional approach to a student research fellows 
program by “Rescoping research through 
student-librarian collaboration.” Finally, in 
this issue’s The Way I See It essay, Stephanie 
Rosen discusses her work in an innovative 

job position, answering the question “What 
does a library accessibility specialist do?”

In the latest installment of our Internatitonal 
Insights column, Reggie Raju examines the role of 
academic libraries in South Africa, along with the 
concept of Ubuntu, in his article “From ‘life support’ 
to collaborative partnership,” with a focus on the 
social justice aspects of open access.

Roxanne Shirazi of the City University of New 
York explores “The doctoral dissertation and 
scholarly communication” in this month’s Scholarly 
Communication column, while Amy Riegelman 
and Caitlin Bakker provide guidance on “Under-
standing the complexities of retractions” in their 
Internet Resources article.

Make sure to check out all of the other features 
and departments in the January issue, including 
a look at “ACRL candidates for 2018,” and infor-
mation on the latest issue of our sister research 
journal in editor Wendi Kaspar’s C&RL Spotlight 
department.

Thanks as always for reading the News, and 
Happy New Year!

—David Free, editor-in-chief, dfree@ala.org

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