ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


518 / C&RL News ■  July/August 1999

I n  t h e  news

Darwin said that adaptation w as the key to 
the survival of a species. If adaptation is the key, 
then I think librarians have a good prognosis for 
survival. As I review the contents of this issue, I 
see librarians creatively adapting to their situa­
tions— w hether it is adapting space to fit new  
technology needs, adapting instructional design 
to meet new  campus initiatives, adapting the Web 
to b e a better tool for users, or adapting them ­
selves into new  roles as managers.

I ho p e these articles give you ideas that you 
can use to  ad ap t yo u r services o r facilities, or 
even the w ay you think about things!

Steven Sowards offers 13 tips that can make your 
first year as a middle manager more successful (page 
523). A special thanks to Tamara Ohr-Campbell 
for providing the illustrations to his tips.

Norm Medeiros reviews the way libraries have 
adapted their use of Web sites and takes a look at 
w hat the future may hold (page 527).

Katherine Furlong and Michael McGuire share 
how  they quickly devised a curriculum and re­
cruited teachers to implement a faculty senate 
decision to require a new  core course that would 
include library instruction (p ag e 531).

Dorothy Warner, John Buschman, and Robert 
L ackie sh a re  h o w  th e y  to o k  a n  a lre a d y  
crowded space and made it into a lab/electronic 
classroom (page 536).

Jen n ifer Kimball rem inds us to  a d a p t o u r 
thinking to that o f an  undergraduate an d  start 
our instruction with the basics (page 556).

This issue concludes our coverage o f ACRL’s 
9th National Conference (page 547). I hope that 
you find many useful ideas in the session reports 
that will help you adapt to whatever comes your 
way.

—Mary Ellen Davis 
E d ito r-in -ch ief 

medavis@ ala.org

mailto:medavis@ala.org