ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


330 /  C&RL News ■ M a y 2002

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In this issue, you’ll find two great examples 
of librarians adapting their w ork and forging 
new  ground to provide services that respond 
directly to their patrons’ needs.

Notre Dame libraries’ can attest to the “The 
value of campus partnerships” (page 345). 
They w ere able to raise the library’s presence 
on campus and create important relationships 
by involving administrators and faculty w hen 
redesigning their library instruction program. 
They also found that soliciting student feed­
back can provide surprising, and beneficial, 
results.

Those of you involved in summ er pro­
grams and projects in your libraries will want 
to read about Ohio University librarians’ work 
with high school students involved in a sum­
m er engineering program  (page 335). They 
created a bibliographic instruction m odule 
based on the teams-and-tasks approach, and 
it has been  so successful that they’ve used it 
to modify some of their existing classes.

Speaking of summer, there are m any excit­
ing things going on at ACRL as w e gear up for 
the ALA Annual Conference in Atlanta next 
month. Recommendations from the Scholarly 
Communications Task Force led to Board ac­
tion at Midwinter that is embarking ACRL on a 
scholarly communication initiative. Work on 
the initiative will formally begin at the confer­
ence, with both a scholarly communication 
standing committee and discussion group meet­
ing for the first time in Atlanta. To learn more 
about this new  step for ACRL and the history  
behind it, see the article on page 356.

The President’s Program at Annual prom ­
ises to be a hit, with great speakers and an 
important topic. The top five reasons why you 
should attend can be found on page 341. This 
issue also contains the preliminary  program of 
ACRL programs and meetings to be held in 
Atlanta to help you plan your time there.

— Stephanie Orphan, editor-in-chief 
sorphan@ala.org

mailto:sorphan@ala.org