September 2019 425 C&RL News

Welcome to the September 2019 issue of 
C&RL News. In this month’s Scholarly Com-
muncation column, Yasmeen Shorish and 
Nathan Hall give an overview of the pro-
cess that went into “Creating the ACRL re-
search agenda for scholarly communication.” 
Among other topics, the agenda looks at the 
scholarly communciation system through the 
lens of equity, diversity, and inclusion.

At the University of Tennessee, librar-
ians encourage underserved students to 
consider careers in STEM fields through 
their Big Orange STEM Saturday program. 
Thura Mack and Savanna Draper write about 
the project in their article “Assessment and 
social change.”

The latest installment of our International 
Insights column features a variety of per-
spectives on “Gender inclusivity and equity 
in academic libraries” from around the globe. 
Lisa N. Johnston provides a historical per-

spective on LGBTQ digital history collections 
in this month’s Internet Resources article.

Erin Passehl-Stoddard and Ashlyn Velte 
discuss ways in which the University of 
Idaho Libraries Special Collections and Ar-
chives took advantage of their acquisition of 
a prominent alumni science fiction collection 
in “Capitalizing on short-term collaborative 
project.”

We also look back at the 2019 ALA An-
nual Conference in Washington, D.C., with 
our annual roundup of ACRL programs and 
Board of Directors’ actions. Many thanks to 
all the reporters who volunteered to write 
program summaries.

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including a The 
Way I See It essay on using improv to im-
prove performance in the library classroom 
by Allison Hosier.

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

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