November 2019 541 C&RL News

Welcome to the November 2019 issue of 
C&RL News. Many academic libraries have 
begun focusing efforts on addressing the 
mental health and well being of their popu-
lations. Marshall University in West Virginia, 
one of the states hit hardest by the recent 
opioid crises, focused on their libraries as 
mental health safe spaces. Sabrina Thomas 
and Kacy Lovelace discuss their collaborative 
campus project in “Combining efforts.” Learn 
more about resources available for “Mental 
health awareness” in this month’s Internet 
Resources article by Emily Underwood.

Working with underserved communities 
continues to be a focus, as well. A group 
of New York-area librarians provide tips for 
“Academic librarians serving diverse popula-
tions of multilingual students.” At Penn State-
Brandywine, librarians expanded the focus of 
a student book club to increase outreach to in-
ternational students. Annie Jansen provides an 

update in “Building bridges with book club.”
In this issue’s Scholarly Communication 

column, Arthur “A.J.” Boston discusses impli-
cations for research in the Age of Machines 
in his article “What do you mean?” Dis-
playing graduate student research through 
visualizations is the focus of Kalli Damschen 
and Hannah Gascho Rempel’s article “Mak-
ing research visible,” while Trina J. Magi 
reflects on reconnecting with reference 
sources in her The Way I See It essay “Why 
discovery tools and information literacy are 
not enough.”

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including an 
ACRL TechConnect article on the life cycle of 
digital learning objects by Valerie Beech and 
Eric Kowalik, and a look at library outreach 
to student entrepreneurs by Emily Mross and 
Lauren Reiter.

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

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