December 2020 525 C&RL News

Welcome to the December 2020 issue of 
C&RL News. As the COVID-19 pandemic 
continues into fall and winter, libraries 
continue to adapt their services to the 
current environment. B. Grantham Al-
dred starts off this issue with a look at 
his efforts at “Asynchronizing with the 
Framework” to provide remote instruc-
tion at the University of Illinois-Chica-
go.

Focusing on outreach projects that are 
adaptable to the pandemic, Christopher 
Sweet writes about library participation 
in Illinois Wesleyan University’s annual 
campus-wide intellectual theme in “Fact of 
fiction?” while Caitlin Harrington and Ra-
chel E. Scott discuss their experiences with 
“Technical services librarians and outreach” 
at the University of Memphis. 

In this month’s Scholarly Communica-
tion column, Sherri L. Barnes provides an 
overview of the “The Community-Led Open 

Publication Infrastructures for Monographs 
(COPIM) project.” Dragan Gill outlines her 
efforts at “Creating an asset map for student 
and community success” at Rhode Island 
College in our latest ACRL TechConnect 
feature.

According to tradition, we also take a look 
back at ACRL’s accomplishments in advanc-
ing learning and transforming scholarship 
with our 2019–2020 Annual Report. You can 
help make the next year of your association 
as successful as the last by volunteering to 
serve on an ACRL committee. The call for 
volunteers is available on page 541.

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including an ex-
amination of how Eastern Carolina University 
implemented liaison competencies by Cindy 
Shirkey, Jeanne Hoover, and Katy Webb in 
their article “Doing the work.”

Thanks as always for reading the News!
—David Free, editor-in-chief, dfree@ala.org

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