February 2015 61 C&RL News

Welcome to the February 2015 issue of C&RL 
News. Many libraries of all types, including aca-
demic and research libraries, continue to exper-
iment with makerspaces as a way to provide 
outreach and education. Megan Lotts provides 
an overview of making activities in academic 
libraries in her article “Implementing a culture 
of creativity,” along with detailing her experi-
ments with pop-up making spaces at Rutgers 
University.

Librarians at the University of Alabama incor-
porated making activities such as video creation 
and 3-D printing into their campus’ orientation 
programs. Vincent F. Scalfani and Lindley C. Shedd 
discuss the program in their article “Recruiting 
students to campus.”

Making activities can also extend to service 
learning programs. Angela Pashia writes about 
the University of West Georgia Ingram Library’s 
participation in a community program to fi ght 
hunger in her article “Empty Bowls in the library.”

In this month’s Scholarly Communication 
column, column editors Zach Coble and Adrian 
Ho interview Martin Paul Eve and John Willinsky 

about their visions for “Open access in humanities 
and social sciences.”

Looking for new active learning approaches 
for instruction sessions? Tiffeni J. Fontno and Di-
anne N. Brown give helpful tips for incorporating 
learning centers in the information literacy class-
room in their article “Putting information literacy 
in the students’ hands.”

Also this month we continue our look at the 
upcoming ALA/ACRL elections with statements 
from the candidates for ACRL vice-president/
president-elect. Review the full statements by the 
candidates for ALA vice-president/president-elect 
in the March issue, and vote for the candidates of 
your choice in the election beginning March 24.

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments, including a look at dining and 
drinking options in our ACRL 2015 host city of 
Portland, by Angie Beiriger; Internet Resources on 
“Virtual conferencing and meeting systems;” and 
a The Way I See it essay on the search power of 
librarians by Tina P. Frank.

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

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