June 2017 293 C&RL News

Welcome to the June 2017 issue of C&RL News. 
In the current political climate, many librar-
ies are renewing their commitment to serv-
ing immigrant and refugee communities. This 
month’s International Insights column features 
a series of project outlines from “Academic 
libraries serving refugee and asylum seekers” 
both in the United States and overseas.

Librarians at California State University-
Fresno partnered with the Fresno County 
Public Library to help address the digital 
divide in their area’s diverse community 
through a service-learning grant program. 
Raymond Pun, along with Fresno State stu-
dents See Xiong, Adan Ortega, and Vanna 
Nauk, outline student-led training work-
shops in their article “Doing technology.”

People come to academic librarianship 
from a variety of backgrounds, including 
performing arts. Solomon Blaylock and 
Declan Ryan of the University of Rochester 
River Campus Libraries discuss how their 
experiences as part of the DIY music com-
munity can influence librarianship in their 
article “Librarian in the underground.”

Laura Schwartz experienced DIY first-
hand when she became a first-time actor in a 
student play set and staged at the University 
of Texas-Austin Fine Arts Library. She reflects 
on her experience in this issue’s The Way I 
See It essay “When life becomes art.”

In this month’s Scholarly Communication 
column, Jill Cirasella of the Graduate Center-
CUNY discusses “Open access outreach” 
strategies across a variety of communities 
with input from library-world Twitter celeb-
rity the OA Hulk.

Makerspaces, including 3-D printing 
capabilities, continue to increase across aca-
demic libraries. Jennie Levine Knies, Valerie 
Lynn, and Erik Angel write about the launch 
of 3-D printing at two Penn State University 
campuses in their ACRL TechConnect article 
“Parallel lives.”

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including 2017 
ACRL election results and Internet Resources 
on “Medieval illuminated manuscripts” by 
Robert Miller.

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

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