February 2018 57 C&RL News

Welcome to the February  2018 issue of 
C&RL News. Escape room games are cur-
rently all the rage for corporate events and 
general fun. The ACRL staff even joined 
the trend to celebrate the success of the 
ACRL 2017 conference. At the University 
of Albany-SUNY, librarians used an escape 
room-type activity in their library instruc-
tion. Susan Detwiler, Trudi Jacobson, and 
Kelsey O’Brien write about the project in 
their article “BreakoutEDU.”

Information literacy is the focus of two 
additional articles this month. Matthew Pierce 
of Germanna Community College discusses 
“Maximizing the impact of the in-person 
one-shot in community colleges.” In this 
issue’s Perspectives on the Framework col-
umn, Andrea Baer of the University of West 
Georgia discusses the relationship of the 
Framework for Information Literacy Author-
ity frame to post-truth rhetoric in her essay 
“It’s all relative?”

This month also we feature the third 
and final installment of Amanda Clay Pow-
ers, Martin Garnar, and Dustin Fife’s “New 

academic library leader discussion series,” 
focusing on lessons the authors have learned 
thus far in their roles as new library directors.

Rachael Samberg, Richard A. Schnei-
der, Anneliese Taylor, and Michael Wolfe 
examine “What’s behind OA2020” with an 
eye on accelerating the transition to open 
access in this issue’s Scholarly Communica-
tion column.

Cooperative acquisition of children’s and 
young adult literature at Penn State Univer-
sity is the subject of Karla M. Schmit and 
Bernadette A. Lear’s article “Frog and Toad’s 
ongoing journey.” While their piece focuses 
on education-related collections, they provide 
good tips for cooperative collection develop-
ment across subjects and institution types.

Make sure to check out all of the other features 
and departments this month, including statements 
from 2018 ACRL candidates for vice-president/ 
president-elect Karen Munro and Penny Beile, 
and Internet Resources  highlighting “Presidential 
research resources” by Lisa DeLuca.

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

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