January 2020 5 C&RL News

Welcome to the January 2020 issue of C&RL 
News. A lot of attention gets paid to com-
municating library activities and value across 
campus, but internal communication can be 
just as essential for success. Starting out this 
month’s issue, Kelly Delevan and Natalie Lo-
Russo discuss “Library outreach as a model 
for staff inreach” at Syracuse University. 

At Karolinska Institutet University in Swe-
den, librarians experimented with Facebook’s 
Workplace tool to share information and 
manage projects. Glenn Haya, Sara M. Lind, 
and Sara Janzen write about their project in 
“Using a social platform as an internal com-
munication tool.”

On the subject of outreach, Katy Kavana-
ugh Webb takes a look at an evidence-based 
approach to working with academic depart-
ments in her article “Curriculum mapping in 
academic libraries revisited.”

The William & Mary Libraries built rela-

tionships on campus by providing writing 
support for faculty. Lisa Nickel and Tami Back 
discuss the project in “Faculty writing retreats 
in the library.” George Koors discusses how 
his experiences as a writing instructor and 
librarian inform each other in his The Way 
I See It essay “My life as a writing professor 
and research librarian.”

In this month’s Scholarly Communica-
tion column, Allison Langham-Putrow and 
Sunshine J. Carter discuss the possibilities of 
transforming open access through the “Sub-
scribe to Open” model. 

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including a 
look at “ACRL candidates for 2020,” Internet 
Resources on animal law by Valerie Waldin, 
and information on the latest issue of our sis-
ter research journal in editor Wendi Kaspar’s 
C&RL Spotlight department.

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

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