April 2020 165 C&RL News

Welcome to the April 2020 issue of C&RL 
News. Academic libraries and librarians 
are increasingly prioritizing outreach to 
vulnerable populations. In this issue’s 
Perspectives column, Clare Kuntz Balcer 
writes about her experiences teaching “The 
Framework for Information Literacy (in 
prison)” through a program working with 
incarcerated students.

At Wellesley College, library staff hold 
SpeedShare events to increase interaction 
and connections between the library and first- 
generation students. The program is the sub-
ject of the Sarah Barbrow, Carol Lubkowski, 
Sara B. Ludovissy, Sarah Moazeni, and Karen 
Storz’s article “Up to speed.”

Michelle Twait and Anna Hulseberg of 
Gustavus Adolphus College write about their 
experiences serving as academic advisors, 
along with discussing the results of a survey 
of advising activities at other institutions, in 
their article “‘In a different light.’”

In this month’s Scholarly Communica-
tion column, Kyle K. Courtney, Rachel 
Samberg, and Timothy Vollmer focus on 
law and policy initiatives around text data 
mining in “Big data gets big help.”

Courtney Hoffner and Antonia Osuna-
Garcia write about a project at UCLA using 
LibGuide Groups to build partnership and con-
nection between the library and the iSchool 
in their article “LibGuides Groups in practice.”

Make sure to check out the other fea-
tures and departments this month, includ-
ing profiles of 2020 ACRL award recipients, 
ACRL Board of Directors’ actions from 
the 2020 ALA Midwinter Meeting, a call 
for nominations for section officers in the 
2021 ACRL/ALA election, and a look at the 
April special issue of C&RL focusing on 
the value of academic libraries by editor 
Wendi Kaspar.

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

mailto:dfree%40ala.org?subject=