July/August 2020 317 C&RL News

Welcome to the July/August 2020 issue 
of C&RL News. Whether students return 
to campus for the fall term or continue 
to learn at a distance, food insecurity 
will be a major concern for many. Lana 
Mariko Wood of California State Uni-
versity-East Bay argues that academic 
libraries are in an ideal position to re-
spond and details some of the initia-
tives put into place at her library and 
others to respond to this ongoing crisis 
in her article “Empty shelves.”

Academic and research librarians con-
tinue to respond to COVID-19 in a variety 
of ways. M. Wynn Tranfield, Doug Wor-
sham, and Nisha Mody write about the 
UCLA Library’s grassroots rapid response 
to the pandemic in “When you only have 
a week,” while Misa Mi, Yingting Zhang, 
Lin Wu, and Wendy Wu detail four health 
sciences libraries’ experiences in “How 

health sciences librarians responded to 
the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.”

In this issue’s The Way I See It essay, 
Russell A. Hall urges library leaders to 
continue to adopt flexible, forward-
looking strategic and tactical plans for 
providing resources and services in “Li-
brary strategic planning after COVID-19.”

Jane Hammons of The Ohio State Uni-
versity writes about her library’s efforts 
to create an online information literacy 
course to assist faculty in “Teaching 
information literacy” to their students.

Make sure to check out the other features and 
departments this month, including an outreach 
project to support a local school district’s diversity 
initiatives, increasing access to reserve textbooks 
for student veterans, a look back at the ACRL 
/SPARC Forum at the 2020 ALA Midwinter Meeting, 
and Internet Resources on dance.

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

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