April 2021 C&RL News157

Welcome to the April 2021 issue of C&RL 
News. In the latest installment of our Inter-
national Insights column, “Learning from 
each other,” Diljit Singh of the University 
of Malaysia reflects on the role of academic 
libraries in the promotion of international 
understanding, especially in the time of  
COVID-19. 

Jessica Kohout-Tailor and Lili Klar focus 
on efforts to develop partnerships supporting 
equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives at 
Clemson University during the pandemic 
in their article “COVID-19, collections, 
and collaboration.” In this issue’s The Way I 
See It essay, Oluwole O. Durodolu, Samuel  
Kelechukwu Ibenne, and Tinyiko Vivian 
Dube examine leveraging the Framework 
for Information Literacy as a tool to combat 
infodemics in “New mental costumes.”

Willa Tavernier contributes this month’s 
Scholarly Communication column, writing 

about developing scholarly communication 
competencies through a post-master’s degree 
residency program, based on her experiences 
at Indiana University.

Enhancing inclusive learning through flex-
ible pedagogy is the focus on Andrea Baer’s ar-
ticle “Gently stretching to reach all students,” 
while Kathleen Phillips, Valerie A. Lynn, Amie 
Yenser, and Christina Wissinger discuss going 
“Beyond the lab” to provide virtual reality 
anatomy and physiology technologies. 

Make sure to check out the other great 
features and departments this month, in-
cluding a look at a library summer camp 
program for middle schoolers from Jen-
nifer Smith and Onnica Marquez, profiles 
of 2021 ACRL award recipients, ACRL 
Board of Directors’ actions, and a call for 
nominations for section officers in the 2021 
ACRL/ALA election.

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

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