July/August 2021 C&RL News293

Welcome to the July/August 2021 issue of 
C&RL News. We start out this month’s is-
sue with a Scholarly Communication col-
umn featuring an examination of the myths 
of “Transformative agreements” by Ashley 
Farley, Allison Langham-Putrow, Elisabeth 
Shook, Leila Belle Sterman, and Megan  
Wacha.

Ma t t h e w  We i r i c k  Jo h n s o n ,  Sa l m a  
Abumeeiz, and Elizabeth McAulay write 
about a partnership between teaching librar-
ians and digital library staff at UCLA in their 
article “Teaching in the digital library.” Ways 
the library can help promote a culture of 
inquiry on campus is the subject of Jennifer 
Jarson and Kate Morgan’s article “From con-
cept to creation.”

In this issue’s Perspectives on the Frame-
work column, Erin Weber highlights the 
promotion of reading literacy at the University 
of Tennessee-Martin in “You can improve.”

Three articles this issue look back at the im-
pact of the COVID-19 pandemic on libraries 

in the United States. Mozhdeh Khodarahmi 
and Gwen M. Gregory share their experiences 
transitioning to new management positions 
during the pandemic. Stephen Boss, Michelle 
Green, Yolanda Hood, Cynthia Hughes, and 
Susan Schulz look back at “Virtual program-
ming during COVID.” In our latest Interna-
tional Insights column, Marcelo Rodríguez 
outlines a project monitoring the impact of 
COVID-19 in Latin America “A year on” 
from the start of the pandemic.

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including a 
The Way I See It essay on improving EDI 
in the profession by Bernadette M. López-
Fitzsimmons and Kanu A. Nagra, a look at 
a digital mapping project highlighting field 
guides by Lori Bronars and Miriam Olivares, 
and an outreach project to bring freshmen 
into the library at the  Kyiv National Univer-
sity of Culture and Arts by Olena Skachenko. 

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

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