October 2021 C&RL News405

Welcome to the October 2021 issue of 
C&RL News. We start out this month with 
the latest installment of our Perspectives on 
the Framework column. Veronica Arellano 
Douglas, Emily Deal, and Carolina Her-
nandez of the University of Houston discuss 
their use of experiential scenarios as teaching 
tools in “Valuing the everyday.”

At Ohio University, librarians use archival 
materials from a local mental health institu-
tion to connect first-year psychology majors 
to the library. Paul C. Campbell and Stacey 
Lavender write about the project in their ar-
ticle “Approaching freshman library one-shots 
in an unconventional way.” In this issue’s The 
Way I See It essay, Joel M. Burkholder looks at 
taking information literacy “From the shelves 
and into the world” through music.

Using gamification as a learning tool is 
the focus of this month’s Scholarly Com-
munication column highlighting “The Open 
Axis video game” developed at UCLA, while 
Vincent F. Scalfani of the University of Ala-

bama writes about his adventures “Using the 
Linux operating system full-time” in our latest 
ACRL TechConnect feature.

With fall term in full swing likely comes 
a full slate of meetings, some of which may 
remain virtual or hybrid. Rachel G. Rubin 
and Urszula Lechtenberg of the University of 
Pittsburgh provide tips for using backwards 
design to improve meetings of all types in their 
article “Teach your meetings well.” Librarians 
at the University of Albany worked with their 
Senate parliamentarian to present a workshop 
on applying Robert’s Rules of Order to virtual 
meetings. Lauren Puzier and Kelsey O’Brien 
write about their experience in “No Pets on 
Zoom.”

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including a look 
at the digitization of the “USC Illuminated 
Medieval Manuscripts” collection by Danielle 
Mihram and Melissa L. Miller.

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

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