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The National Survey of Student Engagement 
(NSSE) is a tool designed to obtain informa­
tion from colleges and universities on stu­
dent participation in programs and activities 
that provide for their learning and personal 
development. In 2004, ACRL’s Institute for 
Information Literacy created a College Stu­
dent Surveys Project Group charged with 
identifying potential items to recommend 
for consideration to the NSSE. This group 
has submitted 6 new items to NSSE staff for 
possible inclusion in the 2006 survey. In ad­
dition, the group identified 22 items on the 
current NSSE Web survey that support or 
relate to information literacy behaviors. The 
article on page 715 describes the process the 
group went through to make these recom­
mendations and the implications of informa­
tion literacy­related items on the survey. 

Make sure to read this month’s New Pub­
lications column, which includes a sidebar by 
George Eberhart reflecting on his 25 years as 

column editor. Times have certainly changed 
since 1980 but, as always, in some ways they 
remain the same. Congratulations to George 
on this milestone! 

ACRL’s latest publication is its offi cial blog, 
ACRLog, which made its debut in October. 
ACRLog is by and for academic librarians, with 
this focus makes it unique in the blogosphere. 
A message from the Blog Advisory Committee, 
with information about this new endeavor and 
its mission, is on page 725. Get on the blog­
wagon and visit www.acrlblog.org today. 

The final, approved version of ACRL’s 
“Guidelines for university library services to 
undergraduate students” can be found on 
page 730. Developed to be used in conjunc­
tion with the “Standards for libraries in higher 
education,” the guidelines supersede “The 
mission of an undergraduate library: Model 
statement” (1987). 

—Stephanie Orphan, Editor­in­chief 
sorphan@ala.org 

November 2005  705 C&RL News 

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