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Welcome to the October 2007 issue of C&RL 
News. This month we return to the theme of 
diversity with the executive summary of the 
“Achieving racial and ethnic diversity among 
academic and research librarians” white paper 
cited last month in Julie Todaro’s presidential 
theme article. Teresa Neely and Lorna Peter­
son provide a solid overview of the issues ad­
dressed in the full white paper, as well as food 
for thought on ways to increase diversity in 
academic libraries. 

One way to gain respect for diversity is 
working with people from other cultures. 
“Sister libraries partners” outlines a part­
nership between libraries in Maryland and 
Mexico, including how librarians from two 
institutions learned from each other across 
cultural differences. 

One of the most important roles of 
academic librarians from all countries and 
cultures is instruction. “Standards for profi­
ciencies for instruction librarians and coor­

dinators” provides excellent suggestions for 
maintaining consistent quality in instruction 
programs, both for library teachers and manag­
ers of instruction programs. 

A big part of the library instruction process 
addressed in the standards is partnering with 
classroom faculty. Keeping knowledgeable on 
general trends in academia and in the disciplines 
we serve goes a long way towards building 
those important relationships. David Murray and 
Steven Bell give great advice on using faculty 
Weblogs as a current awareness tool in their 
article “Exploring the faculty blogoverse.” Make 
sure to take a look at Steven’s recent “Carnival 
of the Professoriate” posts on ACRLog as well 
to learn more about faculty blogs. 

Of course don’t ignore the rest of the great 
articles and columns in this month’s issue, 
including ways you can get involved with 
ACRL. Enjoy! 

—David Free, Editor­In­Chief 
dfree@ala.org 

October 2007 557 C&RL News

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