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Welcome to the February 2008 issue of C&RL 
News. Is it February already? It’s hard to be­
lieve, but the term is moving along and many 
students are starting to make early spring break 
plans. But students don’t get to have all the 
travel­related fun! 

This month’s issue features two articles cover­
ing librarians on the road. Last month, Russell 
A. Hall outlined the concept of the “embedded 
librarian” in a classroom setting. In this issue, 
Susan Sharpless Smith and Lynn Sutton of Wake 
Forest University take the concept out of the 
classroom in their article “Embedded librarians: 
On the road in the Deep South.” They report on 
their experiences providing research assistance 
and technology services as students visited Civil 
Rights sites and participated in service learning 
in Gulf Coast libraries ravaged by Hurricane 
Katrina. Their project is the winner of the 2008 
ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award. 

Librarian travels aren’t limited to the United 
States. In her article “Real World/Life Rules,” 

Katherine Furlong of Lafayette College discusses 
her role as an information literacy librarian dur­
ing two choir tours of Europe. She describes 
both the joys and the challenges of taking 
library services on the road, along with provid­
ing useful advice for planning and executing 
for travel projects. 

This issue also features information on “Pro­
moting faculty success” through a reinvigorated 
faculty association by Brett Spencer and Jennifer 
McClure, a scholarly communication column 
on free online access to publicly funded NIH 
research, statements from the candidates for 
ACRL vice­president/president­elect, and Inter­
net resources on accounting and auditing sites 
by Colleen D. Anderson. 

Of course don’t ignore the rest of the great 
articles and columns in this month’s issue, 
including another exciting edition of “Job of a 
Lifetime.” Enjoy! 

—David Free, editor­in­chief 
dfree@ala.org 

February 2008 65 C&RL News 

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