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December 2009 625 C&RL News

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Welcome to the December 2009 issue of 
C&RL News. As classroom instruction moves 
to courseware systems such as Blackboard, 
providing library instruction services and re-
search assistance in the online environment 
becomes increasingly important. Susan D. 
Herring, Robert R. Burkhardt, and Jennifer 
L. Wolfe discuss the Athens State University 
embedded librarian program, designed to 
bring the library to online students, in their 
article “Reaching remote students.”

Working in the online environment pro-
vides an opportunity to forge partnerships 
with campus departments outside the library. 
In “Librarians and instructional technologists 
collaborate,” Bonnie Oldham and Diane 
Skorina discuss partnerships between librar-
ians and instructional technologists at both 
large and small institutions. 

One potential downside of working in 
the Internet era is storing and archiving 
the increasing amount of e-mail. Tami 

Morse McGill outlines the University of 
Wyoming’s experiment with moving e-mail 
archives to the cloud in “Gmail as institu-
tional memory.”

The December issue of the News histori-
cally provides a look back at the past year 
through the ACRL Annual Report. The 2008–
2009 report begins on page 665, highlighting 
your accomplishments as an association over 
the past year.  

Make sure to take a look at all of the 
other great articles and columns, including 
an overview of the current status of the 
PATRIOT Act, with suggestions for advocacy, 
by Michele M. Reid, thoughts on the next 
generation of library leadership by Jason 
Martin, and Internet Resources on violence 
against women by Karen Evans 

Thanks as always for reading the News.

—David Free, editor-in-chief
dfree@ala.org