September 2010 397 C&RL News

In the

Welcome to the September 2010 issue of 
C&RL News. In the new economy, many aca-
demic and research libraries are increasingly 
looking to additional funding sources to 
augment their budgets. One area of focus is 
increasing fundraising through endowments 
and gifts. Librarians from the University of 
Florida discuss the use of “Virtual book-
plates” to increase findability of donated 
and endowed materials (and increase devel-
opment efforts in the process) in the library 
catalog in this month’s issue.

The open access movement continues 
to grow and move into new arenas. In this 
month’s scholarly communication column, 
Maria Bonn of the University of Michigan 
examines a variety of experiments with open 
access monographs in her article “Free ex-
change of ideas.”

With the return of students to campus for 
fall term comes an increase in the number 
of instruction sessions, meaning that many 

noninstruction librarians are being recruited 
to teach. In her article “Welcome to the class-
room,” Erin Daniels gives ten helpful tips for 
teaching college freshmen.

This month we also take a look back at 
the 2010 ALA Annual Conference with reports 
from ACRL-sponsored programs and actions 
from the ACRL Board of Directors meetings. 
A big thank you to all of our volunteers who 
covered the sessions for us. We also take a 
look ahead with the first in a series of articles 
focusing on Philadelphia, the site of ACRL 
2011. This month’s article introduces the 
city. Future articles look at many aspects of 
Philadelphia, including cultural attractions 
and the city’s restaurant scene.

Make sure to take a look at all of the other 
great articles and columns, including Internet 
Resources on Native Americans and informa-
tion on the ACRL awards program.

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