November 2011 561 C&RL News

In the
Welcome to the November 2011 issue of 
C&RL News. The approaching holiday season 
can also mean the start of party planning sea-
son. Librarians Nicole Saylor, Jen Wolfe, and 
Paul Soderdahl use the party planning and 
hosting process as a metaphor to describe 
their experiences with LIS students taking on 
projects in the University of Iowa Libraries’ 
Digital Library Services in their article “Men-
toring, it’s a good thing.” 

An actual party was on tap at the joint li-
brary for Broward College and Florida Atlantic 
University, where an annual outreach event 
showcases faculty authors and artists. Sunem 
Beaton-Garcia describes this “Literary feast” in 
this month’s issue. 

Calling attention to scholarship is a year-
round event at the University of Kansas, where 
the libraries showcase faculty work in the 
library gallery. This “Creative collaboration” 
between the libraries, university faculty, and 
the campus art museum is outlined by Sarah 
Goodwin Thiel.

Copyright education can be an essential 
part of library outreach and contributions on 

campus. Timothy Peters describes how one 
library collaborates to take “Copyright to the 
university” through the Web and a series of 
workshops. If you are looking for resources to 
help explain copyright and fair use issues on 
campus, look no further than this month’s In-
ternet Resources feature on “Innovative copy-
right” by Lauren Dodge and Jennifer Sams.

In our ACRL TechConnect feature, Janet 
Fransen, Megan Kocher, and Jody Kempf 
provide detailed information on using “Google 
forms for staff self-assessment.” Their article 
includes code and script the University of 
Minnesota used as part of a project to gauge 
staff expertise with technology. 

Make sure to check out the other features 
and columns this month, including an essay 
on how Joe J. Marquez’s experiences teaching 
instruction sessions inform his work as a Web 
services librarian and the call for proposals for 
ACRL 2013, to be held April 10–13, 2013, in 
Indianapolis. 

Thanks as always for reading the News!  
—David Free, editor-in-chief

dfree@ala.org