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January 2012 5 C&RL News

In the
Welcome to the January 2012 issue of C&RL 
News. Data curation, management, and pres-
ervation are increasingly becoming part of 
the academic and research library’s contribu-
tions to their institutions. Susan Wells Parham, 
Jon Bodnar, and Sara Fuchs outline methods 
used at the Georgia Institute of Technology 
to assess faculty data curation needs in their 
article “Supporting tomorrow’s research.”

At the University of Texas-San Antonio, 
librarians reached out to their campus commu-
nity by collaborating with human resources to 
add a library introduction class for professional 
and administrative staff to the university orien-
tation process. Natasha Arguello and DeeAnn 
Green discuss the project in “You mean I can 
use the library, too?”

In this month’s ACRL TechConnect feature, 
Harry Glazer revisits his 2009 C&RL News article 
on library Facebook pages and poses the ques-
tion “‘Likes’ are lovely, but do they lead to more 
logins?” The article discusses possible metrics for 
gauging Facebook page success. The trends of 
the mobile Web and apps continue to grow, es-

pecially as more smart devices become available. 
Stefanie Havelka and Alevtina Verbovetskaya 
present a call to arms for “Mobile information 
literacy” in their The Way I See It essay.

The new year means another round of 
ALA/ACRL elections. We take a look at this 
year’s candidates for ACRL vice-president/ 
president-elect, Board of Directors, and section 
officers in this month’s issue. Review the full 
statements by the vice-presidential candidates 
forthcoming in the February issue and vote in 
the election beginning March 19.

Make sure to check out the other features 
and columns this month, including Internet 
Resources on the bicentennial of the War of 
1812 by Susan M. Frey, the newly revised ACRL 
Standards for Libraries in Higher Education, 
the index for last year’s volume of C&RL News, 
and our usual slate of departments including 
Internet Reviews and New Publications.

Thanks as always for reading the News, and 
Happy New Year!  

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

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