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April 2013 181 C&RL News

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Welcome to the April 2013 issue of C&RL News.  
As graduation season approaches, the thoughts 
of many LIS students turns to the job search. 
Librarians at the University of North Carolina-
Greensboro helped prepare a cohort of  students 
for this process through a series of mock phone 
and in-person job interviews. Agnes K. Bradshaw, 
LaTesha Velez, and Gerald Holmes discuss the 
program in their article “Mock interviews for ACE 
Scholars.”  

In this issue’s The Way I See It essay,  Veronica 
Arellano Douglas provides practical advice for 
graduating students and others seeking new posi-
tions on “Becoming a more thoughtful library job 
seeker” by taking full advantage of volunteer and 
professional association activities. 

Of course the need for growth and enhancing 
professional skills doesn’t end with the conclusion 
of graduate school. Valeda F. Dent argues that what 
you dont know can help you grow as a leader  in 
the latest entry in ACRL President Steven J. Bell’s 
New Thinking for Leadership series. 

Many of today’s LIS graudates will participate in 
some sort of information literacy instruction activites 
when they enter the professional workforce. Quill 
West provides tips for success in collaboration with 
classroom faculty in his article “Information literacy 
cooperation by design.” Angiah L. Davis further 
explores the design of information literacy assign-
ments and instruction through collaboration with 
an instuctional design technologist and outlines 
her experiences with the ADDIE design model.

In our latest ACRL TechConnect article, 
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco of University of 
California-Merced discusses her library’s attempt 
at gamifying campus welcome week activities using 
the SCVNGR gaming app.

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments in this issue, including a Schol-
arly Communciation column on potential Secion 
108 reform by Melissa A. Brown and the first 
round of profiles of 2013 ACRL award winners. 

Thanks as always for reading the News.
—David Free, editor-in-chief, dfree@ala.org

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