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March 2014 113 C&RL News

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Welcome to the March 2014 issue of C&RL News. 
Increased collaboration across campus units con-
tinues to be a trend at many institutions. The 
Northwest College Library in Powell, Wyoming, 
entered into collaboration with campus partners 
as the writing center and peer tutoring functions 
relocated to their building. Representatives from 
all three areas also collaborated on an article on 
their experiences for this month’s issue titled “Ex-
ploring the learning commons.”

At New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus, 
librarians collaborated with their campus writing 
center for a late night event designed to combat 
student procrastination prior to exams. Ilka Datig 
and Luise Herkner detail their collaboration in “Get 
ready for a long night.”

With the increase in attention to scholarly 
communication issues in academic libraries, many 
institutions are either hiring dedicated scholarly 
communication librarians or adding those duties 
to subject liaisons. In this month’s Scholarly Com-
munication column, Maria Bonn discusses ways 
in which libraries are “Tooling up” to provide 
these services. 

Also this month, we continue our look at the 
upcoming ALA/ACRL elections as Maggie Farrell 
and Sari Feldman, candidates for ALA vice-pres-
ident/president-elect respond to questions from 
the ACRL Board of Directors. Also included, in this 
issue is a list of ACRL members running for ALA 
Council. Make sure to vote for the candidates of 
your choice in the election beginning March 19.

In this issue’s installment of ACRL President 
Trevor A. Dawes’ series on financial literacy and 
libraries, John Roggenkamp examines “Financial 
literacy and community colleges,” providing tips 
on ways libraries can make an impact in students 
and reflecting on his own experiences

Make sure to check out the other features and 
departments, including Internet Resources on gov-
ernment statistics sites by Jeffrey Hartsell-Grundy, 
a The Way I See It essay answering the questions 
“What’s so important about children’s literature?” by 
Christina M. Desai, ACRL Board of Directors actions 
from the 2014 ALA Midwinter Meeting, and the first 
round of profiles of 2014 ACRL award winners. 

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

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