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June 2014 289 C&RL News

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Welcome to the June 2014 issue of C&RL News. 
Every two years, ACRL’s Research Planning and 
Review Committee produces their “Top trends in 
academic libraries.” The 2014 edition focuses on 
a theme of collaboration through the categories 
of data, device neutral digital services, evolving 
openness, student success, competency-based 
learning, altmetrics, and digital humanities.

Two additional articles this month highlight 
these trends in action. Emma Ganley discusses 
the “PLOS data policy” in her Scholarly Com-
munication article, while Greg MacAyeal writes 
about ways the Northwestern University Library 
created “A culture of assessment” through a formal 
committee.

Diversity additionally continues to be a major 
trend in libraries and higher education. Eileen 
Theodore-Shusta and Araba Dawson-Andoh 
discuss the Ohio University Libraries efforts at “En-
gaging the campus community in conversations 
on diversity,” and librarians from the University 
of Washington-Bothell and Cascadia Community 
College outline their use of ACRL’s “Diversity 
Standards” in developing “Cultural competency 

on campus.” Alexia Hudson-Ward provides a list 
of resources for further study of “Diversity and 
inclusion” in this issue’s Internet Resources article. 

In this month’s ACRL TechConnect feature,  
librarians at Oregon State University worked 
with their campus Cultural Resources Centers 
to develop a checkout system for the centers’ 
libraries. Natalia Fernández and Jane Nichols 
discuss the project in their article “Booxter and 
LibraryThing.”

In honor of the return of the popular Netflix 
streaming series Orange is the New Black this 
month, Jill A. Grunenwald discusses her experi-
ences behind bars as a prison librarian in her The 
Way I See It essay “Orange is the new academia.”

Make sure to check out the other features and 
departments this month, including results of the 
2014 ACRL election, a new entry in the Libraries 
and Financial Literacy Education column by ACRL 
President Trevor A. Dawes, and a look back at 
the first issue of our sister publication College & 
Research Libraries as part of the celebration of 
ACRL’s 75th anniversary. 

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

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