November 2014 537 C&RL News

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Welcome to the November 2014 issue of C&RL 
News. With the growing trend of libraries as 
publisher, more institutions are focusing atten-
tion on locally created research and publica-
tions authored both by faculty and students. 
Danielle Barandiaran, Betty Rozum, and Becky 
Thoms outline the Utah State University’s pro-
gram of “Focusing on student research in the 
institutional repository” through the DigitalC-
ommons@USU program. 

The University of Michigan science library 
makes a concerted effort of highlighting pub-
lications by faculty authors through a series of 
exhibits and events. Jennifer Bonnet, Barbara 
Alvarez, and Sigrid Anderson Cordell discuss 
the program in their article “Let’s get this party 
started.”

The place of the print book in an environ-
ment of online access and changing roles for 
library spaces continues to be a topic of discus-
sion on many campuses. Stefanie R. Bluemle 
and Carla B. Tracy take a look a legacy print 
collections in the learning-centered library in 
their piece “The lives of books.” 

The Princeton University Costen Children’s 
Library highlights the legacy of print through a 

rare books education program in local elemen-
tary schools, Dana Sheridan discusses their 
approach to “Teaching the untouchable” in this 
issue’s The Way I See It essay.

In this month’s Scholarly Communication 
column, Korey Jackson of Oregon State Univer-
sity examines open access evaluation in the Hu-
manities in his article “More than gatekeeping.”

Registration is open for the ACRL 2015 
Conference to be held March 25–28, 2015, in 
Portland, Oregon. In this month’s issue,  Angie 
Beiriger and Dan Kelley take us on a tour 
through the “Neighborhoods of Portland,” high-
lighting the unique offerings of our host city. 

We return to our look back at the history of 
the association this month with our 75th Anni-
versary feature “Cruising through the ’50s’” by 
Sarah H. Northam.

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including Internet 
Resources on the history of medicine by Jolie 
Braun, and  an overview of the contents of the 
November issue of our online-only scholarly 
research College and Research Libraries.

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

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