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September 2016 369 C&RL News

Welcome to the September 2016 issue of C&RL 
News. We start this month with two articles on 
archives and special collections. First, Brian Flota, 
Mark Peterson, and Julia Merkel discuss “Pulp in 
the ivory tower” and the development of James 
Madison University’s pulp magazine collection. 
Their article provides a good look at the context 
for this particular collection and advice for start-
ing any unique collection of the kind.

In this issue’s The Way I See It essay, Eddie 
Woodward of the Library of Virginia writes about 
the growing trend of “Participatory archiving” as it 
relates to creating  and acquiring digital collections.

This month marks the launch of Perspectives on 
the Framework, a new bimonthly column focusing 
on ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for 
Higher Education and edited by our Student Learning 
and Information Literacy Committee. For the inaugural 
column, Emily Drabinski of Long Island University-
Brooklyn examines the Framework through the six 
frames in her article  “Turning inward.”

ACRL President Irene M. H. Herold authors this 
issue’s Scholarly Communication column, focusing on 

ways that library leadership can go about “Supporting 
scholarly communication” at their institutions. 

In this issue’s International Insights column, 
which launched in the May 2016 issue, a group of 
authors from six regions around the world provide 
their thoughts on trending topics, taking “A pulse 
on the world of academic libraries.”

Make sure to check out the rest of our features 
and departments, including recaps of ACRL pro-
grams and Board of Directors actions at the 2016 
ALA Annual Conference in Orlando, the call for 
nominations for ACRL’s 2017 awards program, 
and a look at the contents of the September issue 
of our online-only scholarly research journal Col-
lege & Research Libraries by editor Wendi Kaspar.

On a personal note, September 2016 marks the 
100th issue of C&RL News I’ve edited. Many, many 
thanks to Ann-Christe Galloway, Pam Marino, Da-
vid Connolly, and all past and current members of 
our editorial board for their hard work in making 
the magazine happen each month, and thanks as 
always to you for reading!

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

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