ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


568 / C&RL News ■  July/August 2000

In  t h e

Many popular magazines like to provide 
reading lists in their summer issues. Steven 
Bell has given C&RL News a new twist on 
that in this issue by providing us with tips 
and resources for keeping up with the ever- 
burgeoning inform ation glut (pag e 581). 
Steven’s list is particularly helpful because 
he points us to many useful resources out
side o f the standard library literature.

This issue also provides som e ideas for 
those o f you who use the summer to fine- 
tune or redesign your instruction programs. 
Sheila Curl, Leslie Reynolds, Brent Mai, and 
Alexius Smith Macklin discuss how they de
veloped a digital asynchronous information 
strategies course (page 586).

Anna Marie Johnson and Melissa Laning 
share their development and implementation 
process that dramatically improves the tradi
tional library scavenger hunt (page 597).

Jeffrey Garrett shares with us his view on 
the changing role o f reference librarians in­

volved in helping patrons do their research 
(page 603).

Although our roles are changing, the ever
present “publish or perish” debate continues. 
Rodger Lewis shares with us from his retire
ment his perspective on the usefulness o f the 
pressure to publish (page 606).

Eric Sh o af shares Brow n  U niversity’s 
unique approach to preservation and its suc
cess in establishing a preservation endow­
ment (page 593).

Summer can be a challenging time to find 
enough librarians around to provide coverage 
on the reference desk. Scott Lanning describes 
how they implemented a flexible schedule to 
make summer coverage easier (page 609).

May this summer provide you with the 
time to reflect, recharge, and regroup before 
the fall semester.

— Mary Ellen K. Davis 
E d ito r-in -c h ief 

medavis@ala.org

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