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March 2011 127 C&RL News

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Welcome to the March 2011 issue of C&RL 
News. One of the accomplishments I’m most 
proud of from my days as a librarian was 
working as part of a team to redesign the 
Web site for a multi-campus, multi-location 
library. In this issue, Angela Fullington Bal-
lard and Susan Teague-Rector discuss the 
recent Web redesign process at North Caro-
lina State University and offer strategies for 
”Building a library Web site.”

In the January issue, we featured tips for 
creating and managing your professional on-
line identity. This month, Lauren Magnuson 
outlines ways librarians can teach students 
about online reputation management in con-
junction with information literacy instruction 
in her article “Promoting privacy.”

Many libraries are investing time and money 
in the digitization of locally produced scholarly 
resources. In this month’s Scholarly Communica-
tion column, “Small-scale digitization goes big 
time,” Gwen Bird of Simon Fraser University 
discusses how her library implemented a digi-

tization fund to encourage participation in the 
university’s institutional repository.

On the other side of the coin, collecting and 
providing access to commercially produced 
digital-only resources can prove troublesome. 
D. J. Hoek of the Northwestern University Music 
Library examines the case of digital downloads 
in his essay “Licenses and acquisitions.”

Voting in the 2011 ALA/ACRL election opens 
on March 16. The candidates for ALA vice-
president/president-elect respond to questions 
from the ACRL Board of Directors in this issue. 
A list of ACRL members running for ALA Council 
is also available. 

Make sure to check out the other features 
and columns this month, including Internet 
Resources on slam/spoken work/performance 
poetry and articles on information literacy col-
laborations and applying the embedded librar-
ian model for graduate and faculty research.

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

dfree@ala.org