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ACRL President Camila Alire has made a 
point of promoting the sister libraries con­
cept as part of her term, and, at the 2005 
ALA Annual Conference, the ACRL Board 
endorsed a declaration encouraging institu­
tions to explore sister library partnerships 
and to build relationships with libraries in 
other cultures. The article “Not just icing on 
the cake: International strategy and resourc­
es at the University of Illinois at Urbana­
Champaign” (p. 10) highlights the direction 
an institution can take to expand beyond 
sister libraries and into a full­blown interna­
tional strategy for the library. 

Nobody needs to tell librarians about 
the continually expanding nature of online 
information, but some of you working in 
the field may appreciate learning more 
about current awareness services that can 
help librarians and their patrons track the 
information that is most relevant to them. 

In “Staying alert: The wild new world of in­
formation services” (p. 14), types of services 
available are discussed, including the pros 
and cons of feeds and approaches specifi c 
to certain disciplines. 

To help you make an informed decision 
in the election this spring, background on 
the ACRL candidates for vice­president/ 
president­elect, Cynthia Steinhoff and Julie 
Todaro, is provided on page 28, along with 
the complete slate of candidates for ACRL 
section offi cers. 

Need to fi nd an article from the 2005 vol­
ume of C&RL News, but can’t remember what 
issue it was published in? The complete index 
for volume 66 (2005) is provided in this issue. 
If you’re hoping to appear in a future index, 
take note of the guidelines for submitting 
articles to the magazine on page 27. 

—Stephanie Orphan, Editor­in­chief 
sorphan@ala.org 

January 2006  5 C&RL News 

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