July/August 2010 345 C&RL News

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Welcome to the July/August 2010 issue of 
C&RL News. With summer break in full swing 
at many institutions, academic and research 
librarians often take the opportunity of the 
slightly slower “regular” work load to get 
caught up on projects. In my days a college 
librarian, that often meant updating pathfi nd-
ers. In this month’s issue, Ron Gilmour ex-
amines putting “Old wine in new skins” and 
provides advice for creating and updating 
successful 21st-century Web guides. 

Tools such as LibGuides have defi nitely 
streamlined the process of providing guides 
to library resources. But some libraries are 
taking these tools beyond the usual topic or 
course-based guides. Librarians from Bloom-
ington University of Pennsylvania provide an 
overview of a project “Using LibGuides for an 
information literacy tutorial.”  

Sharon Weiner puts out a call to action 
for improving integration of “Information 
literacy” instruction across campus, based on 

the fi ndings of a recent Project Information 
Literacy report.

Getting out of the library and working with 
other areas is essential to improving student’s 
information literacy and research skills. Leslie 
J. Foutch discusses a collaboration between 
the library and Vanderbilt University’s Writing 
Studio in her article “Joining forces to enlighten 
the research process.” Looking outside of aca-
demia can also provide inspiration, as Katie 
Maier-O’Shea found when she volunteered at 
her local public library. 

Make sure to check out all of the other great 
information in this month’s issue, including a 
scholarly communication column on “Open 
access at the University of Kansas,” an exami-
nation of “Mobbing in the library workplace,” 
and the latest edition of Job of a Lifetime.

Thanks as always for reading the News and 
have a great summer! 

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

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