October 2015 477 C&RL News

Welcome to the October 2015 issue of C&RL News. 
Helping demonstrate the value of academic and 
research libraries remains one of the core goals of 
ACRL. This month we feature two articles focus-
ing on the assessment of library services. Sarah 
Anne Murphy discusses the use of technology in 
assessment projects at The Ohio State University 
and demonstrates “How data visualization sup-
ports academic library assessment.”

Starting out on assessment projects of any size 
or scale can be a daunting process. Mary O’Kelly 
of Grand Valley State University shares “Seven 
questions for assessment planning” that can help 
you take stock of a pending project and move 
forward strategically. 

In this issue’s Scholarly Communication column, 
Maria Bonn writes about strategies for “Maximizing the 
benefits of open access” by focusing on the discov-
erablity of open content. In a bonus Scholarly Com-
munication feature, ACRL President Ann Campion 
Riley takes a look at future ACRL activities related to 
“Data management and curation,” including upcoming 
professional development opportunities.

ACRL’s initaitve on the intersections of scholarly 

communication and information literacy has been a 
great success over the past few years. Joyce L. Ogburn 
and Merinda Kaye Hensley give an update on initiative 
activities in their article “Bringing together the educator 
and the advocate.”

Collaborative uses of technology can expand the 
ability of today’s academic and research librarians to 
develop creative tools and services. A group of veteri-
nary librarians from across the country used LibGuides 
in the process of “Designing and creating centralized 
and sharable reading lists” for veterinary speciality 
qualification exams and wrote about their project in 
this issue’s ACRL TechConnect feature.

In this month’s The Way I See It essay, Vincent 
F. Scalfani of the University of Alabama discusses 
applications of the Scientific Method in libraries in  
“Hypotheses in librarianship.”

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including a fi nal 
look at ACRL’s 75th anniversary by Pamela 
Snelson and Internet Resources on the Vietnam 
War by Seth Kershner and Michael Mannheim.

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

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