June 2018 281 C&RL News

Welcome to the June 2018 issue of C&RL News. 
Every two years, ACRL’s Research Planning 
and Review Committee produces their “Top 
trends in academic libraries.” The 2018 edition 
discusses the publisher and vendor landscape, 
fake news and information literacy, project 
management, textbook affordability, the ethics 
of learning analytics and data collection, data 
sets and text mining, demand-driven acquisi-
tions, open access, and legacy print collec-
tions. Many thanks to the committee for pull-
ing together this important and popular survey 
of the current landscape of academic and re-
search librarianship.

In this month’s Scholarly Communication 
column, Thomas G. Padilla focuses on issues 
overlapping several of these trends in his article 
“Collections as data,” while a take on the project 
management trend is examined by Natalie Ornat 
and Renee Moorefield in their article “Process 
mapping as an academic library tool.”

The Western New Mexico Miller Library used 
data in a unique, creative way by creating an 
installation highlighting online usage of library 
resources. Alea Henle, Andrea Jaquez, and Han-

nah Gray write about the project in their article 
“Visualizing virtual users through art.”

Allan Van Hoye reflects on the Scholarship 
as Conversation frame of the ACRL Framework 
for Information Literacy and the problem of 
marginalizing students in his Perspectives on 
the Framework article “Who’s left out of the 
conversation.”

At Mercer University, librarians worked with 
a history professor to incorporate archival col-
lections and information literacy into classroom 
activities. Abigail P. Dowling, Kathryn Wright, 
and Kristen Bailey discuss their project in “Aca-
demic collaboration for experiential learning.”

A growing number of academic libraries 
are experimenting with providing spaces for 
spiritual practice and meditation. Emily Mross 
and Christina Riehman-Murphy write about their 
experiences at Penn State University in “A place 
to study, a place to pray.”

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including the 
results of the 2018 ACRL election.

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

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