December 2018 593 C&RL News

Welcome to the December 2018 issue of C&RL News. 
Academic and research librarians are using research 
data in a wide variety of ways. Jesi Buell and Lynne 
Kvinnesland conducted content analysis of student 
prefocus essays at Colgate University to evaluate 
the effectiveness of their library instruction program. 
They write about their efforts in the article “Exploring 
information literacy assessment.” 

Collecting, coding, and analyzing data on a global 
scale has its own set of challenges.  Diane Mizrachi, Alicia 
Salaz, Serap Kubanoğlu, and Joumana Boustany share  
“Lessons learned from the Academic Reading For-
mat International Study” and provide tips for other 
researchers embarking on studies of a similar scale.

Finding time to spend on data-driven assessment 
projects at either the local or international level can 
be daunting. Anna Marie Johnson of the University of 
Lousiville writes about her experience  with “Librarian 
sabbaticals” as a way to carve out time to focus on 
research projects.

Elsewhere this issue, Ariel Deardoff and Dylan 
Romero share their success holding Pi Week events at 

the University of California-San Francisco in their ACRL 
TechConnect article “From Python to Raspberry Pi.”

In this month’s Scholarly Communication column,  
Kelly McElroy and Laurie M. Bridges of Oregon State 
University give a call to action to address language 
hegemony in research and publishing in their article 
“Multilingual access.”

According to tradition, we also take a look back at 
ACRL’s accomplishments in advancing learning and 
transforming scholarship with our 2017–2018 Annual 
Report. The report is a great way to reflect on all of 
the things you, the ACRL membership, have accom-
plished over the past year. You can help make the 
next year of your association as successful as the last 
by volunteering to serve on an ACRL committee. The 
call for volunteers is available on page 625.

Make sure to check out the other features and 
departments this month, including a look at ACRL 
activities at the upcoming 2019 ALA Midwinter Meeting 
in Seattle and Internet Resources on “The origins of 
the Cold War” by Amy Dye-Reeves.

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

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