June 2019 311 C&RL News

Welcome to the June 2019 issue of C&RL 
News. Open educational resources (OER) 
were featured as one of the top trends in 
academic libraries in last June’s issue and 
were still at the forefront of conversation at 
the recent ACRL 2019 conference. Steven J. 
Bell and Annie Johnson of Temple Univer-
sity discuss using a campus textbook listen-
ing tour to promote OER adoption in their 
article “We’re listening.”

At San Diego Zoo Global, library staff 
wanted to present the wealth of institutionally 
produced scholarly publications in a more 
coordinated way. Ariel Hammond writes 
about their efforts in “Striding towards an 
institutional repository.”

This month’s Scholarly Communication 
column features a look back at the “ACRL-
SPARC Forum” at the 2019 Midwinter Meeting 
in Seattle, focusing on community alignment 
and equity in the scholarly infrastructure.

Creative uses of library spaces are the 
focus of two articles this month. Megan 
Wagner and Richard M. Cho write about 
improving “24/7 Study” services at Cal State-
Fullerton, while creating a mediation room 
to promote mindfulness and wellness at the 
University of Minnesota-Morris is the focus of 
Peter Bremer’s article “Reflecting on student 
mental health.”

At Pace University, librarians followed the 
process of continuous improvement by tak-
ing a scavenger hunt-style library orientation 
online. Gina Levitan and Jennifer Rosenstein 
discuss the continuing project in “Sustain-
ability in the first-year experience.”

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including the 
results of the 2019 ACRL elections and a The 
Way I See it essay on “The Fulbright experi-
ence” by Shin Freedman.

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

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