ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


88 / C&RL News ■ February 2000

I n  t h e

I hope that this finds yon in the midst o f hold
ing your celebrations for African American His
tory Month and for planning your celebrations 
for National Women’s Histoiy Month (March) and 
for National Library Week (April 9-15, 2000), and 
whatever other occasion you can find to celebrate. 
Resources that can help you celebrate are avail
able from ALA and from the National Women’s 
Histoiy Project and featured on pages 90-91.

These occasions give you wonderful o p
portunities to highlight your library’s collec
tions and services. For what good is providing 
a service if no one knows about it?

In this issue, Carol Anne G erm ain dis
cusses the n eed  for a public relations plan 
and lists 99 ways to bring the library to the 
attention o f the institution’s clients (page 93).

Julie Linden points out the im portance o f 
the library’s Web site— particularly to distance 
education students— and offers suggestions 
for what it should include (page 99).

And Stuart Basefsky rem inds us o f the 
im portance o f reaching out to nonlibrary staff 
and adm inistrators to m ake sure they are 
aw are o f the w onderful services available 
through the library (page 100).

Speaking o f administrators, if you are a 
director or som eo n e w ho reports to a direc
tor, I think you will find the reports from  the 
ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute (page 106) 
o f interest. The institute gives you the o p
portunity to step back from the press o f day- 
to-day responsibilities and reflect on w here 
you and your institution are going and pro
vides a lively, interactive format to gain new  
perspectives o f effective leadership. Regis
tration begins in March, so ch eck  out the Web 
site http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ppe/index. 
html for details.

— Maiy Ellen K. Davis 
E d ito r -in -c h  i e f  

m edavis@ ala. org

http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ppe/index