ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


470 / C&RL News ■ June 2000

news

In  t h e

We all continue to be exposed to more 
and more inform ation with less and less 
time to read and digest it. The age-old 
question is how  are we to keep up with 
this exponential grow th and proliferation 
o f information?

C&RL News has a new  mechanism to add 
to your arsenal of ways to k eep  up-to- 
date— “Fast Facts.” This new  colum n aims 
to be an “eclectic mix of facts, statistics, 
quotable quotes, and other inform ation of 
interest to academ ic and research librar­
ians.” The focus of the colum n is to “high­
light recent inform ation not readily avail­
able that is related directly to academic 
librarianship, higher education, scholarly 
com m unication, and other issues o f inter­
est to m em bers o f the profession and their 
learning com m unities.”

We are pleased to welcome Ann Viles, 
coordinator of reference and instruction at 
Appalachian State University, to our pages 
as editor of the new “Fast Facts.” Ann’s 27-

year career includes stints at the Universities 
of Tennessee and Memphis and the Curtis 
Institute of Music. Ann welcomes your sug­
gestions about what to include in the col­
u m n , so s e n d  y o u r id e a s  to  h e r at 
vilesa@conrad.appstate.edu.

To make it easy for you to find, the “Fast 
Facts” column will appear as the final page 
of each issue of C&RL News. So flip to the 
back and check out the tidbits Ann has com­
piled this month.

Then come back to the rest of the maga­
zine and pem se articles about planning joint- 
use libraries (page 478), developing infor­
mation literacy programs (page 483), schol­
arly communication (page 515), and conduct­
ing successful personnel searches (pages 499 
and 503). The official ACRL election results 
are also published in this issue (page 488). 
Congratulations to ACRE’S newly-elected lead­
ers! —Mary Ellen K. Davis

Editor-in-chief 
medavis@ala.org

mailto:vilesa@conrad.appstate.edu
mailto:medavis@ala.org