ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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I n t h e esnw 

One o f the “Top issues facing academic librar­
ies” determined by ACRL’s Focus on the Fu
ture Task Force and addressed in a November 
2002 article in C&RL N ew s is recruitment, 
education, and retention of librarians. On page 89 
of this issue, Keri-Lynn Paulson responds to this 
issue from the perspective of a new, young librar­
ian. The article “Entering academic librarianship” 
(p. 84) also speaks to the issue and offers library 
students some insights into the activities in which 
academic librarians are expected to engage to help 
them in their pursuit of an academic library career.

In this month’s “Scholarly Communication” 
column (p. 92), Peter Suber, one of the drafters of 
the Budapest Open Access Initiative, demystifies 
open access and provides an overview of the 
activities o f open access archives and journals. If 
you’re going to ACRL’s 11th National Conference 
in Charlotte in April, you can hear more from 
Suber and others about open access and other 
scholarly communication issues at the panel ses­

sion, “Scholarly Communications: Taking Stock, 
Charting Next Steps” (Saturday, April 12).

Another offering at the conference is “Put In­
struction in Your (Research) Agenda” (Friday, 
April 11), which will introduce various ways in 
which the Instruction Section’s “Research agenda 
for library instruction and information literacy” 
can help you plan information literacy programs 
and manage instructional services. The updated 
research agenda appears in this issue on page 108.

ACRL is offering the Charlotte City and Aca­
demic Library Tour during the National Confer­
ence. Barbara Tierney’s article on “The Carolinas’ 
rich library legacy” (p. 80) provides information 
on some o f the libraries that will be visited on the 
tour and a slate o f others. If you’re interested in 
seeing what other institutions are doing in their 
libraries, this article will point you in the right 
direction.

— Stephanie Orphan, Editor-in-chief 
sorphan@ala.org

mailto:sorphan@ala.org