ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 748 / C&RL News ■ N o vem b er 1998 I n t h e Technology continues to play a major role in our libraries and services. In this issue w e offer a num ber o f ideas for enhancing services through technology. Wei Ma an d Joyce Wright take an old stan­ dard—the bulletin board—and give it a Web up­ date (page 772). Paul Pival and Johanna Tunón share with us how they used NetMeeting to provide instruction to students ofísite (page 758). A nthony Dedrick describes the Colorado Union Catalog Project (page 754), which will al­ low patron-initiated borrowing regardless of in­ stitution and provide seamless access to collec­ tions regardless of location. Jody Mathias and her community college col­ leagues could not find an appropriate database to subscribe to that met the research needs o f the nursing and rad tech degrees offered. Find out the steps they took in creating a customized Web site (page 768). We’re all used to Webliographies and linking to other sites, but Carol Casey tells us a bout Web rings—a new way to compile a list of related sites (page 761). James Farmer posits that access services librar­ ians n eed to reinvent themselves an d their ser­ vices before technology renders their traditional services obsolete (page 784). All o f this technology delivers a bewildering array of information to us each day. Being infor­ mation literate is a skill whose importance is now widely recognized both within and outside the library profession. To address the need for infor­ mation literacy programs on campus, ACRL’s In­ stitute for Information Literacy announces its first immersion program (page 782). The program is designed to provide instruction librarians with the intellectual tools and practical techniques needed to help your institution build or enhance its in­ struction program. A ttendance at the sum m er 1999 program is limited to 80 and acceptance is competitive. Mary Ellen K. Davis Editor-in-chief medavis@ala.org mailto:medavis@ala.org