ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


2 6 8  /  C&RL News ■ A p ril 2000

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As bleeding-edge as our technologies get 
and as much as we have fun learning nifty 
tricks to effortlessly surf the Web, the heart 
of librarianship is still service.

Although many of the articles in this issue 
relate to using the new  technologies, you’ll 
find that they all are exploring these tech­
nologies to provide better service to our cli­
ents.

DeeAnn Allison and Jon Keene talk about 
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s venture 
to produce electronic version of books to fa­
cilitate work in the classroom (page 293).

Lynn Rebbeor Shay and Sherman Hayes 
offer th eir w o rd s o f w isdom  for library 
Webmasters (page 299).

Deborah Grimes shares with us her view 
as a “top gun” cyberpilot helping her users 
navigate the myriad information on the Web 
(page 281).

To make our cyberpilot work easier, Kelly 
Broughton has compiled this m onth’s Inter­

net Resources column on philosophy (page 
284).

All these new  technologies can be con­
fusing for our library patrons, so w e keep 
experimenting with new  ways to offer our 
services. Martin Courtois and Maira Liriano 
give us tips on using a roving reference ser­
vice, w here librarians circulate and actively 
offer to help library users (page 289).

Of course, as we develop better services, 
we have to tell our clients about them. Nancy 
Moeckel and Joanne Goode talk about how 
they used a simple mousepad to publicize li­
brary services in an ongoing fashion (page 273).

In keeping with the spirit of telling you 
about activities, I am pleased to include a 
report of ACRL’s Job Shadow Day (page 295), 
the names of the ACRL award winners (page 
306), and the call for nominations to ACRL 
section offices (page 317).

— Mary Ellen K. Davis 
Editor-in-chief, medavis@ala.org

mailto:medavis@ala.org