February 2020 57 C&RL News

Welcome to the February 2020 issue of C&RL 
News. Leading off the issue, Abigail Goben 
and Robert J. Sandusky discuss the risks and 
opportunities of “Open data repositories” in 
this month’s Scholarly Communication col-
umn.

In the latest edition of our Perspectives 
on the Framework column, Michael Dudley 
reflects on his experiences “Exploring world-
views and authorities” in his role as a liaison 
for Indigenous, Women’s and Gender, and 
Disability studies.

Cathryn Copper takes a look at “Experi-
mentation in academic libraries” through her 
experiences at the Virginia Tech Art & Archi-
tecture Library, examining innovation, includ-
ing the importance of failure, through the 
lens of the library’s Experimentation Station.

Librarians at Kennesaw State University 
experimented with a new model of reference 
training for staff to improve service quality by 

borrowing concepts from the dating world. 
Sarah Kantor writes about the project in her 
article “Reference speed dating.” 

Angie Cox, Jim Kelly, and Chris Neuhaus 
further explore the concept of letting go, tell-
ing the story of Northern Iowa University’s 
Rod Library’s Beyond Google course in their 
article “Knowing when to cry uncle.” In this 
issue’s The Way I See It essay, Jason Martin 
discusses the concept of vulnerability as an 
essential part of “Daring leadership.”

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including state-
ments from the candidates for ACRL vice-
president/president-elect in the upcoming 
ALA/ACRL elections, an overview of the 
“The 2018 ACRL Academic Library Trends 
and Statistics Annual Survey,” and Internet 
Resources on “Emergency preparedness.” 

—David Free, editor-in-chief, dfree@ala.org

mailto:dfree%40ala.org?subject=