January 2021 5 C&RL News

Welcome to the January 2021 issue of C&RL 
News. As we move out of the unprecedented 
year that was 2020, it is time to look to the 
future, perhaps through New Year’s resolu-
tions. One possible resolution could be to 
finally start (or finish) that research project 
or article that you’ve been planning forever. 
Amanda Izenstark, Ann Agee, Holly Jackson, 
Anna Sandelli, and Lindsay Roberts start out 
this month’s issue with advice for writing 
and researching in “So you want to pub-
lish.”

Updating teaching materials such as 
LibGuides could be another project waiting 
for fresh attention in 2021. Natalie Ornat, 
Beth Auten, Reese Manceaux, and Catherine  
Tingelstad provide tips for making this rou-
tine task fun in their article “Ain’t no party 
like a LibGuides Party.”

Samantha Dannick gives food for thought 
on finding your niche in faculty-librarian rela-

tionships in this month’s The Way I See It es-
say “The invertebrates scale of librarianship.”

While we look to the future, the  
COVID-19 pandemic still has a major impact 
on our lives and work. Liladhar R. Pendse 
writes about producing a series of globally 
focused pandemic webinars in “Academic 
libraries and research in flux,” while L. 
Angie Ohler and Joelle Pitts reflect on the 
academic library after COVID-19 in “From 
peril to promise.”

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including in-
formation on teaching Framework concepts 
with small teaching by Jane Hammons, 
“Developing an assessment plan for informa-
tion literacy learning outcomes” at Northern 
Colorado University, and a look at “ACRL 
candidates for 2021.”

Thanks as always for reading the News.
—David Free, editor-in-chief, dfree@ala.org

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