September 2021 C&RL News349

Welcome to the September 2021 issue of 
C&RL News. As we work on production of 
this issue, many academic libraries are pre-
paring for a new term during a surge of the 
COVID-19 delta variant. While the pan-
demic continues both in the United States 
and globally, we start out this issue with two 
articles looking back. 

Jolie Braun of The Ohio State University 
writes about collecting the everyday history 
of the pandemic through zines in her article 
“Unconventional collecting in extraordinary 
times.” Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, Amanda 
M. Leftwich, and Twanna Hodge discuss 
grassroots efforts in “Providing care and com-
munity in times of crisis” through a series of 
summits focusing on the mental health of 
BIPOC library workers.

In this month’s The Way I See It essay, 
Christopher Cox, Elliot Felix, Greg Raschke, 
and Mary Ann Mavrinac examine the place of 
the library on campus in the post-pandemic 
world in “Looking through the COVID fog.”

Jennifer Snoek-Brown, Dale Coleman, and 
Candice Watkins discuss student advocacy 
and OER at Tacoma Community College 
in their Scholarly Communication column 
“From spark to flame,” while improving 
library instruction skills through observation 
and self-reflection is the subject of Maoria 
J. Kirker, Mary K. Oberlies, Carolina Her-
nandez, and Sara DeWaay’s article “Teaching 
Squares.”

We also look back at the 2021 ALA Virtual 
Annual Conference with our annual roundup 
of ACRL programs and Board of Directors’ 
actions. Many thanks to all the reporters who 
volunteered to write program summaries.

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including a look 
at improving “Streaming access in a fractured 
world” by Sarah Burns Gilchrist, Debbie Li, 
and Erin Toepfner and efforts in improving 
“Community engagement” through archives 
by Pam Hackbart-Dean and Walter Ray.

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

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