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If the number of manuscripts I receive over 
the summer is an indicator of the habits of 
academic and research librarians, then I am 
willing to bet that many of you take advantage 
of the occasional down time to write and 
submit articles for publication. An important 
part of writing for publication, particularly 
when it comes to research articles, is the 
literature review. For those of you planning 
on hunkering down in the coming months to 
produce an original piece of scholarship, the 
article “Writing the literature review” should 
be a useful resource. 

Librarians working in the area of informa-
tion literacy know the importance of a solid 
assessment tool and the difficulty faced in 
trying to find something that works for you 
and your community of users. One librarian 
faced with this issue set to work on creating 
an assessment tool for her college called the 
I-SKILLS Résumé. In “Open résumé,” Margy 

MacMillan provides background information on 
the creation of the I-SKILLS Résumé, examples 
of how she has used it, and a sample résumé. 

Information literacy and bibliographic 
instruction classes offer librarians the chance 
to flex their teaching muscles. However, some 
institutions offer ways to take teaching a little 
further. In the article, “With honors,” Laurie 
McFadden shares her thoughts and ideas on 
teaching in a college honors program, which 
not only offers students a chance to explore 
diverse interests, but allows faculty, including 
librarians, to share knowledge from a broader 
range of experience. 

Also in this issue is an installment in 
our Scholarly Communication series by the 
president and CEO of the Genetic Alliance, 
who has a first-hand stake in open access to 
medical information. 

—Stephanie Orphan, Editor-in-chief 
sorphan@ala.org 

July/August 2005  505 C&RL News 

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