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In support of ACRL President Camila Alire’s 
strategic focus of advocating for academic 
libraries, this issue includes an article in the 
Charting Our Future series that focuses on 
an overlooked aspect of advocacy: training. 
In “Training programs in academic libraries,” 
authors Frances C. Wilkinson and Linda K. 
Lewis bring home the point that libraries 
should be as committed to educating their 
staff as they are to educating their users and 
provide examples of positive internal and 
off­site training options. 

ACRL’s Council of Liaisons (COL) carries 
out a program of in­depth liaison activities with 
targeted professional associations. COL brings 
to the attention of nonlibrary associations how 
library resources and services can contribute to 
their mission and goals and brings information 
and higher education issues of other associa­
tions to the attention of the ACRL Board and 
membership. In “Stranger in a promising land” 

(p. 360), Larry Hardesty reports back on his 
experience attending the 25th Annual Con­
ference on the First­Year Experience (FYE). 
Although one of the few librarians in atten­
dance, he was well­received and discovered 
that librarians and the library are viewed as 
valuable partners by many other campus areas, 
especially when dealing with FYE. 

COL is accepting applications for liai­
sons—see the information box accompany­
ing this article or visit the Web site at www. 
ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/councilofl iaisons 
/liaisons.htm. 

The results are in! Congratulations to Julie 
Todaro, ACRL’s newly elected vice president/ 
president elect. Information about Todaro and 
incoming President Pamela Snelson, along 
with complete election results, can be found 
on page 375. 

—Stephanie Orphan, Editor­in­chief 
sorphan@ala.org 

June 2006  347 C&RL News 

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