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Welcome to the January 2008 issue of C&RL 
News. As the weather gets colder (at least in 
places like Chicago!) and the NFL playoffs 
get started, many people are making last­
minute adjustments to their fantasy football 
teams. While most likely not knowing that 
they are applying critical information liter­
acy skills. 

Paul Waelchli examines this connection 
between fantasy sports and information liter­
acy instruction in his article “Librarians’ sport 
of choice.” Waelchli and his colleagues at the 
University of Dubuque used fantasy sports as 
the jumping off point for teaching information 
literacy to incoming student athletes. 

Russell A. Hall provides a look at a dif­
ferent method of teaching information lit­
eracy, becoming “The ‘embedded’ librarian 
in a freshman speech class.” Hall became 
a full participant in a course in an attempt 
to become active in the entire learning and 
research process. 

In addition to football, this January rep­
resents the start of a major national election 
cycle, with the Iowa caucuses kicking off the 
2008 race for the White House. In this month’s 
Internet Resources column, Lorena O’English 
details a wide range of election resources on 
the Web. These sites can help you, and your 
patrons, make informed decisions before go­
ing to the polls. And please, get out and vote 
for the candidates of your choice. 

Be sure to take a look at the slate of can­
didates for office in the upcoming ACRL elec­
tions, as well. And take an active role in your 
association by voting in the ALA elections. 

Of course don’t ignore the rest of the great 
articles and columns in this month’s issue, 
including an excellent scholarly communica­
tion article on the potential for collaboration 
between university presses and libraries. 

Happy New Year and enjoy! 
—David Free, Editor-In-Chief 

dfree@ala.org 

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