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Welcome to the March 2010 issue of C&RL 
News. The rise of widgets, gadgets, and 
apps has moved academic and research li-
braries into a customized, mobile world. But 
commercial tools can often be pricey and 
platform-specifi c. In this issue, Nina McHale 
encourages you to “Steal this code! Please!” 
to create and share your own HTML wid-
gets to provide customized access to library 
resources.

Also in this issue, Mary Francis argues that 
libraries can improve students’ information 
literacy skills by focusing on their more basic 
needs as outlined by Maslow’s hierarchy in 
her article “Fulfi llment of a higher order.” 
Effective teaching and communication skills 
are required to convey any sort of message 
to students. Bob Schoofs details his journey 
to fi nd his “Voice in teaching” and improve 
his classroom presentation skills.

Working with classroom faculty is essential 
to providing quality library instruction and 

assignments. In her article “Partnering for 
success,” Larissa Gordon discusses a pro-
gram at Acadia University to provide grants 
to promote collaboration between faculty 
and librarians.  

To help you make an informed decision 
in the upcoming ALA/ACRL election, this 
issue also features responses from the 2010 
candidates for ALA President, Sarah Kelly 
Johns and Molly Raphael, to a set of ques-
tions from the ACRL Board of Directors. A list 
of ACLR members running for ALA Council 
is also provided. Voting in the 2010 election 
opens on March 16.

Make sure to take a look at all of the other 
great articles and columns this month, includ-
ing the fi rst in a two-part series recognizing 
the 2010 ACRL award winners and Internet 
Resources on anarchism. 

Thanks for reading the News! 
—David Free, editor-in-chief

dfree@ala.org