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June 2011 317 C&RL News

In the

Welcome to the June 2011 issue of C&RL News. 
As ALA gears up to migrate our Web presence 
to a new content management system, I’ve been 
involved in several discussions about common 
naming and placement of site elements across 
the association to improve usability. While this 
can be a daunting task in an organization this 
large, imagine working to develop a common 
vocabulary for library Web sites across a univer-
sity system. But this is exactly what a taskforce 
of librarians from the University of California 
recently did. Taskforce members describe how 
they were able to “Come together” and recom-
mend a unified Web nomenclature and layout 
in this month’s issue.

As academic libraries move into the sum-
mer break, planning activities and services for 
the next academic year is in full swing. In this 
issue, librarians from the University of Alabama 
describe how they got freshmen to “Step right 
up to the library!” during welcome week with a 
carnival-style orientation.

If you are looking for a new program for your 

faculty orientation this fall, check out Mary K. 
O’Kelly and Colleen Lyon’s successful “Google 
like a librarian” workshop. 

Summer break is also a good time to ponder 
new class assignments and activities. Robert Miller 
of the University of Maryland College describes 
using a six-word memoir on library experiences 
as a reflective assignment in his library skills 
course in his article “I came, I saw, I researched.”

At Wright State University, Maureen Barry 
successfully incorporated a service learning 
activity into her information literacy course. 
Learn how students engaged in “Research for 
the greater good” by providing research and 
volunteer hours for a local nonprofit focused on 
childhood nutrition.

Make sure to check out the other features and 
columns this month, including Internet Resources 
on missing persons, an essay on navigating the 
information landscape, and 2011 ACRL election 
results.

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