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April 2012 181 C&RL News

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Welcome to the April 2012 issue of C&RL News. 
Information literacy instruction is a major part 
of the daily work of many academic librarians. 
Working with faculty to incorporate informa-
tion literacy skills into the classroom can be 
one of the biggest challenges facing today’s 
instruction librarians. As part of their outreach 
program, librarians at Smith College encour-
aged faculty to create research skills guidelines 
for individual major programs. Bruce T. Sajdak 
describes this collaborative approach to infor-
mation literacy in his article “Let the faculty do 
it.” Of course, librarians often serve as class-
room faculty in addition to their other duties. 
Adam Balcziunas and Larissa Gordon discuss 
their experiences teaching undergraduate 
seminars, and the ways the experience influ-
enced their approaches to information literacy 
instruction, in “Walking a mile in their shoes.” 

A focus on marketing can be an important 
part of a successful information literacy program. 
Katherine O’Clair provides tips to “Sell what 
they’re buying” in this issue’s The Way I See It es-
say. With the increasing focus on accountability 
on campus, assessing the success of information 

literacy programs is becoming more and more 
essential. In this month’s Internet Resources 
column, Cheryl L. Blevens provides a list of 
resources for “Catching up with information 
literacy assessment.” This issue also features 
newly revised ACRL “Guidelines for instruc-
tion programs in academic libraries” to provide 
a model framework for information literacy 
programs at institutions of all types and sizes.

Stephanie Davis-Kahl outlines ways librar-
ians can go about “Engaging undergraduates in 
scholarly communication” in this month’s Schol-
arly Communication column. In a continuation 
of our occasional spotlight on art and aesthetics 
in libraries, Courtney Seymour and Kara Jefts 
discuss partnering with multicultural groups to 
mount a juried art exhibition as part of Union 
College’s outreach to the campus LGBTQ com-
munity in their article “A display of tolerance.”

Make sure to check out the other features 
and columns this month, including part two of 
our spotlight on the 2012 ACRL award winners 
and a Job of a Lifetime feature on Leo Lo.

Thanks as always for reading the News.  
—David Free, editor-in-chief, dfree@ala.org

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