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January 2014 5 C&RL News

In the

Welcome to the January 2014 issue of C&RL 
News. Many academic instruction librarians are 
experimenting with the flipped classroom model 
in information literacy sessions. Sarah Arnold-
Garza takes a look at the effectiveness of flipped 
classrooms at Towson University’s Albert S. Cook 
Library by sharing the results of their formal as-
sessment instructions sessions in this issue.

Continuing the instruction theme, Eamon 
C. Tewell provides tips for applying some 
techniques from the world of standup com-
edy to the library classroom. His article “What 
stand-up comedians teach us about library 
instruction” provides great advice of interact-
ing with students, even if you don’t perceive 
yourself as particularly humorous.

Cate Calhoun discusses “Using Wikipedia in 
information literacy instruction” to help students 
with topic development, keyword identification, 
and  as a source for finding additional resources 
in this issue’s The Way I See It Essay.

In this month’s ACRL TechConnect article 
“Finding friends for our first alumna,” Jessica  
Hagman and Janet Carleton outline an innovative 

use of social media at Ohio University to promote 
the library’s special collections and archives by 
creating a Twitter presence based on the diary of 
the institution’s first female graduate.

January 2014 marks the first online-only 
issue of ACRL’s scholarly research journal 
College & Research Libraries (C&RL). To keep 
the ACRL membership up-to-date on journal 
activities, a new department, C&RL Spotlight, 
launches this issue. Each month, editor Scott 
Walter will provide information on current 
contents, preprint articles, and other C&RL 
activities. All C&RL contents are freely avail-
able online at http://crl.acrl.org.

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments, including Internet Resourc-
es on “The social and economic impact of 
hosting the Olympic Games” by Hiromi Kubo,  
new “Information literacy competency stan-
dards for nursing,” and a look at candidates 
for ACRL offices in 2014, in this issue as well. 

Thanks as always for reading the News, and 
Happy New Year!

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

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