May 2015 237 C&RL News

Welcome to the May 2015 issue of C&RL News. 
With the recent fi ling of the Framework for In-
formation Literacy for Higher Education by the 
ACRL Board of Directors, many libraries are 
working to put the framework into practice. 
Mahrya Carncross provides an overview of her 
efforts at Western Illinois University in “Redevel-
oping a course with the Framework for Informa-
tion Literacy for Higher Education,” focusing on a 
research skills class.

At Saint Leo University, Jacalyn E. Bryan and 
Elana Karshmer used the threshold concepts at 
the heart of the framework to create information 
literacy kits for one-shot sessions. Read about their 
experiences adapting the framework in the article 
“Using IL threshold concepts for biology.”

Librarians at the University of Michigan recently 
embarked on “An initiative to address name ambi-
guity” for faculty authors by implementing ORCID 
across their campus. Merle Rosenzweig and Anna 
Ercoli Schnitzer outline the project in this issue.

In this issue’s Scholarly Communication col-
umn, Julia Kelly and Linda Eells discuss the role of 
subject repositories in calling attention to research 

from the developing world and their impact on 
“Global scholarship.”

Variations on the library question and answer 
box have been around for years. Librarians at 
Mount Holyoke College took a fun approach to 
this old standby to disseminate information and 
create a sense of community with library users. 
Chrissa Godbout, Sarah K. Oelker, and Mary C. 
Stettner write about their project in the article 
“Ask LITS.”

With the spring semester drawing to a close at 
many institutions this month, thoughts are turning 
to summer projects. Katy Kavanagh Webb advo-
cates for using the summer to review and refresh 
LibGuides in her The Way I See It essay “What I 
did over my summer vacation.”

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments, including the second round of 
profi les of 2015 ACRL award winners, Internet 
Resources on “The American Civil War” by Susan 
Birkenseer, and information on ACRL activities 
at the upcoming 2015 ALA Annual Conference.

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

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