June 2015 297 C&RL News

Welcome to the June 2015 issue of C&RL News. As-
sessment of library services continues to be a ma-
jor trend across academia. At the Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary Library, librarians created impact 
story logs to add “Micro assessing” of interactions 
to their assessment portfolio in order to present a 
more holistic picture of their work. Jennifer Gun-
dry writes about their efforts in this issue.

In this month’s Scholarly Communication 
column, Najla Rettberg and Brigit Schmidt discuss 
“OpenAIRE,” an open access project designed to 
gather metadata of research output funded by the 
European Commission. 

Academic libraries can often be places of stress, 
especially during times such as fi nals, and on a 
day-to-day basis with the distractions of constant 
information fl ow. At the University of Oklahoma, 
librarians installed a projected Sparq labyrinth to 
attempt to reduce stress among both library us-
ers and staff. Matt Cook and Janet Brennan Croft 
write about the project in their article “Interactive 
mindfulness technology.” 

At Emerson College, librarians worked with 
campus partners to create a course design spa 

program to reduce faculty stress and rejuvenate 
course assignments and teaching. Karla Fribley 
outlines their “Massages in the library” program 
in this month’s issue. Yes, there were actual 
massages in addition to spa-themed course 
design services.

Rhonda Rosen of Loyola Marymount University 
discusses an ongoing, highly successful campus 
and community outreach program in her article 
“What’s a nice Jewish book group doing in a 
Catholic university?”

In this month’s The way I See It essay, 
Donald A. Barclay makes the case that it may 
be time to kill print textbook reserves in his 
piece “No reservations.”

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments in this month’s issue, including 
full results of the 2015 ACRL election, Internet 
Resources on LGBT workplace protections by 
Donna Braquet, and a look back at ACRL in the 
1970s as part of our continued celebration of the 
association’s 75th anniversary.

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

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