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March 2016 105 C&RL News

Welcome to the March 2016 issue of C&RL News. 
With the coming of spring, many libraries are 
beginning the hiring process for new staffi ng in 
earnest. In their article “Virtual vetting,” Christine 
Bombaro, Jessica L. Howard, and Anna Kozlows-
ka provide advice for successful virtual interviews 
for both interviewees and search panels.

It is not too early to start planning outreach 
programs for the summer and fall. Librarians from 
Western Carolina University discuss their  summer 
faculty program, based in part on the popular 
website Apartment Therapy. Jenny Erdmann and 
Patty H. Clark write about their experiences with 
student athletes as “Librarians in the huddle.”

Carrie Russell of the ALA Washington Offi ce 
and Ed Sanchez of Marquette University discuss 
the impact of piracy on information policy and 
what librarians can do to take action in their 
article “Sci-Hub unmasked.”

This month’s Scholarly Communication 
column features a report of the June 2015 “ARL 
Library Liaison Institute.” The institute brought 
together 50 liaison librarians to discuss and 

measure the impact of liaison work, including 
on the scholarly communication system.

We feature two related The Way I See It 
essays this issue. First, Elizabeth Choinski of 
the University of Mississippi writes about the 
diffi culty of identifi ying librarians’ academic 
rank when looking for outside reviewers in the 
promotion and tenure process. Paula Kaufman 
then discusses her efforts to create a database 
tracking information about past directors of 
ARL libraries.

This month we continue our look at the 
upcoming ALA/ACRL elections with responses 
from the candidates for ALA vice-president/
president-elect to questions from the ACRL 
Board of Directors and a list of ACRL members 
running for ALA Council. 

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including the fi rst 
round of profi les of 2016 ACRL award winners 
and Internet Resources on “Telemedicine” by 
Angela M. Gooden.

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

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