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April 2016 169 C&RL News

Welcome to the April 2016 issue of C&RL News.  
Spring is in the air, but it isn’t too early to start 
thinking about events and programming for 
the next academic year. Stanislav “Stan” Bog-
danov and Rachel Isaac-Menard write about 
their efforts to “Hack the library” by putting on 
a hackathon event at Adelphi University.

A now-traditional annual fall event at Auburn 
University is the library’s tailgate open house to 
mark both the start of the fall term and football 
season. Nancy Noe gives an overview of the 
event and provides tips for  similar activities in 
her article “Party with a purpose.”

In this issue’s ACRL TechConnect column, 
Christopher Chan of Hong Kong Baptist Uni-
versity revisits the topic of Facebook advertis-
ing for academic libraries. He writes about his 
experiences and experiments in “Your mileage 
may vary.”

Columnist Maria Bonn provides an overview 
and update on the HathiTrust Research Center in 
this month’s Scholarly Communication column 
“Computation, corpus, community.”

Continuing the ongoing theme of collabora-
tions across academic units, Sandie Friedman 
and Robert Miller discuss their experiences 
working together as a writing instructor and 
librarian in “Launching students towards 
source-based writing.” Their experiences in 
helping students move from locating sources to 
incorporating the information they fi nd in their 
writing provides a solid model of collaboration 
for student success.

Xan Goodman, Susan Wainscott, and Sa-
mantha Godbey refl ect on their experiences 
navigating “Grief in the library” following the 
untimely passing of a beloved colleague. Their 
advice is very useful in dealing with grief and be-
reavement both in and outside of the workplace

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including includ-
ing the second round of profi les of 2016 ACRL 
award winners and the call for volunteers for 
ACRL section nominating committees. 

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

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