In the News


June 2016 269 C&RL News

Welcome to the June 2016 issue of C&RL News. 
Every two years, ACRL’s Research Planning and 
Review Committee produces their “Top trends in 
academic libraries.” The 2016 edition discusses re-
search data services, digital scholarship, collection 
assessment trends, content provider mergers, evi-
dence of learning, new directions with the ACRL 
Framework for Information Literacy, altmetrics, 
emerging staff positions, and open educational 
resources. Many thanks to the committee for pull-
ing together this important and popular survey of 
the current landscape of academic and research 
librarianship.

Continuing the examination of current trends, 
and ways to incorporate them into day-to-day 
work, John J. Meier and Rebecca K. Miller make 
a case for applying design thinking and rapid 
prototyping to help make libraries more adaptable 
to change in their article “Turning the revolution 
into an evolution.”

Sheila Bonnand and Mary Anne Hansen of 
Montana State University discuss how they at-
tempted to “Make more of these facilities!” by 

creating a learning studio space in their library to 
help support faculty teaching innovation.

In this issue’s Scholarly Communication article, 
returning columnist Nancy Sims looks at issues of 
copyright and academic values in “My unpublished 
research was scooped?”

As spring terms come to an end, many students 
and librarians are thinking about summer plans, 
including travel. In this month’s The Way I See 
It piece, Jordan Moore of the Atlanta University 
Center Woodruff Library discusses her student travel 
experiences in her essay “How studying abroad 
made me a better librarian.”

Make sure to check out the other features and 
departments this month, including full results of 
the recent ACRL election and Internet Resources 
on “Journalism resources online” by Hugh Bur-
khart focusing on new media and journalism in 
the digital age.

Thanks as always for reading the News, and 
we’ll hope to see you in Orlando later this month 
for the 2016 ALA Annual Conference.

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

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