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December 2016 529 C&RL News

Welcome to the December 2016 issue of C&RL News. 
The upcoming holidays, coupled this year with 
an especially emotional election season, can be 
a stressful time both personally and profession-
ally. Richard Moniz, Jo Henry, Joe Eshlerman, Lisa 
Moniz, and Howard Slutzky provide context and 
advice for dealing with workplace stress in their 
article “Stressors and librarians: How mindfulness 
can help.” Their recommendations for mindful-
ness practice can be a big help with stress of all 
kinds, as well.

One of their tips for mindful behavior is to be 
thankful. Receiving thanks for a job well done can 
also help rejuvenate a commitment to the profes-
sion. At Duke University, librarians undertook a 
National Library Week project to give the campus 
community a chance to express their thanks for the 
university libraries. Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Kim 
Duckett, and Aaron Welborn provide an overview 
of the “#ThankALIbrarian” project. In this issue’s 
The Way I See It essay, Michelle Price writes about 
confronting stress while participating in a course in 
her article “Fun, fear, and frustration.”

The December issue features new install-
ments of two of our popular ongoing features. 
Judy Ruttenberg writes about the “SHARE” project 
in the Scholarly Communication column while 
“The future of U.S. university international branch 
campus libraries” is the focus of the International 
Insights feature.

According to tradition, we also take a look back 
at ACRL’s accomplishments in advancing learning 
and transforming scholarship over the past fi scal 
year with our Annual Report. You can help make 
the next year of your association as successful as the 
last by volunteering to serve on an ACRL commit-
tee. The call for volunteers is available on page 543.

Make sure to check out the rest of our features 
and departments, including information on “Journal 
metrics” education for faculty from Lori Bronars, 
Internet Resources on “Cases, statues, law review, 
and more” by Jessica Almeida, and the latest in-
stallment of our series highlighting the ACRL 2017 
host city of Baltimore by Natalie Burclaff and Gina 
Calia-Lotz.

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

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