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April 2017 185 C&RL News

Welcome to the  April 2017 issue of C&RL News. 
While providing services to undergraduate 
students may be the main focus of much 
of the LIS literature, many academic and 
research libraries are exploring innovative 
ways to serve graduate students as well as 
faculty. At the Dartmouth College Biomedi-
cal Libraries, librarians worked with a writ-
ing specialist to put on a writer’s retreat of 
graduate students and faculty looking to 
improve their writing and publication skills. 
The program is the focus of the article “A 
time and place to write and hone skills.”

Librarians at Kennesaw State University’s 
Graduate Library created a conference to fa-
cilitate the exchange of ideas related to gradu-
ate student services in libraries. Crystal Renfro 
and Elisabeth Shields provide an overview of 
the conference in their article “Transforming 
libraries to serve graduate students.”

In this issue’s Scholarly Communication 
article, regular columnist Maria Bonn explores 
“Collaborating and communicating: Humani-
ties scholars working and talking together” 

through her experiences as part of a Humani-
ties Without Walls grant team.

Librarians at the University of Vermont 
developed an excellent evaluation rubric for 
their instruction tutorials. Graham Sherriff 
outlines the project in this month’s ACRL 
TechConnect article “Interactive tutorials: The 
platform matters.”

Nancy Foasberg of Queens College dis-
cusses her use of information games such as 
“Skyfall” to bring the concept of scholarship 
as conversation from the ACRL Framework 
for Information Literacy to life in this issue’s 
The Way I See It essay.

Make sure to check out the other features 
and departments this month, including the fi rst 
round of profi les of 2017 ACRL award winners, 
Internet Resources on “Haitian history and 
culture” by Marjorie Charlot, a recap of ACRL 
Board of Directors actions at the 2017 ALA An-
nual Conference, 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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