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The image of a reader engrossed in a book on the banks of a stream is taken from the bookplate honoring donations of books to the Youth Collection in the General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin.

The illustration was first used to introduce the “Classes” section in the 1917 University of Texas Cactus yearbook. “Classes” was drawn by Julien Sherley Elfenbein (1897- 1983). Known as “Elf,” Elfenbein worked as a cartoonist for the Texan, the campus newspaper, before serving as yearbook editor in 1918.

Acting editor:Maureen Gleason Production editor: Ann-Christe Young Classified ads manager: Elise Parker Product sales manager: Stu Foster

C&RL News Editorial Board:Brian Coutts (chair), Peter Deekle, Steven Hiller, Joan Lippincott, Carolyn Sheehy, Michael Walker; James Kapoun (ACRL Publications Committee Chair), Betsy Wilson (ACRL past-president).

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Submission guidelinesare published in January and on the Web. College & Research Libraries News (ISSN 0099-0086) is published by the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, as 11 monthly (combining July/Au- gust) issues, at 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795. Periodicals postage paid at Chicago, IL and at additional mailing offices. Periodicals postage paid at Chicago, Illinois, and at additional mailing offices. Inclusion of an article or an advertisement in C&RL News does not constitute official endorsement by ACRL or ALA. Indexed in Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences; Current Index to Journals in Education; Information Science Abstracts; Library & Information Science Abstracts; Library Literature; and Social Sciences Citation Index.

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ACRL Board of Directors:President—Mary Reichel, reichelml@appstate.edu; vice-president/president-elect—Helen II. Spalding, spaldingh@umkc.edu; past-president—Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson, betsyw@u.washington.edu; councilor—Patricia A. Wand, patwand@american.edu; Budget & Finance Com. rep.—Erika Linke, erika.linke@cmu.edu; directors—Theresa S. Byrd, tsbyrd@cc.owu.edu; Patricia Kreitz, pkreitz@slac.stanford.edu; Lois Cherepon, cherepol@stjohns.edu; Deborah Dancik, deborah.dancik@ualberta.ca-, Paul E. Dumont, pdumont@dcccd.edu; Barbara Baxter Jenkins, jenkins@oregon.uoregon.edu; Robert F. Rose, roserf@uwec.edu; Pamela Snelson, p_snelson@fandm.edu; ACRL Executive Director— Mary Ellen K. Davis, medavis@ala.org.

I am delighted to be acting as C&RL News editor until a permanent replacement can be appointed. During my many years as an academic librarian, most recently as deputy director of the University of Notre Dame Libraries, C&RL News consistently provided me with both information and stimulation. It is a pleasure to be a small part of this valuable publication.

During her presidential term, Mary Reichel has chosen the concept of the learning community as a fitting expression of ACRL goals (page 818). Learning implies an emphasis on outcomes, and this theme is developed in Amos Lakos’s report from the American Association of Higher Education Assessment Forum (page 830). His description of library- sponsored programs at the forum illustrate the active participation of libraries in the “assessment culture.”

Another aspect of community involves collaboration. Provost David Shulenburger of the University of Kansas discusses the relationship of faculty evaluation practices to the accessibility and affordability of quality scholarly work, a critical issue for both librarians and faculty (page 808).

Reichel regards ACRL as an exemplary learning community in pursuit of excellence. Learn from accounts of ACRL’s programs at the ALA Annual Conference (page 793), and select from program cassettes (page 795). We urge you to recognize excellence by nominating candidates for the variety of ACRL awards described on page 822.

Librarians are also members of the larger community and managers of resources. In “Greening Our Libraries” (page 825), Kathleen Rickert offers suggestions on how we can fulfill those responsibilities in an environmentally responsible way.

—Maureen Gleason Acting editor mgleason@ala.org