The February 2026 issue of College & Research Libraries News (C&RL News) is now freely available online both as a full issue PDF and as individual articles.
C&RL News moved to an online-only publishing model beginning with the January 2022 issue.
C&RL News Seeks Cover Art
C&RL News is looking for images from library collections to feature on upcoming covers. If you have items in your collections that you think would make attractive C&RL News covers, we would love to see them. To submit images (or image collections), send URLs for web-based images or images directly as attachments to David Free at dfree@ala.org. Please include a brief description of the item and your collection. Images selected to appear as C&RL News covers will require a high-resolution electronic image (300 dpi or higher) to be submitted prior to the publication date. Complete guidelines for the submission of cover illustrations are available on the C&RL News website.
Features
Cynthia Hudson Vitale and Annie Johnson. “Anticipating Tomorrow: How the University of Delaware Is Preparing for an AI-Driven World.”
Russell Michalak and Yasmeen Shorish. “Russell Michalak and Yasmeen Shorish Share Plans for ACRL: Cast an Informed Vote in the Election This Spring.”
Academic Library Workers in Conversation
Martin Garnar and Rebecca Floyd. “No Wrong Turns: A Year of Exploring Why We Choose Librarianship.”
The Way I See It
Maxwell Gray. “It’s Not Easy Staying Human: Generative AI, Cognition, and Reflection.”
Annette Day. “Progressing Through Groundhog Day: Navigating the Impacts of Campus Turnover on Library Collaborations.”
Perspectives on the Framework
John Caldwell and Kaitlyn Tanis. “Intentional Co-Instruction: Bringing the Framework and Guidelines into Conversation for Undergraduate History Information Literacy Instruction.”
Scholarly Communication
Leigh-Ann Butler, DeDe Dawson, Erin Fields, Jason Friedman, Jaclyn McLean, and Monica Ward. “Tangled Terms: How We Talk About Transformative Agreements.”
Making Assessment Matter
Becky Croxton and Megan Oakleaf. “Pathways to Impact: Anticipating Action in Library Assessment.”
Departments
David Free. “News from the Field.”
Dawn Behrend. “Internet Reviews.”
David Free. “Grants and Acquisitions.”