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CHICAGO - It is Christmas Eve here as I write the introduction to RUSQ 57:2; . I hope that the holiday season offers a time for RUSA members to catch their breath after a busy fall, and that the new year offers time for reflection and thinking about librarianship.

This issue of the journal offers a number of starting points for reflective practitioners. RUSA president Chris LeBeau looks at the challenge of working in reference in a world where the cry of “fake news” is used to conveniently set aside any facts that someone does not agree with. Chris’s column is a great introduction to our next issue, 57:3, which is a special issue devoted to “Trusted Information in an Age of Uncertainty.” In other columns, our Information Literacy editors Esther Grassian and Sarah LeMire have pulled together three perspectives on business and workplace information literacy. Our Management column, edited by Marianne Ryan, looks at the role of leader as servant. Co-editors Erin Shea and Nicole Eva bring ideas on moving from promoting content to engaging users in Amplify Your Impact. In our Readers’ Advisory column, editor Laurel Tarulli unpacks the challenges of being a solo practitioner. Editor Mark Shores Alert Collector column features resources on dark tourism. And in A Reference for That, co-editors Dave Tyckoson and Nicolette Sosulski examine the personal nature of reference service.

Our feature articles include “Including the Voices of Librarians of Color in Reference and Information Services Research” by Amy VanScoy and Kawanna Bright; “There is nothing inherently mysterious about assistive technology”: A Qualitative Study about Blind User Experiences in U.S. Academic Libraries” by Adina Mulliken; and “Understanding Appeals of Video Games for Reader’s Advisory and Recommendation” by Jin Ha Lee, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Hyerim Cho, and Travis Windleharth.

And of course, review editors Karen Antell and Anita Slack have collected some great reviews of professional and reference materials.

As always, please let me know how RUSQ can help your practice of librarianship. Feel free to contact me with your ideas at btrott@wrl.org.

Barry Trott

Editor, RUSQ

btrott@wrl.org

RUSQ 57:2

Table of Contents

COLUMNS

76 From the President of RUSA

Entitled to the Facts: A Fact-Checking Role for Librarians

Chris LeBeau

86 Information Literacy and Instruction

Esther Grassian and Sarah LeMire, Editors

Business and Workplace Information Literacy: Three Perspectives

Elizabeth Malafi, Grace Liu, and Stéphane Goldstein

89 Management

Marianne Ryan, Editor

Serving to Lead

Alesia McManus

93 Amplify Your Impact

Nicole Eva and Erin Shea, Editors

Moving from a Promotion Strategy to an Engagement Strategy

Cordelia Anderson

97 Readers’ Adisory

Laurel Tarulli, Editor

Readers’ Services: One is the Loneliest Number

102 The Alert Collector

Mark Shores, Editor

Dark Tourism: A Guide to Resources

Rebecca Price

104 A Reference for That

Nicolette Warisse Sosulski and David A. Tyckoson, Editors

Reference Service: Every Time It’s Personal

David A. Tyckoson

FEATURES

115 Including the Voices of Librarians of Color in Reference and Information Services Research

Amy VanScoy and Kawanna Bright

127 “There is Nothing Inherently Mysterious about Assistive Technology”

A Qualitative Study about Blind User Experiences in US Academic Libraries

Adina Mulliken

00 Understanding Appeals of Video Games for Readers’ Advisory and Recommendation

Jin Ha Lee, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Hyerim Cho, and Travis Windleharth

DEPARTMENTS

140 From Committees of RUSA

140 Outstanding Business Reference Sources 2017

BRASS Business Reference Sources Committee

145 Sources

145 Professional Materials

Karen Antell, editor

149 Reference Books

Anita Slack, editor