ABOUT THIS ISSUE……AND THE NEXT

The table of contents for this issue might suggest that we have turned the Idaho Librarian into a vanity press.  Forgive us for making it appear so.  I became editor shortly after the ILA conference in October, at about the same time that I came down with an ailment that rendered me largely dysfunctional for two weeks.  When I and my associate editor were finally able to address the task of bringing out the November issue, we realized that there was insufficient time to carry out our original plan for its contents. 

Not to put too fine a point on it, we saw that the only way the November issue was going to appear in November was by our assembling material that we could quickly create or acquire.  Hence, a good deal of our inaugural issue is written by……us.  This is not a pattern we intend to repeat.  For our next issue we plan to call upon librarians throughout the state to help us create a picture of how we and our libraries are faring during the lean economic times that have overtaken us.  We will be contacting school, public, academic and special libraries in an effort to portray the effects of the economic slowdown on libraries’ resources and personnel.  

 We welcome queries, contributions, complaints, suggestions, opinions, diatribes, commentaries and revelations.  We are to be found at hitcleon@isu.edu and austkris@isu.edu .   Keep in touch.
                                                                                                                                                          The Editor