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Greetings from the Editor Dear Idaho Librarians, Please accept my apology for the delay in publication of this February/May 2005 double issue of the Idaho Librarian. Editorship of the Idaho Librarian has been at Idaho State University for some time. I am both honored and humbled to follow my colleagues Leonard Hitchcock and Sandra Shropshire as Editor. Their shoes have already been hard for me to fill. I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I received the MLS in June 2002 from St. John's University in Queens, New York, where I studied with Drs. Sherry Vellucci and Bella Hass Weinberg. After 15 years in The Bronx as a graduate student at Fordham University and as tour guide and caretaker of the 1758 Valentine-Varian House/Museum of Bronx History for The Bronx County Historical Society, I returned home to Idaho in September 2002 to accept the position of Reference/Cataloging Librarian at Idaho State University's Eli M. Oboler Library. I'm glad to be back in Idaho and the Pacific Northwest, where I cut my teeth in the Filer, Wendell, and Twin Falls Public Libraries and the Filer and Wendell Elementary and High School libraries. I began my library career, however, in junior high as a student volunteer for Idaho school librarian Ronda Yost, requiescat in pace, at the Wendell High School library and as a work-study student and graduate student assistant in Circulation, Cataloging, and the stacks of the Bing Crosby Library, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington. At Fordham's Duane, Keating, and Walsh Libraries, I worked as a graduate assistant and paraprofessional in Reference, Acquisitions, Interlibrary Loan, and Serials. Since returning to Idaho, I have been serving at the Oboler Library reference desk, doing ISU's original cataloging, teaching in the Library's instruction program, and working as bibliographer for the ISU Economics Department. I've also been teaching the introductory course for the ISU College of Education's library science program that prepares education majors and teachers for the Education Media Generalist endorsement for Idaho school librarians by the State Board of Education. I've therefore been working in almost every department of an academic library for the past quarter century! This issue of the Idaho Librarian features an interview with the ILA 2004 Idaho Librarian of the Year Tamra Hawley-House, as well as her acceptance speech, and the 2002 Idaho Bibliography and 2004 Idaho Academic Library Statistics. Look forward in future issues to the 2003-2005 Idaho bibliographies, as well as to my ideas for columns and features for the Idaho Librarian. Let me know whether I may do anything for you ... or just drop me a line to chat. My passions are libraries, books, Idaho, genealogy, gardening, and ethnic food! Cordially, Philip A. Homan |