Editorial

Happy 10^th Anniversary to Evidence Based Library and Information Practice!

Lorie Kloda

Editor-in-Chief

Associate University Librarian, Planning and Community Relations

Concordia University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Exactly 10 years ago, on March 15, 2006, the first issue of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) was published online as an open access journal. In some ways, 10 years may not seem like a long time, but in the world of online publishing, I think a decade of consistent quarterly issues is a significant achievement and one worth celebrating.

To celebrate, we have a few surprises to accompany volume 11, issue 1 of the journal. First, we have several commentaries from past members of the journal’s editorial board. The first commentary is by Denise Koufogiannakis, Pam Ryan, Lindsay Alcock, and Su Cleyle, the founding editors of EBLIP. Other commentaries have been written to mark the occasion by past and present Associate Editors (Evidence Summaries) Denise Koufogiannakis, myself, and Heather Pretty, past Editor-in-Chief Alison Brettle, Associate Editor (Classics) Jonathan Eldredge, Associate Editor (Articles) Lisl Zach, and Production Editor Michelle Dunaway.

Accompanying the publication of issue 1 of the journal for 2016 is a special issue on EBL 101. A few days prior to this issue’s publication on March 15, 2016, we released the special issue, a compilation of all 24 previously published EBL 101 columns in one place, accompanied by an editorial by the column’s frequent author, Virginia Wilson. The EBLIP Editorial Board considers this our anniversary gift to our readers, and we hope that having all these columns in one place will make learning about and practicing evidence based librarianship that much easier.

Also new in this issue is the addition of a digital object identifier (DOI) for each article published in EBLIP. The Editorial Board is extremely grateful to the University of Alberta Learning Services for assuming the costs of assigning DOIs to not only all future issues of the journal, but to retrospective issues as well. This means that every paper published in EBLIP now has a stable and unique identifying link. We also want to thank Sonya Betz, Digital Initiatives Projects Librarian at University of Alberta Libraries for working diligently with her team to get the DOI feature implemented in time for this anniversary issue.

Finally, as the Editor-in-Chief and someone who has been with the journal in one role or another since its inception, I would like to extend my gratitude to everyone who has made this journal a success: members of the Editorial Board, the editorial advisors, copyeditors, indexers, peer reviewers, members of the writing assistance team, and of course all of our readers and champions over the years. This journal is the result of an enormous amount of effort by scholars and practitioners in the field of library and information studies from many sectors and regions. And it is also our reward.

Happy 10^th anniversary, EBLIP!