Editorial

Welcome New Members of the Editorial Team

Lorie Kloda

Editor-in-Chief

Associate University Librarian, Planning and Community Relations

Concordia University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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At the time the last issue of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) was published, we posted openings for two positions: an Associate Editor (Reviews and Classics) and the newly created Communications Officer. I’m pleased to say that both positions have now been filled. Diane Cooper, Clinical Informationist at the National Institutes of Health Library, in Maryland, US, has been appointed as the Associate Editor (Reviews and Classics). Her term began this September. Along with the rest of the Editorial Team as well as the Editorial Advisors, I look forward to working with Diane and to see the continuation of two important sections of the journals.

Classics have been an occasional but regular feature of the journal – every few issues includes one or more classics. This type of peer reviewed article is similar to an evidence summary as it summarizes and comments on a research publication, but is also distinct, as it focuses on an older, “classic” publication and has a demonstrated and ongoing impact on librarianship. This issue includes three classics – more than we have ever published in a single issue. I would like to thank Jonathan Eldredge for his role as Associate Editor (Classics) over the past three years. Jonathan has shepherded several classics through to publication, sourcing the original publications to be reviewed, and locating authors to write the articles. Review articles, which are also peer reviewed, are newer for EBLIP. The review section began in 2012 in volume 7 of the journal, under the Associate Editorship of Denise Koufogiannakis, and several review articles have been published since then. I thank Denise for her work in setting up the review articles section and overseeing it during the past few years.

Our new Communications Officer is Tatiana Bryant, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Oregon, US. Tatiana will have an important role not only in helping promote EBLIP but in supporting authors who publish in the journal in promoting their own work. She will make use of tradition communication channels as well as social media as part of her role. This is a new position on our Editorial Team and I have no doubt that Tatiana will hit the ground running when she begins her appointment on October 1^st.

We are fortunate, at EBLIP, to have so many eager volunteers who contribute their time, energy, and knowledge in the dissemination of evidence in support of the work of information professionals internationally.