Editorial Board Subcommittee Identifies Priorities in the Library History Area

Thanks to the work of an ad hoc subcommittee of the advisory editorial board (Peter McNally chair, Hermina Anghelescu, David Hovde, Mary Niles Maack, and Steven Smith), the journal has articulated three guiding principles for its future direction in library history:

• continued publication of high quality historical scholarship covering a wide range of countries, time periods, and subtopics, by both established scholars and new scholarly entrants to the field.
• inclusion of the following sub-topics: institutions, collections, professionalization, biography, and impact of technology.
• emphasis to some special topics, including libraries in central and eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain; intersections among librarians, museums, and archives; the documentation movement of the early twentieth century; the history of information science and scientific information needs; and national libraries, information, and culture.