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Postscript
The International Information & Library Review (2009) 41, 315
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Postscript Forest Woody Horton Washington, D.C, United States This special issue editor fully realizes that both the content and format for this issue of the Review is unusual for an international journal of this kind. Much more typically, the content is usually focused on research undertaken by academics on a very narrow aspect of library and information science. And the authors are required to meticulously document and reference their findings and conclusions with citations of the research literature that has gone on before their own endeavors, according to rigidly prescribed standards, conventions, guidelines and policies. However, in this case the Review’s publisher and editors, and the Review editor, Professor Toni Carbo, agreed with my recommendation that they depart from their usual
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policies and procedures in order to ‘‘tell a story’’ that could not otherwise have been told. The content is in the form of a series of ‘‘informal reports’’ prepared by the coordinators of the eleven information literacy workshops. And the writing styles, formats and organization of the content very widely differ as between the contributors. But I believe, in the end, that the stories they have told, individually and collectively, offer priceless insights into the differences as well as similarities employed by librarians and information professionals in the different regions of the world. I pray that the reader will agree with me, and have both enjoyed, and may perhaps even benefit from this unusual issue of the International Information and Library Review.
available at www.sciencedirect.com
journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/iilr
Postscript Forest Woody Horton Washington, D.C, United States This special issue editor fully realizes that both the content and format for this issue of the Review is unusual for an international journal of this kind. Much more typically, the content is usually focused on research undertaken by academics on a very narrow aspect of library and information science. And the authors are required to meticulously document and reference their findings and conclusions with citations of the research literature that has gone on before their own endeavors, according to rigidly prescribed standards, conventions, guidelines and policies. However, in this case the Review’s publisher and editors, and the Review editor, Professor Toni Carbo, agreed with my recommendation that they depart from their usual
E-mail address: [email protected] 1057-2317/$ - see front matter doi:10.1016/j.iilr.2009.09.020
policies and procedures in order to ‘‘tell a story’’ that could not otherwise have been told. The content is in the form of a series of ‘‘informal reports’’ prepared by the coordinators of the eleven information literacy workshops. And the writing styles, formats and organization of the content very widely differ as between the contributors. But I believe, in the end, that the stories they have told, individually and collectively, offer priceless insights into the differences as well as similarities employed by librarians and information professionals in the different regions of the world. I pray that the reader will agree with me, and have both enjoyed, and may perhaps even benefit from this unusual issue of the International Information and Library Review.