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212 College & Research Libraries May 2002
Editorial
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At the end of this year ’s ALA Annual
Conference in Atlanta, my second three-
year term as editor of College & Research
Libraries comes to a close. Thus, this is my
last issue as editor of C&RL. William Gray
Potter, University Librarian at the Univer-
sity of Georgia, becomes the new editor
with the July issue.
Having the opportunity to serve as
C&RL editor has been of special signifi-
cance to me! I believe the other former
C&RL editors would echo my sentiment.
There are few intellectual opportunities
in professional organizations serving aca-
demic/research librarianship to make a
contribution; serving as C&RL editor is
certainly one of them.
Most editors I know tend to be in-
tensely inquisitive; their “inflamed curi-
osity” contributes to their success and
enjoyment. However, editors cannot treat
authors like chunks of masonry to be
chipped and hammered into a design;
instead, an editor has to think like a Japa-
nese gardener whose object is to make a
garden look as natural as possible, but
better than nature could manage without
the gardener’s help. Guiding and encour-
aging an author ’s work (i.e., natural
growth), rather than constructing an ar-
tificial design, is a major challenge of ed-
iting.
C&RL continues to enjoy top prestige
as a refereed, research journal. It remains
the journal of choice by promotion and
tenure committees. Authors are delighted
and honored to learn that reviewers have
recommended their manuscripts for inclu-
sion in the research journal. Far more
manuscripts than can be published are re-
ceived by the editor. Progress has been
made toward getting the journal’s table of
Gratitude: Opportunity and
Contributions
contents, abstracts, book re-
views, and index online. Adver-
tisers reflect confidence in C&RL’s reputa-
tion by continuing to purchase more space
in the journal. The publication’s financial
health is quite sound. Each issue during
the past six years has been published on
time. And just as important, ACRL mem-
bers continue to rank C&RL as one of the
best benefits they receive from belonging
to that organization.
David Kaser, former C&RL editor,
noted that the editor has the advantage
of reading and learning from all of the
manuscripts received by C&RL. Many
fine manuscripts do not find their way
into the journal, for one reason or other
(e.g., they may not be a good fit, they may
not contain the proper research method-
ology). My journal editing experience in-
cludes serving as editor of Library Admin-
istration & Management and Library Hi
Tech. For both of these respectable publi-
cations, the editor had to solicit or seek
out authors to write articles. This proce-
dure could result in getting articles that
were uneven in both quality and con-
struct. On the other hand, the surplus of
manuscripts received by C&RL requires
a stringent review process resulting in
“built-in” quality control.
The most important message I want
this editorial to convey is that I genuinely
appreciate all the assistance so many
people provided during my tenure as
C&RL editor.
Hugh Thompson, Director of ACRL
Publications, and Dawn Mueller, Design/
Production Assistant, deserve special
thanks for getting the journal published.
They coordinated all of the necessary
functions in getting the journal ready and
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in the hands of the readers. My assistants,
June Corkin, Mary Williams, and Eliza-
beth Harman, were of tremendous help
in editing and preparing the contents of
each issue before sending the respective
materials to ACRL. Fred Hay, Book Re-
view Editor, performed outstanding ser-
vice while working with the book review-
ers and getting six book reviews per is-
sue to me in a timely manner. I was fortu-
nate in having a terrific editorial board:
Jennifer Cargill, Jinnie Y. Davis, Paul
Dumont, Diane Graves, Rita Jones, Tho-
mas Kirk, Gillian McCombs, Barbara
Moran, William Gray Potter, Laverna
Saunders, Charles Schwartz, Paula
Watson, James F. Williams II, Mark Win-
ston, and Sha Li Zhang. Thanks, too, to
the interns who did work comparable to
the editorial board: Felix Eme Unaeze,
Deborah Lee, Peter McCracken, Phelix
Hanible, Laurel Littrell, Kurt Cumiskey,
and Kathleen Carlisle Fountain. Eileen
McIlvaine, Head of Reference in the But-
ler Library at Columbia University, and
the reference departments at Columbia
University are to be commended for their
fine “Selected Reference Books” appear-
ing in the March and September issues.
Sha Li Zhang added an international di-
mension to the journal by generously
translating annually a selected article
from China’s Journal of Academic Libraries
for C&RL. Kit Dusky could be counted on
to provide the much-appreciated annual
index. Much important and thoughtful
work was donated by the many who re-
viewed books for the book review section
and who reviewed manuscripts. The
manuscript reviewers served an impor-
tant role in sustaining and improving the
quality of the journal. I am grateful for
the ACRL’s presidents' and others’ guest
editorials. To all of the foregoing contribu-
tors and the ones I did not mention, I ex-
tend a heartfelt THANKS.
DONALD E. RIGGS
Editor, College & Research Libraries
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