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crl-16347	Walter, Scott	Re-Introducing College & Research Libraries: Do We Still Need “Another Library Journal”?	2014	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1134	27	26	Moreover, he noted (quoting Robert Maynard Hutchins), there was a general lack of research available on higher education and a need, given the central role of the library on campus, for a journal that would promote research into its unique challenges, its operations, and its contributions to teaching, learning, and scholarship.1 Seventy-five years later, there are still concerns about the state of research in higher education, but there are now many venues for the dissemination of such research, including research into the academic and research library.2 Indeed, the study of core journals in Library and Information Science available in this is- sue demonstrates how far we have come since Kuhlman surveyed a field providing few opportunities for the promotion and dissemination of research in academic librarianship. It is also increasingly common for our colleagues to conduct research aligned not only with the agendas of the information professions, but with the broader agendas of our institutions, as in a forthcoming study of the contributions that the library makes to undergraduate research initiatives.4 As different as the environment may be 75 years after we started this journey, there is no question that the original niche that Kuhlman saw 4 College & Research Libraries January 2014 for our journal is still there as a place for promoting research that improves library practice, but does so within the context of the specific needs of higher education and scholarly and scientific research.	cache/crl-16347.pdf	txt/crl-16347.txt