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   Evidence Based Library and Information Practice  
 

 

 

Editorial 

 

Looking Forward 

 

Denise Koufogiannakis 

Editor-in-Chief 

Collections & Acquisitions Coordinator, University of Alberta Libraries 

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 

E-mail: denise.koufogiannakis@ualberta.ca 

 
© 2009 Koufogiannakis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons 

Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, 

distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 

 

 

This issue marks the start of EBLIP’s fourth 

year of publication. I am excited to begin my 

new role as Editor-in-Chief at a time when 

the journal is functioning well and the 

Editorial Team has a sufficient amount of 

experience to confidently manage the 

publishing process, but is young enough to 

be open to new ideas and make changes 

without too much angst. Mostly, I hope that 

the journal can quickly respond to the needs 

of our readers, authors, and everyone who 

works to make the journal a success. I am 

always pleasantly surprised when we put 

out calls for volunteer help and are 

overwhelmed with the number of people 

who are interested in contributing to the 

journal. I definitely believe that the more 

people who are involved, the better the end 

result will be, since more ideas and points of 

view only strengthen the quality of our 

endeavour.  

 

To kick off this first issue of 2009, we debut 

a new section called Using Evidence in 

Practice. This section features brief reports 

of LIS practitioners' use of evidence to assist 

with decision making. We hope that this 

section will attract all the practitioners out 

there who are trying to incorporate evidence 

into their daily practice, and want to share 

some of their successes or struggles with the 

evidence-based process. The section follows 

a structured format, so that readers can 

always expect to be provided with 

information on a project that includes an 

overview of the setting, problem, evidence 

that was used, how change was 

implemented, the outcome of those changes, 

and the author’s reflections on trying to 

implement change by using evidence. I hope 

these brief reports of “real-life” stories 

inspire and provide ideas for our readers. 

Our first article in this section looks at one 

library’s exploration of the use of 

folksonomy tags and what the evidence they 

gathered might mean for the cataloguing of 

their electronic dissertations and theses 

collection.  

 

I am pleased to announce that we have a 

new member joining the Editorial Team. 

Scott Walter is taking on the role of 



 

 

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Associate Editor responsible for Classics and 

the new Using Evidence in Practice section. 

Scott is the Associate University Librarian 

for Services and Associate Dean of Libraries 

at the University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign.  He brings a wealth of 

experience to our team, having served on 

the boards of several LIS journals. He is 

actively involved in professional activities, 

notably with the Association of College & 

Research Libraries, and he has an extensive 

record of publishing his own research.  Scott 

also has more degrees than I can count, so I 

know that he will be a vast source of 

knowledge upon which the entire team will 

draw.  Welcome, Scott!  

 

Most of the members of the Editorial Team 

will be attending the EBLIP5 conference in 

Stockholm, Sweden this June/July, and are 

planning a journal user group session 

during the conference. In addition to 

providing an update about the journal, our 

goal is to solicit feedback from journal 

readers, authors, and anyone who cares 

about the future of our publication. We are 

looking for ideas about how to make the 

journal better, attract more article 

submissions, and determine what areas may 

be lacking that are of interest to our 

readership. If you can attend the conference, 

we would love to speak with you and meet 

you in person. If you’re not lucky enough to 

make it to the conference, please feel free to 

send me or any of the Associate Editors an 

email with your ideas!