4      IASSIST Quarterly Winter/Spring 2010     

Editor’s Notes

Welcome to this double issue of the IASSIST Quarterly: 
volume 33 (number 4, 2009) and volume 34 (number 1, 
2010). 

The IASSIST Quarterly (IQ) has now published several 
double issues focusing on a particular theme. Often the 
issues have arisen from one or more sessions at an IASSIST 
conference or from workshops and other professional 
gatherings. Furthermore, the focused issues are often used 
in workshops and serve as a welcome collection of relevant 
and related papers for presentation and discussion. 

The special issues of the IQ normally have guest editors. 
On this occasion we are happy to have Bobray Bordelon 
from Princeton University Library as our guest editor. The 
special theme is: The subject content and how researchers 
use the data. Bobray comments that we spend much 
effort concentrating on various technical aspects of data 
management and procurement; this special issue however 
looks into the actual subject matter of the data. 

As editor in chief of the IQ I know that encouraging authors 
to turn their presentations into papers and pulling them 
together for publication can be a long-winded process with 
many repetitive steps. So much greater the contentment 
when the finished product surfaces. Special thanks to 
Bobray Bordelon and also thanks to Kristin Partlo, Amy 
West, Walter W. Giesbrecht, Mary Tao, Kristi Thompson, 
Michele Hayslett and Lynda Kellam for the compilation of 
this IQ publication.

Articles for the IQ are always very welcome. They can be 
papers from IASSIST conferences, other conferences, from 
local presentations or papers especially written for the IQ. 
If you don't have anything to offer right now, then please 
prepare yourself for the next IASSIST conference and 
start planning for participation in a session there. Chairing 
a conference session with the purpose of aggregating 
and integrating papers for a special issue IQ is much 
appreciated as the information reaches many more people 
than the session participants and will be readily available 
on the IASSIST website at http://www.iassistdata.org. 

Authors are very welcome to contact me via e-mail: kbr@
sam.sdu.dk, and should you be interested in compiling 
special issues for the IQ as guest editor(s) I’d be delighted 
to hear from you. 

Karsten Boye Rasmussen     -    December 2010

 

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