PNLA Quarterly, Vol. 62 No.1 Fall 1997
From the Editor: The Year in Review
As the new Editor for 1996/97, I learned a lot about PNLA and had the wonderful opportunity to work with a great group of librarians throughout our region. One of my first activities was to gather others as part of a PNLA Publications Committee--Elizabeth Felt, Reference Librarian at Washington State University, Pullman; Tamora Hoskisson, Reference Librarian at The University of Idaho Library, Moscow; and Lyn Martin, Head, Technical Services, Lemieux Library, Seattle University. Tamora took over as Business Manager and solicited a variety of advertisements for the Quarterly before accepting a position outside of the PNLA region in June. Elizabeth has taken over as the PNLA WebMaster and, along with developing the PNLA web pages, has begun to enter the table of contents of all the past issues of the PNLA Quarterly. Bette Ammon, Director of the Missoula Public Library, Montana, and Past President of PNLA, and Karen Labuik, Marigold Library System, Strathmore, and PNLA Alberta Representative are advisors to the committee.Publication of all four issues of volume 61 brought me in contact with other librarians throughout our region who responded to the challenge of submitting manuscripts for publication. The PNLA Board recommended electronic submissions of all manuscripts in an effort to lower publication costs, and contributors have readily supplied electronic text. Most manuscripts are sent as e-mail submissions and correspondence with contributors is almost exclusively electronic. Each contributor receives two complementary copies of the Quarterly in which they are published.
The 1997/98 year presents new challenges, and I encourage your participation. Publication costs will be carefully scrutinized as will new and innovative ways to communicate with our membership. We have an opening on our Publications Committee and are interested in your ideas and suggestions for possible advertising revenue and opinions about the possibility of the PNLA Quarterly as an electronic journal. Please provide the names of business in your area that could be contacted as potential advertisers. The PNLA Listserv and Web home page have been up and running successfully for over a year and provide great potential for communication with librarians in the Pacific Northwest.
Articles for the coming year are welcome from all of you on any topic of interest to librarians. The extraordinary changes occurring in our libraries in the midst of the Information Age provide fertile ground for sharing what is happening in your library. Let us know what your library is doing in the areas of electronic resource sharing, interlibrary loan, electronic reserves, document delivery, cataloging the web, instruction, and other areas of activity and innovation in your library and region. Your suggestions and ideas for the PNLA Quarterly are always welcome.
Sue Samson, Humanities Librarian at The University of Montana, edits the PNLA Quarterly.