Editorial

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Gelfand, J., Riggs, C. and Calvert, P. (2001), "Editorial", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 18 No. 9. https://doi.org/10.1108/lhtn.2001.23918iaa.001

Editorial

This issue of Library Hi-Tech News is not as full of conference reports as many previous issues. Actually there are only two and we will resume publishing more as the conference schedule becomes active again now with the beginning of most academic calendars. Thus, we only offer conference reports from the European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) that took place in Alghero, Sardinia in early June, the Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) Preconference held at the American Library Association meeting in San Francisco later in June, and the first of what we hope will be more coverage of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) meeting that took place in late August in Boston.

We have several columns that we hope you will find as interesting as we did. John Matylonek and Laurel Kristick explore how to build library collections to support a growing engineering program and the data

collection that they conducted to learn what the expectations of such a collection are. Howard Falk's eCurrents piece covers the accusations against Dimitry Skylarov and the implications it has for the ebook industry with a growing interest in etextbooks and new releases of ebook readers. Lourdes David and Arlene Marza take us to the Philippines for their contribution to the "Around the World" library visits column and their description of the challenges facing the College of Science Library at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.

Gerry McKiernan eprofiles Perspectives in Electronic Publishing (PeP) in great detail and offers some comparisons with other evaluative criteria for ejournals. The Research in Progress column by Dr David Bradbury and Georgina Payne describes the Online Personal Academic Librarian (OPAL) initiative at the Open University in the UK.

Table I. Deadlines for future issues volume 19, 2002

We have a long list of new references in the "Professional Literature" column, an extensive update on what is happening in libraries and the library technology industry in "New & Noteworthy" and a "Calendar" that now extends well into 2002. We hope that you will want to review materials, attend conferences, write reports and take an active role as a contributor to this publication. Please note due dates for future issues (see Table I). We look forward to your ideas and responses.

Philip Calvert (philip.calvert@vuw.ac.nz)Julia Gelfand(jgelfand@uci.edu)Colby Riggs (cmriggs@uci.edu)Co-editors