College and Research Libraries


Editorial 

COLLEGE 
& RESEARCH 

LIBRARIES 

The masthead of this issue announces a change in editorship for this 
journal. Richard Johnson, having completed the allowed six years, has re-
tired with deserved commendations from his colleagues. The new editor, 
the eighth, assumes the mantle previously worn by A. F. Kuhlman, Carl 
M. White, Maurice F. Tauber (fourteen years!), Richard Harwell, David 
Kaser, Richard Dougherty, and Johnson. 

A review of the forty-one years of this journal discovers occasional artic-
ulation of new editorial intentions and directions on the occasion of 
change of editor: Kuhlman cast the original mold and identified eight 
objectives for the new journal. Dougherty, in 1969, simply stated his 
answer to the question of what he wanted to see this journal become: 
more interesting. 

Readers of this journal do not need to be reminded that the '80s will 
present major challenges to American higher education and its libraries. 
The forces of change--economic, demographic, political, educational-are 
well known. What is less clear is the impact some of these forces will have 
on libraries and librarianship. Thus, when asked what I had in mind for 
College & Research Libraries, I have replied, " ... to view academic 
libraries more in the context of the contemporary problems of higher 
education." 

C.J.S. 

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